🇬🇧😸🇬🇧😸🇬🇧😸🇬🇧😸🇬🇧 Sent complaint to NHS England re the illegal use of their logo by Reform UK in their Gorton & Denton by-election material! Just got a reply. Quite pleased.

And even if they’ve committed crimes, you’re supposed to give them a trial first, before you lock them up.

If your study is framed as asking whether "AI" does X as well as humans do, it's fundamentally misguided and I'd argue not scientifically sound. A short 🧵>>

Oh ffs, just do something else. Do ANYTHING else valuable. Work in a shop. Run a library. Become a personal trainer. Make pottery. Just anything else.

I'm so tired of politics being dominated by stupid people. I don't use that word lightly either - it's not shorthand for the poorly educated, quite the reverse. Most of those in politics have had *every* privilege and they're still mediocre. Imagine if all that wealth went to the needy?

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

I'm definitely getting old. I've ordered a ladder from Argos - it's arriving tomorrow - and I'm excited to be sorting out the loft once it arrives!

Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media. * Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...

Do you know what else has been proven to improve kids grades/attainment at school? Plenty of food, secure roof over kids heads, financial security at home. Invest in that motherfuckers. www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

Working from home all week as it's Reading Week. I'm also trying to squeeze in a bit of time off here and there. Some more sleep would be good. #AcademicSky

I read Martha Wells's first Murderbot book - All Systems Red, over the weekend. I've started Artificial Condition this evening and it's very funny. And it all counts as Research as I'm writing a paper on robots in popular culture. #AcademicSky

But it's because of them that we are here. Grandma was so proud that I earned my PhD; such a thing was beyond the reality of her childhood in 1930s & 1940s Florida. I can only imagine her elders' reaction to my life. Our children's children can live even better lives than we do *if we do the work.*

In bed listening to an owl hooting away like it's Halloween 😀

Successive UK governments chased out tens of thousands of care workers through Brexit and the subsequent hostile environment. The current admin seems to have noticed there's an issue, but thinks a few adverts will fix it. There are currently 111,000 care vacancies.

The Venn Diagram between racists and transphobes is a circle. The actions of the far right against migrants and how likes of many "gender critical activists" act towards trans and non-binary individuals are one and the same. It was inevitable it would escalate. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/06/t...

Have you considered making bad Art? It's literally better than making nothing and crying about it. No AI needed. There's all kinds of mediums. If you don't click with any of them make a new one up cuz that also is Art.

There's a setting that will remind you to add alt text if you attach an image! It's settings > accessibility > require alt text before posting an image. Have heard from a few people that a recent app update switched off this setting for them when they'd previously enabled it, so worth checking!

To be fair, that's a nice looking John Deere there. It's not a combine though. (I used to write for the Farmers' Weekly!) #totp

Time to get back in the bath with the toaster #totp

YEAH THEY DO #totp

He's oily, but Let's Stick Together is still a proper banger #totp

We really needed punk. #totp

Okay, but it's no Vienna, is it? #totp

Now these fellas are cool, and better dancing that Legs & Co. #totp

"I don't care. I'm going as Bowie." #totp

She’d better get off that stage quickly, or Bluto will carry her off. #TOTP

Now this is music ❤️ #totp

Incredibly talented singers who have been completely screwed over by the makeup and costume department #totp

Impressive that he managed to do this song and write all those Peter Pan stories #TotP

#totp This, ladies and gentlemen, is why everyone looked old in the seventies. It was the strain of seeing such utter arse water week after week. This wannabe social worker looks like a serial killer.

Oh dear. It's toaster time. I'm off to run the bath #totp

"Lads, we'll all wear white jackets, it'll be very cool." "I'm not wearing a shirt then. And I'm wearing stripey tights." #totp

Dejected Mick Jagger is still my favourite Mick Jagger #TOTP

#totp Christ what is it with the tight pants. Pass the eye bleach.

Not a Stones fan, but this is a beautiful song, and I love that they're wearing makeup. #totp

We’ve got The Osmonds at home #TOTP

And to think they grew up to be Boyzone #totp

Thin Lizzy - always great #totp

It was difficult in the 70s because women could only wear tablecloths or nylon bedsheets #totp

Oh....no one needs to see that. #totp

There's definitely some interesting decisions in the costumes #totp

Without a doubt Marc Almond carries this song. #totp

He's an awful human, but Morrissey was a great performer #totp

"Racism is not a natural human trait, it is a moral disorder, a vulgar and senseless prejudice" Frederick Douglas

It's Friday, it's past 5pm, I've done my last class for the day and next week is READING WEEK!! No classes - catch up (for staff and students alike). I'll catch up with: sleep reading watching TV playing video games writing writing lectures And going the the WES ANDERSON EXHIBITION! #AcademicSky

*Makes plans to do some reading research for a paper I want to write* *Gets sidetracked by emails* This is my life now. #AcademicSky

I work for a university and we have had to do more with less, year on year, and every year I wonder when the system is going to hit its breaking point. The HE system of the UK used to be amazing, but the gradual bleeding of funding and talent is starting to cripple us

Should also point out that the £9k he was paying in 2012 has barely changed, so the resources unis have deliver an educational experience which is very different. Marketisation of HE has been a disaster for British universities.