Thomas Cheney

Really useful, unifying paper and lovely to see the motion to HESC approved unanimously by our HEC. So much more of this, please! #UCU

Broke: Monzo shouldn't be shaming its customers
Woke: Monzo's customers should get a grip and stop complaining
Bespoke: how dare my bank talk to me in this informal tone. You are providing me a service and I am your client - act like it.

Spot on 🧵

I've seen education transform peoples lives. People this chap would gladly leave behind. People I bump into who tell me how improved their lives are since I worked with them on Access to HE courses at an FE College in Bristol.

oh fantastic, been using your Communicative AI book this semester and its been a great resource

lol, your whole movement was based on eggs being a tad too dear so yeah good luck with that chaps

Quaker Meeting House suffers second Met Police raid For the second time in less than a year, Metropolitan Police officers have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House, arresting young activists.

"The Met Police may want to intimidate us into contributing to the govt's closing off of the right to protest... We will continue to hire space to explicitly nonviolent groups, with appropriate checks in place, just as we always have." – Clerk of Westminster Quakers www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Trade unions: minimum service level laws and key 2016 restrictions on industrial action and picketing are being repealed, and there will be new rights to time, space and access for union reps and organisers from Oct 2026.
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Precarious contracts: new rights to guaranteed hours that reflect actual hours worked, plus better protection around late shift cancellations, are being phased in.
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Fire and rehire: from Oct 2026, dismissing and re‑engaging to force through changes to pay, hours, leave or pensions will usually be automatically unfair unless the university can show genuine financial necessity.
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📢 Birmingham UCU members – the Employment Rights Act 2025 is now live and it’s a big shift for us in HE.

Key points for staff at UoB:

Unfair dismissal: qualifying service will fall to 6 months and the cap on compensation is going, increasing the risk to employers who sack staff unfairly.
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@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members are on strike today in the fight for pay and pensions justice @northumbriauni.bsky.social - but taking time to recuperate and re-energise away from the picket lines, for the struggles ahead! Make the most of it, everyone. ✊✊✊🫶🫶🫶

Cats on (digital) picket lines!

if you're doing crime don't give the cops a reason to pull you over

and like sorry dude, that one is on you...

yes, and he felt genuinely menacing, other than the 'hands of blue' guys the Alliance mostly felt like a bit of an annoyace, like the time the crew came closest to perial at the hands of the 'evil empire' was basically because Mal hadn't bothered to pay the tax or change the registration on his ship

Join your union. Punch fascists. Be honest with your comrades, be kind to strangers. Resist.

Anyone know of any pots of money for ECRs paying for image permissions?? Sorting it all out and things are adding up..

yeah the film was good and I like how much more fleshed out the world felt - shows how much of a limited budget the show must have been working with because I don't think the movie was 'big budget'

I have found my soul mate

My wife and i started watching it a few months ago, she gave up after a few episodes (her first time watching it) and while I think shed be ok with watching the rest Im not bothered about making a fuss, itd be a nostalgia rewatch, maybe next time shes away but it has lost its shine over time

yep, and while I do get the Lost Cause overtones, Mals more of a cringey early 2000s libertarian than Neoconfederate, while i love the show it is over hyped, was saved by being short run and has not held up all that well even without Wheedongate, watch Babylon 5 instead

aside from anything any artist who takes time to shit on other artforms like this can get in the bin, quite frankly, its fine for it to not be your cup of tea but to dismiss it like this is a dick move

Nissan warns of Sunderland closure if UK excluded from ‘Made in Europe’ rules EU proposals presented on Wednesday require vehicles for corporate fleets and small EVs to be assembled within the bloc

Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving Nissan warns of Sunderland closure if UK excluded from ‘Made in Europe’ rules - www.ft.com/content/ac75... via @FT

Yes

ohh, that makes so much sense, of course its that

yep 100%, its BS, I wore a lanyard all the time as a minimum wage call centre worker, now as a well paid academic i dont even have one (and basically the only time I use even my staff id is when im using the library)...

they also bombed hard... which also says some interesting things about the complete lack of interest in the US actually going to Mars...