Despite GCU's deadline to address and remedy all students' missed teaching by 6th November, my programme (MSc Social Innovation) has not received a plan for three of all four of our modules impacted by the ongoing industrial action. 1/

EIS@eisunion.bsky.social · 3d ago

Continued strike action at GCU to protect jobs and quality education. No compulsory redundancies at GCU, save the 100! Join our picket we'll be here until 11!!

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy was a Watergate Baby. He served until *2023*, when he retired the most senior sitting member of Congress. He was a deeply effective legislator. The new Democrats today may very well define the party for generations.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 3d ago

On track for the biggest generational turnover among House Democrats in more than 50 years.

Deb Haaland has just never taken a bad photo huh

GCU spent around £4,500,000 on land purchases just this year, yet they want to cut 100 jobs at the university. Is land more important than the staff and the provision of quality education at GCU? Stop the Cuts. Save the 100🛟

With news about the US Army practicing digging mass battlefield graves for the first time since the 1950s, and rumors of a major military escalation after the election going around the DC set, it feels like various actors are expecting something serious to occur.

Tyler Butler@lerler.bsky.social · last wk.

Google and Amazon tanking with multiple crypto wallet sites getting hacked and drained en masse feels like the start of the bubble bursting.

Google and Amazon tanking with multiple crypto wallet sites getting hacked and drained en masse feels like the start of the bubble bursting.

Back in the 90s and 90s scholars in the social sciences and humanities developed analytical frameworks that helped explain how seemingly race neutral policies like drug laws or urban renewal were still systematically racist. I appreciate how the White House has obviated the need for such theories.

Our brilliant students have created a website to explain the crisis at Uni of Nottingham, with a full list of sources to back up their points. So proud of and impressed with them: uon.rip @uonucu.bsky.social

tired: champagne socialist wired: cheesecake socialist

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The seventh seal has been opened.

Join our Demo this Thursday and help us STOP THE CUTS at GCU. We will be joined by Scottish Trades Union Congress Roz Foyer and Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak speaking to our rally from 09.30am! Save the 100🛟✊

I do not need, have a place to keep, or possess money to spend on plastic toys. However,

Random gashapon! ランダム・ガチャポン@randomgacha.bsky.social · 2w ago

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/41818 『カピバラの日常フィギュア2』10月発売予定。のんびりほっこりカピバラたちの日常をまたのぞいてみましょう "Capybara Daily Life Figures 2" is scheduled for release in October. Let's take another peek into the laid-back and heartwarming daily lives of capybaras. #ガチャポン #gachapon

Glasgow Caledonian announced the 100 compulsory redundancies in the early spring, and the unions objected. In June, one union striked on graduation day. GCU admin had months to plan contingencies for teaching strikes in the fall. There's still no plan. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2665703...

Inside the Scottish university strikes where students are 'teaching themselves'

Glasgow Caledonian University students say they feel abandoned as UCU-led strikes disrupt teaching, assessments and nursing courses amid 100 proposed job cuts

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my new sweater has a subtle message

"A survey released Tuesday (Oct. 20) found that Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God." religionnews.com/2026/10/20/a...

Palantir’s influence across Europe. The most revealing report yet into the AI company’s business across the continent, by @FTM_eu, reveals the extent of contracts – but doubts are growing about it as a partner Sebastiaan Brommersma reports, with an introduction by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

US-based tech is openly committed to the global project of Trump and the wider far right. Pretending Meta or X are neutral simply because they have been broadly accessible to the general public allows them to shift the Overton window further towards authoritarianism and facism.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 3w ago

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

The idea that the world was going to use BRICS to ease away from the petrodollar and climate collapse til Trump2 smashed it continues to hold water. www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK calls for fundamental reset of global financial system for developing countries

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said the current system is failing developing economies and holding back shared global prosperity

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UKVI issues pertinent to int'l students.

On day 15 of @unison.org.uk members on strike at @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social against needless redundancies Davena Rankin speaks to joint picket. Meanwhile, where the Principal?? China!! What's Alan Smyth MSP @scottishgov.bsky.social doing to get a resolution????? Nothing so far! #SaveThe100

Major strike demonstration day at Glasgow Caledonian. All four of my modules are affected. If the redundancies go ahead as planned, it's almost certain my postgraduate program will be entirely cut. The GCU Students Association returned a vote of No Confidence for the current administration.

EXCLUSIVE: Students at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) have overwhelmingly backed a vote of no confidence in university leadership, in what has been described as a historic shift in the institution's traditionally apolitical student culture👇 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

It's giving Four Seasons Total Landscaping 2020.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wrong Portland. @nbcnews.com #MEsen www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

I feel not enough dots are being connected about the breadth and volume of strikes and other protests taking place across multiple stages in Britain, Ireland, France, India and beyond. This is speaking to a present crisis in global economy, politics and society itself. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Is Wednesday's public sector strike now inevitable?

The money is there and both sides say they want to do a deal so how are we facing into a massively disruptive public sector strike on Wednesday, asks Work Correspondent Brian O'Donovan.

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people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 4w ago

Is this supposed to discourage me from seeing the movie?

Today's "play on repeat til I can't stand it anymore" song: "Death Mag" by Bizou. Shoegaze/dream-pop goth industrial post-punk. bizou.bandcamp.com/album/widow?...

Widow, by Bizou

6 track album

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Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

🚨WE NEED 80 SIGNATURES BEFORE MIDNIGHT🚨 Can you be the one to get us over the line? The government is trying to sneak earned settlement in quietly but together we can force a reply from Andy Burnham. ✊️ ✍️ PLEASE SIGN ✍️ act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnham...

To Andy Burnham: Scrap the earned settlement proposals

Sign the petition and call on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to scrap the earned settlement plans. They are unpopular. They are divisive. And they will devastate our already struggling NHS and our social...

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