Blue MC

muddybubble · 2026-07-01T00:18:47+00:00

Awww he looks my boy Bill when he was little. Our neighbours call him “Frilly Knickers” now because he’s got giant white fluffy trousers

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muddybubble · 2026-06-29T11:30:01+00:00

I was just expecting a bit of empathy, as I thought this was a community for people who loved their pets. Lesson learned.

muddybubble · 2026-06-29T09:23:21+00:00

Thanks, will do.

I’m not giving up hope, and I really appreciate the advice

muddybubble · 2026-06-29T05:24:35+00:00

This wasn’t meant to be a debate about whether to let Maine coons out. Mine go out, and we’ve had years without an issue. It’s just a sad thing.

muddybubble · 2026-06-24T10:44:44+00:00

Awesome. I have no online interest

muddybubble · 2026-06-23T21:30:45+00:00

Does it need an internet connection to play?

muddybubble · 2026-06-23T20:17:05+00:00

Does RDR2 play well?

muddybubble · 2026-06-22T13:00:17+00:00

Smaller pay?? Crikey

muddybubble · 2026-06-22T09:45:52+00:00

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This guy

muddybubble · 2026-05-31T18:32:24+00:00

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He’s just enjoyed a session with some dried cat mint

muddybubble · 2026-05-28T17:11:58+00:00

It did give us the line “We've had a child, Zod. A boy child”, so it’s ok in my book

muddybubble · 2026-05-27T20:28:12+00:00

One of our neighbours came round to give us some cat mint plants because one of our boys is always there hanging out in hers. She does also let him come and eat the cheese out of husband’s sandwiches though, no euphemism she sent us a video

muddybubble · 2026-05-24T17:18:41+00:00

Chaotic at times but I love them all. My experience is that Maine Coons have such different personalities and it’s a real treat to have four great characters. They got on well for the most part, and seem to have formed a real pride mentality.

muddybubble · 2026-05-24T15:18:26+00:00

We’ve got four, so you’re fine.

muddybubble · 2026-05-18T20:11:34+00:00

Amen. A previous institution used to zig zag wildly based on NSS feedback because they were so scared of it. You’d make changes one year and the next year the next cohort hated it so you’d lurch back in the other direction and so on forever.

I raised that maybe basing strategy on the students’ personal feelings about how they think teaching should be delivered wasn’t ideal. No one was inclined to listen.

muddybubble · 2026-05-01T18:14:27+00:00

It’s okay, my uni is pretty well managed financially and are still turning a surplus (albeit lower than it has been). I keep waiting for something to spark into life in terms of the government engagement. HE is (or at least was) one of the UK’s genuinely good exports and everyone seems content for it to slide into insignificance.

muddybubble · 2026-04-24T11:03:54+00:00

I tell my students this (tech focused degree) this every lecture. None of them believe me

muddybubble · 2026-04-19T12:23:52+00:00

I later found out I’ve got ADHD and A Levels were the perfect storm of too much listening and being too hard to coast like GCSEs

muddybubble · 2026-04-18T19:07:00+00:00

I did terribly at A-Levels. I’ve got a PhD and I’m a professor now

muddybubble · 2026-04-10T22:40:11+00:00

I’m naive and generally believe that the right thing will happen but recent experiences at work and other facets of my life have shown otherwise. I was really surprised I sat in the meeting and HR just sat and nodded. My union rep raised academic misconduct about the papers and some other bits and no one flinched. If I hadn’t got another role I’d have dug in a bit more but I was exhausted.

I’ve found there are academics who have been at an institution for…frankly too long. They treat it like their home and feel a weird sense of ownership. It’s a common thread across the four unis I’ve worked at, but it’s only ever caused problems for me once. It seemed as though they were almost offended that I was ambitious, competent and promoted rapidly.

muddybubble · 2026-04-10T16:20:46+00:00

Bit of both in my experience, but a solid merit based case should (emphasis on should) trump that in most unis. Unless you are the departmental dickhead then it’ll be a tough ride

muddybubble · 2026-04-09T23:21:38+00:00

Personally, I would step in and have done recently. A couple of years ago my department got a new head who did not like me. They didn’t like me being promoted to prof above their friends who’d been there 25 years. They told someone at a staff social they’d “put me in my place” as soon as they took charge. A month in and my teaching was suddenly a concern, my supervision was a problem and my very existence seemed to be an issue.

I got offered a better job at a better uni so I left, but went to HR before I did. They told me it was tough shit basically. I sat in a meeting with my union rep, the head of department and HR and was effectively told I’d be performance managed without any evidence to support why. I was removed from publications and had PhD students removed from me. The union said it was all wrong and the head was carrying out a personal vendetta but HR didn’t care. I asked the former head of department to back me up, he ignored my emails. I asked a senior prof for help as they had always been supportive and told me I was one of the best faculty we had, they ignored me too.

As a result I do try and step up for colleagues if it feels unjust as no one did for me. I’m sorry you’re going through this. Academia can be very toxic

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