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matildaf.bsky.social
Geographer & lecturer: int. climate politics, (non)reproduction and the Anthropocene. UCU NEC casualised rep. UCU Commons Queerness, food, unions, ABBA. My views. She/her Website: https://linktr.ee/matildafitzmaurice
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While the powers that be destroy things, we continue to grow and create

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OMG

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I have PIP and a full-time job. I would not have a full-time job without PIP

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

I get what the author is trying to say here, and the arguments about de-privatising childcare are good. But it's basically a repackaging of the 'people with children are more empathetic' argument under a more progressive guise. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Finally, to see it written and published. Finally, to see the plain truth stated without equivocation or qualification. It's never been about "women's spaces" or "protecting children". It's organized transphobia; a gender critical ideology movement (GCIM) as dangerous as eugenics and fascism.

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What does being "proscribed" mean & how will it impact activity related to/supporting Palestine Action? Netpol has produced a guide - headline is any support will be an offence BUT it can't be applied retrospectively. Ban expected from 4 July. netpol.org/2025/06/26/p... 1/3

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

It will never not be funny to me the number of places in England where the drink options will be “first class coffee, excellent tea, great wine list, CAMRA-approved ales” and then if you want a cold soft drink the offer is “can I interest you in vile, orange coloured liquid?”

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

someone at work, fairly senior and with English as his second language, said in a meeting "we've got to bite it in the bum" and it's the best thing he's ever done

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

They are only m&m's if you eat them in pairs, wake up sheeple!

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Gillespie has been called "an absent landlord" 🔥

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Something I found lovely about yesterday was that allies really showed up. I was in the queue for parliament with a mother meeting her MP on behalf of her trans child & a cis man meeting his on behalf of his trans brother. A father of trans kids met my MP before me. People are fighting this with us.

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This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news. "A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

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This is the greatest photo I have ever seen. The flying man, the crystal ashtray and cigs, the garden chairs:

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guess who has successfully grown POTATOES

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There's one week to go to complete the Equality and Human Rights Commission consultation - closing Monday 30th, just before midnight. If you want to fill in, try & set aside 10-30 mins to do so this week, and email your MP! For more info: www.scottishtrans.org/emailfortran...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

big shout out to the Open Access support team at my work for being extremely kind and helpful

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I’m very proud this has carried on since April 2020 when we set it up.

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As a @york.ac.uk grad, I have many friends who've taught at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, and know from them what valuable work it does. Awful news for the city!

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Well I do know why, really, because, the 'impact agenda' is a disciplinary tool

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Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

JOB: Lecturer in the Politics of Climate Change This is a permanent post, based here in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds. Application deadline 30 June, so please spread the word! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... @polisatleeds.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

love the guy on Channel 4 news right now on telly with his bow tie and with his CD rack behind him, the brat album faced out

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

love train wifi that's so bad you can't even send a powerpoint via email

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There's been a skip labelled 'fixed-term contact academic bin' for ages

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

A small ask, as a transgender who values his mental health, can we not all screenshot Rowling and post it here whenever she decides to tweet something hideously transphobic? Logged on this morning and my entire feed was Rowling screenshots. If I wanted to see that, I’d still be on Twitter.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

if you editorialise, are you any longer a newsreader?

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applied for a job (academic) over the weekend and the employer only asks for references if an offer of appointment is made!! More of this please!

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UK higher ed has External Examiners, thousands of qualified people who provide their labour, *almost unremunerated* to check the actual quality of actual teaching & assessment, every year. In the "national debate on quality assurance", they might as well not exist. wonkhe.com/blogs/qualit...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Surely newcomers as rich as this could be liable for MILLIONS in tax. Reform think paying £250k is enough.

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senior management should not be able to take their published restructure plans with them to their new employer

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

gcn.ie/uk-puberty-b...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Laura Kuennsberg manufacturing consent for bombing Iran by citing amongst other things same-sex relationships. Nothing justifies the bombing of Iran by Israel and the US - homonationalism and the BBCs use of it to legitimise mass murder is abhorrent. #BBCLauraK

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments