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Emma Kennedy
@emmakeddev.bsky.social
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She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own.
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
United States Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is seen wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and tan shoes. He's shaking hands with someone in a black outfit. A close up of his shoes show weird stitching on the side. They look like they're the first shoes ever made in history.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
emmakeddev.bsky.social
Today I discovered that when you duplicate a meeting in MS Teams it uses THE SAME LINK. Why would I want that?! Who wants that? That's a recurring meeting! HONESTLY.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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drjennings.bsky.social
Glasman has such a sepia-tinted view of class, and zero ability to recognise the way economy and society has changed - in good and bad ways. Precarity, the new working class - there is lots of good thinking about this. To call him a third-rate theorist would be an insult to third-rate theorists.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
there's a lot to unpack here Lord Glasman
We return to politics. The working classes, he says, saved Britain during the Second World War, yet were repaid with contempt. “The way that my beloved working class was treated under Margaret Thatcher was cruel and deeply disrespectful, and we are still suffering the consequences,” he says. At a time when unemployment is ticking up and six million people are parked on out-of-work benefits, he wants to restore dignity in employment and see an end to the cycle of welfare dependency. As the Conservative Party was busy selling its soul, Labour abandoned its pro-worker position. “What Thatcher mercilessly initiated, Tony Blair immaculately consummated,” he says. This was manifest in New Labour’s attitude towards higher education. In 1979, roughly 10 per cent of school leavers went to university. Then Blair set his target, encouraging school leavers to move 100 miles from home and dismiss their intergenerational bonds. And, inevitably, “this very beautiful party was colonised by the progressive middle class”.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Welcome to the world premier of Marcel's Beans.
Photo of an adorable black and white medium haired kitten chewing on a bright green feather toy. He's reclining on a couch and you can see his pink and black toe beans.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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librariancapital.bsky.social
"The proposed 6% tax on international student fees is a dagger aimed at one of the UK’s most successful export industries"
- Martin Wolf in the FT today

Gift link below for anyone else reading:
on.ft.com/3KlPgMA
How to get the UK out of its economic hole
Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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courtneymilan.com
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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ucugreenwich.bsky.social
Please sign this petition to register opposition to Northumbria University effectively stealing staff pensions by trying to forcibly move them from TPS to USS: this could create a terrible precedent (especially vital for UoG). Pensions are deferred pay & part of your agreement on working conditions!
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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hagenilda.bsky.social
Makes *some* of us happier.

Sure it helps if you have a nice house and reasons to be stuck home. Some of us need a mix or balance of things: and the removal of proper work spaces is not okay.

www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk/21-11-2025/1...
Researchers studying remote work for four years reach a blunt conclusion “Home working makes us happier” and bosses hate it
Not in a shiny-inspirational-poster way, but in the Thursday afternoon way that decides whether you have enough patience left for life. The first morning
www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jackbern.bsky.social
oh you're a Christian? What if I told you a guy called Christian killed my dad? Not such a good religion now is it
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
Even the term “progressive” makes Lord Glasman shudder. His mother died of progressive supranuclear palsy. “Every word of that condition is terrible. She lost all her bodily functions, yet her brain remained intact, leaving her a mute witness to her own demise. It took six years to kill her, and to cure me of any fantasy that ‘progressive’ is desirable.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
emmakeddev.bsky.social
When your shop is closing and every customer has the same three questions
Two signs on a shop till. The first says 'This TG Jones shop is closing down. We are the ONLY TG Jones shop that's closing - all other TG Jones will remain open (and then some illegible)'. The second says 'We don't know what will be here. We don't have any Pokémon.'
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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equivalent in smart to i’ve got soul but i’m not a soldier (i love that song so don’t even)
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
Even the term “progressive” makes Lord Glasman shudder. His mother died of progressive supranuclear palsy. “Every word of that condition is terrible. She lost all her bodily functions, yet her brain remained intact, leaving her a mute witness to her own demise. It took six years to kill her, and to cure me of any fantasy that ‘progressive’ is desirable.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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sjoy.lol
Again with alt text:
Social media screenshot: Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction. He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands. That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil. Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic [further text missing]
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
emmakeddev.bsky.social
I'm getting some colleagues saying they refuse to vote in the UCU ballot for industrial action as the union hasn't helped them. Well, it's your life and if you don't want us to take action that's your right. But only do that if you genuinely want the union to do less!
Meme where someone puts a stick in their own bike wheel. They cycle along thinking, "I don't feel the union is helping me". Then they put a stick in their front wheel, saying "I'm going to boycott their stupid ballot!" Then they're on the ground having fallen off, saying "Oh no, they don't have the mandate to help me".
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
emmakeddev.bsky.social
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
My timeline is full of images without alt text, mostly archaeological. What's going on? Is it people posting on the weekend who aren't thinking about accessibility because it's the weekend? Inclusion isn't just for professional life. Get it together folks! Use the setting, think of other people.
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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carolinepennock.bsky.social
No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
www.careful.industries
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Careful Industries Have fewer, better meetings
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
Fruity au-pair role in Caribbean Costa Rica Hello, we are looking for a special person to become a part of our family here in this magical jungle and fruity paradise. We are in the beginning phases of visioning and dreaming into existence a fruit-centred inter generational village. We have a 7 hectare piece of land, opposite a maturing and sometimes abundant 5 hectare fruit-forest, a short walk from a beautiful and swimmable river. We have great quality and alive drinking water. We are looking for an open, consistent, reliable and earthy someone to immerse themselves into our lives and support us with our 5 children (0,3,6,10&12 years old). We simultaneously run a retreat centre dedicated to fruit based healing and detoxification as a tools for inner and spiritual transformation. You would be housed on the retreat lands and have your own private room, a short walk from our family home, where we plant to be eating communally, fruits, raw vegan meals and simple cooked foods. We are looking for someone excited by and dedicated to accompanying children, as well as supporting us in our busy family life as we dream into manifestation a big vision together. We already have support with cleaning and house support, so we look for someone primarily to become a part of our family rhythm, play, homeschooling, gardening, bedtimes etc. accompanying children, as well as supporting us in our 2/2y family life as we dream into manifestation a big vision together. We already have support with cleaning and house support, so we look for someone primarily to become a part of our family rhythm, play, homeschooling, gardening, bedtimes etc. You should be comfortable with jungle living, resourceful, excited by community visioning and the prospect of being a part of this project, well educated and dedicated in fruit-based living. If desired, there are also opportunities to support and co-facilitate with our retreats. This is not a paid role, or a job advertisement. It's an invitation into something deeper, to become part of and co-create a wonderful vision, be in service to children, and immerse yourself into a beautiful fruity lifestyle, and being fully supported in transitioning to jungle life, and on your path of fruit-based living Message me directly or comment below
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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thatdocphoenix.com
This is what we have to see every day, while struggling for employment, healthcare, housing and being treated like human beings
eople could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look The Times has seen the equalities watchdog's final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash Geraldine Scott, Assistant Political Editor Wednesday November 19 2025, 8.50pm GMT, The Times In April the Supreme Court ruled that access to single-sex spaces was dictated by sex, not gender identity - but long-awaited guidance for organisations and businesses has still not been published Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on what they look like, according to new equalities guidance seen by The Times. The guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was handed to ministers almost three months ago but has so far not been published by Bridget Phillipson, the minister for women and equalities. The Times has been passed a copy of the final guidance, which aims to preserve the dignity and safety of women, by Whitehall figures who are concerned that Labour is deliberately delaying publication to avoid a potential political backlash. Under the new guidance, places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others. If there is doubt they are telling the truth about their sex, they could be banned from using those services once those running them had considered "relevant factors".
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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michaelmunnik.bsky.social
Result for Nottingham! That was quick. Please, though it's exhausting, keep up the fight. All of us need to protect not only our workplaces and work conditions but also the social values our work (teaching and researching in the humanities) uphold and strengthen.
uonucu.bsky.social University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 11d
In response to our industrial action, the university proposed a resolution that removed the threat of compulsory redundancies for the next year and introduced a negotiation process over course closures. And at our branch meeting, we accepted this offer.
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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samwhyte.bsky.social
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"

As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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jacktindale.bsky.social
Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
nutedawn.bsky.social Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 8d
THEY DID WHAT
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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tseenster.bsky.social
Yes, pls.
missarbre.bsky.social Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · Sep 25
Can I upload Co-pilot to OneDrive so I will never find it again please
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM