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nighthawkcalling.bsky.social
Here for politics, Brentford, UCU, music and anything interesting... Also, to tell Elon he's a cunt.
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This puts shit into perspective.

submitted 55 days ago • 40 comments

Never, ever ask Alexa to rap.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

My 5yo has been drawing fish today (for reasons we don't need to go into). Getting strong @noscoredraws.com vibes...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

As predicted here for many months, the number of universities now making active redundancies has now risen to 90. It rise to 100 very soon. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

Slightly unfortunate spelling mistake on the handmade birthday card this morning...

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Filth from Damsgaard.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

'Thrift says that university management has largely “done as it has been told” in the hope of getting “a tiny bit more money”. “It hasn’t exactly rolled over and played dead, but sometimes it can feel as though it is dangerously close to Stockholm syndrome”.' 1/3

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

'A £285 rise to £9,535 will modestly increase the debts of individual students, while doing little to address the overall problem. A new settlement is desperately needed – one that properly restores a sector that delivers a public good to the public realm' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes you've got to take a long hard look at yourself and admit who you really are. So today, I've downloaded the Greggs app.

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

UK universities might misattribute changes in their rankings to their institutional strategies when random fluctuations in the ranking system are a more likely explanation. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... BSky author: @tvpollet.bsky.social #UKHE #AcademicSky

submitted 161 days ago • 5 comments

Going out for dinner with your spouse/long term partner isn't "date night", it's just going out for dinner.

submitted 160 days ago • 8 comments

General secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social outlines how marketisation is destroying higher education. Vice-chancellors have lobbied for and built business models around unregulated, eye-watering fees for international students. Listen to @bbcradio4.bsky.social 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 206 days ago • 1 comment

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 211 days ago • 0 comments

@noscoredraws.bsky.social Any chance of a pierluigi collina?

submitted 212 days ago • 0 comments

Really interesting, analytical piece by Jak Peake about the current consultative ballot being run by UCU, and whether we should be taking UK-wide industrial action now. campaignforucudemocracy.com/2024/11/21/f...

submitted 218 days ago • 1 comment

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

submitted 219 days ago • 465 comments

Dreamt last night that England had taken two quick wickets just before tea, one from a beamer by Stuart Broad. Woke up feeling happy only to remember that there is no Test match being played, Broad has retired, and I am old.

submitted 219 days ago • 0 comments

Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) ⭐️💙

submitted 219 days ago • 17 comments

Just had parmesan on my beans on toast. I feel like Caligula.

submitted 220 days ago • 0 comments