Fortune is talking about friction maxxxing. Reads like the Lauren Berlant these awful times deserve.
Why my $150 million startup thinks it can solve the $406 billion loneliness problem | Fortune share.google/gPDqFid6ssCa...
Other branches feel the same. At our regional committee last week, there was a motion from another branch in support of Marie and the disrepute into which we believe this situation brings our trade union. The chair of regional committee read out a statement prohibiting this motion. It was 5/12
This article explores when research #coproduction fails and projects stop, but the young people don't want to fail. I bumped into someone who was flying 5000 miles to put a book that transformed her life on a bus, gift it to a stranger. This changed how I think about #researchcoproduction.
Research as an Intense and Inconvenient Gift: Participatory Youth Research and the Co-Productive Imagination, just published in Qualitative Inquiry
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Disgusted to read this 'Cos we will destroy them' seemingly from @drjogrady.bsky.social about UCU members.
11 January 2023, Grady tells UCU senior managers in secret WhatsApp group chat "every single decision we make/thing we do has to be seen through the below lense... Re-elect GS".
11 January 2023, in response to Grady's instruction that everything UCU does has to be "Re-elect GS", a senior manager replies "And has been, hopefully"
🚨🧵The 2024 UCU General Secretary was so corrupt that @vickyblake.bsky.social + I are fighting a Certification Officer case to re-run it, 10 Feb. Grady won by 182 votes from 114,310 members, turnout 15%.
In secret, Grady ordered UCU managers to "Re-elect GS" +said she'd "destroy" her opponents...
Already laughing at @trashfuture.bsky.social describing epstein as 'nefarious forrest gump'
If the Greens defeat Farage in Gorton and Denton, it'll change politics forever. I think that's worth donating a few quid to, don't you?
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...
Loving labour acknowleding that ground rent is a scam, a relic from medieval times, and then only agreeing to reduce it to £250.
Yeah. He said something, was taken off air, then got his show back. I've not seen it but i think the idea is that he stays away from politics and keeps his show.
Feels like when hollywood stars did adverts in niche media markets like japan. He gets to stand up to american fascism but just in the uk
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Loved More Weight by Ben Wickey. Densely researched and a monumental commitment to an ever relevant topic.
Don’t be disabled, ill or get injured, don’t have a disabled child or dependent, get made redundant, or do a low paid but vital job in social care. And crucially - when falling bombs, rising temperatures, or war threaten your life - just stay put and wait to die because this Government hates you
Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
'Circulatory Librarian'
NEWSFLASH: Plans @northumbriauni.bsky.social are daylight robbery, and the world needs to know! @ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social @uswucu.bsky.social @danhollandnews.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk @theguardian.com
It has been nearly a year since Starbucks has offered us a single proposal to finish the remainder of our union contracts. The company knows where we stand: we need fair wages, better scheduling, and an end to union-busting.
Instead, Starbucks is fighting US, their workers.
Can we ban fascists from the olympics? If they believe they are genetically superior then surely that's an unfair advantage.
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
So the guy who thinks the UK is heading for civil war has a $1 trillion dollar incentive to put robot armies on streets around the world?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Just as a general point, watching the when prophecy fail study being demonstrated to be false (in some way) and then watch people double down on cognitive dissonance is kind of art
@unison.org.uk and @ucu.org.uk working together to get the vote out! Please share widely.
It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"We are coming for the Labour government and we are taking the fight to Reform.”
Be part of it. Join the Green Party today! 👇
I've been advised to write a book chapter in the historical present tense. As i only ever write about failed and discontinued policies, it reads as though i'm not willing to admit that the party is over.
British.
[Hides under bed]
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
