So Radio 4 still trying to take down Sociology I see… What is it about this discipline that’s critical of the establishment that they don’t like 🤷♀️
Ruth!
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#MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please, Bit face blind so won’t recognize you out of context!
"I want you to panic." But not from @thunberggreta.bsky.social —this time from a firefighter whose face betrays his despair—he understands all too well how deeply political denial still hinders action. He was @zackpolanski.bsky.social s press conference. We need more of this involved people at mics.
Are fossil fuel companies going to be held to account for this? Are they going to be fined to help put things right? If they were companies that had made a much smaller mess they would be!
Thomas Fortenberry@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · last wk.Averaging over 104 F per day is not in any way normal.
As predicted, the EHRC is wrecking girls and women’s organizations: apple.news/A2nJjTG1ORLK...
I'm resigning from Girl Guides after 10 years - the recent changes broke my heart — The i Paper
As a child, GirlGuiding was a safe space for me where I found my voice. Its decision to exclude trans girls and women is appalling
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If you owe a woman 5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
Maybe we should look at why loads of schools need to have food banks
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
Good work @c4ciaranbsky.social Giving Mary-Ann Stephenson a run for her money on #Channel4News! Showing how ludicrous this guidance really is!!
The brass neck on this when university workers are losing their jobs in droves and she and Jacqui Smith did sweet fuck all about the crisis for the two years she was in office! My god. #UKHE #UCU www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
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Lets cut Welfare to fund Defence. Here's the top claimants we need to deal with. Amazon, Google, Starbucks, Meta, Apple, Shell, BP, Vodafone... All these companies pay ZERO tax in most if not all year's. They should be paying tens of billions. End this unaffordable Welfare.
I mean, who even needs an education? Just send them straight to work for free at 14 🤷♀️
Anti-migrant protest is the new football hooliganism!
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago'Data released by Hampshire police under freedom of information laws shows that 22 of 37 people (59%) detained in Southampton after Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life have been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.'
We have let the oil barons take us to the brink of destruction and now we are letting the Tech Bros with their data centres finish the job.
Andy Burnham cutting £45 from electricity bills whilst multiple councils signing away local electricity and water to data centres. What do they think that will do to the price of electricity?? If you’re in Leeds sign this: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
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Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.
The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed
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Philipsson keeps equalities brief as a cabinet role. That is very bad news.
Didn’t they even ask ChatGPT for realistic sales goals? Probably only used the free version, like everyone else. futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
The company behind ChatGPT is on track to undershoot its five-year revenue projection by upward of 90 percent.
futurism.com
Shall we buy this between us and all live in it together? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 15 bedroom apartment for sale on Rightmove
15 bedroom apartment for sale in Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 for £1,800,000. Marketed by HOME, Pudsey
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Stick together. Keep fighting. UCU members at the Durham Miners’ Gala on what the day means to them and their message for everyone facing job cuts right now ✊
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News Is this yet another example that f Labour vs the people? We have just sweated through and unprecedented heatwave - with more than 1000 excess deaths - and Labour’s plan is drill baby drill How can they always be so wrong 🤷♀️
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Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.Shabana Mahmood set to be named UK chancellor by Andy Burnham ft.trib.al/B8BshzA
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but great way of justifying Nige’s dodgy £5m …
