Given that we're told that Muslims as a bloc are communalist, anti-Semitic, misogynist homophobes, you might assume voting for a non-religious white woman, standing for a LGBT friendly party, led by a gay Jewish man, might lead you to stand down all those sectarianism headlines.
Is he going to drag a modular synth he made in his shed onto the stage? Is this the newest absolute longshot UK entry?
Wait, no. Please. Are we sending LMNC to Eurovision or something?
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Sponsor me to support access to exercise! I'm raising money for Active Communities by swimming 1km in each of Edinburgh's 5 Victorian pools, and running 16km between them.
I did not realise how hard a 5km swim is when signing up.
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Makes sense! Semi-unrelatedly, Bham BMAG's permanent exhibition (next to the cafe) has a nice wry section on the psyche of a city in which infrastructure is under-construction for so long that the temporary stuff gets listed. If you're ever at a loose end
The bits of transport and regional development that no one thanks you for, or across the board?
Do read this thread. It covers the classic problems of govt IT ventures: capture by the providers, poor information management and huge security holes, improbably complex signup process, and low quality outcomes. Surely it might have been better to partner with a university than this corporate slop?
New paper - how developing visions of the future can be a method for socio-environmental change. Citizen panels! Optimism! Reinforcing pro-environmental values! Now in Sustainability Science. rdcu.be/eZZxg
Why have they decided that 'trying to convince others of an argument' is traitorously inappropriate behaviour?!?
'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
"£30k on expenses - you could hire someone for that amount!... Don't try to evade the question, if you *were* hiring someone they wouldn't be called expenses"
Assumed so, but never knew who to ask. Also, pity the MP who tries to explain a multi-stakeholder cooperative on the doorstep
Always wondered, why can't (some) MPs buy support from a central structure, whether a temp/consultancy agency (Tories) or multi-stakeholder cooperative (Lab)? Is it outright banned, do the incentives not stack up, or never starts b'cus no MP can tell their voters they spent time on 'expenses reform'
one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
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Remain almost totally separate organisations academically, start by merging finance, payroll, IT, and other systems that aren't so linked to governance? Is that plausible?
imagine being arrested just for posting! out of curiosity though, what did they post? because i notice you haven’t seen fit to quote them. was there a lack of space?
Fair enough! I look forward to your efforts to condense the whole saga into the Minute format. Tram Fact Of The Day?
The corner of Palmerston Place and Atholl place looks pretty tight?
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What have you moved to?
a beautiful tortoiseshell cat has one paw extended as she rests on the back of a sofa. she looks alert, determined and thoughtful
There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this.
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.
RANKING LITERALLY EVERY PROPHET IN THE BIBLE BY HOW GOOD OF A POSTER THEY WOULD BE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
NO I AM NOT KIDDING
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Dear God! Dundee University to cut 632 jobs, *one fifth* of its workforce. The tsunami has been coming in for years. Now it's hit and nothing - nothing - has been done. Britain really is the stupid country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Britain's tarrif war policy
I think the National Museum gift shop
