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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 11h

Oooh, they’re much prettier than mine!

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sirmontyhusk.bsky.social @sirmontyhusk.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure about the branding on the glassware for Basement Beer 😂

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Friday!

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 19h

I can probably do most evenings. Suggest something and I should be ok. Can you get DMs on here?

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 22h

Morning.

TFI Friday, huh?

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 22h

“You are a fascist”
👏 👏 👏 @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski,
"The only way to be morally consistent is to condemn what happened on Oct 7th and to condemn the genocide in Palestine"

"As a Jewish man I feel the genocide very very deeply"

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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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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...

Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …

ucucommons.org

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1d

Yknow not to be dramatic but officially seeing ill health and disability as a problem to be seen in terms of labor is a sign of core principles of your society falling apart it seems to me

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

It probably just means a shift to lounging on the sofa instead so I guess it’s not too horrific.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

I too wish I knew the answer to that question…

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

I like to think so. Sadly I’m going to have to move to get a top up shortly.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

A bit of both, tbh. It’s nice to know it’s yours, even if it chucks the odd challenge at you.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Same, same.

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Home ownership is a next level joy. And flat living definitely adds an extra soupçon of excitement.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Also really hoping to be proven wrong. But it’s doing nothing for my anxiety.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone else watching the news just feeling utterly terrified that Hamas will release the hostages and Israel will then simply carpet bomb Gaza because it has nothing to lose any more?

It can’t just be me.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

6pm. Lying in bed drinking wine. Not a healthy approach to life but very enjoyable.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Also, when are we going for a drink? 🍷🍻

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this is the big advantage for me now and is quite a luxury - and I appreciate being in this position a lot - I don’t actually have to earn that much to get by. Thinking cap on.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Well these are some of the big questions…I could do HE or museums…education, academic development, digital learning consultancy, museum governance…but yeah, the climate is tricky, although I think in some of those fields they’re actually ditching in house staff and employing consultants more.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

They really are, are they not? It’s been quite a day x

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure the wine will help me figure this out but it might. And I only bought a half bottle. Because I know myself well enough.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

The first big thought is - freelance life - could I cut it and should I try?

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 1d

Got pizza and wine for tea too. Today is a self-care day (and possibly also the opposite a self-care day). Big thoughts to think about the future.

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