Academics telling each other how busy they are is so lame. Let’s tell each other we’re feeling indolent, or have ennui.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Every day there are more emails. It will never stop

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

wake up babe new ea-nāṣir just dropped

...wherein I find this charmingly incomplete list of dye colours in use in the 1880s (some degraded over time so as to be misleading) which no doubt @majnouna.com would be able to complete :-)

Me ... after I impress the boss with my excellent graph (he loves a good graph). Australasian Swamphen, Mount Gambier. (And someone will tell now me what these are called in NZ. I don't know why people do this but they always do.)

the year is 2036. black friday season starts july 1 and runs through the end of november. cyber monday is celebrated every other monday from december to may. june has several prominent internationally recognized sales days based on the lunar calendar

"Despair is a tool of your enemies." - Audre Lorde

Look out for one another. Conferences are prime spots for people to behave badly. How "important" or senior someone does not give them the right to treat anyone badly, especially more junior people.

'students contribute around £770 million annually to...[Sheffield]...while across Yorkshire and the Humber, that total exceeds £2.9 billion. In...Leicester, Exeter, Nottingham, and Dundee, universities are among the leading exporters, accounting for up to 15% of total local exports.' 2/2

Wow a podcast just about shittalking the books i hate? Perfect

I’m genuinely starting to fear hedgehogs

Human Rights Watch says Israel forcibly displaced 32,000 Palestinians from three camps in the occupied West Bank during “Operation Iron Wall”, calling it a war crime and urging investigations into senior officials, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu. 🔗: aje.io/w2wwey | #Infograph

Albert Alberg's Frost Flowers on the Window (1899) communicates a “new, truly great discovery”, that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers (Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)

New in TIBG: 'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

a useful @theguardian.com graphic

*scrambling to get anything done at 4:30pm* hurry, please we must hurry, the darkness is upon us, the darkness takes all and ends all, it is coming, it is almost here. we can not fight it, we can not fight the ruinous dark.

It looks like the trauma dumpling just broke containment onto reddit, so here's a link to the stickers and magnets if anyone is interested: libby-stigaard.printify.me/category/all/1

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience. It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

Campus, late November evening.

Walk home from work. Late November light.

Walking home from work. Late November light.

It ought to be illegal to include the bibliography in the word-count...

Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better. Deporting children won't make anyone's life better. Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better. If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.

There was snow and I missed it because it happened when I was teaching or in a meeting.

One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads

hey scribes, here's a christmas movie practically writing itself 🎄❤️

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

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Right @mbalazo.bsky.social has informed me that in his hometown there's an English-themed pub called Bollocks. This would be like someone here opening a US-style diner and calling it Jerking Off or something. bollockspub.com

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.

Crossroads 🌳🌳🌳#trees #woodland #TreeClub

It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.

Shall we yell at them? #oilpainting #art

A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.

A man in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.

Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth on being crowned bird of the year 2025. This one, named Ralph by my daughter and friends, looks suitably pleased with the accolade. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I know folks love to pretend that 10 year wait for indefinite leave to remain doesn’t already exist, but it does and folks like me get stuck on it due to our time as students in this country. And I can tell you from experience, a 20 year wait is fucking indefensible.

I‘m doing Noverwhelmedber

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

In July a Federal Court judge in Australia ruled that the government doesn't owe a legal duty of care protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate harm The Uncles who brought the case are now appealing And in Bali, a new climate case is getting underway www.oneearthnow.org/p/we-have-to...

"—police officers involved in investigating the killings had doubts about Clarke’s allegations that she had been a victim of domestic violence and coercive control—even after she was murdered." This is so typical of our "Police." #auspol #MVAW #MVAC www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...