Solidarity to our colleagues at Brighton in both UCU and UNISON facing down such disgusting treatment from their management. Collective bargaining is what makes workers strong!

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 22h ago

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

Genital exams??? I would have never played a single sport. This isn’t reasonable stuff and thats great for them! Making sports suck for girls helps them in their other goals of getting women out of public life and reestablishing their preferred men on top.

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

Perhaps someone out there would be able to offer a recommendation - My kid (under 10) has greatly enjoyed the DC Super Hero Girls comics. But she’s read and reread all of them now! What might she enjoy next?

Fandoms make me 🤣 sometimes. ‘you have the author on your side, you'll be ok’

Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses

Just took the traditional first day of school photos on the front step. 🥹

One last thought here: The growing animosity towards AI at work is coming at the same time as the growing animosity towards data centers, which are being built to run AI systems, and towards AI products like Meta glasses and AI more broadly. These are likely to be mutually reinforcing trends.

Basically, whether or not you like AI at work will depend on how much power you have; to decide how and how not to use it, to avoid being terminated by an AI-enthused manager, and so on. It further underlines what's long been evident: AI is for the bosses.

This is, of course, not true across the board. There's one cohort that does overwhelmingly have positive things to say about AI: bosses. People in leadership positions, sales managers, and product managers—along with engineers—are among the few to have positive feelings about AI.

Glassdoor has a very revealing report out on worker sentiment regarding AI. Workers' attitudes towards AI have grown increasingly negative, and extremely so in certain fields. This is happening as adoption is scaling, and workers have had *more* exposure. The more they use it, the less they like it.

How workers feel about AI in 2026 - Glassdoor US

LLMs have stormed the workplace, and workers have a lot to say about that. This report reveals what they love - and hate - about AI.

glassdoor.com

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

Why office workers are turning against AI

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

bloodinthemachine.com

I DNFed a book after one paragraph. There was a ‘pursuing’ when there should’ve been a ‘perusing’, and I had to be very honest with myself that I just do not have the patience to deal with that kind of editing for an entire novel.

Actual conversation I’ve had today: ‘I totally believe that they’re mean enough to be hibernophobic, don’t get me wrong! I just… frankly, I don’t think they’re clever enough. I think this is, you know, normal incompetence.’

My GP surgery told me yesterday (1 September) that there are no more nurse appointments this month. They suggested I try again next month. There is no waitlist, and they can’t tell me when new appointment slots will be released. I was meant to have my B12 injection in JULY.

As an AmE speaker who’s lived in the UK for 20 years… the GASP that I just GUSPED!

Lynne Murphy@lynneguist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is 'oblong' the new 'frown'? Does it sneakily have different meanings in US and UK? New blog post! with thanks to @benzimmer.bsky.social and @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2026/09/oblo...

Might be even worse. The president doesn’t seem to care if it’s AI or not, nor see relevant distinction between real and fake. Narrative is all there is. The White House is organized around this, acting as if fantasy narratives are real. And millions of Americans voted for reality TV over reality.

Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI

fuckin god damn! it worked!!! 🔭 no digital compositing just one tenaciously stupid asshole with an hour’s worth of four and a half minute timers and a large format camera

Notorious RBMK@comraderobot.bsky.social · 3w ago

im being very cool fyi

like that's part of why people love the Tom Holland umbrella dance so much he put his entire ass into that BUT he's also having so much fun and there's a wink and a nod both Dolly and Curry knew how to laugh at themselves with the audience while never belittling themselves and that's incredible

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

Universities are local, regional and national income generators. They create and provide a highly skilled workforce and high skill jobs. They hide successive governments' failure to replace long-term jobs of our industrial workforce, wiping potentially millions from unemployment figures each year.

The total failure of VCs and 'senior' managers/administrators/governors across the UK to develop a sustainable funding model is a national scandal. Every VC quote in the press boils down to shrugging shoulders and 'sector-wide problem, innit? Nothing I can do.', while rewarding themselves £100ks.

Calvinist bs that we should all be expected to suffer and only the most worthy should receive help. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need, that’s the only place to start from if we’re actually trying to birth the new world from this time of monsters

Oh hi it's me, a "relatively mild case," which is to say I didn't get diagnosed until college and was forced to develop coping skills due to persistent institutional bullying that nearly killed me But do say more about the risk of throwing some ADHD people under the bus.

David K Smith@professor-dave.bsky.social · 4w ago

If we do not start to differentiate properly, many profoundly disabled people with ADHD (and/or autism) are going to be thrown under the bus as the backlash grows against these labels, in part as a result of them including so many relatively mild cases.

genuinely concerned that if AI goes bankrupt I might shrug so hard I dislocate both shoulders

Reading Peter Roach's 'English Phonetics and Phonology', I was charmed by this table of possible tri-consonant combinations at the start of English syllables – specifically, by its gaps. Surely poets and wordsmiths have a duty to fill in the gaps by creating words starting stl-, spw- and stw-.

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot