Austen
@austenpaulh.bsky.social
Gibbous loon writing and researching
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look, I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up but I think I may have discovered something incredible on worldcat
I’m in a bookstore now. This shelf holds books from publishers affected by the russian attack on August 1, when eight million books were destroyed. The bookstore is asking people to buy their books. I wanted to remember this shelf.
An NHS mental health trust in East London & Bedfordshire plans to cut £25M from its budget, axing around 330 jobs and key services like CAMHS, talking therapies, and crisis care. Unions and local MPs warn wait times will surge as demand rises. Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
Vaguely amusing that publishing bigwigs embrace AI when they think it might cut costs and make them more money, but are aghast when authors start using it Same way employers are using AI to scan CVs and job applications but whine about candidates using AI to write them AI for me, but not for thee
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterdayMore on that book, from @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/news/it-was-...
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Think NHS pressures only happen in the winter? Think again. 🚨 With summer heatwaves, increased outdoor activity, and ongoing healthcare demands, hospital staff are facing winter-level pressures all year long without a break. Read here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Monique Hawkins, acting chief executive of the3million, said the impact of the Home Office’s retrospective review was devastating for many. "People applied to the EU settlement scheme in good faith...by building their lives in the UK and putting down roots." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens are being told they have no right to remain
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Hospital staff and unions are raising concerns over plans to outsource hospital shift management to a private company. Workers warn that reduced pay for extra shifts could lead to severe staffing shortages and put patient care at risk. Full story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A year in which no Grands Crus Classés vintages were declared would do more to focus elites on the threat of climate change than any number of excess heat deaths
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d agoBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes
Absolutely not the same BUT once in a cafe I overheard a stranger saying "i cant buy a donut at 8am!" and I told them "yes you can, otherwise they wouldn't be selling donuts at 8am" and she couldnt disagree with the logic and bought a donut at 8am
Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops
Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops
EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police…
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🎉 🥳 🏅 🎵 📜 🗃️ Chris Hoban and I are absolutely delighted that our collaboration has received an Honorary Mention as 'Cultural Knowledge Exchange Project of the Year' in the inaugural National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE) Future Icons awards. 1/
Conti's Cafe, Lampeter. 1933-2026. More or less as it was when I was there. This photo's from 2008 but before it was renovated, so it's pretty much as I remember it. Home to a jukebox with a ferociously warped copy of Taja Sevelle's Love Is Contagious & vendor of the best coffee in West Wales. -
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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The 2nd sentence of this snippet of UEFA’s response to FIFA (the whole of which is fantastic) reminds me of Thatcher & everything she sold off - resulting in high utility & rail prices, dirty rivers & water shortages and a huge welfare bill as we pay market rent instead of using houses we owned.
