Lykara Ryder

Great question! Now is the perfect time to be asking me about those plums.

Here’s what it taught me about B2B marketing

I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that a rough beast was slouching this way, and that’s on me.

Our early picket up and running at All Saints. We’re out today and tomorrow against our pitiful national pay offer of just 1.4%

@unison.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social

For two days this week our members at both Manchester Met and RNCM have once again made a stand against real terms pay cuts and a funding model for HE that is unfair, impractical and out of date.

Thank you to all other union branches the amazing students who sent their solidarity this week.

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

Portrait of Alex Pretti in blue nurse scrubs in the front window of a house with red trim.

Portraits of Alex Pretti in blue nurse scrubs, Renee Good, and Liam Conejo Ramos in the front windows of a house with white trim.

Portrait of Alex Pretti in blue nurse scrubs in the first floor window of a duplex, with an Abolish ICE sign in a second floor window.

Altar for Alex Pretti in front of the apartment building where he lived. A few votive candles, two other candles in jars, a bright orange flower, two photos of Alex - one wearing a backpack on trail in the woods, one with his bike wearing biker gear.

Ended up on the block tonight where Alex Pretti lived. Pretty much every home had his portrait in a window.

I’ll never forget what they did to him.

I’ll never forget how good we’ve been to each other.

A collection of 9 anti-ICE and related signs; messages include variations of “ICE OUT” and love for neighbors.

A collection of 9 anti-ICE and related signs; messages include “A person was stolen by ICE here” and “ICE + CBP are scum”

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #5

A collection of 9 anti-ICE or related signs, including a red Princess Leia sign,

A collection of 9 anti-ICE or related signs, including two views of a yellow sign memorializing Renee Good, and a resistance loon on the Minnesota flag

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #4

9 photos of anti-ICE and related signs.

9 photos of anti-ICE and related signs.

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #3

A grid of 9 signs with various anti-ICE and related messages.

A grid of 9 signs with various anti-ICE and related messages.

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #2

A collection of 9 anti-ICE and related signs.

A collection of 9 anti-ICE and related signs.

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #1

I am imploring media to remember that just because someone writes an OpEd doesn't mean you have to publish it

Leaving after 11hrs at work, with a terrible muscle cramp in my lower back, I just boarded the bus and wished the driver a ’Good morning!’

Bless him for letting that go, because it most certainly is not.

I'd be very interested to see the numbers on this, but have no idea where to find the data.
How many women athletes must now take this test x £185 = How much money drained from women's sport funding? In order to stigmatise and exclude how many on ideological grounds?

Picture of a girl standing on her front step dressed up in a costume and holding a book in front of her face for privacy. The book cover shows a girl with shoulder-length wavy brown hair wearing a purple short-sleeved top, blue jeggings, and black riding boots as she hugs a white unicorn with rainbow-coloured mane and tail. My daughter is matching as closely as possible in a purple long-sleeved top with blue jeggings and black boots with streaks of colour in her shoulder-length straight brown hair, cuddling a plush white unicorn toy that has the same coloured hair streaks clipped into its mane.

Happy World Book Day! Dragon is going to school as Sophia from the Unicorn Academy series, along with her beloved unicorn Rainbow. They are a bonded pair, obviously, as you can see from the matching colours in their hair and mane.

Pretty fitting given the people in charge of things that basically every attempted official justification for what the US was going for in Iran and why they hadn't foreseen any of the extremely foreseeable consequences is basically at the level of something you'd hear during a field sobriety stop.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

As well as strike action, next week sees the start of our aggregate AGM. Details and a final agenda have been emailed to branch members.

Our guest speaker will be Ian Allinson, trade union activist and author of the book “Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work”.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Street name "Prince Andrew Court" with the last part crossed out and changed to "caught".

cot-caught-court on a British high street ;-) #linguistics

Our branch will be taking a second round of strike action next week against our 2025/26 pay offer of just 1.4%. This time, members at MMU will be joined by the Royal Northern College of Music.

Pickets will be formed at both institutions and will run from 6:30 at MMU and 7:30 at RNCM.

Oh! Wow! Yay! One-day worldbuilding conference at Trinity College? I love everything about this!

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Screenshot of Ian Boudreau posting ‘True story’ then replying with a post saying ‘Actually I made that up’.

I hope it doesn’t take away from the bigger point you’re making that I laughed so, so hard at this.

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

The detail??? 😍

#OtD 1 Mar 1944 a series of general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy involving 1-6 million workers. Superficially about economic issues, they were organised by the anti-fascist resistance to undermine the regime. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil