I’m evolved enough to understand it’s shit and we don’t want it because it’s shit

New Reform councillors off to a great start by refusing to vote on anything because they haven't a clue what anything means, how anything works or what the fuck they are doing. Vote Reform, get lazy, incompetent, ignorant morons.

Number of universities in the QS Top 100 world ranking by country in 2026 USA = 27 UK = 17 Australia = 8 China = 5 South Korea = 5 A top five UK service sector export (c.£25bn) that we should probably support and champion more if we want to maintain an advantage.

20 May 1923 | A Polish Jew, Israel Gutman, was born in Warsaw. He fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Survivor of Majdanek, Auschwitz & Mauthausen. He was a Chief Historian & Academic Advisor of Yad Vashem and a deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. (d. 2013)

This isn’t about celebrating a decline in faith, it’s arguing for a politics and society based in the current reality. A growing Christian nationalist movement is seeking to impose beliefs on others, and we must work together to stop it. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Not sure why some people are so shocked over Lupita Nyong'o's casting in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. Christopher Nolan is known for his attention to detail, and since the source material describes Helen of Troy as the most beautiful woman in the world, he cast the most beautiful woman in the world.

He speaks for many of us. ifloz.substack.com/p/dear-usa-w...

It would be a real shame for this to sneak out unnoticed late on a Friday night so please be public spirited and spread the word. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

This is the end result of Shabana Mahmood’s nasty immigration policies… more votes for Reform and so, more racism scaring and dividing our communities. Not sure how Labour can justify this, politically or morally. It’s so far from what we’d all hoped. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

DEAR RESTAURANTS: Your servers are not volunteers. If you can't afford to pay them more than 2.13% of what you charge, you can't afford to run a business. Thank you!

😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧 Sorry BBC/ newsPapers/ GBeebies etc etc This is ‘the actual truth’.

Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Tice can't find it in him to condemn someone for saying that Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes.

An earlier me - privileged, white, wealthy - could not have imagined finding this stuff terrifying or understood why othered people - Black, Jewish, immigrants - did. But I listened, and I watched, and I learned. And they were right. I'm begging you to listen and watch and learn.

Nigel Farage IS a Security Risk

‘Island of Strangers’ wasn’t a problem with communications, because the policies that it was intended to communicate - on indefinite leave to remain, student visas etc - were just as nasty. Echoing Enoch Powell in words was matching echoing him in policies.

Your occasional gentle reminder that, on Bluesky, hitting Like on posts does not increase the number of people who'll see them. If you want to amplify a post here, you need to repost, not just Like, it. ps please repost this one!

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...

I see they've remade the 40 Year Old Virgin.

The words of Mandy Rice-Davies spring to mind.

"there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash" I'd say there's always the option of criminalising the holding of what is literally the crime currency, and which exists for little other practical reason than that

L - North Korea R - Miami

But it’s Democrats who need to tone down the rhetoric?!

I think Kemi Badenoch standing up in the House of Commons to lecture the Government about the importance of Prime Ministerial "integrity" and "honesty" was the moment my remaining interest in this scandal finally ran out

I had no idea AOL had been giving out free trial CDs for so long.

Joe Biden never had to go on tv to say he wasn’t a rapist pedophile.

#USpol #auspol

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

The University Malaise Even if they were not being steered unerringly onto the rocks, universities would in any case be in danger of sinking because they are unable to support the weight of bloated management.

Palantir are subject to the US CLOUD Act, meaning the US can demand any data regardless of whether it is stored abroad. Yes, the tangerine turd can get your record. Palantir won’t tell you that though

Voice of Victim "I asked a senior administrator what’s causing the University budget deficit 'Research & teaching,' he said, 'both lose money, not financially viable' I said, 'Funny, then, we weren't losing money in the past when central administration was half the size' "

Would you like to have to present your ID every time you want to go to the gym, or the swimming pool, or try on clothes at M&S? That's what Sex Matters are suggesting for *everyone*, in our new gender-policed world.

The new Nazi Barbie.

When Labour inevitably gets humiliated at the local elections they will have nobody to blame but themselves. They have massively alienated a lot of core voters by chasing Reform with ever more hostile policies against migrants and other marginalised groups.

The four things it takes to be really successful, and why the most important one isn't what you'd expect. Taken from his address to graduates while accepting an Honourary Doctor of Letters at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social earlier this year

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he cannot fully articulate, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected and closed the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Reminder that Congress can step up and stop this.

Photos coming back from #ArtemisII taken from the far side of the moon are a bit 👀👀

Remember that Nigel Farage is Donald Trump's biggest supporter. Remember that Nigel campaigned for Trump and even wants to mimic all his policies. This is the sort of insanity Reform want to bring to the United Kingdom.

Happy New Tax Year, UK pals! It's the medieval New Year's Day (25 March), shifted by 11 days in the 1752 calendar reform, then shifted one more day in 1800 because that would have been a leap year in the old calendar. But not in 1900, because nobody cared by then. I hope this makes sense to someone!

Is the Government still claiming the UK isn't involved in this war?

Home Office robotically repeating its line-to-take "We must be honest about the impact" - while steadfastly refusing to be remotely honest about the impact on individuals/families, social care, or the economy and public finances. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Louise Lear: "Storm Dave will bring strong winds on Sunday." Cue fart joke from my wife.