It really seems like an error for a union to weaponise rankings like this. The telos of the ranking - competitive, market-oriented, prestige-hungry - is precisely what's destroying UK universities. There's no possible alignment here, however tactical or temporary.

Increasingly, the fascist atmosphere of this place feels less about an explicit politics, and more how the algorithm revels in a display of everyday violence, how it prioritizes the least kind sentiment on every topic, the air of indifference to, even pleasure in, suffering, &c.

North Cork hasn't got one over on the British security services like this since 1921.

So the British Government is now basically run by some lad from Macroom. What stage of decolonisation is this?

So many americans having opinions about not getting S****y R****y without once considering that, perhaps, they are not the audience.

Oh man, whatever the historical crimes of the british nation, they don't deserve this theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

Cork pro tip: if your kid waves at the excellent music librarians in the city library, you get one of these. 😍

The sunsets at the moment though

Friends, gently, we need to stop promoting university funding by talking about 'competitiveness' or 'maintain[ing] wealth.' Our students deserve a decent education, where staff have the time to give them and their work the attention it deserves. That's enough!