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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1h

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

timeshighereducation.com

Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 7h

Guessing it will be live, leaked & the timing could be exploited as a grim point of focus distraction for a major security breach, attack etc

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 7h

Literally does not know if it is true.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 8h

The operator of a musical and audio equipment shopping website is working with the community of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, to make the place devastated by the March 2011 tsunami a music hub. 👉 ebx.sh/hxbgcF

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 8h

Darkly, my first thought is weaponisation.

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𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐝 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱🇨🇺 @jensgam.eurosky.social · 11h

“The CIA report also tried to game out how these pressures could interact if Israel’s internal crisis deepened—how a single spark could turn political fracture into open civil conflict, and what would follow from there.”

dropsitenews.com

CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 8h

The assumption that tax cuts are in any way welcome or realistic is the lobotomy that even recently indoctrinated tories cannot escape. A bunch of selfish, friendless, spoilt children hoping to, one day, inherit Miss Havisham's wedding gown.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 9h

Posts over past 8 days all with thinly veiled racist & anti-immigrant points. Blocking.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 9h

Why is your survival mechanism triggered? Are you constantly in fear of death? Are basic necessities in scarce supply? Are you injured or unwell? Do you feel compromised, let down or unfairly neglected? By other people? Are the vast majority of those other people "your own" people?

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 9h

It is difficult to put into words the hideousness of a near total stranger, having worked up the self-belief to share their bigotry with you as if this were a sort of benign inclusion or reciprocity, expressing pity or shock that you are not in agreement with them. 'They will tell you' is a self-own

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 10h

Coincidentally just seen the "just save water" campaign ad where a bunch of school children chastise adults for taking long showers & using hoses not watering cans. This is the water industry response - along with hoping it rains soon for long enough (constant rain for 7 months solid is estimate)

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 10h

Hosepipe bans, massive lack of storage, rampant waterway pollution with sewage & agricultural run-off, whilst regular, uncontrolled flooding severely harms all other infrastructure & capital assets. Perhaps water management issues beg questions about today's tory abolition of environment agency too

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 11h

Digestive biscuits are literally that. Because they contain both salt & sugar they are more easily digested even in cases of malnutrition or starvation when some foodstuffs can do more harm than good.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23h

What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 21h

Great for builders of shitty link-detached lego estates with f-all public spaces, services or transport links beyond the overcrowded A-road roundabout where another Tesco will be built. Cf. Tory controlled home counties' constituencies for the past 4 decades.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"They" , the parents "You" , Rob's chat person. Perhaps clumsily put into ""s but none of it was any sort of trolling attack on you personally.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

First someone ask superbrain Trump what trilateral means.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Forgive them father they seem to have really taken up this franchise concept of yours in a big way.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a ringing endorsement & volte face that was. Any update on that second coming? We could hunt down & torture him with these skin-lacerating interrogation robots I've been campaigning for the military to fund from an early prototype.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The tories interprétation of what British people want from nature or the countryside is consistently & inevitably wrong & private investment is not the vehicle with which to convey it's botched delivery. There is already loads of poor quality, expensive housing with a shitty retail park attached.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The greater answer may be; "do you ever ask why they mostly have concern about privacy & exploitation whilst you mostly have concern about lack of access & opportunity?"

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thought I'd give Traitors a go. Wish they'd hurry up & kill Amol Raja.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The tories have a smaller pool of talent to draw from hence the more blatantly cranky, extreme views & lack of nuance.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An image in urgent need of photoshop.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A lack of decent spelling comes 'forth'

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goldeneye has aged incredibly badly.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any shows involving culinary knife skills should be 'twinned' with any crime dramas involving forensic pathology to cancel each other out.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Simples" is quoting a fake Russian aristocrat from a marketing campaign. Funny how some 'foreign influences' are acceptable to RW nutjobs but others are not.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yet still Richard Tice was invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC Sunday morning politics show today.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think what Carlson actually needs to understand is how the US can lose its 'empire' & still possibly become a force for good in the world. He just can't see that that is what is happening. He'd rather give Rees-Mogg a kicking. No-one will intervene. Because they deserve each other.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I like SNW as I had no real interest in any other Star Trek iterations beyond the original series. Which itself did have some 'genre' episodes here & there. I didn't mind the puppets as it was novel/funny but the noir & soap eps were poorly contrived, had little to achieve & failed even at that.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Too vain for a wheelchair or a stick.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This seems just like every other week

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perhaps the drone 'port' is for bringing stuff in not taking people out.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I assume that last sentence is a racist echo from his or his father's 'property developer / slum landlord' past. See also his recent "I am the code" outburst re planning or construction regulations. I'm guessing litigation for a near fatal accident on site is pending.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course most surveys are not independent or regulated by a 3rd party org. But there is no reason why you cannot stress how unwelcome a process this is for most consumers & that a competitor who does not micro-manage their staff by coercing clients would be your preference. Plus get a life, mngmt.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Generally, on a 1-10 scale 7-10 is acceptable, 6 & below 'demands action' so you can comply. The UK's Market Research Council stipulates that open-ended Qs are recorded verbatim, collated & fairly summarised without bias. Eg use comment fields to question/complain about the puroose of the survey.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As do you, I feel this is insidious & very often I withdraw from this venal form of commerce where I can. I can't opt out of healthcare but what seems worse is that I'm being asked 'anonymously' before the major part of my treatment has happened. I have specific advice to offer in such circumstances

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just had one from a healthcare appointment which aside from being ineffectual explicitly said responses would helping a staff incentive scheme and sought permission for any nice stuff to be used in posters etc. The aim seemed to be reinforcing a 5 word campaign that patients feel treated vwxyz-ly.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching series 3 of The Terror & I would not recommend it universally. Ridley Scott does amazing work but each series seems to excel at a particularly despairing form of psychological horror. Also, Dan Stevens whilst a fine actor has done this before in FX's 'Legion'

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I imagine someone will have stopped deliveries of the local newspaper, not to protect the property's vacant status from squatters, to cast a veil over the particular tragedy that befell occupants of that specific HMO, ex-care facilty or fire-damaged bedsit.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm often surprised the auctioneers' agent has bothered to remove the crime scene police tape from the doorways when there's a conspiracy to pass off monochrome kitchen & bathroom fittings, synthetic grey carpets & legally obliged fire retardent doors as 'high spec finishes' to unsuspecting renters.

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Stuart Whyte @realstuartwhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aren't the rosy cheeked developers/presenters who chivvy along the bold auction property investors/buyers with breathless entrepreneurialism just soulless parasites? If I were elderly & struggling to feed & warm myself in my own home these guys would terrify me, along with the regular fraud alerts.

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