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David Bretherton
@dtbretherton.bsky.social
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“Hyper-woke academic with blue hair” (GB News) • He/him • Own views • Join a union! • Mostly dogs • Occasionally music theory, musicology & queer studies • Trade union rep
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · 27d
What this means is that government and UUK want to impose contract changes on vast swathes of academic staff to reduce research time, and ultimately make vast numbers of staff redundant.

Join UCU if you are not already a member www.ucu.org.uk/join
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · 1d
Yes - until Thursday!
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · 6d
No, 💐
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 15d
so fed up of British journalism and its West Wing brained obsessions
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16d
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?
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · 21d
Vote Labour, get Reform. And that’s probably true even if Labour do get in.
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Wales Governance Centre | Canolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru @walesgovernance.bsky.social · 23d
Our new BARN Cymru poll run with @itvcymruwales.bsky.social and @yougov.co.uk has landed 📈 #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru
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Cerulean Man 🐝 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 🐶 @ceruleanman.bsky.social · 22d
Malicious communication arrest around the Windsor Castle projection on the castle walls. 4 adults arrested in the building opposite. Are the Thames Valley Police taking the p*ss? What about free speech?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24d
UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂

Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24d
BREAKING: Tory MP Danny Kruger just defected to Reform. Big surprise, not. ~AA
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25d
Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested

Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested

We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25d
Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social
This is fine, but Keir Starmer surrounded by violent, foreign money funded bigots waving flags
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 26d
No one wants choice in public services. They want the one nearest them to be good.
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · 27d
I suspect that’s their thinking…
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · 27d
What this means is that government and UUK want to impose contract changes on vast swathes of academic staff to reduce research time, and ultimately make vast numbers of staff redundant.

Join UCU if you are not already a member www.ucu.org.uk/join
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29d
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.

Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 29d
Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 8
🌍✊ The Green Party stands with UCU members.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social (Leader of the Green Party) and @carladenyer.bsky.social (former Co-Leader) are backing our campaign for fair pay and conditions.

We are the university. We are the movement. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity
Carla Jo and Zack
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · Sep 7
Excited to discover that all the higher ed consultancies and think tanks seem to be discussing the future of higher ed without actually talking to any staff
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Sep 6
Love how this is wrong in like 4 discrete ways
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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Sep 6
Big boy waited the whole day for this moment... 😅🤣

#dog #dogday #bluesky
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Sep 5
Statement by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention about the EHRC.

www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/c...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Sep 5
Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 5
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · Sep 2
At this point Labour aren’t just an enormous disappointment and disgrace, they are also an embarrassment.
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · Sep 2
Catching up on the news. Apparently the Home Sec. is encouraging people to hang flags off motorway gantries and proposing to put those fleeing war and persecution in warehouses, and the PM is interfering in an active police investigation. Do I have that right? #NormalIsland
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Sep 1
A reminder that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we need a much stronger labor movement.
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · Aug 28
Probably get barred from entering the ‘land of the free’ for retweeting this. Ah well.
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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · Aug 27
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Aug 27
The irony/idiocy of this banner currently draped on the Department of Labor building is not lost on me, given all the federal workers he's forced out of their jobs.

(Pic via Getty Images)
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