This does the in with, well, everything else we know about him really

Also a link so @moderation.bsky.app can remove the "intolerance" label from this post ASAP please. It's wildly inappropriate. bsky.app/profile/thec...

The enemy is always aristocracy. It changes shape to fit whatever society we’re in, but the desire for it is endemic for certain types of people. You must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

Response from a male colleague of mine years ago when I related to him I felt I was going to fly under the radar for ADHD... "Sometimes you have to trust the professionals." That has rubbed me the wrong way ever since.

Wow, I just got an email from @brisunipress.bsky.social and it turns out mine is the second most-downloaded OA article they've published this year and the first from its journal 😯

Apparently I reposted this at the time So you get a quote post because it made me smile again

My friend Dr. Lizardo shared this one. It fits in nicely. 😂 youtu.be/RKrCAzIBZYw

I worked for the WI for 10 years, and trans inclusivity was absolutely culturally ingrained from trustees to members to staff. For an organisation that's inherently small c conservative, it was a surprise and joy to behold. They fought tooth and nail to avoid having to make that statement yesterday.

In trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with Britain and why it fell so completely to the dumbest, 4chan-esque transphobia, what I keep coming back to is that unlike in the US, the UK's political and media elite is much more concentrated. A contagion will spread more quickly among them.

It's always "we're overdiagnosing now" and never "we massively underdiagnosed before", isn't it?

Claudia Black hive, assemble! Have I ALSO done a viewing guide/feature on Farscape? I mean, have you met me?? www.ign.com/articles/201...

Tzeentch. For AI slop is forever changing and none of what you see can be trusted to be the truth. Ask an AI the same question 10 times and you may get ten different answers. Look at the pictures and count the fingers and limbs. Mutation abounds.

An extremely cool map

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I only own these electronically, I might want to be buying the new print editions These books are awesomesauce, US only reprints but they'll travel, seriously if you haven't read them give them a go (and buy some Xuya universe stuff as well because that's also great)

I haven't watched Commando for so long, completely forgot Bill Duke was in it, last thing I saw him in was Black Lightning, he was so creepy in that, brilliant actor

With Girlguides and the WI announcing that the new laws are forcing them to exclude trans girls and women, it seems like a good time for any cis women who haven't signed Not In Our Name yet to do so. Stand with our sisters. notinourname.org.uk

The 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree, growing on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. After the tree was criminally felled in 2023, the National Trust grew 49 saplings from its seeds, one for each foot of the tree’s original height.https://tinyurl.com/28da35cg #ShareGoodNewsToo

Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it

From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.

In Prachett's "Jingo", Lord Rust goes on about battles /w one of his officers politely correcting him telling him that at least one comes from a children story. Rust angrily responds w/ "Are you calling my nanny a liar?" That always comes to mind re: the Reclaimed/"Our Empire Was Glorious!" types.

It's a Netflix promo skit for both them having Sesame Street and the new Knives OUT youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?... Not bad at all www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

Oh my god.

The most confusing part

The fact the options were this or 'literally cease to exist and end Guiding in the UK' is fucking horrific. I hate it here. I grew up in Guides and it was a wonderful, inclusive organisation. The fact they can't continue that is breaking my heart.

"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

feeling very sexy in my new gnu/linux tshirt. i love linux

Yet.

All these years driving that motorway, never occured to me to look up why Gordano Services is called that, it's close to a nice (for Somerset) little village Maybe take a bit more time and detour to the pub next time (nice thread about Portishead-the-village)

Christmas Dinners Around The World. UK: Sage and onion turkey, sips mulled wine. Australia: Thymey kangaroo, downs port.

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

Your annual reminder that the first of December is not the first day of Christmas (and neither is the 13th!). The first day of Christmas is Christmas Day!

I once started a conference paper about the number of churches in the medieval City of London with a quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles: "forty-three churches in Sunnydale . . . seems a little obsessive" Willow: It’s the extra evil vibe from the Hellmouth. Makes some people pray harder"

*welsh accent* Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry This could be a case for

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

I hate to be that person from near(ish) Porlock, but THIS DOESN'T SCAN RIGHT! The syllable structure is all wrong! Our boy didn't spend all his time getting off his face on smack to have his metre done wrong like this! ;-) Best poem Hugo, that's kinda cool

I mean there's plenty the leader of the opposition could have used to attack the Chancellor's handling of the Budget and yet she chooses... the one thing that Reeves had absolutely nothing to do with. Mind-boggling

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

I'm in Sainsbury They're Rickrolling us

🆕 Academic slop reporter! I'm going to start collecting and compiling A.I. slop graphics that have appeared in academic journals, similar to my collection of academic hoaxes. If you stumble across any slop in a journal, tell me about it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Speaking as the former, tbh I think both can be true at once.

YES YES YES YES. This is a pet peeve of mine and the fastest way to make me stop reading/playing. Don't punish your readers for paying attention, or they'll stop doing that.

Holy shit, I missed this one, busy having fun in my first term as a Manchester undergrad It's so horribly horribly kitsch. The bad type of kitsch And John Virgo definitely knew that

My name is LUCA I live in the precambriaaaaaan...

This is a lovely thread, digging into the story and how it was actually staged

Tis the season... 🎄 (I do miss old twitter)

Just read that first line, then read it again, and imagine what’s to come.