the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

“My daughters are just a little younger than you” 🤮🤬 (from Prince Andrew)

3/ Really think the royals need to kick Andrew all the way out: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2/ Ghislaine Maxwell should never ever be pardoned: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gut wrenching indeed. The professors hit me hard. Just what the hell. WTF. Why? What possible thing made you think this was ok. I hope they all suffer ruin.

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

(1) How is giving $40 billion to Argentina without congressional approval during a government shutdown legal (not that that matters anymore)? (2) How much of the $40 billion goes back to the Trump Family? (3) Trump has handed Argentina more money than the entire USAID budget.

started / going

I mean...come on, man.

Ok, trying Claude for some of my scientific coding. And...oy. I'm not saying my spec was fully correct but it does some weird stuff and defo didn't work. We'll see how much dorking I have to do.

As a Labour Party member, I just voted against Bridget Phillipson for deputy leader not least on the fact she's been horrible for post-16 education. Not even trying a little bit. #UCU

“Yeah but there was no final status negotiated under those” There’s no final status agreement now either “Yeah but those were temporary” This one hasn’t even been in force for a week “But this time Bibi promises it’s for real!” [stares]

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

a skull full of soup.

The new normal.

Update: turns out basically nobody in England needs A level English after all, whether foreign or not.

I mean it might also be better than tossing them in the air. My dudes, REF sucks. You aren’t going to automate your way into it not sucking.

FINALLY a path to financial viability for OpenAI.

dead internet theory ever grows

"Where is the NRA now" posts are, I think, useful frames for noting the key insight of Cowie's Freedom's Dominion: There are two types of freedom: 1. FROM oppression. 2. TO oppress. And (2) has always been what the NRA types embraced. So Trump IS LIBERATORY for them.

Assuming we can claw our way back from this administration (a dubious but not impossible proposition), it will be super annoying to have to pretend that some of these folks had good faith readings and didn’t just hate the US style of government.

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

"The executive has usurped the power of the purse to pay for a standing army" is something that the Founders very explicitly wanted to prevent from ever happening but, ah, well, nevertheless

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Currently if you need to repeat modules, as long as you're attending all year you can get full time maintenance (and retain FT student status say for Council Tax). Under the LLE you'll only get maintenance proportional to the credits you're repeating. More flexibility my arse.

oh wow okay this company is IN TROUBLE in trouble

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Actual safety notice from my alma mater: Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

a real water is wet scenario here

In the UK if you see them do crime and then have gay sex with you before getting your name or contact info it's almost a guarantee that they're with the Met.

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

'Staff working with elderly and disabled service users have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms....It comes against a backdrop of charities also warning of growing intimidation, racial abuse and threats of violence towards staff and beneficiaries.'

"Product of his time" harvest the fruit of the dick tree and choke on its fruit.

This is really the time to stoke up his late-Stalin era paranoia about subordinates (esp Miller) plotting to replace him, and also get Vance, Miller and Voght backstabbing each other.

This just isn’t true. Not only is refusing to teach a significant disruption, it also has a financial cost. When @newcastleucu.bsky.social took action this year, the university paid out £2.4m in compensation to students.

I’ve seen enough: Matt Stoler is this Trump administration’s Sean McElwee

I completely agree that Shapiro should be allowed to speak on campus. But are disputes about the date part of the national conversation deserving an NYT op-ed? Feels like a very determined editorial choice to keep this version of campus intolerance in the public mind even as Trump hammers campuses.

This framing is a bit of a choice: What happened: Ilya Shapiro and the Federal Society wanted an event on anti-semitism at NYU. Campus officials proposed another day, worried about the anniversary on Oct 7. After pushback, they relented. Is this a cancelation? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

wish granted

And as I remember, the security costs for her and Milo became prohibitive, like in the hundreds of thousands. FIRE makes the case that security should not become an excuse, which I agree with, but what is the reasonable expectation for the security burden on the hosts? bsky.app/profile/donm...

Intersectionality in the hands of fools is a reactionary force.

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

Leto is an affirmative turn off for me in films esp superhero/fantasy/etc. I think his Suicide Squad performance is sufficient to avoid him. He is a contender for the worst thing in that generally terrible movie. He’s undoubtably skilled but has negative charisma & I generally hate his choices.

“you [] don’t need to write articles about [things] you don’t know the first thing about.” (Slightly modified) words to live by.

'More degree subjects are likely to face extinction unless changes are made to competition laws to allow universities to work together to maintain certain courses, experts have said.' 1/3