It was the curry best of times. It was the Currywurst of times.

Compulsory Greek & Latin course for medical students propose punchng.com/don-seeks-co...

'universities are not companies...their leaders do not play a direct role in fulfilling the academic mission. Their role is twofold: to ensure the financial solvency of the institution, and to create the conditions in which academic staff and students can pursue excellence. Both are essential.' 1/2

there’s an essay here about when the joke starts in the U.K. it just gets an extra long day by rolling west but if it starts in the states when Australia is awake we can all keep it going indefinitely

Ra Ra Rasputna, Lover of the orange tsar There was a cat that really was gone!

Personally, I won’t even say hello to A.I. Just a death stare.

Tonight Nyx listened to Ethel Smyth and learned about feminism.

Some recent Nyx pics

A well known, longstanding and important problem gets another look in a new HEPI report this week. Link to the HEPI report is: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/t... 1/2

Hallo lett me intorduce myselve I am Gonzo Ca'at I will bite yore enomys fore a smol cashmonie fee or perhabs a treet of pupperpony

Then again, I might use this next time I need an example of a false dichotomy

This isn't a drinking game, this is downing a bottle of vodka through a straw.

"Damn you, curtain, why must you oppose my will?"

Nyx clearly wants something and I can't figure out what. (I'm aware the answer is almost certainly dreamies...) but she seems more insistent than usual.

Quoted here: my earlier piece for @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-writ...

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

Omg

I don't want to be cynical, he lied, but is it possible Trump talked to Zelensky in the Vatican just so the story would be about him?

One of those things that's actually completely obvious when you think about it but still seems bizarre.

Meeting them, and briefly wondering if I might be one.

Intertextual links between commentaries on epigram and The Proclaimers

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

Apply now for our T. B. L. Webster Fellowship! Open to scholars outside the UK, with interests in ancient theatre and performance and its reception OR in classical art and archaeology. £6k stipend. Deadline: 15 May 2025 Full details: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fellowships/tbl-webster-fellowship

In the future: "to my nephew, I leave my valuable collection of Pdfs, which are mint, unread, and from a smoke free home"

Research assistant is assisting. "non 'demiraris' sed 'dreamies', hooman"

Happy #caturday everybody

“Do something nice for yourself” OK, I’ll watch this video of corgis wearing life jackets floating down a stream in corgi shaped rubber rings on a loop.

I went to an astonishing concert last night at @liverpoolphil.bsky.social - Beethoven violin concerto and the Eroica symphony. The playing was beautiful, and the orchestra clearly loved every single note of both pieces.

The Bactrian camel has two humps, leaps onto high shelves, demands dreamies - wait, no...

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

And just like that, I know what cute aggression is

"I put a spell on you"

This might be my favourite genre of Nyx

Just realised we are the archetypal golden retriever / soft goth couple

"Hey, we saw you from across the bar, and we really dig your vibe"

From the roof of the Nyxtine Chapel

Too late to run away now....

I have many vices, but I've never acquired smoking as a habit. I smoke about one cigarette a year, and then simply do not want another one for at least 12 months. But it was nice to smoke one tonight in the damp fresh garden with a small whisky.

Omg

Spare a thought for Dolly Parton tonight, as she has lost her husband of over 60 years, Carl Dean. Dolly, of course, stands as a reminder that you can be wealthy and still be a beautiful human being. youtu.be/pW2TgGy5gjY?...

Such a simple, geometric piece of violin writing and yet it destroys me every time #shostakovich #violin #concerto

Ha, hadn't thought it from that angle

Might've backfired

She's been so snuggly today that the "no dreamies (vandalism)" policy has been revised.

Philemon and Baucis have entered the chat

Sunshine yoga, with Nyx. [Alt text: three images of a black cat in various poses of stretch and relaxation, in a pool of sunshine on a kitchen floor]

Happy #caturday everyone!

Being lectured on free speech by people who are banning books is a bit rich, to put it mildly.