Plenty of grifters on the left as well as everywhere else

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Today in ‘random shit I just learned’:

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This is simultaneously brilliant and adorable and also I am shrivelling up into a withered husk

Today I learned that apparently kids in school are being given the assignment "go home and ask your parents what their favourite meme is and write a report about it"

1/4 We are deeply concerned by the reported use of force within detention centres against people seeking asylum who peacefully protested the UK–France deal last week. We question the necessity of using force against individuals engaging in peaceful protest within the centres.

One small but notable sign of the rightward shift in UK politics in recent years is the use of “illegal migrants” for asylum seekers who arrive unofficially. It’s a dehumanising term which was popularised by the hard right and is now - as here - used repeatedly in Home Office press releases.

Good question, little billboard

Delicious to me

what could these cost, ten dollars?

Finally, a flag worth fighting for.

stop WRIGGLING, I am TRYING TO CHANGE YOUR NAPPY, this happens LITERALLY EVERY DAY

Link to pdf of my paper on Ea-Nasir aka the ur-meme, free to download and share: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

That’s a great kit design let’s be honest

Headline: more people getting medication they probably need

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

We’ve all met one! (A family friend was affectionately known as Snot Monster when little)

hey i skimmed your post and saw some words i recognize. anyway here's my opinion on what i imagine you said

We’ve found the one time when the ‘More of a comment than a question’ guy isn’t the worst person in the room.

My favourite Prue Leith moment was when, at a press launch for C4 taking Bake Off and after being asked about the adverts, Leith just said you could fastforward them. Channel 4 bosses had head in their hands. Oh, memories.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

My strong work ethic brings all the boys to the yard

Quite interesting peeking at X through work account. Many users disappointed at corporate sector-related accounts leaving the platform, agreeing w each other that ‘we need to fight back/engage’. Not sure that’ll be successful & misses concerns re: Grok - goes to show we really do see different news

"Meanwhile, Princess Anne went for a ride in Kirkbride, Queen Camilla went shopping in Wapping, Prince Edward dropped a clanger in Bangor, and the young ladies of Buckingham asked Prince Andrew if he'd mind staying at home. Now it's goodnight from me ... ... and it's goodnight from him."

Wow. That's very insightful. It *is* a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of something—a wife. If you'd like, I could help you draft a "Wife Marriage Acquisition Plan" or a "Good Fortune Business Plan."

My eldest had a slight language delay, and an immense love of Pingu, and at one point he invented a language that sounded a LOT like what happens in the show. To the delight of the speech and language therapist he was working with. (She once said “you can hear the verbs! just from his tone!”)

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

(2016) (Portal opens) Me: mark carney, governer of the Bank of England, what are you doing Carney: America’s haunted Me: what Mark carney: (grabbing a gun and jumping back through the portal) America’s haunted

There should be a rule that if you are a Known Sports Poster you can say things like “holy fucking shit” with zero context but if you are primarily a Known Politics Poster that gets you like a two day ban

This is really not much less than some authors would get from someone buying their book on a discount from The Evil Bookshop. Never feel bad about getting that book from the library! We want you to do it! Most of use use/have used a library a lot! We still get paid!

In our new episode, out now, artist Ben Edge shares his fascination with the traditions of the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/379be9 With The Ffern Folk Guild.

you'd feel once you, as a courier firm, get a reputation for couriers who throw parcels in the bin and mark them as delivered, your success as a courier firm would be diminished

sort of insane that there's a courier firm well known for working its staff so hard that they toss parcels in the bin and mark them as delivered

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

NOOT NOOT

This is correct both factually and morally - when are we going to end this hideous charade

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood

I hope she liked it

OMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.

Happy birthday to Dolly Parton, a great, versatile musician, a hugely talented writer, and a phenomenal force for good in the world.

I think it would be quite nice for me to be able to wake up in the morning and think about my plans for the day, and more broadly about my own little life, instead of immediately having to ponder the overnight actions of The Guy Over There

And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2