happy easter xx

*taps mic* The nordic model sucks and it hurts sex workers. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

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‘Modernisation required’: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

storm dave

spelling bee doesn't accept antinomy

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

happy no-one-knows-the-difference-between-a-joke-and-a-lie day

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It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

could one of you Ireland Understanders explain this

if you're unhappy about the criticism you're receiving for being a harry potter adult (HPA), simply complain about it during your nightly teddybear's picnic and treat yourself to an extra rusk

facebook just reminded me i made this nostalgia meme two years ago

okay tbf here is a real cat i saw recently

If I’m being honest, while I absolutely don’t trust the politics of anyone who watches this damn Harry Potter show, my biggest objection to such a person is that they’re an emotionally stunted dullard complicit in the death of human culture at the hands of a vast torrent of nostalgia slop.

she's literally funneling the cash from all her various media ventures into a money gun and pointing it directly at whichever institution promises to hurt trans people the most. she's not even lying about it. she's just telling you that's what she's going to do if you give her more money

Worth pointing out to people like myself that this scheme is not for UK-based authors but for UK-based *publications*, which in Anglophone academia is a lot.

spelling bee doesn't accept matheme

Chuck Norris jokes were the first memes that people who weren't funny could join in on. A true harbinger.

ah

this is where all navel gazing about falling birth rates leads and you're deluding yourself if you think it's not fundamentally misogynistic

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

.....i think he actually has thought about a united ireland lol

"David Webb, editor-in-chief of Canada’s Explore magazine, would never leave anyone behind in the wilderness" is a great sentence

What we're seeing in the UK HE redundancies crisis is a generalisation of the conditions precarious or casualised academics have been working under for a rather long time.

This piece goes so hard:

every time i see this i think... you know what he is absolutely right. they should stop after an hour and if they don't get to an award then it doesn't happen

The hairy leg from The Secret Agent has arrived at the Oscars

spelling bee doesn't accept railcard

but he can draft a minute????

what is the worst best picture nominee? maybe it is hamnet

i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this

It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.

it's "leigh delamere services (westbound)" that really makes this. the chiles touch

easier to imagine the end of the world than it is a tv show about academia that isn't about cancel culture and/or professors sleeping with their students

put mr blobby on the banknotes you cowards

my friend's neighbours in lebanon have been displaced by bombing and are living on the streets in beirut. pls consider donating; they need money for medication for disabled children

Ireland-based academics and university workers, please sign this letter urging the Irish govt to maintain the 'triple lock' and Irish neutrality, and to promote the values enshrined in the UN Charter and our constitution at this time of escalating militarisation: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Most people have both oestrogen and testosterone in their bodies, which makes a nonsense of the “cross sex” bit. You’re just getting more of what you already have

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

found the perfect writing music

It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that ACAB includes Charlie Mingus.

don't love this trend of precarious academic jobs that are framed like they're doing someone a favour

but I guess according to CATS now it's rose byrne's oscar

get in loser we're tilting at windmills

what is male life expectancy in bridgerton's london

Hey, @micheal-martin.bsky.social, look, it's apparently this easy.

People are going to keep insisting that UK anti-trans politics is really composed of jilted lefty feminists even as its leaders are literally running as Tory candidates.

I am still, even now, blown away by how bad he is at this - and by this, I mean speaking in sentences, like a person