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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Waiting for my replacement ballot paper to vote for the amazing Tanya Manyuira for UCU NEC - Further Education Women’s Rep. Everybody votes for equality seats so HE members, make sure you get your papers in! Tanya is principled, brave, hopeful and committed. She is everything we need on UCU NEC!

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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nigel Farage put this tweet up then deleted it. Farage criticises the RNLI for saving lives and goes on to say a Reform government will prosecute anyone that aids or abets what he calls “ the invasion of our country!” He then puts up a new post having deleted the last sentence. (See thread)

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kehinde Andrews' Make It Plain podcast: The Lynching of Jason Arday. youtu.be/uPmtCS3MPT0?...

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The lynching of Jason Arday

YouTube video by Make It Plain

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our charming garden visitors. The dapper, pretty gent in the tuxedo is Catty Grant, the muscular handsome stripy one is Randolph S’Cat 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

Black and white cat basking in sun on dead grass

Handsome cat with broad lionlike face, tabby, large pale green eyes, upside down on kitchen floor

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel I should post a #DollyParton tribute this evening, but I can’t think of a direct Ladybird connection. So this is my oblique offering RIP Dolly - and thanks for the books #9to5 Artist: Ron Embleton

Commuters on the London Underground, all of them reading newspapers

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Noooooo….💔👸 Thank you for everything Queen

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/08/2026

#OtD 15 Aug 1970 Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton delivered a speech in NYC criticisng homophobia and sexism in revolutionary movements and arguing for "full participation of the gay liberation movement and the women's liberation movement" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8650...

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Stourbridge and Halesowen very excited for the Black Country boys tonight!

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Union heatwave guidance for reps www.ucu.org.uk/media/13584/...

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Amazing sunset over Stourbridge tonight 🤩

Stourbridge high street with sun setting in sky

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Court of Appeal judges here demonstrate complete ignorance of the reality of the suffrage movement. Far from operating transparently the militant suffragettes covertly ran destructive arson and bombing campaigns that harmed both property and people. Learn some history before quoting it fgs.

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UCU Hallam @ucuhallam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The only immigrant we need to worry about is the South African billionaire based in the United States who is encouraging this by quote tweeting the UK's most famous fascist who is currently holidaying in Russia.

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

No ifs, no buts! No Education Cuts! @bcu-ucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk members, students and supporters came together today to stand with colleagues in Architecture, Black Studies and Biomedical Engineering as university leaders met to review redundancy consultations.

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Solidarity with @bcu-ucu.bsky.social fighting redundancies at BCU @illdoitanyway.bsky.social

A large group of protesters standing outside BCU with banners and placards

BCU UCU members and supporters standing with the branch banner. A speaker addresses the crowd

A protester addresses the crowd standing next to the BCU UCU branch banner

A protester addresses the crowd standing next to The BCU UCU banner

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Support @bcu-ucu.bsky.social tomorrow at noon. We are calling on BCU leaders to remove all colleagues from risk of redundancy, including - Architecture and the Built Environmentt - Black Studies - Biomedical Engineering It’s not too late!

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No cuts at BCU!

Demo 12 noon outside Parkside, Tues 9th June

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Horrified to hear there has been an arson attack outside Salma Yaqoob’s family home in Brum and sending her lots of solidarity. This is terrifying.

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If a white murder victim dies while being treated with unnecessary force by the police, this does not mean the police are suddenly “woke”. It’s a different iteration of the same issues when there are Black deaths & unnecessary force at the hands of the police.

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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni” @scourtenage.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Maria #chondrogianni, UCU president, opening the 2026 #ucu Congress in #harrogate with a barnstorming, inspirational speech and call to action against job cuts, precarity, and broken funding models all across post-16 education

Maria Chondrogianni, UCU president, opening Congress with an inspiring speech

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

How long before we get the Covid meme of lashes Burnham & the mobile phone but the text he is looking at is Reform taking the Makerfield seat? 😬

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

In what universe is Wes Streeting the answer… to anything? 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Open letter and petition to save the BCU Black Studies MA, and the Black sociology staff members who teach on it, here: www.change.org/p/save-black...

change.org

Sign the Petition

Save Black Studies at Birmingham City University

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"More than 100 academics, writers and activists from around the world have signed an open letter condemning plans to close an MA in Black studies and global justice at Birmingham City University (BCU), just months after it was first launched." www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA

More than 100 figures sign open letter criticising closure, just months after MA was launched

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Swans nest in a bank of irises on the cut yesterday 🦢💚💛

Swans nest in distance across green canal, green water plants and green trees

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

If it’s public interest for BBC to report tallies of migrant crossings on a regular basis, why isn’t it also public interest to report daily UK theft of global resources, or profits the multinationals take while keeping their workers on wages requiring state subsidy to be liveable for that matter?

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Once you start seeing the eagerness with which some people want to cut others out of civil society, you can’t stop seeing it.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 09/05/2026

Says the man who has let his boat be dragged into an enormous whirlpool filled with icebergs.

Headline of Starmer saying not to change direction

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"To some in this country, I am everything that the hateful despise, and I'm standing here as your MSP with care. They say politics is the art of the possible, a politics of care I would say expands what is possible for everyone left behind, pushed out or never invited in.”

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First two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in historic moment

The first two transgender MSPs have been elected to the Scottish Parliament ...

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

One of the most destructive things which has happened over time is the ideological neoliberal-nationalist shift from welfare being a living, breathing commitment between people to look after each other, and these things being represented as heritage resources, for competitive distribution.

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Out at Bodrum in Wolves for my dad‘s 76th birthday last night.

My dad across table with keffiyeh and baklava

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My VC last year: ‘I envisage a university that doesn’t directly employ anyone’. He means it too - all need staff are hired by a subsidiary company without any of that pesky ‘decent pension’ or ‘rights’ stuff.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The University of Sussex's victory over the Office for Students lays bare the extent to which the university regulator was only ever going to reach one outcome in this case. The OfS wasn't promoting free speech, it was seeking to force unis to align with it's agenda: share.google/LDAc0al5tGq6...

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Awful hearing about this fire in Wolves 💔

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Bluebells out at Clent yesterday 🪻💙💚🪻

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Keir Starmer: "We are not involved." Meanwhile US bombers are taking off from British soil loaded with bombs for genocide in Iran. Stop gaslighting us. Kick US troops off British soil NOW.

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Maundy Thursday dip at Clevedon on our way back from Cardiff 😎 🏊🏻‍♀️

View across marine lake with beach in distance and blue sky

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Waiting for Pride at the Sherman Theatre with Megan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🪧♥️🎭

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