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 federal government is making open threats of genocidal violence now from its social media platforms. This is a literal turner diary or siege level Neo Nazi call to action and is an attempt to foment violence against anyone who is not white, male and Christian.

Your Party favouring hard-right press at their conference shows they’ve learned nothing...

Unless we're actually going to make it a bank holiday here, I don't want to hear UK firms wittering about 'black Friday' like it's something we do.

Palestine Action judge pulled as fears of stitch-up grow...

Starmer's government redefines "terrorism" to include for the first time civil disobedience and protest. Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters). In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.

The people powerful enough to make heads roll at the BBC are also telling us the BBC is anti-Israel. It isn't. It's vigorously anti-Palestinian, as film-maker Richard Sanders explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROB...

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

PITCH: I should be able to buy the exact same pair of sneakers every time my old ones wear out for the rest of my natural life.

The main question when watching the #Ashes down under on a Friday night - do you go to bed at lunch, or tea?

this meeting could have been a blessed silence

1. Good riddance. 2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...

Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.

BREAKING: Former Reform Wales leader Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10 years for taking bribes from Russia because everyone knows our politicians are only allowed to take bribes from Israel x

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

When you're right, you're right.

Watching "Mr Burton" on iPlayer. Took me wayyy too long to clock who it's actually about...!

Private Equity Curse. PE firms taking millions in profits from care sector each yr, over a third are in tax havens £256m profit in three England regions, £45m in dividends, £33.6m paid in interest mostly to affiliates in tax havens. Less spent on care. Yet govts handing NHS to PE.

📊 NEW | As Labour announces fresh crackdown on refugees, their approval falls to an all-time low. ✅ Satisfied – 11% (-1) ❌ Dissatisfied – 82% (-) Via @IpsosUK, 30 Oct - 5 Nov (+/- vs 11-17 Sep)

If Yaxley-Lennon was a policy advisor for Labour, how would we know?

Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet

HUNDREDS of charities and voluntary organisations have warned the UK Government that they will not comply with plans to force asylum seekers to complete voluntary work ...

"There are many many more of us than you!" A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again. We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

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I've signed this cross party letter with many other politicians and leaders across civil society. The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer. The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼 @cnduk.bsky.social

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

New report: The far Right in Britain has become an industry, with its influencers increasingly earning big money. "A cottage industry of digital vigilantes and migrant hunters now acts as viral content creators" and supposed "citizen journalists" irr.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The Telegraph sides with Trump against the BBC and, so, the country. Private Eye sums up its feeble-minded, fawning betrayal beautifully.

another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable

Millionaires who want to see a wealth tax implemented by Rachel Reeves have staged a demonstration in Edinburgh city centre to put pressure on the Chancellor ahead of this month’s Budget

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Lebanese media reports fresh Israeli air strikes in south despite ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanese-media-reports-fresh-israeli-air-strikes-south-despite-ceasefire

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

My party approach these days - leave when it's at its peak, and go home with a buzz.

London again for party attempt 2. Why do football fans always sing about earwigs?

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Even I thought this was one of mine!

Which one is more English?

Ever get that feeling sometimes, when you're being driven in a car or a train, when you suddenly become kind of 'viscerally' aware of how fast you're going and the body goes into a kind of panic for a few seconds? Is that a thing, or just me?

Save money on expensive fireworks simply by getting someone to slap you repeatedly on the back of the head with a ruler.

This transphobic corporate charisma-vacuum thinks we're all fucking stupid. He would have been cheerleading for Cuomo, who does he think he's kidding!?

huh it doesn't seem like it's necessary to run away from supporting marginalized people in order to win at all, it almost seems like it helps you win the support of a polity that hates our supremacist government we might just have to beat bigots without seeking the approval of bigots

trying to channel my late mother’s grace and not speak ill of the dead but if you want to know how we got to where we are in this country that line goes straight through dick cheney

Used a credit card to tap between Euston & Tott Court Rd on Saturday - both ways - and the only charge on the card from "TfL Travel Charge" is for 10p! Surely some mistake?

I came all the way into London for a 50th birthday party and I'm a week early...

I sometimes wonder if social media is just a means for early identification of those of us that will need to be rounded up into camps when the fascists get final control of everything.