They call everyone else snowflakes, but they're one long blizzard of self-loathing and everything triggers them. Strange and inadequate people.

We Wish You Baby, A Merry It's Cold Christmas Outside 🤝 not going until you get some

I posted this on Instagram because it took me too many years to accept that I don’t have to go and take the abuse and bullying anymore

Unless you'm frum the Black Cuntroy

History will record how a non-trivial number of supposedly liberal centrists went along - wittingly or unwittingly - with the transparently McCarthyite scam of the cancel culture/free speech moral panic And in doing so helped pave the way for neo-fascism.

had anyone noticed that the examples in that morrissette song might not actually be irony?

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

I seem to follow a lot of people who define themselves by what they don't like or hate. So I extra appreciate those of you who just nerd out over things. Define yourself more by what/who you love.

nice post. I couldn’t have said it better myself, which I will now demonstrate in your replies

"the remarkably well preserved York Helmet"is what the group chat calls your da

Having played around a bit with LLMs and probably not being in the ‘they are completely evil’ camp I have to say this is right. Indexing requires precise reassurance that every single detail is correct and LLMs are inherently rubbish at that.

For the rare jobs that do exist, faculty get to vote on who to hire. Many have an unofficial “no assholes” rule, which makes the working environment so much more pleasant for everyone. If you’re a grievance-obsessed weirdo, and there are 10 equally-qualified normal people, the decision is easier.

longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.

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The Beauty and the Beast origin story I want to see is specifically that of what he will do for love, but why he won't do that.

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Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.

He's going to break all known records for most pissed-on grave. Really great lake of piss. Some are saying there will never be another piss lake like it.

- Pope Leo X in 1517, after being told about Martin Luther.

I've clearly done both. Both are the problem - the environment that facilitates the interview is the fault of the sitting prime minister and his culture secretary. Government has *chosen* to go to sleep at the wheel on this stuff. HTH!

‘I have just one question for you …’

IMO the original sin in failing to understand the reality of these world views is in the refusal recognise that they are *cross-class*. The golf course racists are clearly not responding to the material realities of migration, why would you assume that their working-class equivalents are?

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does anyone want to do this for their phd so I could read it ?

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Encountering this again learning a new language where the sounds and the letters have only a very casual relationship to each other.

This would be the end of any premise that US orgs can continue to host "international" conferences on US soil

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

The ever expanding externalized costs of AI.

Just had to navigate my way around a Wayback capture that was only giving that "Cloudflare is trying to work out if you're human or not" message. Yet again a reminder that our historical record is fragile in all sorts of ways...

Had to explain to a 20 year old medical student what "try the link in a different browser" meant. God help us all.

The main fact that stuck with me after writing a book about British Xmases is that The Times was complaining about decorations going up in October back in the *1930s*, Selfridges has had decorations up in Oct since at least the 1950s and the whole “earlier every year” thing is generally bollocks

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

By the way everyone, what right-wing politicians say about immigrants is literally also what they believe about you. You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR

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Hey, @footballindenmark.bsky.social - when are we getting the Christmas jumper thread? Here's Odense's offering.

This is the disability angle to go with. Have seen the idea that the UK is *causing* mental health and developmental conditions because it's so shit, and that's not the progressive take the people making it think it is.

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

Some pseudointellectual dipshit says something transphobic, and as I'm blocking them I'm always disappointed to see that people I respect follow them.

I appreciate this is peak blueskyjokeunderstanding on my part but... ... this what Christmas telly always is. The most inoffensive light entertainment to not scare away normies. It's not for us. And that's fine.

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