Thomas Cheney
@thomascheney.bsky.social
Academic, (outer) Space Governance at Northumbria University. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Working on project 'Life the Ultimate Frontier'. He/him.
One day we'll have overcome their smug smiles and platitudes. Onwards!
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 13h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 10h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
Doesn't mean it's all fine, but that it's a bigger problem than Musk. There are no hard and fast rules, procedures, or penalites to stop such destructive unintentional acts. No state authority has really addressed it. China recently did something similar with an expended upper stage of LM-3C.
Sorry to burst the Bluesky bubble but Musk’s Falcon-9 upper stage wasn’t the first piece of human junk to smash into the Moon, and it won’t be the last. As well as junk, some countries have deliberately sent impactors to smash into the Moon…
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oh this looks very interesting - will have to wait until I've submitted my manuscript but going on top of the TBR pile
Seven Machina Rasmussen@toomanyspectra.bsky.social · yesterdayHAPPY BOOK DAY TO ME 💞📚✨🥰
It's nice to see P&P promoting my article as we approach the anniversary of the 1976 IMF Crisis, when unilateral protectionism was furiously debated within the bowels of the British state. It's open access and free to read via the link below.
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · yesterdayOn advance access "The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983" by @colmpm.bsky.social (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
People like Liddle actively made life worse for disadvantaged people. He stirred up hatred against ethnic minorities, immigrants, Muslims, women, gay people, disabled people, and trans people. He didn't just disagree with them, he harassed them and made their lives worse.
Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.
Stuart Fails To Save The Universe kinda fascinates me - I've got no idea where I can watch it, it seems like a odd choice for a spinoff for a franchise that is basically defined by milquetoast safety, but whats more my youtube is being flooded with clips but I've got no idea how to actually watch it
Lol... I'm not sure how I got on the Meridian Center's mailing list but it is hilarious
The author's first book from 2005 isn't included on her official website as it might serve as a reminder of the origin story?
Bill Geerhart@conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2d agoAn origin story... Airline Karen panicked by a Syrian music group headed to play a gig at a California casino. A book soon followed, "Terror in the Skies: Why 9/11 Could Happen Again." And then more books and a genius publicist. And here we are.
indeed, also you know I know I've only been driving for less than a year but if you can't avoid hitting a large barrier in a clearly marked median then maybe you shouldn't be driving...
COINTREAUPRO@strings.bsky.social · 4d agoSo… they’re working
used to be a written constitution guy but the last decade has changed my mind quite a bit...
used to be a written constitution guy but the last decade has changed my mind quite a bit...
If youre inclined to give any credence to Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War or Biological War books, be aware "Roswell 1947 was Stalin sending Mengele-mutants to scare America" is literally something she claims in her earlier Area 51 book
Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d agoanyway the """fact based""" argument in this piece of shit is a ~bioengineered~ whatever that somehow kills literally everyone in the US in a week lmfao not sure if this better or worse than genetically modified mengele kids doing Roswell for stalin
I see some people are reading this post as being about Exeter but it’s referring to the University of Hertfordshire. And that’s Owen’s point. Less coverage about the axe falling there but it’s equally sad.
Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d agoSo a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.
Well done Manchester, Reform thoroughly beaten, and yes turnout was low but that should have been to their favour.
cool so Northumbria has a healthy surplus, TPS costs have gone down, but were still being forced onto a new contract tomorrow so that we can have our pay frozen and takes us out of national barganing! makes for an easy double yes on @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social strike ballot!
Recruitment suspended on UG environment & sustainability, mathematics and physics. At postgraduate level, suspended courses include international corporate finance, water & environmental engineering and environmental strategy. If you think your subject is safe because not Humanities, rethink. 1/2
Course closures at University of Surrey raise concerns
Science and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’
timeshighereducation.com
ah were at that bit of Mad Men where were supposed to think Elizabeth Moss isnt very pretty
Not that we needed proof but the closure of the National Glass Centre really does show how 'fake' Labours fetishization of the UK's industrial heritage is and how little they care about 'vocational' training - quite an easy win and in a place where Labour need to make a strong show against Reform
I still find it hard to take any government seriously in their pronouncements about the economy whilst their higher education policy is effectively destroying one of the most productive - and regionally diversified - parts of the economy, just to placate racists.
oof finding needing to tone down some of the 'ecofascism' is a potential future from when I first wrote this given all thats happened since 2024... on both sides of the Atlantic...
Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 7d agoToday was either the best or the worst day to revisit my books section on Ecofascism...
good, remembering the couple of meetings Ive been in where the idea that climate change is something the RAF or RAAF should be concerned with was dismissed out of hand... had quite an argument with and RAAF wing cmmdr about this in the context of wildfires once...
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
