"But as the emails reveal, these same men did not see women as intellectual equals." And the way AI is being developed and applied in billionaire-bro-dominated companies HARMS WOMEN AND CHILDREN and anyone who is already subject to discrimination. 3/3

Anyway at least the Commons now has someone actually qualified to lead the committee on repairing Westminster Palace.

Very much enjoying this random-Allister-Heath-headline-generator tool stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

"At the same time 35 disabled artists have informed Graeae they will also face cuts in tandem and suffer delays to funding of up to 15 months" - this is not about one person or one organisation - disabled people across the UK are under attack from Starmer's government.

The government is cutting Graea Directoe Jenny Sealey's Access to Work by 50% - not only a direct assault on her equal right to work, but what feels like a targeted attack on the capacity of a leading disabled organisation to speak truth to power and challenge and change culture. This is obscene.

I get so tired of the ubiquitous framing of part-time, fixed-term academic "jobs" as opportunities. For harried, overworked permanent staff, having an extra pair of hands for a few more hours for a few more months might fleetingly feel like a bonus, but the gig economy sucks for everyone.

Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.

What are we talking then? VAT? Licensing? A Sex and Sexuality Executive with enforcement, like Health and Safety regulations? (Although health and safety is woke, right? ) @quietriotpod.bsky.social I need to hear sleep-deprived @sturdyalex.bsky.social unfiltered on this topic

No regulation for landlords but a requiring a licence to fuck to quite the policy platform Reform is building

very important video please watch

This headline tho. sorry, what now? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm sitting in a Starbucks trying to write a conference paper on nuns in Cremona and how virtuosity manifests differently for women religious than for courtly women, and then "What A Fool Believes" comes on in the background, and *I can't help singing along.* Damn you, Doobies, and your 70s groove.

I think non-collegiate UKHE is particularly vulnerable to this kind of abuse - formative assessment is too time-consuming for the pile-em-high-n-teach-em-cheap ethos of UUK, so often hums modules are assessed on two essays of 2K words. Then, out of nothing, a 10K diss in the final year…

I don’t quite know what to do with this information

I really don’t know the answer to this question but it’s a ubiquitous gesture in 18th century, my guess something to do with string playing? But also the basis of how Bobby McFerrin sings two parts at the same time youtu.be/37DHXrFfwrE

Yaxley-Lennon REALLY needs to talk to some Saints fans 😂😂 #SFC

Think it’s time for billionaires to learn that their wealth being taxed is in fact the most moderate solution to society’s billionaire problem.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

“Pay me because the school didn’t defy the government and public health agencies to let me cause more death for the sake of my educational experience” is pretty bleak

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I thought it would be easy to find my "red line" as a federal worker working for a fascist regime. It's not. Change is happening little by little. We "still do good work". None of us wants to be alarmist or defeatist This interview of a professor living through the holocaust is worth a read👇 Night

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend! #medievalsky @trincolllibcam.bsky.social B.11.22, f. 142v

‘And behold, on the day after Ash Wednesday the King did send officers to take his brother in charge, and upon Holy Island a wondrous prodigy, a rock with the teeth of a man, etc.’

FWIW, Restore Britain will never be able to field a candidate for anything in Southampton.

Definitely "The Real End" by Rickie Lee Jones. youtu.be/Mu73suuXmjs?...

Note that Finland has produced terrific musicians because music education is part of the curriculum and free. A high percentage of Finns sing or play an instrument. Finland, a country with fewer than 6 million citizens, has three world;class orchestras & a ridiculous number of wonderful conductors.

when will the commentariat start listening to the humanities fml

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

Watch the film: "Running the government is like playing the recorder. It doesn't work if you suck." www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mO...

This is the BEST campaign I’ve seen, hands down, ever. As a primary-school-teacher- and recorder-player-adjacent ex-union-branch-president, I 100% endorse this message.

February 18, 2026

Can't. I got a one-way ticket to a madman situation.

Can't. I'm running up that hill.

Universities didn't create Covid, didn't choose lockdowns, and didn't set public health policy. By this logic every airline owes you damages for a hurricane. This is a masterclass in punishing institutions for surviving a crisis. This will accelerate the collapse of UK higher education #AcademicSky

FWIW, Restore Britain will never be able to field a candidate for anything in Southampton.

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

2026 basically

It's a good idea in Iceland and Ireland, can we please have some of that floating eastwards towards Great Britain? Support the arts and support artists - we are a valuable export and we are really good at what we do. @quietriotpod.bsky.social please can you do an episode on this?

Wednesday

What's with all the ducks?

It's not that I don't sympathize with people who attended lectures over Zoom, it's that I think it's orders of magnitude less urgent than the people who said goodbye to loved ones over Zoom. It is deeply frustrating that the former are able to seek redress while the latter are not.

Solo amor può terminar…. Corriam tutti a festeggiar Tag yourself, I’m the Contessa in the bobble hat youtu.be/KHgYgFlLoas?...

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Solo amor può terminar…. Corriam tutti a festeggiar Tag yourself, I’m the Contessa in the bobble hat youtu.be/KHgYgFlLoas?...

Thread by @nickharkaway.com - let’s see more folks with access to the tech bros make them accountable for their weird little edgelord fantasies

Mild hilarity here - best hold music I’ve heard for a while, thank you DIY Kitchens for giving me the proper thrill of a string of 6/4 bars in the middle of your noodly common time nonsense. That woke me up.

I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠