I quite like this aesthetic.

Blackthorn blossoming in the garden. #flowersFriday #flowersonFriday

A sickening society is clear in these statistics So why is it not in the news? Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I also really wish we could find a way for management to value staff as humans

He's the nephew of the AG in the NT. He got home detention for killing a man with his car on purpose then bragging about it and seriously injuring another man. They were both Aboriginal and it was a hate crime.

Some good news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On 24 March, @ukrio.bsky.social will host a public webinar exploring the role of supervisors in shaping positive research culture – including what effective and supportive supervision looks like and how it can be sustained over time. 🔗 Learn more and register: ukrio.org/the-role-of-...

"Not capable of graduating?" A ton of students here and across the post-92 sector come to university through access courses, take foundation years, etc. They graduate just fine, thanks. Tickell should confine himself to plans for a rowing lake on campus or something, if the edge needs taking off.

Made it to Friday but at what cost

As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens

We don't tell reactionaries and billionaires to get a real job enough.

the wall of tears installation— three full shop display windows of the names of the *confirmed* dead all children charles street, adelaide. see for yourself. it’s confronting #auspol

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Moodboard for this gloomy March day. #art #linocut #printmaking #illustrator

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

Christophe Jacrot - Venice.

Katherine Hepburn

haunted

Spring

Is anybody else in academia *really* struggling with motivation at the moment? With the combination of deep restructuring, the dreadful labour market and gen AI, it feels like the walls are closing in. Some of us were hoping to work for 20 more years!

I think if I died and found out that my descendants had used AI to write my eulogy I'd invent haunting from first principles

Meta has a history of torturing their moderators and providing NOTHING in the way of mental health care. How do I know? Because I used to be a moderator for Meta and I got a $3,500 settlement for the PTSD they gave me. When we tried to unionize, they moved their moderation to the Philippines.

The sun warming everything up so fast that the fog it’s creating really emphasizes how big it really is!! #sun #fog #weather #Connecticut #eastcoastkin #trees #landscape

Would it kill academic administration to minimize the use of acronyms? How about first stating the entire thing, indicate its acronym, and then proceed with everyone on the same page?

Ladybird poppy for #RedWed 🌱

Hunstanton, Norfolk #TidesOutTuesday 📷 28.02.2026

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

Trig Lane Stairs in the City of London, photographed by my father in 1949, from my post on the historic stairs and Thames Foreshore Erosion at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/t...

"Every miracle came at a cost - a river poisoned, a people enslaved, a species or language expunged. It was a monster that devoured everything in its path, including its children. Then it gorged on the future, which is to say its children's children. Unwittingly at first. Then by design" #Climate

Refugee Stories, a film produced by our Refugee Economies Programme, will have its premiere on 26 March in Leuven (Belgium), as part of the Docville Festival. Watch the trailer and buy tickets:

I have personally seen the applications of many Afghani students to our gender studies programme: people who have started grassroots LGBT orgs; who have fought for women's education; who want to come to the UK to study to make their country & the world better... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Religious zealots always cherry-pick. I mean, just once, couldn't they notice that Satan in The Book of Revelation is typically characterised as an orange Beast who loves gold?

When I get a message or see a post on here from someone whom I have been ‘social media friends’ with for years and years, from back in the beginning of the other place, I love it. I’m grateful for these constants in my life, even though we have never met.

Neighborhood Nights #oilpainting #art

9% is a dismal success rate.

Cathedral of St Nicholas, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear “Pelican in its piety”, with devil/dragon like creatures. Choir stalls & misericords by cathedral architect R J Johnson & carved by Ralph Hadley -1882. #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

Good morning. For the alt of today’s #BirdOfTheDay #NestBuilders I’m going with this Stonechat who was building a three room extension to the nest, all with sea views. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Sleeping Cat, n.d. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (French (born in Switzerland), 1859–1923) softground etching, aquatint, and drypoint 11.9 x 23.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt ##catlover #caturday

Surely it takes longer that 3 months to see the effects of a policy like this? Hard not to think that the media is manufacturing consent for a u-16 social media ban at this point.

That’s over a million people. Lebanon has 5-6 million people in total. We’re one of the smallest countries in the world, and Israel is rendering Lebanon’s agricultural areas uninhabitable by ethnically cleansing its people, spraying its land with herbicides and obliterating everything else.

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Quite bold for a yard fence in Lancashire

I hate all this so much because I genuinely like reading and writing lit reviews. The problem is that it’s an undervalued academic genre, that’s why they try to focus so much on it.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

The scandal of women handcuffed while in labour: ‘I was so shocked when the restraints weren’t removed’

It's so galling that universities are collections of scholars yet university administrations rarely consult their own faculty about anything they could farm out to McKinsey

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

I found multiple types of moss yesterday in the woods, if you’re interested

A pavement poppy.

“I think you meant” no I did not. I know how to turn my thoughts into sentences