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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 22h

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
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Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

Datura stramonium|thorn apple/RHS Gardening share.google/HN0eJJFoddUS...

Datura stramonium | thorn apple Annual Biennial/RHS

Find help & information on Datura stramonium thorn apple Annual Biennial from the RHS

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

Leaves do look a bit 'nightshady' don't they?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

I did a little 'history of sociology' project once. IIRC, Thatcher attacked sociology in the 1980s.

Ana-Cristina Santos 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) @anacristinasantos.bsky.social · 3d

Outrageous. One of the very first symptoms of a wanna-be) authoritarian regime is their declared dislike for Sociology and Gender Studies. Those are usually the first they go after, as we saw in Brazil during Bolsonaro, in Hungary, etc. It's time to rise. #publicSociology
#academicfreedom

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

You can even build on that degree and pursue a career in academia

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

Always with these fuckwits who think teachers would even have the time to do made up bollocks like this. I'd say they're beneath contempt, but contempt is embarrassed to be associated with them.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah Musk said summat similar just before I left Twitter. F*©k these people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

Bold and ambitious... That sounds familiar

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 2d

Asking homeowners for entry permission would kill the burglary industry.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 2d

Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 18d

Tacit understanding that prevailing US/UK socio/economic/ideological currents are formatted by an interlinked hegemonic class. The top echelon of this power vertical is in the USA and where they lead, we often follow. Hopefully this current non-science bollocks is an exception.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 18d

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

Good grief

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

Scroll down for the university bit

BP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners

Exclusive: Oil giant also shared intelligence on environmentalists with British Museum and Warwick University in ‘shocking’ web of surveillance

www.opendemocracy.net

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

Do they think the rain will wash it away?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

Been there many times

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

Sociology lives rent free in their heads I swear to G*d

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

In 2006, probably. In 2025? Also probably.

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Second Reading @commonslibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Freedom of speech in universities https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9143/

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

The gas canister is real though, right?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe they'll spread the risk by packaging the debt into tranches paying out at different rates. Worked with mortgages.

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 3d

“high-performing portions of the government’s portfolio of student debt”

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 3d

Sort of a case in point bsky.app/profile/mark...

Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 8d

I don't get the whole thing where people try to stop people showing or discussing things that exist. Is it like - 'if people know [thing] exists, they'll turn into [thing] and I don't like [thing]'? It's ridiculous.

Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · 11d

Wow all the hours we spent in the writers room brainstorming how to appeal to fascist billionaires WASTED

Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 4d

Can you be more specific?

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 4d

Your most cited paper will be the one you finished in a panic and still aren’t sure is right

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 4d

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 4d

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

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