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Anna McLean

@mcdrln

Biological person. Erstwhile engineer, poor runner, purchaser of musical instruments I never play. Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.

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Must have had some suspect mushrooms along with the wine

13.03.2026 19:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That must be AI

13.03.2026 19:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did he mention to get in the line about “transgender for everyone” as he usually does?

08.03.2026 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Solidarity to colleagues at the University of Essex

06.03.2026 10:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk Teesside standing shoulder to shoulder for fair pay and pensions, and a better, brighter future. There is always an alternative! ✊✊✊

03.03.2026 17:53 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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More @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picketers on strike for fair pay and pensions @northumbriauni.bsky.social today, pic courtesy of @ucu.org.uk comrades from @teessideuni.bsky.social!

03.03.2026 17:51 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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🥁🪘📯Tiny (but noisy!) part of one of the @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social pickets on the move @northumbriauni.bsky.social today...more tomorrow!

03.03.2026 17:49 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Tillis for the win!

03.03.2026 17:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Such comic timing

03.03.2026 17:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh you can, if you’re referring to trans people

02.03.2026 07:58 👍 71 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But what if they hold kompromat?

01.03.2026 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Although it does conclude with a quotation from someone deemed not to be an expert by the Federal Court of Australia

01.03.2026 10:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Didn’t somebody, somewhere, mention something about “institutional capture” at some point?

27.02.2026 18:09 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Has Mr Simons been using the Allister Heath headline generator?

27.02.2026 09:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great news. It just goes to show that the electorate will vote for hope, given the chance.

27.02.2026 07:44 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And not just job cuts. Some newer universities are trying to freeze staff pay unless they move from TPS to USS.

25.02.2026 10:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wild times when so many alphas get hurt feelies when they look at (or even have to think about) things they don’t like

23.02.2026 22:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Taxi for Gavin

23.02.2026 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder who wrote that for him

23.02.2026 13:25 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“These days you can’t have a swastika on your front door without offending the woke blob”

22.02.2026 16:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The cabinet proving once again that there are two types of people in this world: people who hate Wes Streeting. And Wes Streeting.

22.02.2026 12:55 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

17.02.2026 14:18 👍 6001 🔁 1542 💬 242 📌 186

Exactly this. Pretty astonishing how a lot of this has been normalised under the guise of “free speech”

17.02.2026 14:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10 strike days begin this week at Northumbria University over pension ‘robbery’ Northumbria University will be hit with ten days of strike action from Thursday 12 February in a fight to save staff pensions, UCU has announced

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/educati...

17.02.2026 13:57 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

What an unfortunate choice of words

15.02.2026 15:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey lads, are there any former writers who could cobble together some words for tomorrow’s Observer, for old times’ sake.

14.02.2026 18:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject…” 🤣🤣🤣

13.02.2026 23:05 👍 101 🔁 4 💬 8 📌 0

Nice to see that there’s been no ill effects, mind you.

13.02.2026 19:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UCU banner at Northumbria University

UCU banner at Northumbria University

13.02.2026 09:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s like an episode of Police Squad. At any moment Frank Drebin will burst into camera shot.

12.02.2026 21:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0