Doubtless famous last words, but Panama have looked better than Ghana. Save that last effort.

No VAR for that second Croatia goal? Did the officials need to take a pee?

Love the booing of that slow corner then a perfectly executed set piece goal.

Getting moved from our office. I sorely underestimated how many books I had there once I had filled eight boxes and three bags and hadn't got halfway through them.

Well, it looks like Bibi is tanking Trump's Iran capitulation. www.commondreams.org/news/iran-le...

Nasty wife beating fascist backs misogynist fascist. Newspapers treat it as a story.

I was in a record shop chatting to the boss about getting tickets for an obscure Dublin punk artist. He said "oh do you know this band?" Confidence max I said "yes", and thinking he meant an Aus band led by a big fella. He beamed and said she, poining to a small woman, is the lead singer. Awkward.

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

Watching the 2nd series in 5 years about the vile murder of Rachel Nichell. While I appreciate British police dramas about real events, usually very respectful of victims, I wonder at the lack of imagination of current series producers. Does this really tragic case need another retelling so soon?

And like that, all my colleagues on teaching contracts and I have had our research profiles erased. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Our research is no longer to be associated with our employer. Well, that's fine, I can always ask all the journals -- particularly the Q1s -- to remove affiliation.

Dan Neidle has amassed a reputation for skewering politicians on their numbers. But I think he has a wee bit too much faith in the brilliance of the titans of industry. A quick persual of the business pages of Private Eye should provide ample evidence that stupidity is the norm.

Perfect.

If ever there was a warning to the left, Elon Musk is it. He went psychotically fascist, up to and including giving Nazi salutes, after his kid turned trans. This broke his brain. His entire political career is built around destroying his own child.

D-Day 2026, when more hot takes on the war have ever been posted.

To follow this up, and I think it should be a scandal, I've asked for the accounting of the project and *all* the internal correspondence. I am genuinely outraged that a part of the British government, with input from serious scholars, did this. The OfS needs to be held to account.

Do the hacks of the Telegraph never tire of this culture war bullshit? And they should add the Road to Wigan Pier or Homage To Catalonia to the curriculum. Imagine the Torygraph tears if they added one of those! share.google/4VVPdgBicSVG...

Just to repost this as I think it is important that the state paid £450k to defend a prejudged, predetermined witch burning.

I have no idea if Platner is authentically working class. I do know that a Fellow at Yale is likely less equipped to judge even than I am.

Let's be entirely serious about this. You can hold whatever opinion you want on trans people. What you can't do, if you're a part of government, is launch a bullshit investigation with a predetermined outcome to fuck over supposed enemies. And that is exactly what the OfS did. And cost you £500k+.

The Office for Students won't tell us how much money they pissed away on their doomed investigation of Sussex @sussexucu.bsky.social. Apparently, they don't know. But they will reveal they spent half a million quid on lawyers. Taxpayer money @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Have we just discovered a new pornstar name generator? Given name = *chocolate brand* Surname = *insult*+*vegetation* Thus: Twirl Titsforest

Forget the content of the article - which is illiberal tosh - just focus on the name. Hershey Hackberry. Really? Surely not real. Why not Marsbar Twatfruit?

Im getting frustrated by the cowardly response of many HEIs and government to "AI" tools. Let's, as a point of argument imagine that ethical and sustainable AI products exist but that many are not. Surely, we can assess that on at least a rudimentary level thus we might say to students, these firms

Several points: 1. Obviously, the kid is entirely in the wrong. 2. What "investigation" needs to take place? We know what she said because the Telegraph reported on it. 3. Why are the daft opinions of students newsworthy? Aren't they supposed to be ignorant? share.google/LRFPbiU19teh...

Don't trust this fella, A-grade troll.

The Godfather of low-budget action movies. Unsurpassed. Possibly better than Die Hard.

The best John carpenter movie. Hands down

Miller makes a crude and nasty transphobic jab, Democrats call him an ugly fuck [true]. Republicans lose their minds while ignoring the first part. Is that a reasonable summary?

Just spent countless billions destroying civilians, girls’ schools, and irreplaceable cultural sites, then?

Serious question: at what point does gerrymandering work the wrong way? I saw this mentioned on some show I watched the other day. If you spread the partisan districts too thin, you end up liable to lose more than you gain. I guess it's a bit like not having enough butter on your toast.

@jonnybriggs.bsky.social - A new history book on #armouredwarfare An excellent PhD and now a book, which makes an important contribution to British military history.

Billions spent on confusing people susceptible to misinformation in an age of almost limitless unregulated online media + an established media either too timid or too ideological to challenge blatant untruths + bought politicians ready to peddle lies for campaign donations = mass delusion

Where is DOGE when you need it?

Young people don't count.

I'm on E3 of World War II with Tom Hanks and it is... meh, thus far. It repeats the exciting but terribly flawed counterfactual that without British victory in the Battle of Britain, an invasion was on the cards. It probably wasn't. It also plays up Halifax's suggested peace negotiations with Italy.

The slow motion house fire of £265bn sector continues. Government fiddles. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/two-fiv...

Obscene.

TIL the Swedish word for “speed” is “fart”.

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I think I've really pissed off my partner. I bought some Stinking Bishop, and even sealed in cling film, in a sealed tub, and in a tied plastic bag, the entire flat reeks everytime one of us opens the fridge. She hates pretty much any cheese that isn't mild cheddar. £15 well spent.

The Office for Students now have six days to reply to my FOI request asking how much taxpayer money they spent on the illegally conducted, premeditated Sussex investigation and subsequent failed legal defence of it. Who wants to bet that I will have to go to the ICO to get them to cough up?

So, it transpires that Reform's ca didate in Makerfield tried to cover up his old Twitter accounts because they were littered with disgraceful misogyny and racism. Will this get any serious coverage by the broadcasters or newspapers? Doubtful. x.com/i/status/205...

@americanfric.bsky.social horror films: Event Horizon. You should group watch it and film that as a reaction video. Huge on YouTube. Trust.

@americanfric.bsky.social I think you need to do a whole episode on "dick doctors".

@jonnelledge.bsky.social 16 point plan on making Doctor Who cheaper, please!

In one of my period looks at xitter, the far right are absolutely melting down over Andy Burnham. I think they know that they are in real trouble.

Not sure if this is the advice they really wanted to give...

This is fire, as are the replies.