Rishi Sunak’s national service has officially made it to the Australian meme pages

'The @UCU said more than 140 staff have accepted voluntary severance at University of Surrey, but that feedback showed that many of them felt pressured into accepting it.'

UCUSurrey #NoCompulsoryRedundancies 👇

41 days of this to go folks.

cc Neil Holmes🇺🇦

Haha I’d forgotten this one.

This is the most consequential point made about the election so far. Not who's in Kent today or who got wet yesterday.
Both Lab and Tories are signed up to huge austerity in the next parliament and must say what they plan to cut or tax. Big test of our political-media culture

🇬🇧 Des trombes d’eau, l’hymne des travaillistes en 1997 diffusé par des manifestants... Rishi Sunak a annoncé des élections législatives anticipées et tenté tant bien que mal de défendre son bilan et son parti. Une séquence catastrophique.

liberation.fr/international/…

It’s going to be a very long six weeks isn’t it.

Simon Case has just apologised to the #CovidInquiry for his 'idiocy'.
The bad news is that he is still the Cabinet Secretary.

@UCUSurrey asked, 'Do you have confidence in the Vice Chancellor, Provost and Executive Board of the University of Surrey?'

The results are: No,  97% of voters do not

UCU SupportSurreySLL The Stag UNISON - Surrey Uni

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily?

Join a union.

Disgusting Spaceworms Eat Everyone!!
1989 / United States / George Keller
🪱sound on🪱

“Michael Gove gives dire warning about inflammatory racist conspiracy theories” does feel especially insulting to everyone’s intelligence

Friday.

Oooh that’s 😎!!

Tupperware after you put pasta in it once

Turning 50 today! Matthew Sadler 🎂

Give yourself a present, and watch birthday boy Matthew Sadlers excellent videos on his YouTube channel 'Silicon road'

Engine chess, Chess 960, shogi references.
As good as it gets!

youtube.com/channel/UCq06g…

Rob (Robert Nevitt) and I are seeking the identity of the traffic warden in THREADS for a documentary on the film. If you know who played this iconic character or have any leads for us, we’d love to hear from you. Please email [email protected] with any information. Thanks!

Dick Smith - Practical Effects
SFX Museum: Vol.4 Special Make-Up
1986 / Japanese Laserdisc

The make-up & special effects master demonstrates his work from Spasms (1983), The Hunger (1983) & Altered States (1980) in his Larchmont, NY basement home laboratory
👁️sound on👁️

Le Dinamo Bucarest a des doutes : est-ce bien l’international bissaoguinéen Edgar Ié qui l’a rejoint, ou est-ce... son frère jumeau ? Le club roumain souhaiterait réaliser un test ADN. liberation.fr/sports/footbal…

nice mate in 2 from this morning's bullet. Black to play.