The "women safety" people at it again
08.03.2026 20:34
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The "women safety" people at it again
Sadly no. Tories will throw in with Reform and i reckon the current iteration of Labour would rather not support a Green government. Not even sure about Lib Dems tbh
you are not prepared for the soundtrack
This sounds brilliant
This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12
Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???
it’s, no joke, the Labour Party’s birthday today
Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats.
To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...
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Mate you calling him Badlose literally years ago is so vindicated lol
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨
🔥 Two week ballot window
🔥 75% turnout
🔥 73% YES to strike action
🔥 81% YES to ASOS
Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated.
UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us.
#HandsOffMarie
Exclusive: Josh Simons claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” at a PR agency’s work to investigate journalists on his behalf. He had been personally involved in naming them to British intelligence officials and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. w/ @dansabbagh.bsky.social
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Glad to hear the secretary of state action is finally moving from what you say and the MP lobbying is v good. There really seems to be a massive lack of urgency on any of this though. We're likely 3ish years from a Reform govt - Reform are already attacking unis and threatening defundung. V scary
As we have repeatedly tried to explain to a government intent on punishing universities, graduate outcomes will always be poor if you underpay every sector. (Nb y axis starting at 50)
Is this the media realising they've help fuck it on grand scale and attempting to give her some room to do *something* good? I'm being extremely generous here but they can't actually think that's a lot of money lol
Universities: what has happened to the Secretary of State dispute?
revsoc21.uk/2026/02/18/u...
No Kings but this King.
Only one Olympic pair, the Czech brother-sister pair of Daniel Mrázek and Katerina Mrázeková, skated to AI music. But they ran into a problem — the first time they asked AI to spit out a 1990s song, it plagiarized the lyrics to an actual awesome 1990s song, “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals. (A true banger, maybe my favorite 1990s song, tbh.) The video is STUNNING, I have no idea how they thought they could get away with it. For the Olympics, they swapped that one out for a new AI song, which also sucks but isn’t directly stolen from anybody.
wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
Watching the BBC news channel. It's like watching the Superbowl. Febrile, empty commentary, the journos besides themselves with excitement. A bad sign of people completely divorced from the realities of life.
I hate it so much. They are so delighted at the 'drama'. meanwhile people continue to suffer and no one on the news seems to even notice
Friend suggestion from Facebook showing Wes Streeting
Good timing on this funny joke from Facebook
This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.
If the Guardian wants to know why, despite being a Top Reader, I prefer to shut down begging popups on every single page than even give them my details, far less any money, this is why
The way Chris pincher has been basically been erased from boris downfall is really instructive in Westminster culture and how these people get away with it
Good luck to the amazing @uniteucu.bsky.social who begin strike action (again) today. UCU staff are endlessly supportive, knowledgeable, and very often absolutely pivotal to positive outcomes in disputes. The support I've received from them in my casework is immeasurable. Solidarity! ✊️❤️❤️🔥
Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe -
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances.
What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.