@gemdale.bsky.social
Lecturer and researcher. Writes things. Usually talking about flexible work. Likes coffee and Tim Scott, probably not in that order. Feminist. Gymaholic. May you have long days and pleasant nights.
that's two of us.
09.02.2026 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That‘s the spirit.
05.02.2026 10:46 — 👍 10873 🔁 3165 💬 33 📌 0What we really need are carriages where you get an electric shock if you watch something on your phone without headphones.
01.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
31.01.2026 15:43 — 👍 10549 🔁 2211 💬 103 📌 92Time to get a CD player? Never got rid of it. See also my dvd player. Am I cool now?
Husband still has a tape deck - assume he is now the ultimate hipster.
Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.
29.01.2026 19:58 — 👍 1632 🔁 637 💬 42 📌 58
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Pictures of Trump, Farage et al headlines, moaning about EDI
Today, I am lecturing on contemporary business issues, covering the backlash against EDI. My slide deck is a collage of some of the worlds most odious people.
27.01.2026 08:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.
23.01.2026 22:41 — 👍 9640 🔁 2084 💬 307 📌 86If I did want one, it would not be one designed by the same person responsible for porn on the go app Grok.
22.01.2026 15:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment.
This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
You think he can't get any more stupid. And then another day dawns and we are proved wrong. Again.
21.01.2026 16:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who among us has not failed to declare £300k
21.01.2026 08:57 — 👍 190 🔁 47 💬 23 📌 0oh I want him too.
20.01.2026 11:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And there it is.
A museum piece of toddler-king illiterate petulance… for eternity.
It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions.
Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
But not actually stopping people making them anywhere else? X actively choosing to continue to allow the creation these images on their site.
15.01.2026 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do you work part time? We are researching what it is like to work part time today. What are the benefits and challenges, from the perspectives of the employees. If you work 30 hours or less, please take our short survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ljmu/part-... Thank you! Shares appreciated.
14.01.2026 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Reform Public schoolboys react to Musk’s GROK account producing non consensual sexual images of women and children.
14.01.2026 14:34 — 👍 91 🔁 37 💬 22 📌 15
Do you work part time? We are researching what it is like to work part time today. What are the benefits and challenges, from the perspectives of the employees. If you work 30 hours or less, please take our short survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ljmu/part-... Thank you! Shares appreciated.
14.01.2026 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I have researched RTO from the perspectives of employees and I can say with total certainty, that not a single person has ever applauded.
14.01.2026 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As if it wasn’t bad enough that we have peer review, now we might have to go on TikTok.
14.01.2026 07:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Musk's X has turbo-charged the anti-science movement & amplified misinformation, racism, misogyny & hate. It permits the creation of digital child porn at one click.
If these aren't grounds to eject him from the Royal Society, then what are?
Shame on them.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
X is paying Reform UK MPs while its AI produces sexually explicit images of children and women, the public deserves answers.
Will they return the money they’ve earned from the platform? 1/6
People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280
A heartbreaking, dignified statement. What a terrible loss for her family.
09.01.2026 17:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Go to the video shop.
09.01.2026 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The best time for the government to quit X was August 2024, when its owner fuelled far right riots, the second best time is now.
08.01.2026 13:37 — 👍 400 🔁 94 💬 7 📌 1
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
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