We’re going on a bear hunt, we’re going to catch a big one…

She pays over £9,000 a year to submit essays she didn’t write. Probably costing her £1,500 per essay. I hope she’s not taking business because that’s a godawful investment in her future right there.

1453 was 7 people ago. I will be able to do nothing today but think about this.

EXCUSE ME CHARLES II????

There’s the example case of Martin Routh, the very long-lived President of Magdalen College, Oxford, who knew someone who had met Charles II. He died in 1854 at the age of 99 and is the earliest born person outside the United States to have a photograph taken of them.

Oh don’t worry Mr President, I think the historians are looking forward to writing your history. We play the long game. We measure time in centuries, in millennia.

Speaking to a ‘young person’ today and I asked him if he uses AI and for what. He said he pays for chatgtp and his report for the year was that he had made over 10,000 prompts to it. I asked him if it was just for his studies but he said he uses it for absolutely everything and anything.

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It’s 6.50am and I’ve already learned that it isn’t ‘piggy back ride’ but ‘pick a back ride’. Mind blown.

What the absolute fuck

Great day. Met the superb @roperlou.bsky.social for a cuppa at the British Library, looked up some references for an article I’m writing, and then walked to a string of second hand book shops in the lovely weather, including the fab Skoob Books just off Euston Road. Now reading this on way home!

Not a single word in this long article about how human action is responsible for the extreme climate changes. It just appears to be changing on its own, entirely in a vacuum. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Spending the evening in bed with this little book. High time I finally read it - I think I did back in school but damned if I remember a thing.

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

Democracies rarely die in dramatic uprisings or coups, but quietly and in the dark as independent media and state institutions are twisted and eroded from within. This is a gobsmacking dereliction of press standards and public interest by the BBC.

The media have rebranded ethnic cleansing to ‘evacuation’ in order to politically neutralise and white wash Israel’s genocide; just like they refer to far right marches as demonstrating a ‘different interpretation of British identity’. It’s part of the same project of media complicity in fascism.

Takes some balls to write an op ed demanding the Government reject net zero DURING A THIRTY DEGREE UNPREDEDENTED HEATWAVE IN MAY

As the temperature hits 30 we’ve retreated to the air conditioned cinema. Genius plan until the kids hit the confectionary kiosk and now I have a second mortgage. Plan backfire.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Yesterday Israel murdered at least 31 people in Lebanon. They also blocked paramedics & rescue crews from rescuing people trapped under the rubble.

well done william

*stomping in, covering all the mirrors with silver cloth, grabbing the salt and putting on 17 different protective amulets at once* Blair's back

I can confidently say most of my students spend more hours per week working than they do undertaking their studies. Almost every extension request gives employment demands as a reason for needing extra time. This is just VC bollocks through and through.

I do wonder if the audience for this is Trump and Blair’s US funders rather than the U.K. or labour www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s really frightening.

This is superb. isrf.org/blog/dispatc...

Met office trying its hardest not to say the words ‘climate change’.

I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but…

Unprecedented apology by Pope Leo XIV for the role of the Catholic Church in supporting slavery. The Catholic Church was the LARGEST single slave owner in the Americas. Made its wealth from slavery. John Paul II rehearsed a rambling apology in Gorée Island back in the 1990s #slaveryarchive

Our Revolution in the C17th really didn’t go hard enough, did it? Big missed opportunity.

When we were young we used to have to watch the news all the time as there was one tv and dad had the remote control, so we were pretty well informed kids. Tell your kids about the real world, even if it’s complicated. Listening to stuff they don’t understand only sparks their curiosity.

This needs too be normalized at conventions.

Is something going on with the feet and the balls game?

Couldn’t agree more. Creativity often lives in boredom.

I'm a huge proponent of the idea that we need boredom and we need to learn to enjoy it. Just existing with nothing so stimulating it stops a wandering mind or captures you're attention. Genuine think it's one of the most important things we've lost to tech, yet it's a huge help to mental wellbeing

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

Well that was an absolutely ROASTING day and I’m not gonna lie I’m glad to see the sun slink away. The house is like a furnace.

Enjoyed a big countryside walk this morning before it got *really hot*, including some ancient woodland (defined as having been continuous woodland for 400+ years), wild meadows and some beautiful lakes. Family then mutinied and said it was too hot.

'The Russell Group university is looking to shed more than 600 roles – with 2,700 staff at risk – as part of a “transformation plan” that its leaders have said is necessary to prevent it “running out of money”.' 1/2

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

Writing Teaching and learning from students Making tweed jackets look cool

Cardiff University has admitted spending more than £1m in the last year on a controversial consulting firm as part of its ongoing cuts programme ✍️Martin Shipton

Let’s hope this sets a trend for all the timid, half-hearted school administrations around the world who seem to think that you just, somehow, can’t take a stance like this.

The cost of a weekly shop has incresead by a third, our right to protest has become virtually criminalised, and nobody can afford petrol, but sure, let’s worry about immigration.

BBC chomping at the bit to report drop in immigration numbers like anyone beyond a bunch of far right racist wankers and the Labour front bench actually give a flying fuck, and in fact see falling migration as a major social-economic disaster.

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling