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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni”

@scourtenage.bsky.social
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#Stardew Valley, #manga, #philosophy, #amazingdigitalcircus. These are a few of my favourite things. #ucu branch chair for University of Westminster Cavendish campus. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Sean Wallis @seanawallis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good. This is a start. But a trade union is a collective. Where is the call-out from UCU to build solidarity? What about a solid guarantee to support strikers with proper strike pay for the duration of each strike? For example, organising a solidarity tour around other UCU branches would be easy.
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Hex Maniac Alice @ UUSmp 25/156 @haurchy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reposted with alt-text. Also, "corporate loyalty" is an oxymoron at best. Corporations don't have feelings. What you want is fealty to owners, and you can bleep that bleeping bullbleep.
Two columns. Right column top: photo of Jeff Bezos, text reads, "Minimum wage positions were never meant to be a permanent career. They are a necessary stepping stone that teaches unskilled youth the absolute value of discipline and corporate loyalty.

Right column. Photo of Chris Smalls, text reads, "You pay starvation wages while hoarding billions, and force your workers to piss in plastic bottles so you don't lose a second of productivity. You literally rely on government food stamps to keep your employees alive. You aren't teaching discipline; you are running a high-tech sweatshop while you build a superyacht."
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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni” @scourtenage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning”
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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni” @scourtenage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In addition to the many problems that have been identified with this idiotic proposal, there’s also the point that insurance is about what might happen in the unknowable future, not what hasn’t happened in the known past
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Mother of British Aid Worker James Henderson who was murdered by an Israeli airstrike while delivering food in Gaza has demanded a ban of all weapon sales to Israel. His killers will never be brought to justice so this is the only justice James Henderson will ever get. Justice for Henderson.
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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I made this video about Stephen King and the Indian Burial Ground trope in 2022 and I love it so much that I even included a version of it in my Native comedy history book “We’ve Been Here The Whole Time! A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America!”
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/09/2026
Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background. UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action. No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...
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University of Birmingham staff to consider strike ballot over redundancies that fall entirely on minority ethnic staff
Staff at the University of Birmingham will meet next week to consider potential strike action in a battle against redundancies, the University and College Union (UCU) said today (11 September).
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, this is not a joke. UK Lawyers for Israel are trying to proscribe *Médecins Sans Frontières*. That’d mean they’d be treated as terrorists. On the same legal footing as ISIS. Membership would mean 14 years in prison. This is what we’re dealing with
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every child in the UK should be taught the story of the Solomon Browne. They should memorise those men's names and faces. They should understand what heroism is. And learn to spit in the eye of anyone who would dishonour it.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Clarity about the midterms from Desigual’s new model, Vivian Jenna Wilson. Trump is deploying transphobia to distract from the Iran war, America’s tanking economy and the Epstein Files.

"The midterms are coming up and we (trans people) are being employed as the scapegoat to make people forget about the economy, the Iran war, and the Epstein files.
- Vivian Jenna Wilson, in an interview with Out
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All I’ll say here is that Mel was exactly as wacky and spectacularly incontinent as this twenty years ago, and I doubt it’s cost her a pay packet in all those years, except maybe that time she got the Spectator sued for libel.
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There's no coming back from this for the UK.
Britain is Israel's ally no longer. It has become an enemy of the Jewish people, a threat to the west and a menace to civilisation.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some colleagues received 5 minutes notice for their online at risk meeting and had not yet received their letter informing them they were at risk. Executive staff did not bother to turn up to the meeting. This is the true face of executive leadership at the University of Dundee.
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Valerie.vg @valerie.vg · 24/08/2026
Last week The Lancet, arguably the most trusted journal in medicine, published an editiorial condemning attacks on LGBTQ+ healthcare and vigorously reaffirmed the necessity of gender-affirming care for both adults and minors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Lisa Coombes @cutscore.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The last paragraph of this correspondence The Lancet published following the Supreme Court's judgement is 'Chef's Kiss' perfection www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Why should genitals supersede brains? This is the argument one would have liked to read. The Court’s discussion is poorly informed and simplistic. No doubt the clarity of its conclusion will be welcomed by some, but reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed. Their Lordships would have benefited from a refresher course on sex and gender differentiation.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Entirely this. We tried to make this clear during our own uni's "voluntary" scheme - it was clear there were people submitting to the scheme not because they wanted to leave the job they had, but because they feared what their job would *become* after the exodus of so many valuable colleagues.
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Holly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
From Will Self of all people, an absolutely clinical deconstruction of Kathleen Stock. Nice to know that some writers can see through some of the GC crowd.
J'accuse Kathleen Stock of helping convert an allegation of academic misconduct into the story of 'Cambridge's DEI darling', thereby making Arday's institutional and racial symbolism integral to the accusation. There's no need to label Stock transphobic: she's done it herself, whatever the nonsense she spouts about 'gender criticality'; just as there's no need to demonstrate that her personal agon is that she hasn't been allowed to peddle her own prejudices in return for status and prestige: that, too, she has amply confirmed through her writings and public statements. She, and her supporters clearly feel they are winning: I wonder if they know what that will look like, or how high the body-count will have to go before they're satisfied.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Loz @lozq76.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sue him, we will crowdfund it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026
"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."
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Transgender athletes are a red herring
It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Burnham held a COBRA meeting and decided to consider thinking about asking people who sell single-use barbecues to maybe not sell them for a little while. Meanwhile he wants to make global heating worse by drilling for yet more oil.
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Horrible executives making horrible decisions without consulting or even informing staff.
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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni” @scourtenage.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“parameters of a deal”
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/08/2026
No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.
Quote graphic from Rachel Millward co-deputy leader that reads. The EHRC's guidance sets a dangerous precedent. In its current form, it is appalling and risks legitimising bigotry, harassment and violence. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community. The guidance must be withdrawn, and the government must act to fix our equality laws so they protect the rights, dignity and safety of everyone.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Green-run London councils to resist new trans guidance on single-sex spaces Lambeth and Waltham Forest councils have already signalled they will resist new guidance on single-sex spaces over risk it leaves 'trans people open to discrimination' I knew there was a reason I supported the Green Party!
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Green-run London councils to resist new trans guidance on single-sex spaces
Lambeth and Waltham Forest councils have already signalled they will resist new guidance on single-sex spaces over risk it leaves 'trans people open to discrimination'
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Marie Leanne Shrewsbury @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/how-... Please do share the living crap out of this.
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How misinformation and intimidation took down HRT café
HRT Café shared gender-affirming care info until Do No Harm shut it down; FDA records show no investigation took place
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sir David Attenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18...
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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Letter from the executive director of the Modern Language Association to the Uni of Exeter VC: ‘We are aware of no university on the financial footing of Exeter that has seen the need to make dramatic cuts to the humanities such as you propose.’ #DefendExeterUni
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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni” @scourtenage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them. Stand up to their hate and division by adding your name. goodlawproject.org/s/3ec4c0
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Stand up to hate and division by adding your name.
Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/07/2026
Happy Trans Pride everyone xx 🏳️‍⚧️
Me holding a sign saying "I support trans rights"Me holding up a trans flag behind me
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of two people standing under a flock camera speaking to each other. The man says “I’m fine with mass surveillance ‘cause I’m not doing anything wrong.” The woman responds “… Until someone changes the definition of what’s ‘wrong.’”
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I wish it worked
4 frame comic. an adult in a brown sweater tells Stephie : you're calling people transphobic to silence them! She replies, over three frames : It's funny you say that because in my experience, literally no transphobe in existence has-- EVER -- shut up.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
More on Andy Burnham’s decision not to bring in rent controls. Labour is once again abandoning its core voters in favour of wealthy corporate landlords, and its own MPs who are landlords.
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Zack Polanski and Angela Rayner clash as she rejects London rent controls
Housing Secretary Ms Rayner took a stronger stance on rent limits than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni” @scourtenage.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sounds like a job for The Repair Shop
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Yrotitna @yrotitna.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Keeping @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social in this role is an insult to the entire LBGTQ+ community
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Zack Polanski on standing with trans people: "When they come for one of us, they come for all of us" The Green Party leader was the only party leader to attend the London Trans+ Pride press launch. www.scenemag.co.uk/zack-polansk...
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Zack Polanski on standing with trans people: "When they come for one of us, they come for all of us"
The Green Party leader was the only party leader to attend the London Trans+ Pride press launch. He spoke exclusively to Scene about the new EHRC guidance, teachers, and why Pride is still important.
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Helen Belcher @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It is remarkable how quickly we’ve moved from a position where “GC” beliefs were seen as fringe beliefs which were debatable if they were “worthy of respect in a democratic society” to a place where you are publicly censured if you don’t share them, and the press is absolutely complicit.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
'Dundee’s is the only philosophy programme in Scotland specialising in European “continental” philosophy....The overall programme draws women at a ratio of roughly two to one over men, already far above the discipline’s national average and rising to three to one for the art and philosophy BA.' 1/3
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The AI era is exactly the wrong time to be closing a philosophy programme
Dundee’s proposal comes just as a hiring spree in Silicon Valley is raising the ceiling on what a philosophy degree can lead to, says Oisín Keohane
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 15/07/2026
"It shouldn't take a law to force people in power to tell the truth." - Ellie Chowns discussing Hillsborough Law on Newsnight
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Si Courtenage ᓚᘏᗢ “Pomni” @scourtenage.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Really looking forward to #tolpuddle this weekend
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