Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

Art of the No Deal

I absolutely hecking love my cat and how he trusts me to sleep in his bed which is on my bed.

He could have just written: “I am a wanker.”

I am now the proud owner of a Crokinole board - so now I need to take it to someone to play it with.

This is no different from the performative religiosity of a political leader who, desperate to hold onto power, appeals to the divine in the hope of duping gullible subjects/voters. It's a way of 'projecting morality' without having to actually do anything moral.

"Prince William keen to build 'strong & meaningful' bond with Church.. [because i) the PR dept hopes it'll be seen as a repentant gesture to atone for Andy. ii) If we stop believing in gods, the ancient royal claim that god sanctioned their very existence isn't worth shit]" bbc.com/news/article...

May I politely suggest that the Oxfordshire Labour party have totally lost the plot. These are precisely the journeys (short distance, walkable/bikeable/public transportable), that such a policy sets out to reduce.

This is like outlawing shark attacks in cornfields.

The United States committed this crime on Cuba

Godzilla is attacking London and you must summon a British kaiju to defeat them. Who are you choosing?

Man my blood sugar was a mess overnight, but got my insulin dose perfect and have landed flat at 5.7mmol/l. 💪

Actual quote from recently, in a class test where AI wasn't allowed: "But how can I write code without AI?" 😐 Watching ChatGPT do your homework is *not* learning. A lot of students are vibe studying through their degrees and not gaining basically any knowledge of what they're doing

catᶜᵃᵗ #Cat #Caturday

Yesterday in UK. Horrified at use of it. Broke by @katiedd.bsky.social Worth the highlight when you dig in it. Used in legal case ?? Unreal. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

I agree but also why the double Chinn?

A brief reminder that Jenni Murray dedicated the last almost decade of her life to anti-trans activism, including working alongside Sex Matters on a campaign, and so should be remembered with that full context of who she was considered.

If you had told me 20 years ago that I'd be going on television today to remind people that, yes, HIV *does* cause AIDS, I wouldn't have believed you. And yet... here we are.

It's a banger

Anyone happen to know a fairly central London pub with an accessible function room for free or low cost hire? (Obviously we'd buy food and drink etc) Loads just aren't accessible.

How the fuck do you have a reporter free news room?

Recommended if you're in the area!

NEW EPISODE OF #MAPMEN!!! 🗺️ Is this the world’s most annoying road? Come with Mark and me on what turns out was an impossible road trip. 🇺🇸🚗🇦🇷 Share and enjoy! youtu.be/knCojy_3bmk Also, can you work out how we did The Special Effect?

The actual story is that the pair concerned turned up and *asked for entry* and got refused. So probably not that dramatic an event. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"the actor says he thought about quitting because in “every interview I will ever do for the rest of my life this will come up.”" Yes, it will. And you asked for this.

This is a weirdly complicated and yet beautiful bit of mathematics www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmL...

Doing big wtfs at @skepchick.org's latest. At the subject, not at Rebecca. Obviously.

Did you know I have a pet elephant?

On consecutive nights I've been given lifts to or from shows by kind supporters. Tonight's wasn't even going to the gig. A man called Ray. He drove me for an hour because of cancelled trains, having recognised me. His wife Claire was the registrar for Charles and Camilla's wedding. So there you go.

wow, you almost did the right thing, do you almost want a cookie for it

There will always be people who seek to profit politically from public health crises. It's beyond the pale. Source: bylinetimes.com/2026... 2/2

"Amid a lethal meningitis outbreak that has taken the lives of two young people in Canterbury, Reform councillors claimed that “a number of infectious diseases are believed to be on the increase, potentially due to having been carried by migrants” without providing evidence" 1/2

Can anyone recommend an anti-ICE charity I can easily donate a small amount to given that I'm not a US citizen or resident?

I'm quite pleased with the reply "They've reduced speed. It seems to be some kind of sub's pace anomaly"

Think this might be the earliest I've turned on the AC yet.

the final installment of Dune should be called Dunn

Mum asking if she should now switch to using electric immersion heater to get hot water over the gas boiler. I'm assuming it's still not going to be the cost effective option?

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

Murder of a population is genocide.

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

The government’s Warm Homes plan is aimed at increasing the number of solar panels and heat pumps in the country. Seems like a really good idea at a time of energy crisis. When’s it coming in? Oh, some time next year probably. Yeah, no rush lads.

Every now and then I just randomly remember the triplets in the Matrix sequels.

It has been a ROUGH couple of days at Holly's Merry Moggies rescue for disabled and difficult cats. Just one thing after another. Money that was supposed to last us the year is almost gone and it's only March. If you can help at all, it would be HUGELY appreciated

DLSS used to be one of the ML applications I would point to when saying "good use of this technology is specific models trained on bespoke datasets", and now Nvidia have shot all over that.

UPF as a food category is absolute bollocks that disguises what is actually bad about these foods.

Cat

I am SHOCKED that the two biggest transphobes on the House of Lords - Baroness Falkner and Sharron Davies - want to restrict abortion access. Shocked I tell you! Shocked.

A whole lot of you are defending a political candidate's abuse of power towards one of HIS STUDENTS 20 years ago asking "What was the big deal everyone needs to get over it" and I calmly as you to go choke on dog shit and delete your accounts. You are a bad person.