@hbsj.bsky.social we are not alone

Anthropic warns that Charlie Brown could have hoes by Q3 of this year

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

Gender is a prison made out of wardens

TIL that Welsh 'rhech' is cognate with Czech 'prd' and English 'fart'. Every day's a school day

I'm six weeks away from my summer break, which can't come fast enough, but student energy and creativity will get me through

"won't someone think about the white people??" was absolutely on my 2026 bingo card btw

Old Cold War era joke: Cambridge people try to fuck up the UK by working for the Kremlin. Oxford people try to fuck up the UK by working in Westminster.

Be Cringe. Be Free.

Just been chosen as department teacher of the year by student vote, which is nice!

This is so well put about something so many in academia and leadership fail to get, @emmawilson.eurosky.social: > lack of curiosity can lead to colleagues being excluded, unfairly treated or discriminated against. Therefore, we need to be open and respectful to feedback when we get things wrong 💯

Marjane Satrapi and Lieke Marsman. Ach ach ach

A black person is 5 times more likely to be stopped by the police than a white person. The arrest rate for black people is double that of white people. The use of police force is 4 times higher for a black person, who is significantly more likely to die in custody. UK police are NOT anti-white.

How your email finds me

Wereldburgers is playing a string of 90s garage bangers and I feel a thousand years old

I want Ann Peebles. I want Candi Staton. I want Aretha. I want Patti. I want Reba. I want big, ballsy women singing big, overwrought stories. I want it now. I want it all the time.

important to remember, since the press will rarely remind you, that the UK supreme court is not supreme in the way the US one is. Parliament is sovereign and can overturn or legislate counter to court decisions, they just choose not to

🧱 happy Pride month 🧱 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱 and remember that us olds were the ones with the slogan -- not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you 😘 (not you, specifically, presumably) the queer fight against fascism has been long we have good tools joy is one-- but it's not a joy that forgets

This is what Clacton Pride is like. And SUCH a good time! My neighbour, A Friend of Nigel, tried to get it cancelled last year - one of his grievances was "waste of taxpayers' money". Erm, no, though? Go away for the day! Let us enjoy our drag queen Baby Shark, big sausages and top vibes!

Please, let’s *always* do the show right here in the barn!

Casual Friesophobia here but the last sentence takes me back to “Tha’s reight mardy gobsmacked thi coyl oyl, chuff me owd mank!” from The Thoughts of Betty Spital (Communist Pensioner and Radical Activist Granny) which was written by and for Sheffielders, so maybe this will go down ok in Ljouwert?

People you see cycling in #Groningen, an occasional series, episode 1: A man on an e-bike, drinking from a can of Red Bull in his left hand and fishing his phone out of his pocket with his right hand so he could read it and send a message

June 1st

as part of the BBC’s on-going commitment to representing a diversity of ideas, June will be Pride & Prejudice Month

Correction. Should read: The concert last night was given by a Bulgarian troupe.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

The human brain is a computer and I'm tired of pretending it's not. It is specifically the Dell XPS Gen 5, released in 2005.

Doppelstandards.

Marianne Ehrmann, unverkennbar.

Wenn die Wiener Festwochen wirklich die Aufgabe wahrnehmen würden, "ein Panorama unserer Zeit" abzubilden, dann gäbe es Veranstaltungen/ Programm zum Thema Femizide statt Tech Bros eine Bühne zu bieten.

a horse walks into a bar and says to the barman, "on a right angled triangle with sides x, y and z, if x and z are perpendicular which side is opposite the right angle?", and the barman says "y, the long face"

I dreamt that my mum and (then still alive) dad adopted a lively piglet called Chipperton. Dad was digging a mud trench for it in their garden, mum was in a rocking chair, knitting and trying not to get slurry on her skirt. They were all very happy. Not sure how to recreate but I'd love to have a go

Fifty Shades of Salmon Pink. (En dat was het weer...)

updating your committee on your dissertation progress

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

Pesticiden, insecticiden, gif. En maar doorgaan met die troep, want ‘anders gaan ondernemingen over de kop’. Ondertussen is 75% insecten verdwenen. Hoor je ‘s ochtends geen vogeltjes meer. Zit er gif in al ons eten. Sterven mensen aan de gevolgen van het gebruik van die zooi. Wanneer houdt het op?

Nice explainer on why DR Congo keeps seeing outbreaks But what’s missing is the colonial history and exploitation of this region and its legacies History matters!! share.google/zq22YI9LPj1Q...

I regret that leaving Monkey Cage was necessary, but I will never regret leaving people who considered siding with hatred was more important than siding with our many non binary and trans listeners - each day I see the further empowerment of hate , the more I realise there was no other option

Oh, and when HW signed the bill, they had to do it outside, because the wheelchair users he invited as publicity props couldn’t physically get into the White House.

I am here for all kinds of emeritus professor-generated content, but especially this.

If you put Trump’s two big financial scams together (J6 and the ballroom) you really do get the lyric from The Sweet song: 🎵 And the man at the back Said everyone attack And it turned into a Ballroom blitz 🎶

To mark Grace Jones’s 78th birthday, please enjoy her insisting that ‘Pull Up to the Bumper’ is simply a pleasant song about the joys of manoeuvring a long, well-waxed limousine into a very tight space, and ‘shame on you’ if you think otherwise! 🚘

A very big fuck you to anyone suggesting trans people Should ask for our own segregated spaces

So, if he's going to stick with a hardline and frankly cruel immigration policy and thinks we should stay out of the EU and wants to reform the election system but only after the next election, what, I ask, is the actual fucking point of it all?

De heksennacht is terug, vrouwen op de bres tegen straatintimidatie

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

read this and tell me again that long term memory is organized semantically

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

I took @wsebag.bsky.social to Brent to see whether London really is “broken.” We've got some bad news for anyone trying to make a living by telling people to hate their neighbours.

This fucking bubble cannot burst soon enough