Rebecca Leach

Hello! Sorry not been on BlueSky for a while!

Cardiff University: Hundreds of jobs under threat due to funding black hole Meetings are being held amid concern that hundreds of jobs are under threat at Cardiff University.

I don't know why I bother saying these things again and again, but:
(1) Cutting won't save you, it'll make things worse and it'll be redundancies again in a couple of years
(2) You can't make national infrastructure like this depend on short-term student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I used the opening scene of Blue Velvet to open up a module for about 15 years. Spoke to students about the dark mythology of ideas of “home” like nothing else. #RIP #DavidLynch

😁 BURRRRNED

Oh my word. Jane McDonald is back cruising on the telly. Time for the Double Entendres Drinking Game.
#JaneMcDonald

...so we're all voting for Montell because having a rumba and the death slot this week is just unfair, right? Right?? #Strictly

In the 1950s, Lancashire County Council instigated a simple test to ensure its staff stayed true to the county.

Would you pass?
#LancashireDay

Thank you to the kind people reupping this with likes from my Twatter archive. And as it is evidently #LancashireDay have a good one.

The 'Holden Boggart' would hang on a hedge in the shape of a rag and as people went by, would transform himself into a black dog, to terrify them

Boggart lore for #LancashireDay

#folklore #boggarts #Lancashire
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Three Blackburn prints on a wall above a sofa.

My Blackburn designs have been a huge success this year.
Folk love a bit of Northern nostalgia.
Cards coming soon…
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/hometown
#lancashireday #blackburn

LEGEND

If you're a university, every home undergraduate you take *without a commensurate loss of staff* gets you deeper into financial trouble. Every £200k of research income you win means stumping up £60k you haven't got. Ergo, you cannot survive by being a university and eventually you will close.

Thank you for sharing. A great read about a place I know well (having lived next to it and bussed through it till I was 19!)

me bringing all my failed tweets to bluesky

Update from the right-wing press: disruptive protests are good now. But rest assured that as soon as the landowners are finished, they will be bad again.

Sadly I think they’ve discontinued it now but the right shade of their powder foundation also works well.

The only one I use now is an old Bare Minerals powder one. It doesn’t end up powdery but it is the ONLY thing that doesn’t fold into crease lines or make my eyes water (thus washing away all concealer).

Rather than, say, a sensible plan for cross-subsidy to weather the market in everyone’s long term interests. So depressing; so predictable. Indeed, predictED by all of us.

So depressing. As well as the external market, this is also a product of creating internal markets that require subjects to live/die by bums on seats.

As British Higher Ed finally begins to buckle under the pressure, it'll be STEM and mid-ranking redbricks that bear the brunt. Too late to avoid now.

Haha. By the power of @en.blueark.app and a few quid, my utterly pointless Tweets are being slowly dumped over here. You can enjoy boring gen election, university and random footie “wombling on” in two places now (before I delete the X content)

Here’s my Stoke/NuL/N Staffs interesting people starter pack. Biased towards talkers, writers, makers, researchers but pitch in and tell me who to add. I’m gonna run out of slots soon also so start the next one?

go.bsky.app/EG6u6fU

Really enjoyed the 14 minutes of daylight we had today.

But I want postcodes, hashtags, all that stuff.

Actually. bsky.app/profile/snow...

Where are my #snow-watch BlueSkyers at? I could rely on all kinds of tech-geekery and CHARTS in the other place.

Divorce rate is gonna go up now we’ve got a Twitter-that-is-not-shit back and people can go back to ignoring their partners & ONLY TALKING TO THEM ONLINE
@crimtonyk.bsky.social

@crimtonyk.bsky.social

Stoke, take notes. Though a little bit of regen that *works* would be welcome here.

When we’ve all had a little lie down and a cry about how lovely everyone is here, can we go back to being a *little* bit mean?