New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

This passage nearly broke me.

Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.

Say what you like about the British rail network, it's unreliable, uncomfortable, inefficient, dirty and overcrowded, but we shouldn't forget that it is also increasingly expensive.

No words.

The Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health at the Université de Montréal is recruiting for a position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in Bioethics. Deadline: October 10, 2024 www.umontreal.ca/public/www/d...

"Hobbyist" is a truly breathtaking choice of phrase. It encapsulates a profound sense of contempt for the labour of academics in the UK, who already have to navigate an underfunded system dominated by precarity and overwork. "Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" springs to mind

I think we should have more names for someone with an overinflated sense of their own importance in English. These are my top five suggestions... 5. Poseidon of the paddling pool 4. Samurai of the butter knives 3. Hannibal of the lectern 2. Lord of the ring binder 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Flowchart

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s... Interesting....

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! #Abortioncare, #StructuralInjustice and #EpistemicInjustice www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI108/p...

Every time I am forced to interact with content produced by Advance HE, I am reminded of the accreditation I was required to undertake at the start of my career, the training for which made me want to walk away from academia on a weekly basis. Anyway, boxes gotta get ticked I suppose.

Hey, British civil society folks appalled by the far right falsely leveraging "women's safety" to further their racist aims. We told you this would happen when they used panic around trans women to create these structures, and you let them do it.

As a very serious professional philosopher, this seems like it could finally be the learning technology we need...

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

Anti-AI activists targeted "AI Portland’s Summer Soiree," writing anti-AI graffiti, throwing paint on cars, and leaving behind these flyers declaring '“Butlerian Jihad Against AI,” a reference to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy...depicting a war of humanity versus robots and computers."

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

It all comes down to control🙃

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

Beautiful story. And important to understand how this mad obsession with trans people hurts everyone. Thanks @caseyparks.bsky.social A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Amazing to see the PIF TICK mentioned in the same article as the one and only Olivia Colman! Hopefully this collaboration will help raise awareness of the amazing information and support produced by Epilepsy Action. www.film-news.co.uk/news/Undergr... #HealthInformation #PIFTick #Epilepsy

“Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum adhere to a “Palestine exception” when opposing genocide... organizations such as the ADL, use spurious accusations of antisemitism to silence or discredit those who dare to speak out.”

We are hiring Nanyang Assistant Professors. Successful candidates will be offered a tenure-track appointment, a reduced teaching load for the first few years, and a start-up grant of up to S$1 million. philjobs.org/job/show/29318

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SPORTS!

👇Continually surprised at the number of British people on this website and indeed in British politics who haven’t grasped this.

Worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Joys in commuting on Southern fail: intended train advertised as 15 minutes late, actually left five minutes earlier than that so I missed it. Next train supposedly 5 minutes after that is 23 minutes late. Outstanding.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.

happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.

Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London. "The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view." open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

“Corruption or incompetence, which is it?” Former Dundee Uni principal Iain Gillespie hauled over the coals for “nearly destroying the university.” @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." Please, tell me more about how AI is great... www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Congrats to every analytic philosopher that rallied behind her, you helped forge another right-wing pundit

Oof, a brutal exchange for the defense. The judge asks if they can point out a single grant that is used to "support unlawful discrimination," as the NIH alleges in its termination letters. The defense says it can't.

I worked in a hiking shop years ago, Timothy Dalton came in one day looking for a brand of shoes we didn't stock and I gave him directions to an alternative supplier. He was very nice as I recall.

Hundreds marched through Newcastle today to say no to compulsory redundancies. From every corner of the UK, people showed up to protect jobs and the future of education. Thank you for standing in solidarity ✊ @newcastleucu.bsky.social

I’m watching parliament’s women and equalities committee grill Baroness Falkner and the EHRC so you don’t have to, follow along with this thread for a summary of what’s said

Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion. Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

National rally in support of higher education, Newcastle.

My thoughts on the Musk Trump fight are.....Musk is responsible for 300,000 deaths, of which 200,000 are dead kids, & we should NEVER let anything distract us from holding him to account Thank you, Brooke Nichols, for tracking these deaths: www.impactcounter.com 1/2 www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

I bet if legendary got $0.10 for every use of the Let them Fight gif from Godzilla v Kong today they’d make more money than they did from the movie.