WE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS BLOW

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Wow the new Damien Hirst installation is sick

Absolutely beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL piece on Robert Redford here by the one and only @christinalefou.bsky.social. I loved every line of this.

I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.

If this were the situation 15 years ago - when bursaries still existed, fees were lower etc - it would've been impossible for most of the friends I made at uni to be there at all. This includes my partner (now a successful software developer) who I guess I'd just never have met!

The Chase (1966) wasn't one of Redford's best-known (or best) films but it's certainly one in which he was very pretty

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

I know just the book for you

Since my IT department refuses to fix the issue of student's Office profiles defaulting to US time zones, I wonder how many times this year I will have to deal with students believing they have booked meetings with me at odd times at night and not thinking to question this.

'use chat gpt without cheating' is an oxymoron (emphasis on moron)

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Well I know how I'm going to be decompressing from teaching this semester

I am once again asking the scientists to stop using popular film titles as the fun before-the-colon bit in their publications.

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Gremlins got her

researchers are where the content comes from; it doesn't grow on the Wikipedia tree

Is anyone else at UoB being driven to insanity by the number of broken 404 pages on our intranet? I've encountered it so much lately - I'm at breaking point.

I'm putting this on my Intro to Film syllabus this year for no other reason than I just want to. Glad it seems to be having a moment. But it's the 50th anniversary this year and there don't seem to be any plans for a 4k release (or I'd even settle for a special ed Blu-ray) which is idiotic.

The way L*nehan talks about women as 'wonderful and vulnerable', and therefore he had a 'moral duty' to take up the anti-trans crusade, makes me want to vomit

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

I love this! It reminds me of Maurice Sendak’s best ever fan mail:

So hilariously despite Labour's kowtowing to racists, they've lost supporters to Reform anyway. But they've lost more to Green and other left/liberal parties. I'm choosing to be optimistic about this.

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement today at 2

And by a massive margin if the replies are correct. This is what can happen when a politician takes a firm stance against anti-immigrant rhetoric, and stands in solidarity with Palestine and the trans community 💪

Red Wine Supernova started getting pushed at me on Spotify around the time Love Lies Bleeding came out, and now the two things are inextricably linked in my head. "Fuck song", indeed.

“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

So he's a dork AND a racist sympathiser

Happy Labor Day 🙂

I know that Your Party is not meant to be the final name, but I can't take it seriously at all because this is what it makes me think of www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX1x...

Aside from its other merits, this includes a great analysis of what makes Mr Rogers (and Ms Rachel I guess, but I've never properly watched her) effective and beloved kids TV figures: they address children as equals and whole people, and this attitude is embedded in the televisual form.

This is so good

I am really worried about the overlap between “university students increasingly reliant on ChatGPT et al for assignments” and “university students suffering a generational mental health crisis and unable to access resources through a crumbling NHS” tbh!!!!

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

So nice that Alien: Earth has reunited Timothy Olyphant with Mr Ball Legs

I was at this show and when she first appeared I let out an involuntary squeal with my hands glued to the sides of my face, Macaulay Culkin-style

Watch it till the end. I love her so much.

I hate when the index of an academic book is only a list of titles of primary texts. As good as useless.

For non-US authors - you can just leave the state part of the form blank & it still seems to go through. The eligibility issue is whether your book is registered with US copyright, not your residency/citizenship

Rabbits can't vomit! (They don't have a gag reflex)

quite something that sally rooney vows to support palestine action with her money and suddenly she shouldn't have a career, while jk rowling vows to continue persecuting trans people with her immense wealth and gets a brand new hundreds of millions television adaptation of her naff wizard books

@lukekennard.bsky.social this immediately made me think of your hatred of poetry module www.instagram.com/reel/DNZon8x...

reminder: British (and Irish?) people may not be ignoring your DM, they might be unable to access it because of our new age-restriction laws.

Always fun when you see the 18 certificate in front of a horror film, knowing it's going to mess you up but not knowing HOW. Anyway this week I've seen Bring Her Back AND Weapons, no I'm NOT okay.