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Emma Kennedy
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She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own.
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oh you're a Christian? What if I told you a guy called Christian killed my dad? Not such a good religion now is it
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When your shop is closing and every customer has the same three questions
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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equivalent in smart to i’ve got soul but i’m not a soldier (i love that song so don’t even)
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Again with alt text:
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'm getting some colleagues saying they refuse to vote in the UCU ballot for industrial action as the union hasn't helped them. Well, it's your life and if you don't want us to take action that's your right. But only do that if you genuinely want the union to do less!
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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My timeline is full of images without alt text, mostly archaeological. What's going on? Is it people posting on the weekend who aren't thinking about accessibility because it's the weekend? Inclusion isn't just for professional life. Get it together folks! Use the setting, think of other people.
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
www.careful.industries
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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This is what we have to see every day, while struggling for employment, healthcare, housing and being treated like human beings
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Result for Nottingham! That was quick. Please, though it's exhausting, keep up the fight. All of us need to protect not only our workplaces and work conditions but also the social values our work (teaching and researching in the humanities) uphold and strengthen.
In response to our industrial action, the university proposed a resolution that removed the threat of compulsory redundancies for the next year and introduced a negotiation process over course closures. And at our branch meeting, we accepted this offer.
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"

As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
THEY DID WHAT
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Yes, pls.
Can I upload Co-pilot to OneDrive so I will never find it again please
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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"I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life."
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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the police yesterday were leaning against the racists' enclosure, chatting and joking and accepting cups of tea from them. meanwhile they fenced off the counter-protestors in an unsmiling line of riot gear. they're not your friends and they will not protect you
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Above all it’s offensive that we should deliberately try to reduce the number of *successful* asylum claims. We are still a wealthy country. We welcome a (shamefully) tiny share of the world‘s refugees. It should be an honour & pleasure to welcome people who need sanctuary. Shame on Labour. /end
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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We don’t make most people (again, with exceptions for those committing offences) re-apply for asylum on a regular basis or make their status ‘permanently temporary‘, so to speak, for two good reasons 2/
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.

You made a difference—so much of a difference.

Rest always in peace, and always in power.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Keep the college essay.

You don't have to fulfill the prophecy that the college essay is dead because some jaded dudes in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and NYT told you so two years ago.

It's OK. You can keep the essay.
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!

linkletter.org/update-33-th...
Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!
linkletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM