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Looking forward to joining colleagues on picket lines tomorrow (I’ve been on strike - just not able to be there in person….) Wish we weren’t having to do this, but uni management need to back down on the ‘unprecedented cuts’ & ‘cultural vandalism’, which are forecast to mean c.1800 jobs going at UoE

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 1h

Similar to Edinburgh having pots of money that senior management want to spend on anything but their staff, Dundee appear to have so much money in reserve for capital spending that the Scottish Funding Council won't release the emergency money they've asked for.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The University of Dundee is making over 100 people redundant next month At the same time it is having to explain why it has so much cash that the Scottish Funding Council won’t release £27m of extra funding! Join our strike to rule out compulsory redundancies. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-...

thecourier.co.uk

Dundee University emergency cash paused as auditors probe 'too much money' claims

External auditors PwC are reviewing the university at the request of the Scottish Funding Council.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 1h

Heading through to Edinburgh today to join a picket line and then go to the joint rally with our @ducuuo.bsky.social comrades outside the Scottish Parliament. ✊🏻

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 2h

As always, you have to be nice if you want people to be nice to you. @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social senior management need to think about their behaviour and maybe be nice enough to respectfully come to the negotiating table with an offer.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 2h

It's only been three days of strike action from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social and senior management are already resorting to "we're just smol beans pwease be nice" tactics.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Regretfully, I am on strike today from my role maintaining @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social and open community hosting for Scotland's open publishing infrastructure. University of Edinburgh senior management refuse to rule out future mass redundancies or ongoing financially driven restructuring.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 2h

Since I'm on strike, I haven't checked my work emails but I've heard about this email that HR have sent asking us to be nice to senior management. Tell me, is it nice of them to make staff redundant? Is it nice of them to cut Scottish literature and Gaelic courses? Are these nice behaviours?

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 20h

Drafting a GenAI policy for @takeonecinema.net (artifact that, sadly, feels necessary) & this encapsulates something in my draft that feels like my underlying issue: even if you put aside ethics, environment, tech limitations/capability etc, it feels *antithetical* to *why* you'd write about film.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 01/07/2026

They sent this for your posts.

A skip with the word 'Bluesky' printed on the side

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 16h

This is the fella who didn't file for a LEZ exemption for his van and then blamed the council for that failure.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 16h

Nottingham on strike, Edinburgh on strike. Comment from the government? Zero.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 18h

Strike day 3. Tidied up, finished the new M. John Harrison, and rewatched X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. It's wild that Charles, an intelligent man, a PhD from Oxford, would say to his friend, Erik, a Holocaust survivor whose /mind he has actually read/, that some people are "just following orders".

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 30/09/2026

A momentous meter reading day since our new solar panels and batteries mean that we exported more electricity to the grid than we imported this month. I wasn't sure how my homemade project tracking my carbon usage (carbon.simonxix.com) would handle this but it seems to have taken it in its stride.

a bar graph showing home energy carbon usage by month for the last 12 months. September 2026 has the first negative number for electricity use.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 19h

Scenes from the Picket Line: Day 3 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, following hundreds of job losses and thousands more to come. Here are our wonderful workers, staying strong: (1) Craft-making on the picket line ...

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Courtney Love will tear us apart (again) 🥵 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 30/09/2026

that’s weird there must be some kind of glitch, it looks like the Secretary for Labour For Trans Rights keeps blocking the accounts of trans people

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

via @smarmy.space, this deconstructed self-describing HTML page: secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg...

secretgeek.github.io

This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.

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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 30/09/2026

Now this probably isn't exactly what I want since the software takes my meter readings and converts them to metric tonnes of carbon released. A negative kWh of electricity used does not mean I returned that amount of carbon into the ground. So I may need to rethink how this data is represented.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 30/09/2026

Interesting that the BBC Director General would not only pass up the opportunity for a slam dunk copyright strike against this right wing project but would publicly praise it.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 30/09/2026

The genAI-created episode of Doctor Who is streamable at www.theunmadeseason.com and, though you wouldn't know it from the media coverage, is explicitly a right-wing reaction to The Doctor being alternately a woman and a Black man (source: www.tumblr.com/lizardsfroms...).

Also one of the few pieces of evidence that the writer of this show even exists is an interview he did with a Youtube channel (notably, he didn't actually *appear* in the interview but answered questions in the chat). A Youtube channel that does videos complaining about TV shows being "woke" and that British people are judged "more harshly" than asylum seekers. And one of his first comments is complaining about politics and "forced" diversity. Seems like coverage of this AI Doctor Who show should mention that but every single one takes the angle that it's a gee-whiz anorak making a show on his computer and isn't that exciting?

How, exactly, inserting a new character into a made-up regeneration scene counts as bringing "a unmade season" to life I'm not sure. Why Doctor Who would have a unmade season and not a unmade series I'm also not sure.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 30/09/2026

They only got the US distribution rights unfortunately so I'm just going to have to hope and pray it comes to GFT again.

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✧𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

fish are friends

Stop using anti-fish language
Instead of: this seems fishy
Try saying:
this seems like a situation in which we should consult the wisdom and grace of the European seabass, a species with which i would entrust my entire life and personal safety

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 29/09/2026

Grim. Climate was a big factor in us moving out of London. It's only going to get worse.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 29/09/2026

"Normal": it is in fact generally about 5° higher than the mean temperature for this time of year in Glasgow.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 29/09/2026

I'm in my Glasgow bubble of normal temperatures and then friends or family in London will remind me that it's still – still! – ridiculously hot down there.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's October in 2 days.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 29/09/2026

Do not give access to anything to an agent that you do not run and control.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 29/09/2026

This is all the raw material required for a Taschen book on The Next Karate Kid.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 29/09/2026

Strike day 2. Hiked from Helensburgh to Cardross via Ben Bowie. Would have been lovely if I wasn't only able to do it because Edinburgh University senior management don't want to offer young people education in arts, humanities, and social sciences.

A Runkeeper map showing a 19.29 km route from Helensburgh to Cardross

The abandoned St. Peter's Seminary, a Brutalist building covered in graffiti

The inside of an abandoned castle overtaken by nature

A sign pointing into a majestic Scottish glen. The sign reads Glen Fruin

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

across UK universities, the only people who do not care about students and their experience sit in senior leadership roles

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dundee University is continuing with compulsory redundancies. It argues this is required for the financial survival. However, the University’s cash is so high they may not qualify for £27m of the £40m additional SFC funding. The SFC have asked PWC to investigate. www.theferret.scot/dundee-unive...

theferret.scot

Dundee university might have too much cash to qualify for its taxpayer bailout

The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millio...

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Kate Louise Mathis is on strike @drmaudbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As am I... Solidarity with all my gorgeous colleagues and our amazing, amazing students, today, tomorrow and (hopefully not), every day of the 25 we've notified. #StopTheCuts @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’re afraid of movies that excite your senses, you’re afraid of movies. (1978)

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exist are significantly due to spiralling depreciation from irresponsible capital spending.' University of Edinburgh Joint Unions Financial Working Group www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...

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Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh has published its annual report for 2024-2025, including the audited financial statement. In this post, we dig deeper into why some of the University’s claims about expen...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts

Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

electrification of transport and haulage would accelerate bringing forward decarbonisation and de-americanisation in Europe even faster

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Once again suspicious of this cat we adopted in Scotland.

A small brown cat that looks basically like the wildcat in the quoted post.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Saving Wildcats project has confirmed four wildcats released into the Cairngorms National Park this summer has brought the total number released since 2023 to 50 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Strike day. Would be an idyllic annual leave day but as it is, it's just a day in not getting paid because Edinburgh Uni senior management won't make a reasonable (or indeed any) offer.

A outdoor table with a Lionel Richie mug. There is a Kobo in the foreground.

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