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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 57m
Nottingham on strike, Edinburgh on strike. Comment from the government? Zero.
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 10h
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 · 4h
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 · 9h
Most TV is just this now.
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Courtney Love is a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fast 2 Furiosa @hexadecibelle.fyi · 8h
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 · 20h
via @smarmy.space, this deconstructed self-describing HTML page: secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg...
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This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 19h
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 10h
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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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 10h
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 · 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 · 11h
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 · 23h
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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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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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...
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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."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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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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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Edinburgh Uni Music staff supporting @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's industrial action against uneccessary cuts.
A line of people picketing outside a university building
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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More digital systems doom. National data provided through a third-party that goes bust and boom! Of course, national data provided through unmaintained internal systems can also go boom! The solution? People to maintain the stuff!
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Starting my strike period with a medical appointment contributing to an NHS health survey. The £10 voucher I'll earn will go some way to make up for the loss of earnings that Edinburgh University senior management's intransigence is costing me.
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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity with all edinburgh union members fighting to make universities and teaching be treated as the public good they are instead of yet another space for corporate debasement
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of our strike at the University of Edinburgh while senior management shrugs and says 'crisis, what crisis?' at the complaints about the inevitable falling educational standards and job losses.
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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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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'The UCU described the programme of cost reduction as "unprecedented" in Scottish higher education. It said the university's financial pressure was largely driven by its capital investment strategy and it should prioritise cuts to non-staff budgets.'
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Members of the University and Colleges union (UCU) will stop work until 30 October. The union said the cuts could lead to 1,800 job losses, and hundreds of staff had already lost work when contracts were not renewed. The university announced the closure of 90 courses earlier this month.'
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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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
This in-depth article on Aberdeen's Union Street only mentions the word "oil" once in passing as if the problems that north-east Scotland faces aren't a result of capital abandoning the city once the fossil fuel marrow had been sucked from the bone.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huh, it's almost like the death of the highstreet is not being caused by individual lifestyle choices but by a grabby class of landlords who'd prefer to squat on property than let it out at lower profit margins or, you know, sell it to someone who actually wants to use it. How unpredictable!
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 27/09/2026
And why have they clearly used a reference of Ned Stark? A. It should be Robb Stark: Ned was never King in the North. B. Do the Labour Party remember what happened when Ned Stark left his northern stronghold to take up a political position in the capital?
an image of Sean Bean as Ned Stark with a big sword pointed down
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 27/09/2026
It's got to be these: a combination of modern games that are among the best ever made and games that meant a lot to me as I was learning to play. Catch me on another day and I'd swap in Baldur's Gate and Metal Gear Solid II: Sons of Liberty. my9games.net
a grid of nine games: Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Portal, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Thief II: The Metal Age, Hitman, Tomb Raider II, and Age of Empires II.
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Jussie Northside @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chewbacca saying “the Empire have legitimate concerns”
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Given how the Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb closure will likely continue until 2029 and green technology is going more available and cheaper (esp solar), wouldn’t be surprised if this further power a Green Industrial Revolution that US will be forced to partake in just bc of the economics
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think if Unionists in the North of Ireland want their traditions to be respected they should try inventing some that aren’t anti-Catholic hate marches
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/09/2026
The march was supposed to start ay 8, it hasn't yet, Sinn Fein seem to believe it will not be going ahead. The last time this all happened they rioted across NI for years, children died, property was torched. All because the Orange Order and their loyalist supporters won't accept 'no'.
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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching a let's play of Still Wakes the Deep where they're using the "please translate all the hard words into English (International)" subtitles option, and it's got me strongly believing non-scots players should just suck it up and learn what a jobbie is through context
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 26/09/2026
Sy Ableman.
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