The Sylvester McCoy era was the peak

I doubt anyone needs to mobilise people to oppose Labour over Gaza; those who have moved on this have had two years to cement their decision, and recently cabinet ministers chose to insult this group in the most extreme, explicit and prominent ways. They've done quite enough mobilising themselves.

Or budget cuts have affected aliens' ability to explore the final frontier too. The Great Filter but neoliberal.

My officemate remembered my vivaversary (surely not because I've been talking about it a lot this week???)

Doing a lecture on gender in the cultural industries today and I was just struck by the idea that Alan Shearer may well be the best paid BBC presenter now on the next annual pay report.

Very well balanced headline here

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

doing the theory module next term and have no idea how to get things into 11 weeks.

D'Angelo now too? Wtf.

Labour's employer NI contribution changes were bad enough that they've got me, a communist, advocating for relieving the tax burden on businesses. Immigration changes are another self own for no gain.

Where's the celebrity backing for all the trips Wick have had to make down south? This is just central belt centric thinking as per usual.

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

Can't believe someone a) had the data to write this paper b) wrote this paper www.nber.org/papers/w3434...

1984 is the most overrated books of all time and one of the least helpful books for understanding authoritarianism. In fact, I would go so far as saying it has had a small role in making centrists lose their minds this last decade.

The thing that fucks me off about this is the 12,000 job losses that have been announced in the sector. This openness about not doing your actual job is a spit in the face to those who now can't.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the pwomise of the gweat pwagawism machine

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

IT CANT READ IT CANT READ THE PAPERS ITS NOT SENTIENT ITS NOT INTELLIGENT AM I IN HELL, IS THIS SOME CIRCLE OF HELL WHAT IS HAPPENING

did an online OU tutorial. of course there's that male student doing an English course that says "as a writer, Thomas Hardy makes me pull my hair out"

Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind. Not just a favourite cover but top 5 favourite song of all time.

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

one day I'll have a cool book idea

oh now I'm going to have to go back and relisten

Not often you get a big national academic conference change to a bigger venue in another city (and country) after closing its CfP but before the acceptances are out.

"maybe using management books as training data made ChatGPT sound like it does" I mused new-spirit-of-capitalistically in the lecture today after quoting Peters and Waterman

A reminder.

Your Party is just the Independent Group for Change ... of the left. Entirely DOA from the spats and splits. Just bin it and support the Green Party's left push.

So, this greenwashing event for the fossil fuel industry took place. First line - "Energy companies have injected green hydrogen into Britain’s gas grid and used the low-carbon gas to generate electricity" Hydrogen content? 2%

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Alas

6 points in 2 games. Now change the manager #Scotland

H from Steps is a big fan of Highlander.

It's been a right shock this one. The one thing I miss about being able to watch Woody Allen films would be her performances.

I think that suits most people Stevie

Labour hate their voters. They're going to be absolutely rinsed by the Greens in the University towns and cities.

So great.

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

While Venezuelans are getting extra judicially killed by Trump... Peace prize winner says:

Should have been Woody Allen.

OH FUCK NO

Really interesting thread here

Just.. thank fuck for Zack.

I note the paperback is available online at an unusually reasonable price for an academic book, thanks to the @sunypress.bsky.social approach to marketing and pricing its books!

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*. If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

According to the BBC here, I might be able to beat Kipyegon at something. Wonder what time second place was?

This is a total banger but it's quite amazing that there's live versions without obvious autotune (sure, it's played lower here) I definitely have Stockholm Syndrome