This is also how he reacts when America collapses too.

The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions – poetry and essays – and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18. For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO

University finances are precarious, but leading institutions are swallowing the pedagogic promises of Anthropic & OpenAI just at the moment when the AI bubble looks ready to burst. Beyond fees and the attrition of skilled staff, will AI trigger the collapse of the entire sector?

Stock Market will correct up to 20% warns Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

Your reminders that the stock market isn’t the economy, and unchecked corporate greed isn’t compatible with a moral or thriving society.

The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

A judge ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by today. They’re appealing. Yes, that’s right: instead of accepting this judge’s order to feed Americans, Trump is asking other judges for permission to let them go hungry.

America could NEVER have been ready for a President likeTrump

AI valuation fears grip global investors as tech bubble concerns grow

"A publicly accessible tool that invents false criminal allegations about a sitting US senator represents a catastrophic failure of oversight and ethical responsibility.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Facing limited battlefield gains and economic strain, #Russia increasingly relies on #propaganda to achieve its aims, exaggerating weapon tests, spreading false narratives, and combining disinformation with physical attacks" - #Ukraine. jamestown.org/program/krem...

"Over half of the political content shown to our new X users came from accounts categorised as extreme." #Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism

Posters - Ferry the Human Frog (aka Ferry the Frog / The Mystery Man)

MISCHIEF: A reference to Trump in Alexander Radcliffe's "Ovid Travestie" (1681).

"by offering music of such extraordinary intensity and fervour, Elgar helped explode the myth of Victorian emotional restraint" -- Michael Downes, director of music (University of St Andrews) #Wagner #Chorus #film #classical www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Do we need a Barthesian research revolution? #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky #Barthes

"right-wing content was shown most prominently, regardless of users' political leaning." "We're letting in the world's richest man to undermine our democracy" --- Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat party leader #Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism

Musk has shown support for Ben Habib (ex Reform deputy) who has founded a new party, Advance UK, backed by Tommy Robinson. "X is vital for an organisation like Advance" Mr Habib told Sky News. After a recent endorsement from Musk on X, Advance UK saw a huge boost to its membership numbers

Bubble bubble charts www.economist.com/interactive/...

‘A BofA Global Research's monthly fund manager survey revealed that 54% of investors said they thought that AI stocks were in a bubble compared with 38% who do not believe that a bubble exists.’ www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Ping! Is that the bubble bursting?! Bad day for American AI and tech stocks today... #investing #nasdaq #markets

"A common worry for people who study social media is that algorithms' prioritisation of engaging content results in rage-filled posts getting boosted. Our analysis suggests this is true" #Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism #riots

New Accessions: British USA satire collection.

How much carbon was in the atmosphere when you were born? In 1966, there were 321.59 ppm carbon in the atmosphere. Today = 421.55 ppm #COP30 www.nature.org/en-us/get-in...

🚨🚨 The UK has become too dependent on #Musk and his Space X company for the success of its space programme, and must urgently seek greater independence from it in order to stop the “politicisation” of these services , a new Parliamentary report has warned. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

READ THIS ! "For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." #Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

This is the guy Farage wants to be Chancellor - a privately-educated investment banker who made his millions designing a luxury concierge app for the sickeningly rich.

I’ll be talking about this choice on Times Radio at 07.45 London time

Given this and Trump's past comments about groceries (he calls the term "old-fashioned"), there is a legitimate, I'm-just-asking-this-as-a-factual-inquiry-purely-based-on-the-president's-own-rhetoric question to be asked: Does President of the United States know what getting groceries, like…is?

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. " --- Jonathan Swift

Upper Case DONORRHEA is becoming more prevalent?

"groceries" (U.S. slang, euphemism) = adult porn, brothel

American Populist Political Illiteracy? #media #propaganda #communism #ideology #Trump

If you * motivate * people to turn out Voters will turn out.

Trump's tedious rabblements?

"As agencies lose scientific expertise and evidence-based guidance, the knock-on effects will be widespread and costly — to the economy, the environment, public health and the broader research enterprise." #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘The science world is ending’ #AcademicSky www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Do we need a Barthesian research revolution? #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky #Barthes

In Greek myth, Niobe lost all fourteen children to divine wrath. Turned to stone, she still weeps, her tears feeding mountain springs. Grief in legend does not end. It becomes landscape. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Richard Wilson

URGENT: Time for that inter-generational dialogue? #Green #Youth #Labour #Reform #Tories #Conservatives #Liberals

💖NY. Well done new Mayor Zohran Mamdani

"RABBLEMENT, a long random discourse." --- F. K. Robinson, Glossary of Yorkshire Words (1855) "Idle, silly talk" RABBLE-ROTE. A repetition of a long rigmarole roundabout story (Halliwell, 1850) #dialect #archaic #obsolete #English #language #philology

QUAG: a bog, a quagmire QUAGGLE: a tremulous motion QUAGGY: soft, boggy; flabby "Behold her then, spreading the whole tumbled bed with her huge quaggy carcass." ---Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1748). #English #language #archaic #philology

Nonetheless ... "Use of British words and phrases – including “gobsmacked” and “knickers in a twist” – has been steadily increasing in the US. They’ve also picked up on “ginger” for red-haired, and “cuppa” for tea." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

4 Nov 1605: In the nighttime #otd Thomas Knyvett searches vaults under the House of Lords which results in arrest of Guido Fawkes (NT/BM)

Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter

The UK lost £11 BILLION to multinational corporations cheating on their taxes from 2016 to 2021. Who's robbed us? Our govts know— they have the tax records— but have kept them from the public due to a US-backed global gag order. #NameTheTaxCheaters Report from @taxjustice.net 👉 bit.ly/taxjustice25

Yes it is: nearly 6 hrs. I bought the DVD set on my 1st trip to Strasbourg in 2003. Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DI4... Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5am... Making of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...

Jacobite soldiers. Culloden (TV, 1964) Dir. Peter Watkins (1935–2025) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a... #Scotland #History #Scottish #war #film #documentary