“We can assure you that the building is not on fire” 🤔 🔥

whaddya mean, no dark sarcasm in the classroom

delicate this morning

under phrases I didn't expect to see today: 'what is ontologically implied by the bath-tub?'

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A List of Complaints from 1926 🧵

I believe this is what is meant by Knightian uncertainty.

Thinking today of this one from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Students! Please don’t send me AI-generated requests for recommendations. It does you no favours at all.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Friday night dancing with the four-year-old to Golden

one of the fringe advantages of perimenopause is being so extremely awake at 4am that you may as well head in to London for astanga at half six, hell yeah

be more Dolly

running on fumes and Hi-NRG, the sheer innovation of it all

you’re no good for me I don’t need nobody don’t need no one that’s no good for me is very much the mood I need today

here we go, here we go, here we … go teaching innovation with knobs on / unexpected punctuation in the course title

Getting the four-year-old into the 909 classics this morning on the Greene ‘End of the Affair’ principle that, like a secret baptism, I hope it will ‘take’ in the end.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

tfw you get an email from Christopher Bollas, the actual Christopher Bollas. That's pretty special.

this cup of tea is saving my life

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

The 1930s Technocracy movement is one hell of a fully-automated rabbit hole to go down. I think I recognise the "we must embrace <thing> because it's happening anyway" mentality in a pamphlet published in 1939. (archive.org/details/Tech...)

well there goes one mode of my multimodal teaching approach down the swanny

Marking. One thing I hear _repeatedly_ is a reflective narrative around how a) there was a lot of 'social loafing' (individual team members not pulling their weight because others would get the work done) followed by b) 'I stepped up as a natural leader right before the deadline' and I'm like hmmm 🤔

attempting to punch my way of a hole, tiny little fists

They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

shocking research insight about the song Shake You Down by Gregory Abbott

Friday night chat about how immense a track Solid still is, the GOAT of yacht rock

haha big year for dystopia, it turns out. Thanks you two (and everyone who makes it possible) :) @xriskology.bsky.social @katewillett.bsky.social

Monthly reminder

my imaginary happy place is always inscrutably crossing Wentworth St in a long black coat

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

the happy occasion of finally working out how to get that one emoji that you just didn’t know the name for, which defied all your attempts to describe it I give you: 🫠

SpongeBob Big Guy Pants Ok is the new Person Man Woman Camera TV.

Now That's What I Call retro recombinant innovation

some of my students are outraged when I ask them why they've used some AI-generated image or a clip-art level Canva template and they seem genuinely surprised that I would even notice because they think I am eleventy-five* and have zero visual design aesthetic. *in fact, I am only eleventy-four

once a Catholic always a Catholic, I guess, however minimally (aka the Greene hypothesis)

My favorite piece of content today.

we’ve basically agreed a line where we explain that mummy and daddy buy the presents but Santa delivers them, kinda like DPD

curry of the BEAST

I think one of my students just staged whatever the gen z equivalent of a ‘u ok hon’ intervention on account of a thing I wrote on LinkedIn so

I take it all back. We've found a use case for AI. What a time to be alive. open.spotify.com/track/5a3AwQ...

wildly ambitious new sign dropped at Luton station

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

crazy IG em_clarkson

end of week mood m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ62...