Hmm have just realised that bluesky did me dirty and didn't let me tag @kevinguyan.bsky.social properly in that post?? Kevin is GREAT go follow and read his books! 💚

i'm in this skeet and i don't like it

IT'S TODAY 🤩 for my Edinburgh pals please note this event is in the *Business School* building (29 Buccleuch Pl). I'm excited! See you later!

Mgmt claim we need these destructive cuts to "save" >£90M and avoid a possible future financial deficit. They refuse to explain (to the joint unions or to Scottish Parliament) how such a situation could have arisen at one of the UK's wealthiest universities, with £3bn in reserves at last reporting.

In my experience (9+ years there) there was always a divisive, secretive company culture around pay + contracts, & an unspoken threat that workers shouldn't rock the boat because we were all replaceable; last week they said that part out loud. Those of us who cared were brave and unionised anyway.

right?!? public libraries, museums and presumably schools can manage this, but not a university where the students pay thousands in fees and also rents out half the buildings as fringe venues... 🫠

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (sorry for bbc); for more on the cuts see www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8gaanhy...
obviously those two things have two different kinds of disastrous impacts, but it's just incomprehensible to assert that they can't scrape together the funds for some sanitary towels. mate

we're a creative bunch :)

Joshua I'm kind of embarrassed to say this so publicly but do you umm... do you know if the questioner is thinking of it as a word for food, or for oral sex? (bc I believe the latter usage may be more bri'ish)

OVE was pioneering work by Prof Gunnar Fant (1919-2009 z'l'), what a star, more about him here ncvs.org/hall-of-fame...
(and I should've capitalised it because it is an abbreviation in this case, for Orator Verbis Electris 🤖 but is also a regular Swedish name!)