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Important FYI: if you’ve run out of prescribed meds, a pharmacist can give you them without a prescription in an emergency.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

People vehemently believe that there are safety nets in place if you become disabled. That no matter what, you have all of your needs met. If you believe this, you’re in for a rude awakening if you ever become disabled.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

I mean yes but also why are we trying to blame hillbillies when this shit is run by a bunch of damn billionaires.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Hey just in the spirit of trying everything: as a middle-aged queer who already gets hassled in public loos, returning to the US is looking increasingly scary. I CAN apply to stay in the UK, but need work at a liveable wage. Can teach nearly anything. Research CV as long as my arm. I just need work.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Kathleen is an amazing person, scholar, and teacher, and it would be a terrible shame if she can't find a place to support her.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

Oi, lottery folks, give them the dosh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It’s high time we start being honest about what’s behind a lot of the push towards “wellness”. It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment. It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

I hear other Churchwardens bitch about the Faculty system all the time but as someone who has had to do a LOT of them, some which were granted and some which were not (one famously), I have to say... It's a good system. It's flawed, but it works, and it's IMPORTANT we have checks and rules in place.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

My friends at Merrymac are SO close to their goal. Even if you can only give a few dollars every little bit helps!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

With Alt-text, taps sign. Direct link to the AMA’s account: youtube.com/@americanmed...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

submitted 201 days ago • 44 comments

I don't think you can really call what Frodo and co. did a 'Fellowship'. None of those hobbits had to pass a grueling application progress or talk about Early Career Research goals. And only one of them submitted a book or paper at the end of it.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

watch out for this! for folks who don't know: - windows+R opens the run window which lets you run any program - ctrl+V pastes so this puts some malicious command on your clipboard, then convinces you to run it yourself. don't.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

Anyone going to be at the British Library this week and willing to photograph two pages from a catalogue bound in a book in Rare Books and Manuscripts for me, in exchange for some ££? Photographed it years ago for research reference and appear to have missed pp. 4-5, argh.

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

📣 MAJOR MAJOR PSA 📣 YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR A PROTEST. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "REGISTER" TO SHOW SOLIDARITY. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND PHONE NUMBER TO HAND OUT AND DISTRIBUTE MATERIALS. YOU JUST SHOW UP.

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

submitted 21 days ago • 353 comments

This is the single most pratchettian thing @tkingfisher.com has ever written. FIGHT ME (From Summer in Orcus.)

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 67 days ago • 71 comments

He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

FYI for everyone curious to know what sort of stuff has come of the group sessions with the Copyright Office folks have been doing for the last few years (me included!!): this 😌 Glad to see this step toward more good news!

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

We’re hiring a medieval Irish historian!

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking the - actually rather successful - economy you've got for one you'd rather have based on vibes, based on, well, what?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

UK is known for: Heritage tourism Universities and education *World Service UK blows them all up. Good luck with your growth strategy!

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 25 days ago • 1273 comments

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 25 days ago • 132 comments

Don’t sign shit. Make them fire you. Do not resign your position based on an assurance from an administration whose head has a reputation for stiffing contractors who did work for him.

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

I wish we didn’t have to keep telling people that once they’re done with trans people, they’re coming for you next. You should fucking care that trans people are getting hurt all for the crime of existing. You shouldn’t need another fucking reason.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

@oldenoughtosay.bsky.social Facebook struck again. Kinda weird, but apparently the algorithm knows me...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone here got any microwave recommendations? Mine is on its last legs after 9 years of nearly daily use 😅

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments