@realDonaldTrump Because they are SOCIALIST yr best President is gonna sue the COMMIE BBC because they REFUSE to cast Trump in CALL THE MIDWIFE if the very bad BBC WONT LET TRUMP BE A MIDWIFE I will DECLARE WAR on London and Hemel Hempstead THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

A thing I'm doing.

@eleanormorton.bsky.social, just being brilliant. As ever.

Trump's farts 'growing more powerful by the day' says White House.

There's something really therapeutic in working through an editor's comments on something you've written. It's like doing a crossword when you already know the answers.

Edited changes on my Inside No 9 chapter to work on today. Which means I shall have to rewatch some episodes of Inside No 9. What. A. Hardship.

I must confirm that I do not, in fact, wish you were here.

Good.

1st November. Local sheep conduct light refraction experiments. Reasons for this as yet unclear.

This might be one of the best remakes I’ve ever heard.

Of course it is. And if you’re old enough to know the Pearl and Dean tune, you must sing it loudly when the adverts come on.

Oh actual coherent Doctor Who news! I'm sure fandom will- *opens door into screeching hell void* Yep! www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

One fan was quoted as saying "cancel it now" however later clarified that the quote had been taken out of context by a click bait article from his 27-hour YouTube rant "why I am no longer interested in Dr Who, don't forget to subscribe".

And Doctor Who, which did NOT die...

Measuring the #DoctorWho discourse acceleration rate

Live scenes as Dr Who fans start compiling their list of things to be disappointed about in 423 days' time.

New Tardis crew announced.

New journal launching in popular music studies/performance studies, and they're looking for contributors- www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-l...

And this is how to insult whole teams of creative artists, all at once.

Bastards.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

This is so full of hedging and avoidance that I had to read it several times. If a Labour government can’t say straightforwardly that it disagrees with the arbitrary deportation of people with the legal right to be here, then truly what is the point of it.

Original versus new. Those new FX shots on #DoctorWho Terror of the Zygons from the new Season 13 Blu-ray in full.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

Rich coming from you, mate. We give more thought to teaching in a week than you’ve given to higher education in four years.

I've never had the chance to use this gif before.

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Those are rookie numbers though. JD Vance is blocked by 160K people. We gotta pump those numbers up.

But of course.

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"Do we want to live in a world where books and culture flourish? Or in a purely functional world where the value of education is solely measured in expected earnings? Perhaps Kemi would be a better leader if she’d dropped engineering for religious studies or psychology."

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Sometimes I swear you can hear the brainworm talking.

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

We meet again.

At a time when queer existence in universities is treated as an “ideology,” I’m proud to be on display at work being unapologetically gay.

"Hey handsome. Why not come over to my place and eat the fried breadcrumbs I'm covered in?" she said, croquettishly.

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle against auithoritarian rule in Venezuela. Donald Trump awarded Nobel Big Boy Prize for Dealing With It Like A Big Boy And Not Making A Fuss. Prize consists of life-size Lindt chocolate bunny. Big Boy Prize later rescinded.

The Cybermen made their first appearance OTD in 1966 #DoctorWho

You can read 'Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism' by Elaine Aston (published by Cambridge University Press) for free online until 22 October: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

My English/Drama degree gave an ordinary girl from Birmingham an entree into people and worlds I would never have known, gave me critical thinking, made me a maker and consumer of theatre, telly, film and books, as well as a writer and teacher, and gave me a rich and wonderful life. #kemibadenoch

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

Seems that Badenoch looked at the Tories’ current polling and thought ‘Hang on. We’re way too popular.’

Seems that Badenoch looked at the Tories’ current polling and thought ‘Hang on. We’re way too popular.’