Every now and then I’m speaking to someone who reacts very defensively when they hear I refuse to ever use AI, like I think I’m better than them. They’re right, I do, and I am.

Professor Katie Barclay re the state of Oz unis:

Trying to take my girlfriend to a nice restaurant in the Jewish quarter in Krakow and I just don’t understand how you can advertise your place as serving traditional Jewish food while you have Caesar salad and pork chops on the menu.

Breaking news, new James Bond actor announced - me when I was 4 years old

My grandparents looked good at their wedding

I’ve just been given the swaggiest shirt for my birthday

To be fair, I’m also like this about everything I’ve finished and published

I think it’s a mistake to phrase this as “grunt work” or “boring” or “a grind” as you see sometimes. Practicing a craft is joyful - being bad is delightful and leads to being great. If it didn’t, nobody would ever have done anything with any artistic merit.

Reading a book so good in Polish that it’s making me think I need to translate it so I can force everyone I know to read it

It would be so funny if they all just signed a treaty with Iran

At the university of Warsaw today, this is with no doubt the nicest campus I’ve ever been to Look at this, just look

Oh so now copyright matters.

Incredible work, well done everyone

It would be hilarious if the pope excommunicated him

Poland not going to the World Cup. Devastated because I reckon this was some of the most exciting football I’ve seen the men’s team play.

Went big buying books in my mother tongue, but only bangers

This is going to end just like the Australian robodebt thing did, but on a much bigger scale

Forget looksmaxxing. I'm in the business of maxmaxxing. People called Max (or any spelling variation thereof) are great! That's why I follow @callmesipo.bsky.social.

I’ve started watching Ted Lasso; I love it I can’t say why, there are so many ingredients about this show that usually would add up to me absolutely hating it And I can’t Much like people can’t help but love Ted himself

I’ve read only 16 books this year so far, which is a lot less than I would normally read. But also a lot more than I did at the height of my depression, so a win all the same

It’s gonna be like the opposite of when restaurants wouldn’t cash cheques written by Salvador Dali because his signature was worth so much

I’m going to be boycotting the World Cup, so long as it’s also happening in the USA anyway. But I really want Poland to beat Albania this evening Let’s goooo

Just remembered I got tickets for Maiden and Megadeth later this year, and for Rush next year Hell heah

It’s my birthday, they shouldn’t be allowed to play U2 at bars

Oh no not Sora! Whatever shall we do?! Here I thought this technology was ‘inevitable’ and we are ‘simply going to have to adapt’ if we ‘don’t want to get left behind.’

Listening to Jordi Savall’s Hesperion XXI ensemble and once again thinking I need to buy a baroque guitar

I’ll never fathom why so many people who hate education end up in leadership positions at universities

This makes the exchange about needing to publish a paper “this month” in After the Hunt even sillier in context

Oh no, I thought the office was going to move into the metaverse soon? What are we going to do now, meet in person like fucking animals??

Oh wait, no, now they’re saying virtue ethics was invented in the 60s

Perhaps the most unbelievable bit of After the Hunt is that a university responded quickly and harshly to a sexual harassment complaint against a faculty member

Ok now she’s told her husband that “if she doesn’t publish this month” her position isn’t gonna be that secure. How long does peer review take in this fantasy world?

I’m watching After the Hunt and how is it that with the trappings of wealth and professional prestige Julia Roberts’ character is somehow only up for tenure? The woman is 58. How is she still on the tenure track somehow?

Delighted to have had a chance to see the #Matildas get into the final of the Asia Cup - now to trounce whoever takes the other spot

Trump threatening crimes against humanity if he doesn’t get what he wants

The horrors persist, but I saw Martha Argerich perform this evening and it made me remember that the good is real and is achievable in this lifetime

Very excited to see Martha Argerich play tonight; much less excited that the orchestra is being excited by her sex pest ex-husband Charles Dutoit

This is also making wonder, were the Borg meant to be an analogy for the Soviet Union?

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃

I prefer we go a step further

#NowWatching No Other Choice (2025, dir. Park Chan-Wook)

Delightful arvo diversion watching Barça smash Sevilla 5:2, time for a movie

Very annoyingly can’t find a reliable way to stream the game, and all my usual sources fail me - meanwhile Blaugrana are up two from penalties!

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

Great walk around Barcelona in the first half of the day, time to head back to hotel, finalist reading two books, think on paper about a poem and then watch Barça try to spend the most minimum amount of energy against Sevilla so they got juice left for Newcastle on Wednesday

A perverse joy to be eating a pastry while watching the Barcelona marathon go by

#nowwatching Autumn Sonata (dir. Ingmar Bergman 1978)

Venture capitalist war - go fast, break the world’s economy But hey, maybe this is a good time to start talking about taking degrowth seriously

Not exactly shocking but very sad news