Heartbreaking when you do an online shop and they send you the green bananas

WHY YOU NEED A HUMAN TRANSLATOR 🚨 DeepL is able to correctly identify that Spongebob's French name is Bob l'éponge. What it can't do is tell you that Squidward's name, for some reason, is Carlo. Do you want your readers to think you're SOME KIND OF MORON who doesn't know about Carlo Tentacule?

Just sent an email to about 100 people only to immediately notice I'd included the words 'further details' twice in the same sentence. Nightmarish. Awful. Why do bad things happen to good people

ITS SO GOOD

Big entering middle age moment today as i'm absolutely buzzing to have got a dyson

43-YEAR-OLD CRAIG GORDON ♥️

Accidentally clicked laugh react on a very routine email from someone I don't really know. Why do bad things happen to good people

I'm not well informed on Venezuela tbh but can't get my head around how much of a total fucking rube anyone vaguely familiar with the history of US intervention in Latin America would need to be to think that yes, everything they've heard about Maduro is surely unambiguously accurate.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Oh no

Imagine needing to live in nine towns/cities, and three countries, only to realise 16 years after moving out that the most beautiful place you're ever likely to visit is your hometown 🤯

tonight isn’t the end—it’s a new year

Some of Brigitte Bardot's greatest hits: Convicted of incitement to racial hatred on six separate occasions. Referred to the population of La Réunion as 'savages'. Described Muslims in metropolitan France as 'invaders'. Argued against 'the mixing of genes' through interracial relationships.

we're at the stage of christmas when i'm planning on being the one to make everyone uncomfortable by sharing conspiracy theories (a debut outing for 'squidward is a real guy')

gettin really concerned about mr bean. he needs to stop acting like that

Merry Christmas everyone 👀

'Grandad is taking us to Home Bargains to get some last minute presents. Uncle Fraser, what's your favourite kind of chocolate?' My niece is a master of cunning

[Paul mccartney having a disappointing Christmas time] the moon is wrong 🙁

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

Pleased to close off the year with my review of Leyla Bouzid's Une histoire d'amour et de désir (2021) appearing in Imaginaries: a film that has the distinction of being among the few I know to largely be structured around a semester of comp lit seminars! Link below: h-france.net/imaginaries/...

It's objectively, verifiably incorrect to say that 'any other minority' would get an apology if they complained about the language used about them, and that's without even getting into how this ghoul casually equates Zionism with Judaism (something she'd rightly call others antisemitic for doing).

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Famously, the way to beat the far right is by giving them exactly what they want 100% of the time. Tiring to constantly repeat this, but 'appealing to the concerns of far-right voters' has been shown time and again to only mainstream the far right.

manchester but woke

Select express

A klan tartan, you might say

Wonder which part of this wrap they made first? HA HA HA

Another event hosted by one of our Exec members will happen at the University of Leeds (LG 16, Michael Sadler Building) on 10/12 at 3.30pm: @frasermcqueen.bsky.social (Membership Sec) will have a conversation with Nina Wardleworth about decolonisation, the far right and identity construction. 4/9

Hello and welcome to our Francophone Friday thread, where we come together to highlight research being conducted in or about the Francophone world! These threads are created with help of our members, so if you want to advertise events, publications, etc about Francophone research, do reach out! 1/9

Got a can of white monster in my bag but just feel like i canny really take it out at the conference

Back in the golden age of academic Twitter I used to say I'd never be a vanilla online academic who posted 'excited to be at a conference' every 6 months. I would live & die as a shitpost goblin. Look at me now: posting that I'm excited to be in London for this year's SFPS conference on Fanon at 100

Building muscle is mostly about diet. If you want to get big you have to eat other people at the gym

No matter how long I live in England, and how much I genuinely like the places I live, I'll never see Edinburgh on one of these boards and not feel like that's where I should be going

friends fear he's lookin at weird guys again

we must imagine squidward happy

"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

I like a Smint as much as the next man (maybe even more), but it's really upsetting to me that you can get them as the snack in a Tesco meal deal as it implies there are sociopaths out there eating a whole pack of Smints one by one after lunch.

OH MY FUCKING GOD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The thing to understand is that there is a particular contingent within Labour who assess their own performance not based on the support they get from the right (which will always be, basically, none) but on how much they repulse the left. So they turn into Reform, without actually getting votes.

My niece gave me a tung tung tung sahur toy

This reproduction of far-right policies and discourses, while at the same time claiming to embody 'openness, tolerance and generosity' is Labour's current approach in microcosm: legitimate the far right, make them your main opponent, then posture as the only barrier keeping them out of power.

Spending my research time filling in the document that explains how I've been spending my research time 👍👍👍

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made it to reading week lads

A socialist Muslim elected as mayor of New York - if only Dick Cheney had been there to see it 💔

I know I'm not the first or the most insightful to say this, but it's endlessly fascinating to me how reactionary centrists are incapable of seeing that the problem isn't the style or the delivery method but the (lack of) content.

I would easily win at a spelling bee, it's only three letters long ffs