This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.

A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

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White Lotus Series 3. Impeccable television as always. I have loved loved every series. 🤌🏼

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Squid Game 2. Going in. Please don’t let this be a difficult second album. 🦑

Theatre Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Scottish Theatre Archive are piloting a Practitioner Residency! Open to self-employed artist practitioners not funded in full by another org to develop a project engaging w/ archive. Fee: £2000. Deadline: 21 Feb. Pass it on! www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/the...

I know we’re only just getting going here, pals, but I’m not feeling it. The world is a bit grim. Find me in the real world those who need to. I’ll pop back here when I’ve got something to shout about. ✌🏼

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!

After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

Betwixtmas. First time reading this. 👻

I had an emotional breakdown watching it! 😭

I loved the little nod to The History Boys in Gavin and Stacey when Neil The Baby sang The Beatles’ Blackbird. I’d forgotten that most of Smithy’s mates are played by original cast members of The History Boys. The haunted screen.

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We negotiate better pay + conditions for writers + campaign + lobby to make the industries in which they work a better, fairer place

Come and say hi!

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If you had it yesterday you hopefully also got the vaccine that protects against the newer variants. I got given the old stock a few weeks ago, which is only really good for Omnicron. It’s all a shambles!

I was off for two weeks, which gave me time to send some furious emails.

Reminds me of last year when my personal tutees turned up to a tutorial in my office complaining of ‘freshers’ flu.’ Two days later, I of course tested positive for Covid. 🤬