Emma Kennedy
@emmakeddev.bsky.social
She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own.
😂😂😂 Always with the pokemons!
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
😂😂😂 Always with the pokemons!
🤣🤣🤣 'Every time I see a Keep Left sign it reminds me of what I've lost'
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🤣🤣🤣 'Every time I see a Keep Left sign it reminds me of what I've lost'
This just made me absolutely guffaw - like refusing to eat a sandwich because you had a bad experience on a beach one time. Top-level word understander over here
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This just made me absolutely guffaw - like refusing to eat a sandwich because you had a bad experience on a beach one time. Top-level word understander over here
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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I mean, I'd *like* people to vote, and if you want the union to have less negotiating power then there may be better things you can spend your money on than being a member, but I can see why someone would be frustrated enough not to. Just... own your decision & its impact.
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I mean, I'd *like* people to vote, and if you want the union to have less negotiating power then there may be better things you can spend your money on than being a member, but I can see why someone would be frustrated enough not to. Just... own your decision & its impact.
As I said, it's fine by me if you don't vote, and if you choose not to be in the union at all, but if you choose to participate in reducing their negotiating power, don't then come back in a few years and ask why they haven't achieved national change for you.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
As I said, it's fine by me if you don't vote, and if you choose not to be in the union at all, but if you choose to participate in reducing their negotiating power, don't then come back in a few years and ask why they haven't achieved national change for you.
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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
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...
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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
This is what we have to see every day, while struggling for employment, healthcare, housing and being treated like human beings
🤣🤣🤣 I bet! And those who are deaf do it to annoy cyclists, presumably...
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🤣🤣🤣 I bet! And those who are deaf do it to annoy cyclists, presumably...
That sounds entirely appropriate. I think a lot of cyclists need to remember that bells are important to remind people you're passing even if there's room - and forget all too easily that just like they want cars to slow down for them, they need to give pedestrians room. I hope you're OK after that!
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
That sounds entirely appropriate. I think a lot of cyclists need to remember that bells are important to remind people you're passing even if there's room - and forget all too easily that just like they want cars to slow down for them, they need to give pedestrians room. I hope you're OK after that!
This is actually chilling. "I can't have compassion for you unless I control you." Hideous.
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is actually chilling. "I can't have compassion for you unless I control you." Hideous.