It's good to be reminded, every now and again, that a lot of people are really bloody stupid.

Jenkins has a solid record as Britain's Worst Judge of Everything... so I guess things are looking up?

What in the name of everlasting fuck is Nigel Farage if not a professional fucking politician???

This one just lives on my desktop at this point, ready to go

I love the estimate that if Liz Truss lives out a normal lifespan, she will end up spending more days standing in front of the Cenotaph than she ever spent as Prime Minister.

Anyone know what she said about Truss, Sunak, et al?

can't argue with this.

and all of them are senior university administrators

The Aussies have a contender

Learnèd helplessness: the ability of a senior academic to become suddenly a very smol bean who cannot be expected to do a task for themself and needs someone less well paid to do it for them.

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

Very valid points about active travel investment paying for itself aside, I’m not really convinced that under £1bn a year capital investment in transport modes that account for a third of journeys should really be considered excessive.

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

Well, that'll work an absolute blinder when everyone younger notices that even more of their taxes are going to bung a load of wealthy pensioners off.

Oh, fuck off, Andy. These people need to give their heads a wobble.

This lot is so bad at higher education they have even managed to make the head of universities UK lose her cool, and her literal job is to interact with DfE types. {this is news that Labour will, yet again, be cutting the measly block grants for high cost subjects, good luck chemistry colleagues).

I did a thing: chicagomaroon.com/52978/viewpo...

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

That is, if memory serves, to support high cost subjects, underrepresented groups, and technical qualifications.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @tcddublin.bsky.social - founded 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I It was named after Trinity College Cambridge, founded 1546 by Henry VIII, ER's dad and all-round psychopath If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Reminding me of what one of the Lloyd’s of London underwriters smugly said shortly before the market crashed: “It God had not wanted them fleeced, he would not have made them sheep.”

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

<adds to powerpoint of every single first lecture in Week 1> Because fuck yes. Embrace the friction, so you can actually be proud of your work and know you achieved something.

"we're going in a new direction"

How it works in UK universities: 1. VC announces plan to make the university a Kardashev Type II institution by 2038. 2. An Associate Pro-VC (Kardashev II) is appointed. Twenty-three new abbreviations are authorised. A team from PWC are providing deliverability assurance.

“Not all local objections to green projects are frivolous! One local man LOVES wind power, he just doesn’t think it should be built in the area where he lives or even on land at all” fuck OFF with this.

See "almost every initiative from university senior leadership ever".

Insect devouring, creepy-crawly, that stirs revulsion in many people, seen here with his pet tarantula.

This isn’t generous enough. It should be 0.00001% to have a fuller reimbursive effect. I know, but hey, I’m a bleeding heart.

If you want people to support you, Andy, maybe try to be less of a dick.

Further proof, as if it were needed, that the physicists are wrong 'uns.

Really nice profile of Guy @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social in Nat Rev Chem to mark his 60th. rdcu.be/fjhFH Looking forward to catching up with 30 years' worth of group members next month!

every single thing these idiots say is an argument against the existence of billionaires They must be stopped

I wouldn't go swimming in the Thames. You might encounter a turd. Or David Walliams. Not sure which would be worse.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

He can't even resign without coming across as insufferable.

"the results are in" YOU STUPID LITTLE TOSSER I HATE HIM 10X MORE THAN I DID BEFORE SEEING THE LETTER

Well, things just keep getting weirder.

Is "being a smarmy tosspot" a talent?

Should've sent Streeting and "forgotten" to reclaim him.

Social care reform, immediately. Bon the commission, give task force 3 months to propose final recommendations building from Dilnot proposals, implement immediately with penny on basic and higher rates of income tax to pay for it. Immediately transforms local govt fortunes too…

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

I'll be blunt. This is fucking brilliant. Every day our news feeds are full of the worst of humanity. This represents the best.

ITS NOT STAYCATION IF YOU LEAVE YOUR SODDING HOUSE AND STAY SOMEWHERE ELSE! ITS A HOLIDAY

Excited to start grading and finalizing students grades on Canvas tomorrow morning. I'm sure there will be no wrenches thrown in my plan.

Compulsory revision lessons after school. Compulsory saturday school. Uniforms must be worn. Detentions will be given for non-attendance or non-compliance. You'd think the 'Headmistress of the Year' would be able ot organise the school so GCSEs are effectively taught during normal school hours.

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

We've all had colleagues who are genuinely useless. Replacing a human being who can't do the job with an equally incapable "AI employee" is not thay much of a change. At least I won't have to pretend to respect the robots.

One minute, folks, I'm just going to have to test what happens when you put a negative number into a GoFundMe page...