But Diogenes, where will you live now you’ve relinquished all your earthly goods?

Open source fae, huh? git clone [email protected]:Faerie/the-fae

They’re coining new ways to say vomit, because of boak.

And lo! did The Voice of Beyond visit upon Montclair admin, bestowing them with great strategy and great insight

Zygon as in the angry red Doctor Who thumb villains who shapeshift Zygon? Huge if true

“Sir Keir Starmer has taken the unusual decision to deliver his statement on party management while wearing a hot dog outfit, in what critics have called a desperate attempt to seem good at poasting”

It's a good job our entire body politic hasn't spent the past ten years scourging itself with increasing vigour over demographics! That sure would be embarrassing!

Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer promises to deliver patriotic national renewal by putting anyone who’s ever bought anything during Lidl’s Eastern European week on a ferry across the channel, then nuking that ferry.

The British government is perhaps best understood as a decades-long, multi-party experiment in finding new reasons to be ashamed of one’s nationality

Jesus saves 💾

Anyone making this kind of statement should be hounded out of office and out of society. Bring back ostracism.

Looks like Jackie Daytona, normal human bartender is selling up https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169393706

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

“But he’s a human rights lawyer!” Good. That way he can defend himself and his cronies at the tribunals.

Me, glancing at the headlines this morning

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Also The Times: “Top ten ways Sadiq Khan has made London a dystopian Shariah murderdrome, number five will SHOCK you”

False, it was obviously the Fourdrinier paper machine.

A curious thing: I have grown so used to working with earbuds in that I now find it hard to concentrate without them even if they are just sitting silently in my lugholes

hi, Very Serious Person expert here! this is not funny, VSPs only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

Gotta hand it to ‘em, replacing personal taxes with a levy on U-turns is a stroke of genius.

Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere. Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?

Is there much evidence that *any* of them are interested in their policy areas? Other than Ed Miliband, perhaps. (Rayner and Haigh both seemed on their briefs, but maybe that’s too gauche for Lab frontbench politics)

Casaubon is forty-six when Dorothea meets him.

Three hours of back-to-back masters teaching ✅ 4.5h counting yesterday’s Would someone drive me home and make me soup please?

A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michel Foucault, a young loner on a crusade, to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless. In a world of social control operating through discursive practices…

Almost forgot to wish everyone a happy There's a Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day. I hope you all remembered to leave a wee dram out for the circulatory system walking through the kitchen.

Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight? I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Britain should adopt Denmark-style policies (An eleven-fold increase to one Legoland per six million as opposed to the current figure of one Legoland per seventy million)

No you’re trying to figure out Fun and Interesting ways to teach approx. 200 years of book production and circulation, sliced three different ways, for three different seminars

Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem

Firmly in the 'ban the public sale of fireworks' camp over here

The first tenant has been announced at Oxford North.

It is, of course, impossible to carry something as big and heavy a pen in a bag or a pocket. Everybody knows that.

How could anyone forget the Decade of the Simultaneous Prime Ministers?

Dammit I forgot to do my Seasonal Spooky Name

Tired: Greater Oxford Wired: Oxfordshire unitary Inspired: Abingdominion

Ah, that’ll explain them constantly validating him and his policies. Genius idea from the brain trust

Pumpkin Spice Crohn'S Disease

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

For when your drip needs to be a bit heavier-duty than the LIDL trainers allow for

Today’s episode of Why Is Everything So Needlessly Difficult: light bulbs

Wouldn’t it be nice if the anxious gnawing at the pit of my stomach would abate?

A great disturbance in the Force, as if a million literature academics suddenly cried out in recognition

The entire Spock’s Brain but every time they say Spock’s Brain it gets faster

🎵 Robert Daaaaaaaarnton waiting in the sky He’d like to do book history But he thinks he’ll blow our mind 🎵

What’s it like inside your head?

This has been my TED talk.

This is how you blurb