It has been nearly a year since Starbucks has offered us a single proposal to finish the remainder of our union contracts. The company knows where we stand: we need fair wages, better scheduling, and an end to union-busting. Instead, Starbucks is fighting US, their workers.

Can we ban fascists from the olympics? If they believe they are genetically superior then surely that's an unfair advantage.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

So the guy who thinks the UK is heading for civil war has a $1 trillion dollar incentive to put robot armies on streets around the world? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ready to merge sociology with art? Applications to the 2026 cycle of the Image-Maker in Residence series are now open! We seek to commission four online residencies that showcase experimental methodologies and ways to disseminate research beyond plain text. APPLY NOW – buff.ly/TD5raNw

@unison.org.uk and @ucu.org.uk working together to get the vote out! Please share widely.

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

"We are coming for the Labour government and we are taking the fight to Reform.” Be part of it. Join the Green Party today! 👇

I've been advised to write a book chapter in the historical present tense. As i only ever write about failed and discontinued policies, it reads as though i'm not willing to admit that the party is over.

British.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

A new week - and a new huge milestone! @greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!! We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again! Join.greenparty.org.uk

It’s pronounced cyclist.

So many Australian colleagues put through a year of worries and uncertainty. All because Nous Consultancy only thrives on a scarcity narrative? Bit if a reminder that those cuts can never be justified in pedagogical or academic term, whatever the spin.

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be. Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

Let’s make hope normal again. @zackpolanski.bsky.social youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

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I went to Labour conference - and then they revoked my press pass. I found a party defined by delusion - and literally running away from its record. Where to even begin. Watch it here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=RLAp...

Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.

Socialism is not about taking action to make a better society but having feelings and attitudes towards an unequal society. Got it.

#WeAreHiring! You could help us develop and manage a portfolio of partners in the field of research, community engagement and policymaking. Learn more about the role and apply by 8 October: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

How does this align with our democratically agreed principles & policies of solidarity with Palestine, trans rights, and well-funded universities as a public good? Who made this decision? Yet another reason why I’m backing andrea4gs.org.uk - we need new leadership and a review of Labour Link.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

The digital ID card sounds like a trojan horse to link your use of public services to your finances, your health records to your shopping habits and finance and your location to the police, to me.

Yesterday I heard that my book contract is finally being finalised and then received an article rejection, for being vague and opaque. So I can use that for promotion

Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics? It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage Not in our name. Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

I'll be in Manchester on October 3rd at 6:30pm with Wu Tsang at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social. Thanks to the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture and the Centre for New Writing for co-sponsoring. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-in-a-...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Reform party will eventually come after citizens, with parents who were born abroad, like myself. My friends and I have had this discussion for some time. Make no joke about it, if they get into power they will need to continue to enrage the British voting public, they need chaos to thrive.

My inaugural lecture for Northumbria University, State of Play: A History of Playful Learning in Ten Video Games, will be on 15 October 2025 online and in-person. All welcome. Guest appearance by everyone's favourite badger and drinks somewhere afterwards. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

This funding system doesn’t work for anyone, it is dependent on putting students in years of debt and on staff’s job insecurity. Information about moving towards a dispute with the Secretary of State: www.universityrankandfile.org.uk/campaigns

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Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

Paging Nathan Fielder: idea for Season 3 of Rehearsal. The launch of @yourparty.bsky.social

Your Party developments are super worrying. Solidarity with @zarahsultana.bsky.social

After 40 interviews, Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaks about his partner, Richie, on #Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Refreshing moment of humanity in the current race to be the most divisive and cruel; more of that on tomorrow’s edition, no doubt… 👋🏾 @vicderbyshire.bsky.social

See some of you at 5pm at the anti Trump rally. Meanwhile, spoke to the Guardian 👇🏼

Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today! uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u... We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.

RECAS Fellowship 2025: Call for Applications (deadline 3rd Oct) Youth Agency and New Political Imaginaries in the Western Balkans cas.uniri.hr/recas-fellow...

In London, hate will never win.

Wes Streeting is making the NHS make around 100k vital staff redundant and the £1billion redundancy cost has to be paid out of the existing NHS budget.

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

UCU has been fighting employers' efforts to make 100% pay deductions for Action Short of Strike legal through practice since 2019. We're not stopping now that our own UCU Senior Management is replicating the same worst practice. Much solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social.

We explain how these 100% deductions for Action Short of Strike are a legal grey area, and how workers' are made to organise against the attempts to impose and legalise them here: qmucu.org/2023/05/18/l...

For the full list of signatories to the statement see uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

Sometimes solutions are easy @drjogrady.bsky.social & @ucu.org.uk Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute. Our statement, with support from the following branch committees: