If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Foggy forest #minimalmonday #photography #forestfriday #fog #foggy #clouds

A walk on the beach

Academic article: "Women were recruited to increase manpower on the battlefield..." 🙄🤦🏾‍♀️

Right out of the textbooks. Literally "Them."

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Syria’s National Commission for Transitional Justice is researching the world’s best practices to forge its own path to peace and reconciliation following years of conflict. Members are learning from Rwanda’s experience in “overcoming the effects of genocide for community peace.” wp.me/pgslGE-PH

Why were we force-fed AI when we just asked for Word not to get stuck when we produce a document with 100 pages?!!

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

“banality of evil” doesn’t quite say it

Trees wearing their #Autumn 🍂 clothes

I was today years old when I realised that it is perfectly normal to propose on mainstream media that some of the most vulnerable people in human society like the homeless persons should be killed... how very convenient. Free speech, eh?!

Me to the latest draft of my thesis:

Conference season is here. Run. Save yourself. iandunt.substack.com/p/god-save-u...

So... she does not like immigrants but she herself is an immigrant? Make this make sense... Would she like to be treated with contempt and disrespect because she is an immigrant? I think not. But she is speaking with such contempt about others who are immigrants just like her.

I do not need AI that writes essays. I need AI to understand sections breaks and what it means when I say restart footnotes in each section in word. Apparently that's too much to ask

Forthcoming fantasy (?) book for us who work in academia. Two PhDers (both magicians) need to go to hell to rescue the soul of their dead supervisor so that he can write their recommendation letters. The PhDers want to become tenure track magicians, instead of just being magicians.

"We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." Slow clap 👏 👏 👏

this lady done taught her pups how to play uno and they’re crashing out lmaoooo

I don't understand rich people who spend their money on yachts and partying. If I had the time and the money I'd spend it on classes to learn to sing, draw, paint, weave, make pottery, carve wood, all the random skills I do not currently have. Become a true renaissance man. That's the real flex.

I saved a bee. It's not much and it fair focuses your humanity and empathy for the wider world, but it's a wee fluttery life 🌻

Men who fetishize having a "traditional woman" and obsess over women being modest, obedient, quiet, submissive and homemakers are walking red flags. What they mean is they want a slave, a free SW, and someone to baby them. They want free labor.

Nature is full of beauty

Please take a few minutes to listen to this eloquent speech.

What's happening in UK universities is tragic. It will have longterm ramifications on families, the economy, and the intellectual growth of the country.

"but is yet to acknowledge responsibility..."

There’s a Hindi phrase (usually said by dads) for when someone leaves the lights on that translates to “Is it Diwali again?” A French version is “We’re not in Versailles!” But my favourite version, by far, is the Serbian “Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla?”

A Mexican phrase often said by dads when someone comes into the house and leaves the door open is “did you come with a mariachi band?” An Italian version is “are we at the Colosseum?” But my favourite is a regional Polish version that goes a drzwi ci koza zjadła? It means “did a goat eat the door?”

The daily routine

Must be nice not having oligarchs on your Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Switzerland has violated the rights of South African athlete Caster Semenya. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has upheld the 2023 ruling against Switzerland. So so happy for Caster. www.echr.coe.int/w/judgment-c...

Conservatives looked at the public backlash against stripping disabled people of essential support and thought to themselves, "let's have some of that but with added xenophobia". Not to mention that most migrants can't claim disability support anyway. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

The problem with AI "art" is that it is neither art, nor intelligent. It's artifical, annoying, and has the ability to suck the life out of anyone seeing it.

view from a balcony

By 2030, 1 in 4 women in developed countries will remain childfree. Up to 45% will be single by choice. Society will frame this as a crisis. Governments will panic over birth rates. This is about choice though… It's about women walking away from the roles that kept men comfortable and powerful.

I made a book, a very tiny book. On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse. If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

You can keep your science and stuff. I have my footnotes.

Fraudsters everywhere...

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

This came to mind after I saw this video. I admit: I wouldn't have known this band was AI-generated unless someone told me. Very scary time for musicians. IG danmanganmusic

Graph of British Rivers

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You can hear the rocks tumbling with the waves.