I am a Prof of Comp Sci at Uni of Manchester, UK. UCU NEC disabled member rep (2023-24). UCUCommons. All posts are my own behalf alone. He/him/they.
Do try to remember that the EHRC guidance only affects service providers and not employment, so if you work somewhere where there are toilets or changing rooms for employees that aren’t open to the public then your employers are wrong if they try to stop you from using facilities for your gender
The Kindle version of 'Made In Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' is currently available for just 99p at Amazon and bookshop.org. Fill your boots!
I am sorry but anyone who took even a slight peak at the Space X S-1 form would have understood that Musk is overselling investors on future prospects. Surely investors are not so naive as to believe Musk's multifarious claims at this point.
The Associated PressSpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
Rod Liddle was an active and enthusiastic member of the truly crazy rump SDP. Feel this important detail has been somewhat absent from his obituaries.
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
You mean you got taken by the guy who's entire existence is a scam who has never created anything ever and is only thought of a a genius because a style reporter from the WaPo said so? Weird. I cannot believe this is happening
The Associated PressSpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
de beauvoir and sartre were both monsters ('very young' here means 16 or 17) www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Nick (derogatory) ✨In some ways, this is a game about how much French theory you’ve read.
The only time I even remotely intersected with Rod Liddle is when I was part of the efforts to show solidarity to black and trans students at Durham, after he (entirely predictably) insulted them during a speech he was unaccountably invited to give after a college Christmas Party.
Statement from Durham UCU in response to the events at the South College Christmas formal held on 3 December 2021 and their aftermath: – Durham UCUdurhamucu.org.uk
These people fantasizing about nonexistent covid camps actively cheer for the real camps ICE is filling with people right now. They don't give a shit about suffering, they want to feed their victim complex.
Jonathan HowardThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY.
Dr. Lucky TranI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
It's chilling they tried to ruin a guy's life based on the delusions of a mad king. Davy Hearn was facing up to 10 years in prison for felony destruction of property because Trump's ego couldn't absorb the Reflecting Pool coating self-destructing.
MeidasTouchFederal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
The idea that a war only exists if there are casualties does not appear in the text of the Constitution. Nor does it appear in Madison’s notes on the Constitutional convention debates. Nor is there evidence it was discussed in ratification debates. It is made up.
Aaron RuparSen. Rand Paul: "I've had the debate with this administration ... they told me this isn't a war. I said, why isn't it a war? They said, 'Well, a constitutional war has to have significant casualties' ... initiation or declaration of war is *before* the casualties."
Exactly. This is where theory is so helpful as a lens. (This is adding to not contradicting OP) So if you have a critical feminist lens, you understand that these are both the same project of marginalizing women and maintaining a binary that (white, cis, straight, wealthy) men are in charge of.
Dag.12 year old girls get genital inspections "for their safety" while wife beaters get endorsed for re-election. This whole protecting women and girls thing is a bit confusing.
Fast fashion didn’t nearly kill American fashion retail because people thought Forever 21 and Gap were equivalent quality, or they couldn’t be sure how big the difference was. That happened because people wanted to buy more clothes for less money and wear them fewer times and then get more new stuff
What about these articles? Wanting to look at child porn & have sex with schoolchildren isn't "satire" bsky.app/profile/snig...
SnigdhaYour reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.
Have specifically not listened to #r4today on my drive this morning to avoid inevitable glowing tributes to a racist, transphobic, misogynist, child-fancying woman-beater. Instead I have treated half of the M1 to the Soup Dragons’s Lovegod played very loudly. Not listened to it in years. Banger.
After spending years dehumanising and vilifying Trans+ people unchallenged, the BBC has now started the "Are there too many Black and Brown people working in the NHS?" thing
Jonathan Portes"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
I'd forgotten about Rod Liddle's inclination towards committing sex crimes against children. #bbcpm bsky.app/profile/stev...
Dr. Steven BuckleyThey have now since update the article with a bit of 'his critics said that' sort stuff. No mention how he once wrote he couldn't be a teacher as he'd want to shag the kids.
In one 2019 Spectator paragraph, Liddle mocked Rosie Duffield, who had given a harrowing Commons speech about surviving domestic abuse, as "sobbing and oppressed", & then suggested holding the election on a Muslim holy day to suppress the Labour vote. He called it satire. It was racism & misogyny