In a different timeline Hegseth is moving little models of tanks around on a map of the Caprivi Strip

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

I just remember when the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris was on fire and how every Western leader became a cultural expert and lamented the damage and how everyone donated money to rebuild it. I am having a hard time finding a single article in any European or American publication about this.

Holy hell I am rich! RICH I SAY!

"Well...look who's decided to come out of their room!"

A few years ago I went online after the pub, and now the curséd academia dot edu periodically reminds me that I have not yet finished reading "A Logical Scheme and Paraconsistent Topological Separation in Byzantium: Inter-Trinitarian Relations according to Hieromonk Hierotheos and Joseph Bryennios"

"Holberry is DEAD! Good god! Is This England? Talk no more of Russian DESPOTISM! Justice and humanity has fled from the land." www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-betrayal...

Out now the Beyond Inhabitation Lab 2026 Spring Seminar Series In order of appearance: Tatiana Thieme, Irene Peano, Ida Danewid, Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky with a guest discussion by Ash Amin & Ida Danewid, Samia Henni, Iain Michael Chambers Links & details beyondinhabitation.org/our-events

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Loadshedding or Load-Hogging? www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

"Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood, His feats I but little admire I will sing the Achievements of General LUDD The Hero of Nottinghamshire" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7r...

Someone took him to the Tales of Robin Hood when he was younger and he thought it was Marxist propaganda

I'm not an expert on the law around it but surely a case to investigate this for harassment?

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

"Butter only makes us fat"

Between the flags on lampposts and the wounded accusation-confessions of sectarianism, it's not hard to see who Reform are drawing some of their influences from.

Incredible "Byzantine Courtier in 628" vibes off this.

love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

Their candidate was a terrifying looking pig-man. Tell me you aren't seeing him in a half-cut daze in front of some sort of Chris Morris/Cunningham derived Channel 4 late night existential horror comedy.

He's really not realised where a big chunk of the Labour Activist base has gone, has he?

Its worth pointing out even if we accept this, that that's just 32 cases - there's been a green majority of thousands?

Hard not to look at those results and entertain the thought that if Burnham had stood it might have been a closer-run thing for Reform

You can't have the woke Islamist coalition hold together as a concept without disengagement from all sense of meaning somewhere along the way.

It's be pretty embarrassing to build an entire life as an expert on how the far right can win elections, stand as a candidate for a far right party at election, and get beaten by 12 points. The sort of thing that makes you reconsider existence, you would think.

Wild to see people blame...Bob Vylan for the BAFTAs incident. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People asked questions in TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT about Mandy having questionable interests in commercial mining www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

We're doing another 'organised gangs (racial) are stealing chocolate to order!' press blitz, without anyone trying to figure out the economics of selling a stolen £2 Dairy Milk.

The Londoncentric team have in recent years done some incredible investigations into the people ruining British cities and come up with faces and names.

Meh, these LLM grifts only really 'work' because we have degree programming that shares the same market logic they operate under. It's an expansion of the essay mill system whose existence has long highlighted some inherent weaknesses in mass-market approaches to education.

Went to the brilliant 2nd Matana Roberts/Neil Charles/Mark Sanders residency show at Cafe OTO at the weekend. What a joy it is to be alive sometimes.

Reading Kantorowicz's biography of Fredrick II last night and he mentions that at a muster someone called 'The Advocate of Pfäffers' was present. Looked up this job and couldn't find anything about it. As far as history goes, it seems the Advocate of Pfäffers... never got round to doing anything.

Theory that 'behind' all great novels in the English language written by women is a weird Irish dad - unbeaten.

A weird rule of British public life is that if you get photographed in a car looking weird, your goose is absolutely cooked.

Can you all please stop it, our police force has arrested a Royal a charge far lesser than the one that should be investigated, and the press are trying very hard to spin this as the royals being open an accountable.

The widely made post-Epstein observation that the collapse of the Soviet Union basically taught US elites to look around for more stuff to collapse probably explains a big part of why were getting radio free Europe for Fascist fantasy cranks.

OK, I get the intention, but I think no. These are prison camps because part of their brutality is their inadequacy for these other tasks essential to human survival.

Radio 4 playing Ride of the Valkyries to honour Robert Duvall's death possibly the cherry on the failure of Francis Ford Coppola

These aren't 'modes of production': IIRC Tolkein spends like quite a bit of time at the start, a fairly large amount of time In the 'Concerning Hobbits' section describing The Hobbits artisanal and agrarian mode of production and organization of society. It's a novel so it's light - But there.

ME, A RESPONSIBLE ADULT: It's 1:30am, I have work in the morning, I need to go to bed. THE PERNICIOUS ALGORITHM:

Who benefits from publishing totally fake papers then attributing authorship to real people? My good friend and colleague Jess shared today a paper she did not write, in a different field, and appears to be about life/death medical matters. Is this the "AI revolution" in science in action? Well...

I think some exceptional performances and a vibe have lead to a weird sort of Mandela Effect around who Michelle Yeoh is and the gravity of her filmography variety.com/2026/film/fe...

So much humour is also derived form the inherent sociopathy in the way people would go to so much effort just for a laugh. This is only really funny because you know someone behind it spent more time than is at all reasonable on it youtu.be/8MLDT5-ZgN0?...

Just filled this out, wish I'd read the amnesty guidance - like a lot of govt consultations it wants to guide you as much as possible into the outcome it wants by getting you to concede that restrictions on settlement are necessary when they are not.

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

Maybe agree with this thread but also - my understanding is that the predominance of British steel was predicated on the repression and destruction of the advanced Indian steel industry in the 1700s - not a lack of Irony that Tata bought out much of the UK sector in the last few decades.