For 2026, can we please get the people who just want to run a car dealership out of university management? Good for you if you want to be a CEO of car stuff. Cool. Have fun. Stop pretending that EVERYTHING is like a car dealership and destroying other ways of doing things through your imposition.

no problems ever in peliccan mouth

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... This really is a bad an article as people say. The use of statistics is opaque. “About 44,000 cases of “cough” were dealt with in 2020-21 and the number has risen every year to reach 435,728 in 2024-25 – a near tenfold increase.”

This is the correct response to honours.

It is so sad to see new exclusionary policies from Girlguiding, where trans girls had been so included before. The Woodcraft Folk is a brilliant, inclusive, non-segregated alternative for young people seeking fun, adventure and community! woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

I made these for a friends post-Christmas party with some leftover truffle cheddar and can confirm it in no way diminished their biscuit crack tendency

To be fair, immigration lawyers and public law academics have been warning about the increasing power of ministers re deprivation of citizenship for years now, also in light of the substantially unchecked discretion that courts have granted the government in the exercise of said powers

A heartfelt message from a young writer who has a huge heart for the environment and for wildlife | Amaya Edwards

Oh books as academic origin stories is it? Well…

Another chore of the Christmas to do list, now please excuse me while I dry heave at all the hair I pulled off the spacers

Slow Down Take It Easy*

My partner's family have really outdone themselves with their 11th annual gingerbread build.

All this makes me think of is the “Chihuahuas from Hell” episode of Caesar Milan’s show…

Officially at the making leftover pie and leftover cheese shortbread stage of the holidays

Mobbed at festive parkrun and I love to see it. While bad actors make a grift from division, parkrun is free and for everyone 🧡 Have a great day everyone 🎄

I‘m German so Christmas was yesterday which means I get to spend today day drinking on the sofa and enjoying my annual Lord of the Rings marathon. Merry Christmas everyone!

☠️MORTIFYING CHRISTMAS STORY TIME Ahead of the big day tomorrow, here’s the story of The Worst Thing That Ever Happened At Christmas. A few years ago, the two of us were invited to a communal Xmas dinner at a friend’s house, where all the guests were to bring different Xmas dinner components. 1/

Death of Rats looks so delighted with his pie!

About to take the beagle out for the best dog walk of the year when all the other dog walkers are delighted because either a) they don’t celebrate Christmas or b) are escaping christmas food prep.

So, I just discovered #duvetknowitschristmas and I think my situation qualifies

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz

Laugh at strangers’ sleeping arrangements and donate some money to Centrepoint, what’s not to love?

And still on memorable Christmas moments, congratulations to the staff of the embassies of France, Germany and the UK for this "Xmas Flashmob" in the Kyiv metro. Of course, there was only one choice of song - Shchedryk! Merci, Danke, Thanks, Dyakuyu #SlavaUkraïni Enjoy.

Did I put antlers on the beagle? Yes! But will she murder me in my sleep tonight? Also yes!

If you like this level of airline history and passenger experience detail, you'll LOVE @theupfront.media, which @garius.bsky.social and I launched in May — our 7-month anniversary is this week! For more history, read his incredible story of the California Clipper: theupfront.media/the-long-way...

Now what are the chances of our reform-led council doing something like this that actually benefits people in a concrete way?

Engaging in my semi-annual tradition of replaying The Long Dark, because it’s not Christmas until you’re being mauled by wolves

Iconic performer Leigh Bowery in a Christmas card photo, c. 1986

Why is Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah now on Christmas playlists? Have I missed something major?

On a scale of 1-mass murder how much will I regret going into town shortly?

❄️FESTIVE FANCIES🦌 looking delicious the snow falling softly softly うまさふな雪やふふはりふふはりと -Kobayashi Issa. As we wait impatiently for snow (and Christmas), Oimatsu's (老松) 'kazahana' (風花) brings festive cheer to the tearoom. The sweet imagines snowflakes sparkling as they fall. #Kyoto #wagashi

A side note: In Scotland, it can be nearly impossible to fully track abusers/offenders. Last week a sex offender was up for breaching a court order. But I can never find out his original crime that prompted the court order.

This is wholly unsurprising but absolutely appalling. This is like concluding a coin always lands on heads because every time it lands on tails you discard the result. And, I am afraid, yet again, this is a symptom of volunteer Magistrates just not getting it.

Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Thanks to @jim.londoncentric.media I discover that Daisy Green has profits of £2.4 million a year, in case anyone was wondering how money is concentrated into the hands of the wealthy. Presumably the family who have run the Parliament Hill café for 44 years will be encouraged to retrain in tech.

I have always liked Cher, and she has now gone up in my rankings.

Ban this sick filth.

Sorry, did we not already know this??

Oh no the legal drafters have been at the mulled wine again

You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.

Did I bribe my students with chocolate while they were filling out the module evaluations? Yes. But were the evaluations very positive? Also yes.

Minister rejects pleas from disabled peers for national wheelchair and equipment strategy @salbrinton.bsky.social #WheelchairServices #CommunityEquipment www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-rej...

The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dis...

At rugby our favourite past time is screaming FAKER at anyone who stands up from their wheelchair (yes even at the people with prosthetics) precisely because of fun news stories like this…

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I'm deeply worried by what I've heard from organisations in Bristol about LGBTQ+ asylum seekers being the target of hate crime while in unsuitable asylum accommodation - this week I called on the government to act.

"paint me like the Vice Chancellor of a failing UK university" Absolute masterclass in fuckery from Anderson as photographer. Particularly like not even waiting for the person on the phone in the background to move. No point when you already know the client is going to stiff you on the invoice.

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Accessibility Q: Does anyone know of tools that can be used to create slide decks suitable for people with extremely reduced motor function. Think voice dictation into a slide deck. AI has (surprisingly) completely failed as it's making stuff up, paraphrasing badly and obviously difficult to edit.

It somehow is always the widening participation programmes that are the ones that get cut first, that get deemed dispensable. Shame on @universityofessex.bsky.social. Transforming society for the better is #UKHE 's role, Essex's in particular. Have you forgotten what you were established for?