Stuart Grieve
@sgrieve.bsky.social
Geomorphologist, trade union member, tired.
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A few years ago I was able to stay in our dispute thanks to strike pay. I've made a donation here, and encourage other folks to donate if they are able.
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
January 20, 2026 at 1:11 PM
A few years ago I was able to stay in our dispute thanks to strike pay. I've made a donation here, and encourage other folks to donate if they are able.
This brings back bitter memories of when I was in the same position with colleagues at @qmucu.bsky.social a few years back.
Absolutely horrible behaviour from Sheffield management.
Absolutely horrible behaviour from Sheffield management.
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
January 20, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This brings back bitter memories of when I was in the same position with colleagues at @qmucu.bsky.social a few years back.
Absolutely horrible behaviour from Sheffield management.
Absolutely horrible behaviour from Sheffield management.
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UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy.
Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.
Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.
Govt want skilled labour.
archive.ph/favYt
Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.
Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.
Govt want skilled labour.
archive.ph/favYt
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:48 AM
UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy.
Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.
Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.
Govt want skilled labour.
archive.ph/favYt
Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.
Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.
Govt want skilled labour.
archive.ph/favYt
Reminder that gen AI is dogshit.
January 14, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Reminder that gen AI is dogshit.
This shows how incompetent university senior management is: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Students pay much more in England, and yet the sector is still a shambles down here. And yet that is their plan to "save" Edinburgh.
Students pay much more in England, and yet the sector is still a shambles down here. And yet that is their plan to "save" Edinburgh.
Scottish students could pay towards tuition, says Edinburgh uni principal - BBC News
Prof Sir Peter Mathieson said that Scotland could adopt a "graduate repayment scheme" based upon salary.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
This shows how incompetent university senior management is: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Students pay much more in England, and yet the sector is still a shambles down here. And yet that is their plan to "save" Edinburgh.
Students pay much more in England, and yet the sector is still a shambles down here. And yet that is their plan to "save" Edinburgh.
Counterpoint: The creator/funder/enthusiast of a digital nonce machine shouldn't be a member of the royal society
Musk should remain member of UK Royal Society, says president ft.trib.al/tC0vaAa
Musk should remain member of UK Royal Society, says president
Paul Nurse tells FT that national science academy should avoid ‘making judgments’ about ‘character’ of fellows
ft.trib.al
January 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Counterpoint: The creator/funder/enthusiast of a digital nonce machine shouldn't be a member of the royal society
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https://floppy.loop0.sh
a write-only message board hosted on a bootable floppy disk! once it's full it's full!
a write-only message board hosted on a bootable floppy disk! once it's full it's full!
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
https://floppy.loop0.sh
a write-only message board hosted on a bootable floppy disk! once it's full it's full!
a write-only message board hosted on a bootable floppy disk! once it's full it's full!
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🚨 4 days left to enter 🚨 submit your photos and drawings of geomorphological features by midnight on Friday tagging us and the tag #BSGAC25 to win up to £100 🥇 last years winners and runners up for inspiration ⬇️
January 6, 2026 at 10:33 AM
🚨 4 days left to enter 🚨 submit your photos and drawings of geomorphological features by midnight on Friday tagging us and the tag #BSGAC25 to win up to £100 🥇 last years winners and runners up for inspiration ⬇️
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
to me
Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
This is what tech oligarchs stole from us
NEO-CMPU.ANS, 1996-05-14 from The Equalizer BBS (other)
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is what tech oligarchs stole from us
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THE NIGHTS ARE FAIR DRAWIN OOT
December 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
THE NIGHTS ARE FAIR DRAWIN OOT
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Half Ma’am Half Brisket
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Half Ma’am Half Brisket
The project management tool I use to organise my work has recently added AI summaries of emails, which I can't turn off.
Today I added an email which contained a URL to my to do list. The LLM wrote a summary and provided a link to example.com/path/to/file instead of the actual URL.
Today I added an email which contained a URL to my to do list. The LLM wrote a summary and provided a link to example.com/path/to/file instead of the actual URL.
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The project management tool I use to organise my work has recently added AI summaries of emails, which I can't turn off.
Today I added an email which contained a URL to my to do list. The LLM wrote a summary and provided a link to example.com/path/to/file instead of the actual URL.
Today I added an email which contained a URL to my to do list. The LLM wrote a summary and provided a link to example.com/path/to/file instead of the actual URL.
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roses are red,
a christmas carol was written by charles dickens,
www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/12...
a christmas carol was written by charles dickens,
www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/12...
Morrisons loses £17m tax dispute over rotisserie chickens - Retail Gazette
Morrisons has lost a VAT battle following a court ruling that its rotisserie chickens were hot food.
www.retailgazette.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
roses are red,
a christmas carol was written by charles dickens,
www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/12...
a christmas carol was written by charles dickens,
www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/12...
Proposal: now that AGU has shrunk to 20k attendees, we can move it to Vienna and rebrand it as the AGUropean Autumn Meeting
Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists skip key US meetings — and seize on smaller alternatives
Researchers are devising creative ways to get together as Trump’s policies curb travel to US gatherings.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Proposal: now that AGU has shrunk to 20k attendees, we can move it to Vienna and rebrand it as the AGUropean Autumn Meeting
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Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code by K1n9_duk3.
#DOSGaming #DOScember
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#DOSGaming #DOScember
pckf.com/viewtopic.ph...
Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code - Public Commander Keen Forum
pckf.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code by K1n9_duk3.
#DOSGaming #DOScember
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#DOSGaming #DOScember
pckf.com/viewtopic.ph...
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Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Spey!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That your stone pier and iron girders have been taken away
On the 3rd last Sabbath day of 2025,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That your stone pier and iron girders have been taken away
On the 3rd last Sabbath day of 2025,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
Awful as this is, it's nowhere near as bad as it could have been if William McGonagall had been here to commemorate it
This is awful
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Spey!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That your stone pier and iron girders have been taken away
On the 3rd last Sabbath day of 2025,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That your stone pier and iron girders have been taken away
On the 3rd last Sabbath day of 2025,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
I've been teaching intro python this semester and it feels like this is the first year I've taught where gen AI has been so prevalent.
It's been very depressing seeing students outsourcing their thinking and learning to a chatbot.
It's been very depressing seeing students outsourcing their thinking and learning to a chatbot.
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I've been teaching intro python this semester and it feels like this is the first year I've taught where gen AI has been so prevalent.
It's been very depressing seeing students outsourcing their thinking and learning to a chatbot.
It's been very depressing seeing students outsourcing their thinking and learning to a chatbot.
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IWGB: "Rockstar’s latest statement is littered with falsehoods and disinformation - they have given multiple, conflicting reasons to explain why the workers were fired, as if attempting to reverse engineer a rationale for the dismissals. Once again, they have chosen to mischaracterise... 1/3
December 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
IWGB: "Rockstar’s latest statement is littered with falsehoods and disinformation - they have given multiple, conflicting reasons to explain why the workers were fired, as if attempting to reverse engineer a rationale for the dismissals. Once again, they have chosen to mischaracterise... 1/3
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🎨 BSG ART COMPETITION 2025 🖼️ Submit your fieldwork & holiday snaps, pretty sketches, drawings of geomorphic features! Make sure you tag #BSGAC25. Winners will win…🥇 £100 🥈 🥉 £50 deadline 9th Jan 2026!
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🎨 BSG ART COMPETITION 2025 🖼️ Submit your fieldwork & holiday snaps, pretty sketches, drawings of geomorphic features! Make sure you tag #BSGAC25. Winners will win…🥇 £100 🥈 🥉 £50 deadline 9th Jan 2026!