Do you know what? It doesn’t matter what causes autism because it is not in fact a bad thing in itself and some of your posts to say X or Y doesn’t cause autism are pretty fucking ableist

Literally noone respects Chris Mason. Obviously anyone anti-Reform will be calling out his supine content towards them. But Farage also probably views him as a dweebish fanboy.

lying to and terrorizing pregnant people is bad. telling people that autism is some sort of terrifying curse and that autistic people should disappear is bad. everything about this is bad.

This is like when David Cameron smashed the 2016 referendum and Boris and Farage just went away

Commercial TV kicked off 70 years ago today. A "Tipping Point" for televisual delivery. As such, ARU students helped co-ordinate an online expo at the great Churchill Archives (many thanks, as per). Great stuff on the efficacy of adverts, class differences, and the birth of staples like Newsround.

“This policy is a fucking disgrace and will do harm to the people it affects, our economy, our services, and it’s morally reprehensible” is the correct response not “haha your numbers are wrong and it may not even be legal”

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

And if you want them to do something else entirely, the question you have to answer is where your staff are going to come from in the future. No one has answered this.

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

Personally I replicate the Twitter experience by sticking American History X on maximum volume whilst mumbling my own opinions into an empty cupboard, but apparently this is letting down the centre-left and not taking the argument to the masses or something.

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

A win for horseshoe theory…

this exists it is called thinking

Every time I look at this image I get annoyed for a different reason, it’s remarkable

Think once, think twice, think DO NOT PUT MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW INTO AI

Can’t wait for those ChatGPTed new business ideas!

Preach

This is bad advice on an individual level: most entrepreneurs fail, and it's better to get a good job in an existing business. On a social level, entrepreneurship matters, but it's determined by access to finance, things other entrepreneurs do, market size, not 'drive'.

Augh it just gets worse “Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’. I want people to go to university… to start businesses in our country.” This is incoherent.

This is government by high performance podcast. a) I'd rather the future safe and easily collectable PAYE tax receipts tbh, not to mention paying back their student loan b) the vast majority of 18 year olds thinking they have a killer business idea are completely delusional

There's the intrusive/insulting issue here, but it also emerges from completely muddled/siloed thinking. Those REF 4* publications you want necessitate leaving the office. That teaching that funds this place generally and your nonsense management post particularly necessitates leaving the office.

"It took me an hour and change to drill down my bio to be that good... I had to edit it, edit it, edit it down. I had to keep talking to it." What if the thing propping up the stock market is a bunch of affluent professionals who can't deal with their big feelings about staring at a blank page?

2027: Department of the university's approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Competitive advantage idea: kids pool where sitting watching is less hot than sitting in a greenhouse

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

“We are going to have to live here with each other” sounds good in a vacuum. But it reveals itself to be a remarkably naïve and/or disingenuous proposition as soon as we move from abstract notions of “our disagreements” to asking: What are we disagreeing over, exactly?

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Personally if I'd have been given a Windsor Castle visit at least three hours would have been spent in those archives. Why look a gift horse in the mouth

ABC censored Jimmy Kimmel in the right way. By Ezra Klein.

He kind of did this anyway but you just think how much bank Albert Speer would have made from the "we need to talk across the aisles and agree to disagree!" podcast circuit in the 2020s

Thanks for the olive branch, feels really sincere

All those goofy-ass hack comedians in the Rogansphere can go on and on about how "dangerous" and "edgy" they are and meanwhile the only ones actually doing their job correctly right now are these milquetoast late night hosts since they're the ones getting actually cancelled by the damn president

This is good but, err, nobody summon the ghost of Bader and ask him what his political views were

Weird it’s never the additional Saturday open days where unis adopt a hybrid approach using their university's approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

“using their university's approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.” So much blandly corporate, so much bollocks.

Conscious of the limitations, lecturer A proceeds to put in at least the same amount of work they would have had to invest to master this task without AI, just to make sure that AI is being used

We are at risk of losing a generation of researchers. It’s worse than the 1980s. I’d say: only do a PhD for its own sake. The work you do s as an ECR is itself important work. But this period of contractions is going to be incredibly hard for all career stages, & impossible for ECRs.

My PhD student Patrick Taylor blogs about his doctoral research on shell-shocked British veterans of WW1 for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social. His thesis is a comparative and overlapping account of such patterns in Britain and Australia bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/09/turn...

Great idea. Do things differently then. Rather than following the same consultant template

We need to add “or Mike Parry’s commemorative medal for pretend World War Two service” as an alternative payout here

Big #SEND debate in UK Parliament yesterday. Fab reporting & analysis as usual from SNJ. 90 MPs speak up for #children’srights. Huge audience. Helen Hayes MP, chair of Ed Select Committee, acknowledges “we do not routinely equip teachers to teach the children who are in front of them”. #inclusion

David Walliams really pads out those kids books with a lot of lists

this is a recurring phenomenon in the UK: older people who are somehow convinced that they personally lived through WW2.

I don't normally do book reviews on social media but I really enjoyed Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things? by @pierrenovellie.bsky.social. A personal, thoughtful, well-researched, and often hilarious perspective on autism. I learned a lot from it and you will too! #booksky

How many internal/external reviews are the prospective REF outputs at your place getting? I feel I need a corrective before I go fully postal at the latest internal tweak to our process. We are a team of 5 FTE so not swimming in outputs/a place where any extra admin here is borne by yours truly.

Discuss with reference to questions of intergenerational fairness and national memory in twenty-first century Britain