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A Mountainous Year, by Hoch Ma Toch 4 track album

Drew is singing again! And it's Bandcamp Friday. Treat yourself: hochmatoch.bandcamp.com/album/a-moun...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

Happy Birthday! 🎈

man presenting a talk

people sitting around a long table in a small room with a screen showing documents

Good times at the Living Rent National Conference today - Joey Simons ran our Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive breakout group @living-rent.bsky.social

sending love and good wishes Emma xxxx🤞

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

The consultancy Nous takes hundreds of thousands of pounds from universities, leaves the exact same path of destruction everywhere, and keeps trying to avoid transparent contracts.

We’re urgently need control over consultancy spent in #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

please sign!

Clearly the title is 'Where's my mum?'

@benmacpherson.bsky.social is my MSP. I'm on strike and heading for the the picket then rally at the Scottish parliament later today. The government's education committee MUST act and intervene in the UoE's entirely unnecessary 'crisis'. Prevent further job losses & crazy sector vandalism! ✊

World Cup qualifying: 'Scotland cash in almost 30 years of glorious failure as dreams come true' A generation of Scotland fans witness the greatest game of their lives on an astonishing night at Hampden. Nick McPheat was among them.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... It's a tough one.

'It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Tom Holland’s Umbrella lip sync appears in your feed, you will watch it all the way through — every. single. time.' And repost. Currently unsure whether this is better for the soul or Kenny McLean's goal from the halfway line last night.

outrageous move by @waterstones.bsky.social

Elspeth King obituary Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary

Rally to Save Jobs at UoE UCU, with the Joint Unions, EUSA and the SSSN, will rally at Parliament as the big finish to our upcoming 3 days of strike action.

Join the Rally at Parliament on Wednesday, if you're in Edinburgh:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s...

Yep - Sending vibes! Good luck! 🤞

la commune is one of my favourite films ever & you can watch Universal Clock, a documentary about his methods with footage of la commune's making here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...

A satirical poem about universities. All Staff Assembly Unlike other universities We do not have an emergency However, we must continue To take action with urgency Don't let there be rupture In trust over the new role families This is not a restructure There are always some redundancies We do not work with arms companies We work with engineering firm subsidiaries Who produce dual use technologies That kill people Some of us are paid very differently But this is very good for the university You see, the disparities in our salaries Are contributions to Diversity

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

This is awful. Solidarity with UK colleagues against this cruel and stupid gutting of university education and disciplinary knowledge

City of Edinburgh Council - Thursday 30 October 2025, 10:00am - Start video at 0:10:26 - City of Edinburgh Council Webcasts City of Edinburgh Council - Thursday 30 October 2025, 10:00am - Start video at 0:10:26 - City of Edinburgh Council Webcasts

My branch (LEITH!) of @living-rent.bsky.social absolutely killing it in their deputation at the last council meeting as part of our campaign against rogue landlords - see 3a and stay for the Q&A. 5 mins of your time to find some hope in dark times: edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/... ✊

Still some spaces left for this talk tomorrow.
Please share.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

This book is brilliant and Ståle is a great speaker - join us for the launch in Glasgow on Tuesday the 4th!

£600 fine. Incredible. That'll show em.

David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.

To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!

Super delighted to be included in this book - my chapter focuses on the histories of Take Root, an incredible self-build housing collective established in 1993 in Glasgow. 'Taking Root and Raising Roofs: Reimagining the Housing Question'....

Can I recommend going to the ombudsman? I didn't think it would work and it took ages but they forced the insurers to pay despite the policy small print (which they found to be utterly unreasonable). I think the insurers now just bet on the fact that most folk can't be bothered to escalate.