When Centrist and Left politicians preach and do Far Right policies they tell voters the Far Right is fundamentally correct, just they don’t like the personalities. Which makes the Far Right seem like they were always right and the Centrists and Left were always wrong. It is that simple folks.

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

I think a key problem with the whole Harry Potter thing is that some people, especially Americans, underestimate severely the degree to which Joanne K Rowling is an actual political actor.

Oh here's my list. All authors are trans. bsky.app/profile/benj...

There's only so many times we can keep saying 'the best way to help us is to pay us' before it becomes apparent that the vast majority of people, even those who consider themselves allies, are not actually interested in helping.

This is honestly so exhausting given the huge number of trans women I know who are reliant on trying to scratch out a living as an indie writer because they have been excluded from every other avenue of employment.

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

As a child I read a space book that said that the moon is a satellite. It had a picture of a hollow metal moon covered in little satellite dishes, manned by aliens. I understood that it was just a silly picture to help me to remember the attached fact. This chain of reposts reminds me of that...

This is a fairly long, but important read. The methodological sleight-of-hand being used to trick a science-illiterate population into believing that there is a scientific basis to the anti-trans agenda is nothing short of fraudulent.

I told you all you told me I was lying. Nigel Farage and Reform are going to come for Gay marriage and women’s abortion rights.

The labour market is absolutely not a market like any other, don't be ridiculous.

If you think this is fine because of Israel, unfollow me and never darken my door again

Nothing beats having to stand up on a train for 3 hours because the carriage is full and far too chaotic to even think about trying to do the provider's job and enforce your reserved seat. What's the point in reserved seating if you're going to sell more tickets than there are seats anyway?

I thought it was widely accepted that Oscar Wilde was bisexual? Taking a line of dialogue spoken by Lord Henry to Dorian Gray ('A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her') as genuine life advice is bonkers. Replying "of course Wilde felt that way, he was gay" feels worse.

I physically wince when I hear someone say "I was only joking!". There is no such thing as "only" joking. Jokes have power - a lot of power - and they should be deployed responsibly. As someone that used to adore edgy humour, this got me thinking.... 🧵

I *teach role-playing at a university* as do many of my colleagues. None of this is new; role-playing & simulation have deep ties to higher ed, pre-dating D&D. However, we teach it as a folk art that belongs to *everyone.* It activates collaborative creative impulses that are quite useful.

I've always had a bad feeling from a book whose cover has the author's name in a larger font than the book's title...

I would argue that constructing an artificial reality where queer people don't exist and don't have stories worth telling is "hundreds of millions of dollars" of therapy for straight cis people.

Scottish Opera offers hugely discounted tickets to people under the age of 26. In fact most of the theatres here do, usually for around £10. Which means you could see a whole live show for less than the cost of a ticket to one of Timothee Chalamet’s films. Just saying.

I know this isn't my best work (it's a draft.) and my supervisors know it isn't my best work (it's a draft.) and we all know it will get better (it's a draft.) Yet I still feel embarrassed and apologetic that I've just sent less than my best writing.

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally" A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical. You know feminism /s 🙄 archive.is/2026.03.05-1...

The problem with being reliant on internet-based software for referencing is when you find yourself writing on the bus to and from your part-time job and being unable to integrate new texts into the system. I might heed the advice of my colleagues and return to referencing manually in the future...

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Solid reminder that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend. Fuentes is a bona fide neonazi.

Folks, celebrities aren't being replaced with "clones", they're just aging. Humans change as they age. Is this seriously not common knowledge??

Since I've had a few people come into my mentions to tell me that I'm doing anarchism wrong because I believe people can have agency within systems, and because I got basically no sleep last night and I'm feeling rather hyper, here's a rant about how I understand systems as an anarchist.

If there's one thing I'm learning is that *everybody* is a huge nerd. The difference is in those who accept it and those who deny it - and where you are on this continuum is a choice between being your authentic, nerdy self or being a miserable, toxic, dysfunctional bully. Stop hiding. Be a nerd.

Wild thought for the timeline but if you don't like teaching and you're unwilling to give students what they deserve you shouldn't be a professor. If I didn't love teaching I absolutely would not in a million years be doing this job.

I’m a better scholar because of my teaching, and my teaching — and work with students — is what sustains me. I need break sometimes, and some forms are more taxing than others (and grading sucks) but still.

Less than 15 minutes after posting this I walked past a busker singing Westlife's You Raise Me Up. Really great voice, and a lovely song - but it just isn't what we want to be listening to on the high street. It's not entertaining for that audience.

All things aside, though, Goodwin's crashout might be funny, but it's also instructive about how Reform will react if they lose a general election and in that sense that is very bad.

Buskers: I need you to know that a lack of tips does not mean you are lacking in musical ability. It means you are not **entertaining** people. Stop singing slow ballads midday. Engage audiences, look friendly and approachable, and make sure that your tech (if you're using tech) is set up properly!

That moment when Farage not only goes for the Trumpesque 'stolen election' line, but with added islamophobia. Yes that moment before the ballot boxes have even be opened from the man who stood down loads of candidates in seats to help the Tories

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!

Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:

It is kind of funny just how quickly the Tories have collapsed, and how absolutely nobody is talking about it. Through most of my life the Tories have seemed like this invincible, implaccable wall against all progress. Now I can't even remember the last time I heard their leader say anything.

I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition to demand the government protects us all from the impacts of extreme weather and the #ClimateEmergency. Add your name too!

Keir Starmer sounded absolutely furious, almost spitting with rage, when talking about Green policy in PMQs today. In a way I've never heard him talk about Reform's open racial hatred. Hatred he himself stoked by calling immigrants "strangers".

The problem with the whole 'post a woman author you've read 5 books by' is how many women don't get a second book, let alone five. Anyway, carry on.

Can we stop referring to films that happen to be on Netflix as "Netflix films" unless they're actually made by Netflix? Especially in headlines.

Plenty have clocked how Nigel Farage talks to women journalists — pure condescension: “listen, love,” “go write your silly little story.” Know your place. No shock from a man who praises Andrew Tate. The real surprise? It’s only being called out now.

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Starmer FAFO’ed too close to the sun ☀️

i really need some writers to tone down the heterosexuality in their stories sometimes lol it's so distracting 😂

That awkward moment where you get most of the way to work before you realise the reason you're feeling overwhelmed is that you forgot to put your glasses on. That's how my day is going.

Never forget the many public figures who insisted that the Gaza Health Ministry's reported death tolls weren't trustworthy as Israel openly carried out the mass-murder of tens of thousands of people live. It turns out even they were understating the massacre. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I think a lot more people need to be aware of this.

I wish Andy was arrested because of all the child abuse but that was fine and dandy according to the cops - no charges have been made relating to that. He's in trouble for sharing state secrets for cash. That's what they care about. Please don't give our establishment more credit than they deserve.

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