#academicsky it's here! If your 2023 wasn't depressing enough get your mitts on some evidence based #depression here #uk books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

Impersonation warning! All of my social media accounts are "CatsOfYore". Not cats_of_yore or catsofyoreofficial or any other variation. Also, I will never ask you for money directly via PayPal, Venmo, etc. I do these gofundme fundraisers twice a year and that's it. www.gofundme.com/s?q=%22Molly...

Gay and transgender Russians are being forced into conversion therapy programs amid an escalating wave of persecution against the country's LGBT community. The Post speaks with two transgender Russians who survived the prison-like conditions. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

See I just go with shouting at the dog. Yours is better.

Happy 'Thank Feck The Days Are Finally Getting Longer' to my Northern Hemisphere pals particularly those buried in marking #AcademicSky. Particularly #Scotland - hang in there. Southern Hemisphere pals can just feck off, I hope you get sunburn

Amen.

Go to Glasgow. Find Italian deli. Buy gnocchi. Cover in butter, sage and parmesan. Follow me for more recipes.

Maths teacher 1986: Use those log tables, you won't be carrying a calculator around in your pocket all the time! Us: #academicsky (also was told categorically the manual typewriter would always be the only way to write essays)

There is a #feminist version #academicsky!

Maybe we all died in 2020 during the pandemic and we are in hell.

#academicsky I just handed a thing in ONE DAY EARLY and I'll take my promotion now, thanks

#AcademicSky dagnammit there's a word for it

Mornington Crescent!

growing up Catholic means not being allowed to watch “Dirty Dancing” because your mom thought it was Too Adult but being fluent in Roman torture methods thanks to the Children’s Book of Saints you got for your First Communion

A thread of things PM Sunak cannot remember while UNDER OATH at the #CovidInquiryUK 😐 www.instagram.com/p/C0wVwcoIrn...

Ok but then there's those of us that are equally unproductive during daylight and nightime Also applies during hot and cold weather

Council of Europe recommendations as part of their 2019 definition of sexism ...

Apparently in meetings my 'listening' face is the same as my 'I am incandescently furious about whatever it is we're discussing' face and I should maybe work on that #AcademicSky

I thought 4 was the best thing he ever did. Fight me.

I was warned post surgery that I would feel the cold more but this is me marking at home and it's frankly ridiculous #academicsky #disability

RIP Shane, one of the few actual antiheroes and most brilliant counterpost to the new wave hairspray synth 80s pop. Billy Bragg *wishes* he had an ounce of his integrity

People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse. Shane MacGowan.

I realise in the great scheme of #disability and #chronicillness annoyances this is minor, but one of the symptoms of #Fibromyalgia for me was that I was always hot so I have invested in bamboo sheets etc. Now post surgery I am constantly freezing. Minor stuff but it's all energy sapping

It's possible I have unreasonable expectations of the grown-up-ness of my leaders, but I would have thought now would be a good time for the UK to have allies in the Eastern Mediterranean #Greece #ElginMarbles #IsraelPalestine

Am increasingly getting requests to send references I’m writing to the candidate so they can include it with their application. I know it cuts down admin but it’s awful. References are already degraded. How can anyone possibly take seriously a reference that is so open?

the problem with these demands for cold, political rationality from Arabs and Muslims in this moment is that it misses how alienating it feels to them to have political discourse perpetually be *about* you but never meaningfully include you.

IPSOS MORI guy phones and as I am #AcademicSky I feel I owe the universe my time Him: so we're looking to interview young women may I ask how old you are Oh. Feck. Off. I just had hysterics discovering that my niece now lives on 'Fanny St', mentally I am about 9

To be fair she DOES look like a chicken

CNN just said some of the Palestinians being released in the hostage deal are "young men under 18." Feels like there might be another word for that.

Properly amusing that this welcome surge in immigration has taken place in the aftermath of Brexit and on Priti Patel and Suella Braverman's watch.

Sorry Fintan, the rioters who burned Dublin literally are “us”. They’re white males born in Ireland who have been radicalised into hating migrants. Until you start asking how it happened, it will continue.

yes but why would #genZ come on here when us #GenX ers have colonised it already? there's literally nobody cool here

You have clearly never been to Aberdeen and met their seagulls #scotland

My apologies to #royalist folk, but I can never hear the phrase 'King Charles' without mentally bookending it with 'Cavalier' and 'Spaniel' #dogs

My god, Qatar! getting two groups in a room who actively want the complete obliteration of the other group to agree to hostage release is like 'unlock secret level' negotiating skills #IsraelPalestine

Back to work tomorrow after surgery but my coworker doesn't approve #cats #academicsky #disability

“Israel, the United States and Hamas are close to an agreement that would free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting.”

A crew tried to deter orcas from attacking their boat by blasting heavy metal music underwater. It didn't work. The orcas pummeled the boat's rudder, making it impossible to steer

hmm, so this has been stuck in my head for days

Having viewed hours of footage it's clear to me that the roadrunner is afraid of engaging in open debate with the coyote

please God

University admins claim to be "data-driven" and "run universities like a business," but when study after study finds liberal arts majors get good outcomes, are cheap to run, and are in fact profit centers, admins cut them anyway for ideological reasons. ncnewsline.com/2023/11/16/n...

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