#Trump #Shitler

fellow linguistics pals, in case you missed it, this is where we’re at right now at Essex if you are a student or alumni, please please please make your concerns known to the university

Tories are such belleneds that even when they’re nowhere near any kind of power they still go out of their way to be damaging bellends who break everything. Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK after peerage bid ruled out by Tories www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What the hell do you people think you’re doing?!?

My full statement on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good.

ICE are no different to the brown shirts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

The world capitulates. 150 countries agree plan to stop global companies shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions, but US companies will be exempt from 15% global minimum tax. They make profit we fund the cost. The race to the bottom will accelerate.

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

In 2026, the Physiological Society celebrates its 150th anniversary: a landmark moment to celebrate physiologists past and present, the discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the body, and the community driving physiology forward. buff.ly/3gfFNUg

OMG! This is AWESOME! Owner of South Park writer Toby purchased the domain name trumpkennedycenter.org. Check it out. Brilliant way to be proactive and resist. Love this. Let's make this go viral! #TrumpKennedyCenter #EpsteinFiles #TrumpisaPedo

‘Supershoes’ have been around for about 8 years, so now seems to be good for a timely reminder that if you set your PB wearing a pair of these shoes then you didn’t really set a PB. Young Science Writer of the Year: How 'super shoes' transformed running www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

A sentence I never thought would be possible, but is completely true: Guillermo del Toro made Frankenstein boring.

“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

Nigel Farage is a racist. Reform is a racist party. People who vote for Reform are racists - attracted by the only policy they offer: racism. Can we call a spade a spade? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The political movement that postures itself as the epitome of toughness is so fragile that they’re banning people from the US for saying mean (and often true) things about the movement & its leaders. Performative strength is the ultimate admission of weakness.

I've said it before but it bears repeating: Don't question ChatGPT results in the same way that you're questioning results from Google or Wikipedia. Instead, question them in the same way as you're questioning the statements that a drunk stranger on the street makes about your mother. Here's why:

I'm here to tell you that this is generational levels of damage. Generational in that it will take a generation or two to fix the damage. Some damage will be unrecoverable, and that makes us all lesser. This is not making America "great"... This is a self-inflicted wound that is mortal to many.

No it's not OK to do scientifically unnecessary vaccine trials in Africa. Never forget Tuskegee. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What dumb, dumb fucks these people are.

Buzzing for the World Cup now, can’t wait for the likes of New Caledonia, Jordan, New Zealand and Haiti to bring some genuine World Cup quality football to our eyes…… It’s definitely not a participation tournament with too many teams in it………..

I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a... @sheffielducu.bsky.social

'Face of the Moon.' (1797) John Russell was the finest British pastel artist of his time. One of his sitters, the astronomer William Herschel encouraged him to buy a telescope, and with this he produced a number of remarkable pastel drawings of the moon.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

7m Britons can't work or do limited amount of work due to sickness Result of Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing. NHS queues Can't see GP, dentist Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems Lack of support from employers. Need good income & public services

Kidnapping in broad daylight. No different to the Nazis.

Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works. Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly. - Ben Goldacre

Spot on.

UK workers using food banks, bosses feast. Melrose CEO, 1,112 times the average employee wage. Tesco, 375 Person, 355 Compass, 330 Marks & Spencer, 261 British Associated Foods, 218 Sainsbury's, 195 Can't rebuild economy/society without equitable distribution of income and wealth.

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.

Facism.

Yep. "The credo of MAGA: create a health crisis based on data that are unavailable & may not exist; misleading appraisals of the science; single studies that are preliminary, misinterpreted, or half remembered; and general amplification of misinformation." MAGA mayhem www.bmj.com/content/391/...

If journals want me to give a shit about their time to publication metric, they can pay my ass to edit/review and offer an incentive to publish with them. People who get my effort for free don’t get to make demands on timeliness.

Lancet editor: "I can’t forgive Bhattacharya and Makary...both know reliable evidence does not exist to restrict paracetamol use during pregnancy...both know evidence linking vaccines to autism simply doesn't exist. What are they doing?" [politics - that's what] www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

The US military also vows to disobey unlawful orders & to protect the constitution. If the generals in that room obey Trump then they are: a) in agreement with him & therefore tools of facism; b) are not following the oath they took when they enlisted, which means their oath was meaningless.

One of the most disgraceful aspects of capitalism is allowing private firms to profit from things that are essential for life. All energy and water should be nationalised, no exceptions. Whilst not essential for life, transport is fundamental to everything else - that should also be nationalised.

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends. 90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts. 90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends. Public ownership would make a difference.

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

“Fascism is a political system built on control, fear, and loyalty to a strong leader. Fascism attacks democracy.” A quick primer on fascism and anti-fascism:

From the original Swedish researchers.

UK inflation is caused by profiteering Since the pandemic electricity generation companies hiked profit margins by 198%. Electricity/Gas supply margins up 363%. Shipping up by 650 times. Health and social work up by 118%. People impoverished. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

Ex-leader of Reform in Wales admits taking bribes in return for pro-Russia messages - on.ft.com/42IFFFA What a patriot.