In my experience (9+ years there) there was always a divisive, secretive company culture around pay + contracts, & an unspoken threat that workers shouldn't rock the boat because we were all replaceable; last week they said that part out loud. Those of us who cared were brave and unionised anyway.

right?!? public libraries, museums and presumably schools can manage this, but not a university where the students pay thousands in fees and also rents out half the buildings as fringe venues... 🫠

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (sorry for bbc); for more on the cuts see www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8gaanhy...
obviously those two things have two different kinds of disastrous impacts, but it's just incomprehensible to assert that they can't scrape together the funds for some sanitary towels. mate

we're a creative bunch :)

Joshua I'm kind of embarrassed to say this so publicly but do you umm... do you know if the questioner is thinking of it as a word for food, or for oral sex? (bc I believe the latter usage may be more bri'ish)

OVE was pioneering work by Prof Gunnar Fant (1919-2009 z'l'), what a star, more about him here ncvs.org/hall-of-fame...
(and I should've capitalised it because it is an abbreviation in this case, for Orator Verbis Electris 🤖 but is also a regular Swedish name!)

outwith is a national treasure 🙂‍↕️

thank you so much! 🤩

such a pleasure! thank you so much (and all the CHM colleagues!) for the warm welcome 🤩

as ever, thanks to my brilliant co-authors: @mxeddie.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social and @greatlikecheese.bsky.social who actually DID the phonetic analysis that I'm reporting on here 🙇‍♀️ all stars!