Very excited!

🎯🎯🎯 “only two paths remain: either a Jewish, messianic, genocidal state, or a truly democratic state for all its citizens. …Zionism, in all its forms, cannot be cleansed of the stain of this crime. It must be brought to an end.”

Eye-watering figures here. The UK Higher Education sector is a wild west for business profits, job losses and skyrocketing fees.

If you or anyone you know works/studies at University of Edinburgh, please ensure they have signed this petition to Court (governing body) calling on UoE to divest from genocide. So far 670+ staff and 800+ student/alumni signatures - not bad, but we can do better! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🙌 22 months late but huge: @johnswinney.bsky.social calls for UK govt. to SANCTION and END ARMS SALES to Israel = the 2 key demands of the Palestine solidarity movt. in the UK (incl. the “terrorists”). Hoping it also pressures Scottish universities eg. @edinburghuni.bsky.social to finally divest.

Irvine Welsh - get in the bin.

Kindertransport 2.0

10/10, no notes @thebetootaadvocate.bsky.social

Why collective refusal is the only option. Reading this, I recalled the time a white, cis-het man (ostensibly my equal; I later learned he was being paid at 4 grade steps above me for no reason) said “y’know all these sexist micro-aggressions in the workplace you talk about? I just don’t see them!”)

This follows the BMA passing a motion supporting gender affirming care last month. So the BMA is now clear on both trans & Palestinian autonomy and self-determination. *The BMA*

MUST WATCH/LISTEN! Thank you @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social for battling this in court so that it’s all on the public record—you speak for those (likely hundreds, if not thousands) of us who have had similar/adjacent experiences but are gagged by NDAs & confidentiality clauses. 🙏

Impressive analysis of what appears to be a rather damning dossier — compiled within 24 hours because EHRC only responded to the FOI request *after* it’s consultation deadline yesterday. Thank you @tacc.org.uk 🙏

1/ Peerless! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social named exclusively in UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories @franceskalbs.bsky.social’s latest report due to its investments in genocide (esp. tech). It says:

Brilliant result of militant, unrelenting strike action!

Streeting banned puberty-blockers despite there being no evidence whatsoever that they are dangerous, and now plenty of evidence (including my own peer-reviewed research) that banning them is harmful. However… He enthusiastically promoted weight loss drugs however, and now people are being harmed

Not sure what a 'sexed' toilet is anyway, tbh. Toilets are inanimate. goodlawproject.org/ehrc-formall...

Where my ALP/Labour hacks at?

*RIDDLE FOR MEETING PROCEDURE NERDS* Without giving you the context, give me a *democratic* solution to this👇 A motion + 4 amendments are tabled at a union meeting. Instead of voting in the meeting they will be sent out to 3k members for electronic ballot. A decision must be reached within 3 days.

Remembering that Starmer doesn't have a favourite book or poem, and doesn't dream

‘Kitchen said he wanted other Australians to be aware that “cleaning” their phones wouldn’t necessarily mean they would be able to get their Esta approved upon arrival in the US. “They had already prepared a file on me and already knew everything about me”.’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Today’s news inspired me to enjoy a double bill of Black lesbian resistance films this evening, both advocating collective revolutionary truth against disinformation ❤️‍🔥✊🏾 #borninflames1983 #thewatermelonwoman1996

Proud as punch to be quoted in this judgement describing AHF as ‘propaganda promoting hatred of trans women’ with ‘no academic merit’, full of statements that ‘are false, untrue, based on hearsay or anecdotal evidence, or use shoddy methodology that would fail a first year assignment’,

Our branch stands firmly for trans inclusion and trans equality, and will not cease in protesting against discriminatory and inflammatory claims about trans people! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

Heroic effort by @gbuttars.bsky.social (then-president of UCU Edinburgh) and Lena Wånggren (then-president of UCU Scotland), who represented the UCU at the Tribunal 🙏🦾

Employment Tribunal rejects claims UCU discriminated against members on grounds of their gender critical beliefs. Includes comment from UCU. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

This is a major victory for freedom of speech - against dehumanizing and degrading transphobic output. A key reason for the success appears to be the focus on protesting the materials rather than those that produced it. This verdict will require careful analysis over the coming weeks.

This is a massively symbolic victory, vindicating @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social’s 2022 & 2023 protests against the anti-trans propaganda film ‘Adult Human Female’ and exposing the film makers’ bad faith arguments that such protests amount to discrimination and harassment. #tradeunions4transrights 🏳️‍⚧️🚩

If they aren't transphobic, her fans wouldn't use them. Had someone put them up where I live. I guess she was just a mega fan of JK and not trying to intimidate me at all. These are the people who produced 'Adult Human Female'

Bumping this again - please add your suggestions!

My boss: —has no idea what his £400k+ salary is —has confirmed that UoE is “not in deficit” —blames his plan to sack £90m of staff on staff… who “haven’t proposed any alternatives” #Strike @edinburghup.bsky.social @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

We’re very proud to support the 21 June Glasgow demonstration - be there! #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StandUpToRacism #BlackLivesMatter

What's the collective noun for a bunch of academics? A fabulousness? @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @queerstorian.bsky.social

I really would have preferred Pope Innocent.

Read, enjoy, discuss, share, then share again, and again, and again. spectrejournal.com/against-bad-...

Gaza & trans rights are the political litmus tests, but sometimes there’s just the one, singular test. “Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza for ‘gender reveal’ party” aje.io/bmtz32

50k @BMA.org.uk doctors: Condemn the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the EA2010 as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex' as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical" 1/

The BMA respects trans patients' dignity, autonomy, and human rights and continues to believe that trans doctors, NHS workers and patients deserve dignity, safety, and equitable access to healthcare.

Any abuse directed towards BMA members or staff is unacceptable and has no place in the serious consideration of these complex issues.

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

One of the biggest unions in Scotland has committed to fighting for trans rights It looks like this is going to develop into a classic The People vs The Authoritarians civil rights struggle. I really think this is, sadly, only just the beginning www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Überraschung: Das israelische Militär hat zu 100 % gelogen. Laut internen Dokumenten, die Haaretz vorliegen, scheinen die Soldaten alle 15 Paramedics und UN-Mitarbeiter – teilweise "aus null Entfernung" – exekutiert zu haben, weil sie einen geheimen Überfall planten und keine Zeugen dulden wollten.

@uniteucu.bsky.social members are still on ASOS, which, as I understand it, includes no out of hours work, so this is actually a ‘three cheers for crossing a picket line’. An NEC member quite literally supporting UCU’s union-busting. This is how far UCU has fallen.

Oh, I’m a troll now. What fun. As is my being schooled on being a Bad Trade Unionist because I expect my union to follow basic union principles. Anyway, UCU’s been using scab labour for several weeks now so I’d like to know if that’s also justifiable - speak up for the employers listening in.

We've been losing colleagues on fixed-term contracts that weren't renewed for years. We're failing to build a next generation with the decline in opportunities to develop teaching expertise for post-graduate students. Those redundancies are indeed just the tip of the iceberg.

Thank goodness we’ve all just seen Conclave, so we know how this is going to end.

What’s “disgraceful” is that this is the BBC’s only coverage of 30,000+ people across the UK marching for trans rights.

Compiled list of protests against the Supreme Court’s ruling on “women” happening across the UK. whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Reminder: there is no ethical consumption of the Harry Potter franchise under late stage capitalist TERFdom

I am LIVID this Karen’s big head blocked an incredible new reply pic