Had immense fun replaying Pokémon Crystal

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Really enjoyed writing a lecture on Blaxploitation films, now back to writing the book.

Brexit didn't have to mean the end of Erasmus+, and the government has now announced we will join the scheme again | Sascha Stollhans

Got my copy of Intersections of Feminist Technoscience & Phenomenology: Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency, edited by Lisa Käll & Kristin Zeiler today! I have a chapter called "On Simulation & Stimulation: Doctor-centered & Patient-centered Practices of Care in Pedro Almodóvar's 'Brain-Dead Trilogy."

Back then: Bioshock 2 as I played very few games until around 2013 Now (and likely forever): Mass Effect 2

🦇 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses, both new and old but some species prefer hollow trees, or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces. Learn more here: buff.ly/3PNgDhB

Beatriz Bernal, a 16th-century Spanish novelist, wrote a fantasy novel about a female knight - with dragons, sorcerers, and a giant - decades before Don Quixote appeared. A children's adaptation, devised by children's author Diego Arboleda, is forthcoming! #fantasy #renaissance #earlymodern 💙📚

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

the slow death of legitimate, verifiable, reliable knowledge systems

This is what I like to see - climate activists, scientists, campaigners, business professionals who aren't hypocrites. Being flight-free, and embracing alternative travel & forms of communication, is one we all need on our climate action bucket lists. #climate #flightfree

MK89 and it hasn't changed

It was and still is It Takes Two for very personal soppy reasons. Toem remains persistently on my mind though. I forgot Ratchet and Clank existed. Unpacking is the one that has come up repeatedly in my life has Lisa has written papers on it so I have sat through quite a lot of analysis on it

I am more than happy to share birthday chocolate with my wife but I just wish she would eat quicker

This month I have book chapters to write on: - Daria (always - as that's going to be a whole damn book) - Pokémon - The Priory of the Orange Tree - Mass Effect (I can't escape it)

v1.112 is live! We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky. Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts. Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

@lilithfatale.bsky.social did Yotei get sorted?

The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Lisa nailed the assignment this year

Easy to miss, but Research England will now require "minimum standards" on research culture as a condition of funding Collecting baseline data was mooted as part of REF, but dropped "to keep REF focused on its core purpose" Instead RE will "establish rigorous standards” on culture in 2026

Not even young people who are looking for work, young people who are disabled.

On World AIDS Day, remember this bit, please

This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (1787) is housed at the Javier Puerta Museum. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. It demonstrates the merging of art and science. #histmed #medhist #skystorians

It's a shame that with each passing budget it is clear that Labour do not believe climate change is a real or significant threat

shout out to the dad at the cinema who couldn't get seats with his family, so brought them their snacks and drinks, got them settled, then came and sat next to me and immediately fell asleep for the entirety of Wicked: For Good

70 years ago UK was conducting a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya. British forces herded hundreds of thousands of people into fortified camps, heavily bombed rural areas and resorted to extensive propaganda to win the conflict. www.declassifieduk.org/britains-for...

The latest emails from Jeffrey Epstein's estate show communications with a vast web of influential figures in politics, academia, business and more, even after he registered as a sex offender. n.pr/3LNga0k

Confiscating the valuables of refugees and migrants at checkpoints is the sort of thing that militias in civil wars and corrupt cops in dictatorships do. Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.

Been horribly unwell for over a week. Today was the first day I have wanted to cook. No recipe, just winged it. Veggie noodle soup was everything my soul needed. Thanks so much to my beautiful wife @spacesandplaces.bsky.social for looking after me so well ❤️💕

Pikachu Gets First New Variant in 25 Years With Pokémon Pokopia share.google/2SXGftqHQ0Dd...

The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.

'As pressure mounts globally on the humanities, Africa’s leading writers and scholars used this week’s Nobel Symposium in Literature, held in South Africa, to argue that the arts are still vital to the world’s intellectual and moral life.'

Environmental protesters are facing extraordinary licence conditions more commonly associated in terrorism cases on release from prison, in another serious abuse of rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

This should be reported alongside any coverage of the GTA 6 delay www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

I wrote on this season of Celebrity Traitors for the University of Sunderland www.sunderland.ac.uk/more/news/un...

"Trump Has Found His Class Enemy. The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It is, in fact, the UK government undermining academic freedom by underfundong universities and forcing the entity higher education system to be reliant upon overseas market access www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watched the National Theatre Live version of All My Sons. Absolutely loved it. Sally Field is perfect in every role she takes on

Legends mode coming to Ghost of Yōtei share.google/TaJtjsyaeLgZ...

Starting a new ACNH island when nobody else plays is a real test of patience. When will I ever find cherries?

Animal Crossing: New Horizons actually has a content update 😭

STAR WARS: MASTER OF EVIL is out in 2 weeks today! Some handy pre-order links here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762382... It's the first Vader novel in 10 years, but also the last Star Wars novel of 2025... so how about we blow the doors off this thing, hmm? Let's gooooooooo! Pre-order now!

Didn't enjoy Arceus much so I haven't rushed to ZA. Think I have committed some sort of blasphemy to returning to Let's Go, and afterward I will do Sw/Sh yet again

Sanders continues to disappoint www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...

I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers

After leaving HBO Max earlier this year, ‘Looney Tunes’ is a hit on Tubi, the company says, and popular across generations. It should be a model for every classic cartoons trapped in streaming limbo.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡