Say “NO” to Victimisation in @ucu.org.uk 🚨 Strike rally ⏰ Thurs 12 Feb @ noon 📍 UCU HQ, Carlow Street, London Including guest speaker for the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine 🇵🇸 Everyone welcome! Bring your branch banner & your solidarity to say #HandsOffMarie

I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil

The really depressing thing about AI is the normalisation of important reports being released by government officials followed by apologies that chat GPT made half the citations up and wrote a chapter 7 that explicitly calls for a nationwide puppy drowning campaign. And noone loses their job.

Ahead of the 10 February Certification Officer hearing, I’ve written about why Ewan McGaughey and I took this route. This is a regulatory process, not a court case. Ewan and I will represent ourselves. UCU has hired a King’s Counsel. vickyblakeucu.uk/202... /1

Unite against TU Victimisation @Unitetheunion.bsky.social doesn't tolerate the victimisation of its reps by employers. Today our members in the North West are showing what solidarity looks like. It's time UCU ended the victimisation of Marie, our Health & Safety Officer. #Strike #HandsOffMarie

measles cases are rising and campuses are places they could expand exponentially. so really pleased to see the NHS offering walk in vaccine services at @officialuom.bsky.social for MMR, HPV and MenACWY on Feb and March 10th

I’m no longer shocked about the attacks on members for wanting a fair & democratic union but the UCU comment suggests they’ve forgotten the basic requirement to represent the interests of members not those of the GS alone - which is exactly what the case is all about. Our union, our subs #ucu

Our case concerns a basic democratic principle. Members’ subscriptions fund the union’s staff time and infrastructure. Those resources must not be used for any candidate’s personal advantage in an election. Clear institutional separation must exist between the union and any candidate’s campaign. /2

Two thirds of UCU staff walk out. I worked for UCU two decades ago. In fact I ran for General Secretary and just lost. There is no way two thirds of the staff would walk out if the story of victimisation isnt true. My sources say its been coming for years. feweek.co.uk/ucu-staff-to...

Sheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Here’s how strikes work: 1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You don’t get paid. 2. Win or lose you go back to work.

This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.

St Helens, Knowsley and Liverpool are out on the picket lines this morning. FE staff have faced a 40% real-terms pay cut and are paid around £9,000 less for doing the same job. That’s not fair and it’s not sustainable. Show your support ✊

#TheTraitors cast members as UK railway liveries. Stephen as an Avanti West Coast Class 805

Slightly diminish a game. Final(final)_2_WIP_WITH_EDITS_(USEthisONE)Fantasy7.docx

Only four people in the UK have formally complained about a trans woman entering a “single-sex” facility, an eye-opening report has revealed. A report published by advocacy group TransLucent found that only four official complaints were documented across 382 public bodies since 2022. 1/2

; my #TheTraitors conspiracy theory is that the secret traitor was a distraction & the real plot twist is that every few days, they're adding another generic white guy to the mix. they all merge into one - Sam, James, Jack...i didn't even there was an Adam & WHO THE FUCK IS MATTHEW?! #TheTraitorsUK

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Not saying there's unconscious racial bias in this country but... #TheTraitors

Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.

I love Dr Pepper tbh

Just finished The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, a neat little folk horror point and click, as a New Years treat. It's 55% off on Steam right now and well worth it! store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

We do NOT have four colly birds, but we DO have a special gothic four book bundle from @mkhardywrites.com & @isabelcanas.bsky.social for Day 4 our giveaways! Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a flame 🔥 in the comments to enter! Ends 6th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT #booksky 🩸📚💙

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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Woman on the Tube: I asked a homeless man if he wanted some change and he said really, he wanted someone to sit with his dog while he had a wash in a café. When he came back he’d brought donated sandwiches. The three of us sat and ate them. He was a carpenter he said, before.

Stone-built Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, England

UCU management are destroying the union under cover of branches too busy fighting against sector meltdown. It’s about time those NEC members and UCU branches horrified at what’s being done in their name demanded accountability. Oh, and maybe take a closer look at the accounts while you’re at it.

Some of the saddest news of the year (a year in which my dad died btw, I don’t think I’m overhyping it when I class the two together). It’s more bricks falling down in the foundations of what I used to think was #myUCU and it was entirely preventable.

[installing asbestos] “love it or hate it it’s here to stay”

Great to see Doktor Avalanche had a career after The Sisters Of Mercy and joined Starfleet.

Astonished at the number of creative intelligent discerning people who casually use “I asked Chat GPT” when talking about their daily lives. AI is bad, the work of bad people, who hate you, normalised with bad intent. You wouldn’t say “I wrote to the Daily Mail” I wish people had more shame.

Looking for a gift for the reader in your life? www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FK5MYF31/ Reader reviews (thread) "An insanely good book" "A superb first novel" "Brilliantly written" "Killer first novel!" "A brilliant, intriguing and unexpected story" "Such a good story, I couldn't put the book down"

We welcome the return of Erasmus. But how welcoming is the UK for international students? Rising costs, visa restrictions and growing uncertainty are driving international students away. Time to make the UK a genuinely welcoming place to study again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

My wife's workplace have just reintroduced mandatory masks for staff and patients (out of hours/drop in). Be safe folks.

Still looking for a Christmas present for the Scottish folklore enthusiast in your life? Dark Crescent has you covered - "a terrific collection of Scottish folktales with a modern twist" (according to Joanne Harris!) ✨️ Available in the usual places/via @lunapress.bsky.social! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

#Spotify has a monopoly on streaming. Everyone uses it as their go to “Playlist for X event!” service. Sign this petition to urge festivals & venues to move to a less evil platform: www.change.org/p/urge-festi...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

✍️🏳️‍⚧️I’ve signed this open letter by Not In Our Name - women in support of the trans+ community. We call on the media to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women (it’s not trans women) and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Following a report on @drjogrady.bsky.social's NEC update, we want to clarify that all dispute issues remain unresolved: ❌ trade union victimisation ❌ failure to negotiate a hybrid working policy ❌ failure to adequately deal with safety issues ❌ breach of recognition agreement & other policies.

Please see our statement for further information. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/s...

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

with games as big as GTA many players (and even some devs tbh) forget that these games are made by humans and not just faceless corporations I'm glad this channel exists, people need to see how fucked up the union busting from Rockstar really is www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

This wasn’t about leaking GTA VI. It was: Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing. it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

We'll be at the book fair on Sunday to share masks, info and excitement about all these fantastic community groups! 12-3 to accommodate our members' needs. Especially come find us if you want a large amount of masks for your business! We want to pass a recent acquisition into the community asap

New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.

7 Nov 2025 -- Vowing to “reclaim Hampstead Heath from the TERFs” following public consultation on women's access to the famed London pond & legal threats from TERF groups, The Dyke Project collective announces "a morning of trans joy and community celebration" for Nov 8. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social