all education is a public good and should be paid for out of the public purse, all the time, for any reason

Morning task: collecting the replies and QTs on this (without author details) and sending them to the relevant SLT members and comms people, with a request that they read them in full and confirm that they have done this.

Had to stop writing yesterday because I got caught up writing things that didn't need to be written. I knew I was going into details of people's arguments that had no home in my thesis, but I couldn't shift to other stuff so had to just step away. Middlemarch this morning...

Very revealing to see transphobes jumping all over the phrase ‘self-identify’ used here. They see disability (as well as gender) as a fixed and immutable category, as if the disabled movement hasn’t been arguing that disability is social for decades. It’s deeply ableist!

Who are your favourite disabled-led, disability-justice-led web design and development people and places? Academic Audio Transcription Ltd needs to finally—finally!—sort its web presence out and I need to gather quotes in the next 1-2 weeks. Thanks in advance for recommendations!

Owami Davies has been missing for over a month, last seen in Croydon. We pray for her safe return. Media; why is there no coverage of her case? Institutional racism puts black women at higher risk of gendered violence, and the state doesn’t even pretend to care. #FindOwamiDavies

💥 JOB AD💥 (flexible, remote, part-time) Marketing Lead wanted! Please see quoted thread for more info including job description. ♿️ Disabled & chronically ill ppl esp encouraged to apply! 📅 Deadline 30 Sept, role starting mid Oct Pls share with ur networks x

WE DID IT! Our union has smashed the threshold and delivered a massive YES vote in the pay and conditions ballot History has been made #ucuRISING

PENSION BALLOT: SMASHED! We’ve delivered an unprecedented turnout and a huge YES vote UCU and proud #ucuRISING

URGENT CALL OUT: If anyone can get down to Stoke Newington Police Station they're currently creating a covered tunnel and have completely covered a police van from view. RT spread the word!!

philosophy hive mind: have I made up that there is a thought experiment/example about a lifelong vegetarian wanting to eat meat in a nursing home? i'm convinced it exists, but i cannot work out where. my gut instinct is dworkin or someone of that ilk?

the problem with writing the fun quotes from novels etc that i wanted to use as chapter epigraphs on index cards is I am 80% chaos so left them on my desk and seem to have scattered them to the wind at the last minute (i know some people hate epigraphs but I am not those people)

EXCLUSIVE: The Truth About the Far Right Attack on Honor Oak by Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson) transsafety.network/posts/far-righ…