Jeez. It’s worse than I thought.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Five degrees and a chilly, misty, mackerel-sky #sunrise over Charnwood Water this morning on the way to London from #Loughborough 🍂❄️

"One name in particular that UC Berkeley handed over to the Trump administration stands out: Judith Butler, the eminent queer theorist, literary theorist and philosopher, and one of the most famous public intellectuals in the United States today." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An absolutely stunning start of Friday here in Ely. Made me think of a quote from: ”Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience,” Ely, Cambridgeshire

Fact for the day: paracetamol does not cause autism

The River Cam should flow with pure chalk spring water. Instead, it runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus, and it's killing life in the river. Read the full story for this week's #BigRiverWatch ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Imagine paying the slightest bit of attention to this drivel

By Eliza @elizaclove “It’s not Covid” = someone who hasn’t taken a Covid test. Source: x.com/elizaclove/s...

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

In full: Statement announcing UK's recognition of Palestinian state https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewnn8qe7wro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Australia recognises the State of Palestine.

A beautiful #autumn morning run along the River Dee in #Chester 🍂

Pre-dawn skies, Sunday, 21 September, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

"First they came for the journalists. We don't know what happened after that." #freespeech

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

Go Fash, lose cash

Just found out H1B is the visa for academic jobs. As someone trying to recruit (come be my colleague! links below!) to a UK university this is good. As placement director for the LSE philosophy grad students this is very bad. The Trump man giveth, the Trump man taketh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone: Healthcare Economy Prices There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally: Immigration

this exists it is called thinking

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

Lib Dems get 3 days a year in the media, while their conference is on, then normal service is resumed - back to Tice, Farage & Reform for the remaining 362 days. "How do Britons see the Lib Dems, ahead of their 2025 party conference?" yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

…as the answer, but that quibble aside it is utterly wonderful. Worth your time for the narrative voice alone - perceptive and very very witty. I must read more of her work. Not surprised she’s a cousin of Katherine Mansfield. Shades of Woolf and Dorothy Edwards too (though E Von A was first).

Thank goodness other countries still have employed comedians. This was BRILLIANT 😂🤣😂 Also: F*ck you, Disney.

“…research by the London School of Economics found that Google’s Gemma model, which is used by more than half the local authorities in the UK to support social workers, downplayed women’s physical and mental issues in comparison with men’s when used to generate and summarise case notes.”

Physical media was good and made buying presents a lot easier

I believe it'd be about millennials forgetting about gen X.

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

So tiring. I had a chance to talk face to face with ppl in power positions who by default thought my gender & critical thought imply I know nothing about AI. Within 10 min they realise they know nothing about AI. Why do women need to always do massive meta-labour to even get an ounce of respect

Autocorrect: let me change the valid word you typed into something else. You’re welcome! Also autocorrect: I have no idea what “ptoblem” was supposed to be. Sorry!

Up early to take a train into the forest to pick mushrooms. I almost picked this guy up by mistake in a patch of traktkantarell 🤣🤣🐸. #forest #nature #toads #wild #Norway

Shades of slash and burn DOGE policies which cost money rather than saved it. 'Fail to plan = plan to fail' is the irritatingly true mantra that springs to mind. Meanwhile any useful work ICBs should be doing is overshadowed as no one knows whether they'll have a job come January.

Disney now stands at a crossroads: terminate Kimmel’s contract and become pavement for the road to a brave new Trumpian world; or stand for the First Amendment and take the onslaught.There’s not much at stake, just free speech, the oxygen that sustains life in this town. deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

TBF they need much more help than just not using AI, but indeed they are its most vociferous supporters and for good reason: men under patriarchy are used to outsourcing (especially to women) their cognitive labour

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Trump to a female reporter who tries to ask him about his plans for Memphis: "Quiet. You're really obnoxious ... I'm not gonna talk to you until I call on you."

The tech scene in Vancouver BC is about to boom

It's #WorldChildlessWeek Here is a really useful article that discusses this "quieter experience that tends to go unnoticed" and what organisations may consider. #WorldChildlessWeek2025 #Infertility The Invisible Experience: Childlessness in the Workplace www.linkedin.com/pulse/invisi...

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Excited to be the research collaborator on the fabulous Iconic Fatigue, led by Polite Rebellion! Running at Sunny Bank Mills (11 Oct–24 Dec), it uses bold print design to reclaim space for people with chronic illness. Thoughtful, creative, and resonant ✨ www.politerebellion.co.uk/currentproje...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944: