Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

The University and College Union has strongly criticised Cardiff University for putting well over a thousand employees at risk of redundancy - even though the university claims no one will be made compulsorily redundant ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-18zK

Oldest selfie on your phone. Me in 2003.

Appreciate the @theflytrapmedia.com shoutout in this great @taylorcrumpton.bsky.social read about the loss of Teen Vogue and what Teen Vogue meant for early-career writers, especially BIPOC and disabled writers, who face significant barriers to entering the field.

FDR level influx of cool people into gov jobs incoming

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

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Which one is more English?

Spot on

PROTEST SURVEILLANCE INTO COURT Intrusive surveillance technology is increasingly used during protests around the world, and is now being used to prosecute activists and peaceful protesters. Read our report: privacyinternational.org/report/5468/...

Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.

Still waiting for a reaction by UK politicians and the media to Elon Musk's call for 'the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die' and his claim that 'civil war is inevitable'. Why does the UK government still use Twitter/X?

As Doreen Lawrence said when that decision was taken: 'They were doing the deception. Why should they be allowed to be anonymous while people like me had their faces all over the newspapers? These people were not innocent. They knew what they were doing.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015...

Quick summary from yesterday at the #spycops public inquiry - the undercover cop who spied on Stephen Lawrence’s family won’t appear at the inquiry. 🧵 youtube.com/shorts/EA5F6...

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...

On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

For Halloween I’m dressing up as the email I just got with details of my pay rise

Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee. He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies. Judge for yourself.

This @royalsociety.org report has not received nearly the attention it deserves. Key finding: "most current approaches to economic assessments of impacts of #climate change do not reflect the severity of consequences that are suggested by the latest physical climate science & evidence on impacts" 😬

I do feel for the 22 professional services former colleagues concerned here... @llantwit.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social @jane-henderson.bsky.social nation.cymru/news/univers...

A worst-of-all-worlds bad decision. And entirely on brand gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/a...

'Ellie' is gives evidence at #spycops inquiry this morning. Love & solidarity w/ 'Ellie' who was deceived & sexually exploited for over a decade (YES, OVER A DECADE) by lying, predator James 'Straven' Thomson. Follow the audio feed (w/ 10 min delay) here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GFX...

Vile stuff. At my own university all new staff are employed via a subsidiary company to avoid the TPS pension (remember: pensions are pay) and we all fear the costing staff will be next. Management think staff are so desperate that they’ll accept anything. Remember: university managements are so…

The world-class contemporary circus company based in Wales faces overwhelming financial challenges and the possibility of redundancies

NUJ members at The Mirror have voted yes in a ballot for strike action over compulsory redundancies, rotas and concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on editorial quality. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/jou...

In a posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre writes that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times, beginning when she was 17, and was beaten and raped by a “well-known prime minister."

How powerful can investigative journalism be? Since 2020, stories from the exiled Belarusian Investigative Center have sparked ~90 sanctions – showing that truth-telling can still move governments. 👉

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Sometimes the right wing propaganda cycle of a country will actually hit "immigrants want to take away women's rights" and "feminism has gone too far, women WANT to be tradwives" at the same time

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

🚨Live facial recognition vans are being deployed in Greater Manchester today and thursday 23rd 🚨 The Home Office told us that they will consider a legal framework to govern the use of this tech. But what we’re seeing is more use across the UK with no safeguards to protect us.

This is Bryn Carpenter, ex-collier, who lost his son Desmond 59 years ago today, in the disaster at Aberfan. His daughter Jean, who survived, was a lovely lady; she was very helpful in getting Bryn to be interviewed. You can watch my interview with Bryn here www.youtube.com/watch?v=siWH...

It's not only me that thinks supporting frontline healthcare staff should be the main objective in returning to pre-covid levels of productivity. Supporting our workers should be the main priority. You can't run a service when your biggest asset is exhausted. And you can't argue with the science.

An evidence session was cancelled after four of the five politicians who sit on a committee were unable to attend, leaving the Senedd no choice but to postpone the meeting

Starmer warned of "Green wave" exodus over Reform obsession Labour may soon be "haemorrhaging" left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Our new @cujournmedcul.bsky.social research featured in the I paper showing news audiences want tougher scrutiny of Nigel Farage and Reform UK given the party could be heading for government. Thread 1/6

The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Lunchtime reaction to the #spycops inquiry hearing. HN143 Dennis 'Ben' Gunn - overseeing spycops 1988-91 - is taking manager's arrogance to new heights, even for the inquiry witnesses. Tom Fowler & Eveline Lubbers of Undercover Research Group analyse & summarise www.youtube.com/watch?v=obNm...

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire. revealnews.org/podcast/cell...

Day two of reminding you that the NHS is flouting its duty of care as an employer because govt have this year refused to offer healthcare workers the Covid vaccine. Yet again, our staff are being sent into wards with a dangerous infectious disease without the proper protections.

In 2024, the Green Party gained 5,346 members. Today alone, we have gained over 6,000. Absolutely incredible. The Green Surge is just getting started.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over