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Sophie Watson

@sizzleleg.bsky.social
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She/her. Trade Unionist 📢/ Higher Ed 🎓/ Videogames 🎮/ Filums 🎥/ Fitba ⚽ (Sunlun 🔴⚪)/ Music n Gigs 💃 Branch Chair at UNISON Glasgow Uni Views my own, obvs.

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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Standing for HE Service Group Executive for UNISON in Scotland alongside the excellent Bec Oliva, our branch's Equalities Officer. We are serious when it comes to organising and WINNING. If you are a member and fed up of the state of HE, give us your vote. Let's do something about this shit ✊
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is rage inducing!
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Standing for HE Service Group Executive for UNISON in Scotland alongside the excellent Bec Oliva, our branch's Equalities Officer. We are serious when it comes to organising and WINNING. If you are a member and fed up of the state of HE, give us your vote. Let's do something about this shit ✊
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
No secret to those who know me, but I am absolutely DELIGHTED to see Andrea Egan be voted in as the General Secretary of our union, and am proud to have played a part in her campaign for election alongside some excellent activists. What a day for the left!
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
smiling at everyone like your life is about to change as you carry your toilet paper starter kit home
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Me and Kenny sell shampoo door-to-door because we're (wait for it) Jojoba's Witnesses
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Whenever someone in power blames immigrants on the difficulties facing working people, working class communities and those struggling to make ends meet in disadvantaged areas, remember two words: 'managed decline'.
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UNISON University of Glasgow @unison-uofg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Join the resistance! The rebel alliance needs you - get your ballots posted in the HE pay ballot ✊ @unison.org.uk @ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @eisunion.bsky.social (Insert your Star Wars themed ballot puns below ↘️)
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Edwin Davies @edwinjdavies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
JG Ballard lives!
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Seeing Roisin Murphy slip into full TERFdom is one of the saddest things. I genuinely loved RM. Me and my mam bonded over her music - I bought her a ticket to see her earlier this year and we went together, it felt special. So stupid to attack a community that built your career. Infuriating.
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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 23/10/2025
losing my mind on this. she was murdered. she didn't die of a social media overdose.
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.
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Scottish Workers’ Stories of Life and Labour during Covid-19 from the Workers’ Stories Project
This article explores how Scottish workers narrated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their life and work, by analysing 55 fifty-five submissions to the Workers' Stories Project. Between 2020 and...
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Bill Hunt @billhuntbits.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thanks for all the great memories, Drew. Godspeed. @drewstruzanart.bsky.social @thedigitalbits.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78
He created some of the most memorable movie posters of all-time in his own signature style.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Just found out Shell has been running an AI awards for the last few years. I think they need to award someone damages for the berserk AI-generated post on their official facebook page that featured a gorilla drinking petrol after it had a 'tough fight' with a tribal mob of South Africans?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/10/2025
what if there were one car company that did every shitty thing imaginable
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We have voted to force management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies. The result demonstrates the anger & disappointment with the lack of progress and failure of successive leaderships at the University to deliver a sustainable way forward that protects jobs and the University’s future.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New game: how long can you last scrolling through LinkedIn before you want to throw your phone across the room? Today I Iasted about 38 seconds 🙏
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What an absolute fucking loser 😂
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
NEW The Kneecap prosecution collapsed because police and prosecutors did not take terrorism law seriously Where "a technicality" hides a fundamental error By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-kneeca... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...
At the bottom of this mess is a simple point: the police and the prosecutors were careless with terrorism law and careless about its express safeguards.

Things were left to the last minute and a consent (which may or may not have been given) - a step imposed by parliament as a crucial step - was not obtained.

And this mishap meant that the Chief Magistrate of England and Wales had no jurisdiction to hear what was on the face of it a terrorism case.

Police and the prosecutors should remember that this is terrorism law that they are dealing with.

Terrorism law should be taken seriously.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I want to make it clear that UNISON is made of 1.4 million members, who have passed motions which directly oppose Phillipson's politics The decision on who to support was made by the Labour link Exec - a very small group of people. This does not represent the views of UNISON's members at large
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Aileen McLoughlin @aileenpmcl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I am in Labour Link in @unison.org.uk Who made this decision? Is this what democrac looks like in our largest trade union? It demonstrates what we know - the UNISON establishment supports Starmer's wishes wherever they lead. Andrea will review Labour Link. We need change at the top andrea4gs.org.uk
andrea4gs.org.uk
Andrea Egan for General Secretary
Social worker. Straight-talking working class trade unionist. Campaigning to be the next General Secretary of UNISON.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Labour Link members were not consulted when making this decision - a decision to endorse a transphobe, a zionist and someone who has overseen the erosion of our universties in the UK. There is a reason why I'm supporting @andrea4gs.bsky.social in this unison election for general secretary.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Get yersels down to the Village Hotel picket in Glasgow tomorrow, 4.30pm. big Jez will even be there. Go on. It will be class. Was at the picket below a couple weeks ago and was amazing to see the solidarity from across the city and hear the (mostly young) workers share their stories.
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Very helpful blog from the TUC’s @timsharp.bsky.social on the changes the Lords made to the employment rights bill. No, we don’t want a “right to request” nicely not to be on a zero hours contract. And the manifesto said day one protection from unfair dismissal, not day six months
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Obstruction on the line: Employment Rights Bill delayed by peers’ amendments
Workers anticipating overdue improvements to their rights will have to wait longer after Tory and Lib Dem peers voted to water down key protections.
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Bobsession @bobservo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
discourse will be able to bring happiness to all those in the slums
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The U.K. is a police state
Temporary road signs set up by the Met saying at yesterday’s march 

THREATENING OR ABUSIVE
CHANTS
MAY LEAD TO ARREST

IT’S AN OFFENCE 
TO SUPPORT A
PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION
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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Join. A. Union.
Photo of CEO and HR person who tried to dodge a Coldplay concert camera. They allegedly  were having an affair. The ceo is labelled, "Their boss." The woman he is hugging from behind, is labelled HR. 
Text: Join a union.

Fight for a Union

Non union members:

"I'm having an issue with my boss, I'll just discuss it with HR"
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
ACADEMIC BOOK SALE I am moving and want to move less books if at all possible... Please get in touch if you are interested in the following titles (all prices include postage and I am open to offers)
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"More than £18 million had been spent on consultancy" 😵‍💫 hey! Government! Regulate the use of consultancies! Sure, some *very specific* tasks cannot be done in-house and require external advice. But these consultants are taking over the basic running of universities. #UKHE
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University of Nottingham bosses told mass redundancies can be avoided
The university has been asked to consider taking other cost-saving steps
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
@smilingnodding.bsky.social

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called
Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says "im gonna fuck a hamburger"
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Solidarity with the Birmingham bin strikers who have just been told that Birmingham City council are going to make them redundant if they don't take a massive pay cut. @cllrjohncotton.bsky.social where are you??? Shame on you and Labour. This is an essential service and you are leaving it to ruin.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 07/07/2025
Interview request! If you work in the gig economy, or are falsely self-employed, I want to talk to you about how this kind of work affects you and your relationships with other workers - for an upcoming book on competitive individualism. Get in touch if that's you!
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Look it is possible that Brendan O'Neill has still not been bullied anywhere near enough. It is possible the work has not even begun.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Currently being subjected to a classic Avanti West Coast triple threat - no air con, no power in the plug sockets and cafe closed. Might try the toilets and WiFi soon to see if I can get the full bingo card 🥳
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"I was shocked to see one of the nurses who I worked with carrying my daughter... she was dead." This broke me. Dr Khaled Hamouda, Gaza surgeon, in tearful testimony to 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,' the film they didn't want you to see. Full film, that the BBC dropped, from Zeteo: gazadoctors.film
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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I'm in the BBC! Talking about IMPORTANT INTERNET HISTORY! If you want more of this kind of thing, please stay tuned for my book's preorder link coming later this year.... www.bbc.com/future/artic...
bbc.com
How the Grateful Dead built the internet
Before the internet took over the world, psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead were among the first – and most influential – forces at the dawn of online communication.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Edinburgh will be on strike: Friday 20 June, to coincide with a university open day; and then on Monday 8, Tuesday 9, Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 and Friday 12. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404....
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Strike dates set at Edinburgh University in dispute over cuts and job losses
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland at the University of Edinburgh will take strike action on Friday 20 June, and then for a further five days at the start of the new academic y...
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 06/06/2025
I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty. My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Higher Education plays a vital role in local, regional & national economies & in people’s lives in ways that cannot be counted or reduced to a narrow financial calculus. But our work is not valued at all. Just another big pay cut for all of us alongside the irreparable damage of cuts & job losses
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Junior doctors 5–6 % (4% plus £750)
Armed forces 4.5% 
RPI (year to April) 4.47%
Consultants 4%.
Teachers 4%.
Prison Officers 4%
Civil servants 3.75%
Nurses and other NHS staff 3.6%
Inflation ( year to April) 3.5%
School and council workers 3.2%
Higher education staff (written in red) 1.4%
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Jo Smith Finley @jsmithfinley.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
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Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/05/2025
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
HUGE day in this household 😭❤️ @safc.com @afc.co.uk
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Oscaaarrrgh @skeletonoscar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Trans brothers let's all join the Freemasons before the EHRC tells us we can't.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Legends only @zanyzaz.bsky.social 😎
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help. So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Celebrating looking for 66 new colleagues while simultaneously holding redundancy talks with 59 existing colleagues and throwing into uncertainty the careers & jobs of hundreds of others. Stay classy, Colin, stay classy.
Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Colin Bailey, Principal of QMUL. Transcript: “QMUL currently has 66 job vacancies, as we continue to deliver our Strategy 2030. If you want to join a university that provides “hope and opportunity”, “transforms lives”, “addresses inequalities” and “makes new discoveries”, then come and join us.
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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My old lecturer, my pal @zanyzaz.bsky.social and Mick effing Lynch are playing a gig together on 3 May. It's so niche and specific to my interests it's almost parody, but honestly, it'll be class and you should all come!
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