“Yale University’s master’s programs in visual arts and music would fail. Harvard University’s master’s degree in museum studies would fail. The Juilliard School’s undergraduate and graduate programs in music would fail.”

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Hear hear!👇

Gita Gopinath writes “A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.”

A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

@artsandhums.bsky.social @cdbu.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @historyuk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @eicathomefinn.bsky.social

“In Gaza more than 600,000 school-age children are approaching the end of a third year without formal in-person education. [Across occupied Palestine] Israeli attacks … have killed at least 792 teachers and 18,639 students … and damaged or destroyed 9 out of 10 school buildings.”

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

‘The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.’

Hey @bsky.app why do you let people post fake AI-generated misinformation?

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

had I been born ~50 hours later, I’d be looking at another 9% higher marginal rate of taxation on my income for another decade or two 💸

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

“There are as many as 400 water desalination plants across the Gulf, and if they come to be viewed as legitimate targets, a drinking water crisis of unimaginable proportions could face the region within days.”

#HelloSpring 😍

‘It could be that everybody considered the interspecies matings as gross – or attractive,” he said. “But it seems that one direction was viewed as better, or less worse, than the other.”’ Isn’t there another explanation? I.e., rape? Or am I drawing the wrong conclusion here?

“Like the original … performances in which men played all the roles, the [RSC] is to stage a female-free As You Like It ...” “Female-free”? Is this the best locution you could find? Do you consider the language you choose to use? And btw, men didn’t “play all the roles”. Women were played by boys.

We all need such indicators of positive futures.

Vile vile vile vile vile

Because of this story I can never give signed books to charity and if I buy one which turns out to have an inscription I feel bad for the signatory

‘Those damned stares a woman of my generation has always had to contend with, … that make you hesitate in the morning between trousers and a dress, that follow you or ignore you , … that are supposed to tell you who you are, what you’re worth, and then abandon you as you grow older.”

Deborah Cameron obituary: linguist, feminist and firebrand www.thetimes.com/article/a042...

Just beyond parody at this point

‘“Plague on all their houses” cynicism has to be fought for another reason too: because it is the seedbed for Reform UK and Nigel Farage. The only way they can prevail is if the British electorate decides that all politics, and all politicians, are rotten to the core.’

On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.

Now tell me again how much it's okay that English Lit has collapsed at A-Level and in our universities.

What Britons really think of student loans ‘Most people think the top rates of interest are too high, while 44 per cent think debts should be written off, new polling finds.’ #ForgiveStudentDebt www.thetimes.com/article/8e22...

Marginal tax rates for graduates with student loans – add interest and another 6% for postgrads. £25,000: 37% £50,270: 51% £100,000: 71%

Everyone should support this campaign as a start in righting the wrongs of the horrible student debt my generation has visted on the young www.rethinkrepayment.com

Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.

#sunset #photography

'At the University of Buckingham, 52 per cent of students achieved firsts in 2023-24 – compared with just 17 per cent in 2010-11. According to the OfS, 73 per cent of these grades are unexplained by modelling – the highest of all universities in the data.' No one can imagine how this has happened.

Sector colleagues and friends with kids all whispering about just how low the A-Level grade offers are from 'prestigious' UK universities. It's crazy stuff - surely it'll destroy the perceived value of A-Levels entirely over time.

Any comment @scaramucci.bsky.social ?

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

Temperatures have dropped. For anyone sleeping rough, this can be fatal. Alert Streetlink now👉 orlo.uk/AboiG if you see anyone sleeping rough who might be in need of support, and Streetlink will help get them out of the cold.

Looking for a low-cost open goal to advance Labour's battle against misogyny? Why not a government pledge to leave Musk's platforms by the end of the month, in response to Grok and X's disgraceful and persistent contributions to the problem? @torstenbell.bsky.social

What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

'Using a content analysis of 391 editions and 1,885 panellist appearances, this study finds that the programme takes a transactional approach to constructing a balance of views, relying on a relatively small number of heavily featured guests.' 1/2

“We should … remember that the small seeds of large issues find space to … flourish wherever prejudice, discrimination, victimisation and persecution are permitted to go unchallenged.” Moving, courageous & articulate explanation from Chloë Deakin here about why we should speak out against injustice.

Old Ladybird books updated. ‘Daddy learns to get involved' (1964 and 1974) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Who took photos like this one? They are so posed, so constructed to look ‘natural’. Who took it? And why? #Epstein

Force the government to meet with the Palestine Action hunger strikers NOW goodlaw.social/8f6640

‘Palestine Action hunger strikers “set to die unless minister acts”’ David Lammy needs to step in now.

British Academy's pioneering 'cold spots' work now replicated by HESA. 'University "cold spots" are developing in some parts of the country, new data analysis suggests, with courses in some subjects no longer available to students in certain regions.' 1/2