Thrilled to announce - delighted to share! - that I have completed my annual online data protection training. This is a significant milestone as I aim to become the most boring man ever to have lived and I would like to thank GDPR for making it possible. 364 sleeps until I get to do it again 💪 💫

A wee happy looking kid just ran past me in Costa, so I smiled at him only for his mum to say 'stop it, you're annoying the man'. Wtf no he isny. Leave me out of this

I’ve got no wish to divide and I give total solidarity with those affected there; but, as others have said, it is notable how much more attention the proposed cuts at Exeter are getting relative to those at some other institutions, including my own (where the numbers affected are, I believe, higher)

A stupid thing I do that I quite simply refuse to deal with is only own one suitcase. If I'm going somewhere for like 3 days I need to use either the 2-week-holiday case or just a backpack. This would be so easily solved by buying a second case, but I will probably never do that.

im going sleepyead mode. Im napmaxxing

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mad business model to only be selling two products but who am i to judge if it makes money

are you actually shitting me

SPOKE TOO SOON I JUST TRIED THIS AGAIN AND THEY STILL ASKED ME TO REPEAT IT. HOW DO I MAKE IT SIMPLER THAN BOB

A very good afternoon to all my fellow Sco-atians 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇭🇷

Deadline now extended to Friday 19th June - please consider submitting an abstract if your research touches on any of the areas covered!

Got back from a few days at a conference/other work-related commitments to what I can only describe as this extremely dubious pleasure

People are in my mentions arguing with each other about toilets and it's not even transphobic, which is actually really nice

what happened here

'Redemption through HIS BLOOD' is such an intensely normal thing to read when you look out of your hotel window in the morning

Getting the macho peas from Nando's because I want to eat my 5 a day while still feeling like a tough guy

Just told an English barista my name was Bob. Very good tactic I think

Had a great time last week as part of the 'dream team' panel (this was the official name I think) with @saraharens.bsky.social and @mbedecarre.bsky.social at the Men & Masculinities in Contemporary France conference in Bristol! I was explainining why micky houellebecq is a pie

Had a blast trying to convince everyone that Beigbeder is a (dark?) romance novelist and soaking up @saraharens.bsky.social & @frasermcqueen.bsky.social ’s brilliance

'My father was a pen taker'

'Be careful, Keir! They're calling for your sudden death!' 'Sudden death? They want me to take penalties?' 'Uhh, yes Keir'

Sorry to say this, but it was out of order for Lawrence Shankland to go after that pitch invader the way he did. He is supposed to be a role model and I for one think that a lengthy suspension is the only solution 🐀

The CfP for this year's PSA French Politics Specialist Group annual workshop is attached here! The workshop will be held in Leeds on Friday 11 Sept. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! If anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out either to me or to @salomeietter.bsky.social

never been happier to live in england btw

Got absolutely owned lads

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

People who aren't from Scotland, and want to understand Scottish football, need to understand that in a nation where 100k + of a population of 5M don't just support 2 teams, but *go to every home game*, match officials don't have to declare who they support.

Went to chop'd and everyone knew you

Hearing 'please take your belongings with you when you leave the train' and realising that now I come to think about it, that IS a better idea than leaving them for the next person

You might find this hard to believe buuuuut my train has been delayed

Keeping my head down on the Beeston bus because I'm scared what might happen if they realise i'm from Waspville

So i'm "cringe", am i? What if i do these sick dance moves? I suppose that's "cringe" too?

History has mocked the Trojans for being gentle, trusting souls who believed in their hearts that the big horse was a gift from their friends

More persecution of guys like this pls

IT'S SNOWING IN EDINBURGH I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE EASTER

All fun and games having high ceilings until you need to change the lightbulb. Short king problems 👑

Tried one of my old cardio workouts from my fighting days today. Got through it okay, was feeling pretty good about it, then gave myself a stitch by sneezing. Getting old is so cool I love it

Btw after leaving London at 6pm I made it to Leeds at 2am if anyone is keeping score

'Here's how to make AI sound like you!!' Thank you. I don't need this service because I already sound like me.

You won't believe this but I'm having trouble with English trains. Been stuck for over 2 hours in a place called Grantham (?)

Hearing lots of English people talking about 'Paddy's Day' this week. Struck me as odd at first, but what could be more English than stealing something from the Irish?

Another appalling example the French mainstream elite had given up on countering the resurgence of the far right (or really was never that concerned)... www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Coming back to Quentin Deranque, these are some of his tweets, uncovered by Mediapart, if anyone thought that when I called him a neo-fascist I was being some Woke Leftist Calling Everyone He Doesn't Like A Fascist. It is *unhinged* that this man was given a minute's silence in the National Assembly

Truly believe this is the funniest way the Edinburgh Evening News could have framed this particular story

It gives me no pleasure to say this, but a points deduction for both teams is the only appropriate solution I fear 👀

Circling back to this

Yesterday the main opposition party to Macron and the far right in France was classified as "extreme left" This is a further step in the demonisation of the left and the concurrent mainstreaming of the far right @frasermcqueen.bsky.social's piece is illuminating on this reacpol.net/antifascism-...

I wrote for Red Lines @reacpolrn.bsky.social about the killing of French neo-fascist Quentin Deranque & the demonisation of the left/mainstreaming of far-right politics. Grateful to all three editors, and to @aurelmondon.com for the invitation! Link below: reacpol.net/antifascism-...

🟥 Red Lines 🟥 'The reaction, from far right to centre left, to Deranque’s death has been nothing short of shameful, particularly at a time when the far right and fascism are increasingly powerful'. Read more on @frasermcqueen.bsky.social's analysis for Red Lines 👇 reacpol.net/antifascism-...

Getting this one in early but Mandelson didn't kill himself