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there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

submitted 10 hours ago • 440 comments

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 365 comments

Yesss @sophisteria.bsky.social

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The inevitable end result of a society and economy which cruelly and maliciously discriminates against young people at all times and in all facets of their lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

When you meet some you knew pre-transition after they’ve started transition and they are so clearly fundamentally flourishing and happy in spite of all the crap trans people face it’s really really special and joyful.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

As a friend noted, these are the same folks who claim they are protecting women from trans people in the bathrooms. It is all just bullshit--misogyny and transphobia and homophobia. Trump people identify with Tate, which says a lot.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Or, option 3: tick the disability confident box and don't get an interview! Leaving you wondering about going full Karen on the organisation for not sticking to their own policies and thereby getting yourself blacklisted. But deciding not to in the name of self-preservation.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Last day to safely post those ballot papers back - WITH A FIRST CLASS STAMP! If you've not done so yet, dig it out, fill it in, and post it! #UCU

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

it’s not that this US administration has a different, competing version of what it means to do good. They know and even share our conception of good, and oppose it on purpose to make their enemies mad. Consciously, purposefully, gleefully evil.

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Quite hard to describe massive cuts at Social Security Admin plus cancelling (without explanation) the flu vaccine committee meeting as anything other than an intentional financial, physical, and psychological attack on everyone over 65 years old. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo. “Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.” Part of memo:

submitted 12 hours ago • 169 comments

Will never understand grandparents, uncles, aunts who don't want much to do with their grandkids, niblings etc. We were kept from 2 of ours for years and it's so lovely now they're back, seeing pics of trips out with my parents. We would've give anything in those years to see them. It was so bleak.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

This is so obvious but so neglected.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking. Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised. The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, were both found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities said

submitted 15 hours ago • 56 comments

??????????????? what is really going on?

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Big shiny new left-wing campaigns with lots of big names signed on to them are quite likely to be SWP fronts and data harvesting exercises. Just FYI.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

These are the words of the evil and pretentious - from a man that deserves to be shoved into a locker for eternity.

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

9/10 of people in England disagree with this simplistic ahistoric nonsense from Braverman.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

SO excited about this workshop on Feminist Mathematical Philosophy in London next week, with friends Jingyi Wu, Cat Saint-Croix, Ray Pedersen, and others! www.jingyiwu.org/fmp2025.html

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Honeslty hilarious how he apes Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We essentially voted to kick an unpopular can down the road instead of calling the whole thing off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The "we" below refers to UCU Left + their gaggle of "independent" allies majority UCU Commons & Campaign for UCU Democracy members did not vote for this mess. We voted to call off the pay ballot & prioritise jobs If you haven't yet voted in the NEC election, post your ballot with a 1st class stamp

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

#ucu members! An update from Head Office from the 19th Feb HEC has just landed in your inboxes (if yours hasn't come in yet, it will eventually - they get sent in batches)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I heart Tina Smith.

submitted 2 days ago • 602 comments

I spoke with UCU Edinburgh President Sophia Woodman earlier. She told me they think the universities finances are “quite healthy” compared to the sector with “enormous reserves”. And that they have “adequate resources to cover a downturn without cutting staff.”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Great blog series from UCU Edinburgh, providing an excellent example of how unions can work together to build critical financial literacy and challenge narratives around university finance. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Big School Board thing today wherein I bring some critical motions. My anxiety is having a fun time with me as I overprepare and deal with heart palpitations.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Dear #UCU members. You may think the committee elections are a boring, unintelligible, unimportant, internal matter. But you would be WRONG!! Who we elect determines whether or not our union is functional!! And you have just 2 more days to post your ballot 😱 See #UCUCommons for more deets!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Just need to say something. I have taken part in every single strike called since joining UCU. So did many, many people who oppose this ballot. I once lost my WHOLE MONTH'S PAY as a GTA. Opposing a ballot because of the risk of it failing is not 'scabbing'.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

About to post my ballot paper for the @ucu.org.uk Trustee, Officer and NEC elections. I voted for the UCU Commons candidates (ucucommons.org), and for Dyfrig Jones as Vice-President and Andrew Feeney as Treasurer.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Putting this next to the recent UCU analysis of Edinburgh’s financial situation, it’s hard not to feel like there’s something missing here. If only we could demand actual accountability… www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As we get into the final week of the UCU NEC / VP election, I've written about winning and losing elections - both things I have fairly extensive experience of. Click on the link and you get to see what I looked like with (some) hair. medium.com/@DyfrigJones...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#UCU branches + committees starter pack now with added @bcu-ucu.bsky.social and @ucu-cardiff-met.bsky.social - please let us know of any branches or other formal UCU committees that are on 🦋but missing here and we will add them! go.bsky.app/H8xiSXj

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Durham UCU is balloting to strike. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1392...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Dreadful news. 'UCU said that it believed as many as 1,000 professional services staff were likely to be threatened with redundancy under a plan to restructure every school within the university.'

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Trumpian mismanagement at Cardiff University. This is the final stage of neoliberalism: throwing around jargon on efficiency, competitiveness and investment while burning the earth. Frankly, Nero was better than these lot. At least he made music, not neoliberal arglebargle.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments