Solidarity with University of Nottingham staff beginning their 61 days of strike action today. I share their deep concerns about the impacts of 600+ proposed job cuts and 40+ proposed course closures on staff, students, and our city. [1/2]

Vacancy for a Law Lecturer at University of Portsmouth #AcademicJobs #LawJobs

📣New drag cabaret! Learn about recent changes to hate crime laws and watch stellar drag performances in this new @lawsadrag.bsky.social live cabaret. 📆July 23 ⏰7:30 📍Wharf Chambers Check it out👇

Join a union. If you can, join one which is a clear and straightforward in its messaging as this:

Law's a Drag are hosting a new cabaret: 💥 Hate Crimes Live! 💥 Crimes motivated by hostility towards queer people, trans people, and disabled people are now "aggravated offences." What does this mean? How does this help these communities? Does it go far enough? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hate-crime...

Let me complete that statement: ...which were already perfectly protected under the EA 2010 in on evidenced grounds and in a proportionate manner. The FWS judgment *broke* a system that actually struck a balance. If you don't understand that, you're not much of a feminist or a historian, tbh.

The job fairy's been again! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS297/l...

Am on Day 3 of annual leave! which coincidentally is also Day 3 of debilitating sore throat rendering me bedridden

Barely into the introduction to “The Faggots and Their Friends” and i’m already crying. “In the shadow of structural abandonment, political alienation, family rejection, chronic illness, state violence, and medical neglect, queer friendship saves us.”

that gay fucking yeti is after me again

I love when having baseline morals on what you'll accept in the people near you is written off as this nasty judgemental trait. To me, if it's okay to say "sure, transphobes" you'd also say "sure, the Klan" and "sure, Nazis". If you mean that: bye! If you don't: why is transphobia okay, then?

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

It promises to be fun, moving, amusing, enlightening, and camp as Christmas. Come join us! Tell a friend, tell an enemy, share widely!   Wharf Chambers, Leeds Thursday, July 23  7:30 PM - 10:30 PM www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hate-crime...

"we all kind of sigh and put up with each other" ok well your trans friends cannot exist publicly because of your GC friends RUSSELL

This UK Human Rights Blog post from Rosalind English on a recent defamation case (eye surgery, multiple incidents of fraud, and a judge's attempt at a definition of "trolling") genuinely does make for good Friday afternoon reading (shame re. AI gen image though) ukhumanrightsblog.com/2026/05/29/e...

AI killjoys unite!

When you and your mates have gone a bit too hard on the day drinking

Because she is too smart to be on here, I'm sharing Rach Cosker-Rowland's "The Injustice of Bathroom Bills". I particularly like her statistical discrimination argument: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are very excited for this event!

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

Bonus points if you recognise that textbook...

I feel these two headlines should be shown together more

This is completely unethical.

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My wonderful friend and @transsolidarity.bsky.social colleague Alex talking about the lived reality of trans+ people in the shadow of the new Equality Act CoP www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

That AI isn't yet "good enough" to mark students' essays ought to be beside the point. Outsourcing such tasks to AI is fundamentally incompatible with the intellectual engagement between student and professor that should be central to higher education. /1 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u...

i keep saying that genAI is not about "democratizing information," and it is NOOOOT anti-IP. it's an attempt at information enclosure, it's the mother of all would-be IP landlords. what they want is to crowd out free available information, control what remains, and then charge us for it

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I’m on the Metro-North and there are two people with long-haired dachshunds in bags 10 feet away from each other and the two dogs are clearly aware of each others presence but the owners are not

Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. The government has no mandate to restrict it - a move which will put us on a path toward authoritarian justice. youtu.be/x6NIiM9G5ag?...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Something is very obviously very wrong.

I can honestly say I've heard WAY edgier jokes about being trans from trans comedians than anything I've heard Dave say. It's just that those jokes tend to also be rooted in reality and knowledge rather than bullshit and bigotry.

Yup! He said it was unnecessary because discrimination was already banned, but that goes against the reported experiences of caste-oppressed people, particularly in Silicon Valley who said it was a real problem. Hence the bill passing in the CA legislature. www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/u...

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

I just love them so much

#TodayInQueerHistory May 23 (1988) STOP THE CLAUSE! Lesbian activists storm the studios during a live 6 o'clock news broadcast to protest Section 28. While newsreader Sue Lawley continued calmly, her co-host Nicholas Witchell tried to stop them, leading to the headline "Beeb Man Sits on Lesbian"

As a disabled trans person, if you want to use accessible toilets all I would ask you to keep in mind is that for some disabled people part of the need for an accessible toilet is urgency. If you're queuing and someone rocks up behind you and you feel able to, maybe offer to let them go before you?

Reform don't actually want to govern.

There’s been a few solid responses from trade unions over the past twenty-four hours, but as far as I can tell my union is the only one to have recognised the necessary centrality of trans voices in organisational responses to the British state’s eliminationist policies. Other unions must do better.

'The Russell Group university is looking to shed more than 600 roles – with 2,700 staff at risk – as part of a “transformation plan” that its leaders have said is necessary to prevent it “running out of money”.' 1/2

As cuts destroy our university... We fight back ✊🏼💜🩷💜🩷 #WeAreTheUniversity @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

‼️ *EMERGENCY TRANS DEMO* 🏳️‍⚧️ 📍Parliament Square 📆 Saturday 23 May 2026 ⏰ 11AM 🚝 Nearest tube Westminster (step free access) Join us tomorrow, Saturday 23 May at 11AM in Parliament Square. Bring sunscreen, water and your rage! *One struggle, one fight* ✊🏳️‍⚧️

The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

Did EHRC just say on wireless that it's to do with sex, nothing to do with appearance. Yet there's no way to legally confirm someone's sex, guidelines acknowledge that, so it absolutely will be on appearance & will just increase harassment, discrimination, threats & embolden those who want to do so.