I used to take that view on LBD. But then this morning this clip already been unprompted mentioned to me irl/ forwarded into normie WhatsApp groups I’m in. And basically in a world where media is just swamping the zone with video clips, you either surrender the zone to nutters or embrace the cringe

The government isn't forcing churches and community centres and town halls across the country to fly the Ukrainian flag. People are doing it themselves because we see a battle and we know which side we are on. There are lots of ways in which Reform is wildly out of touch with Britain.

Shout out to Denmark's "if he winds up stranded on our side of the sea, he's fucking dead, mate" stance. This is a country that feeds its zoos' surplus giraffes to lions and gets school kids to watch...

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Thing is if this Cordon Sanitare goes back up against racism, it does have to go up against transphobia too!

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She really is the face that launched a thousand hissyfits

Phone reminding me it's 4 years since we saw this in someone's yard. Some things are trickier to explain to new residents in Denmark than others...

I’m crying. I asked him to send me a screenshot so I could use it in class and it literally says “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

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And that means flag it with the publishers, editors and employers, and hold their feet to the fire until they do something about it. Among the shocking responses I have encountered lately, the most common and most shocking is a shrug from colleagues, including those who have been plagiarized. (2/2)

Because I have been grappling with a particularly shocking case of plagiarism across a wide body of work, which my university has so far failed to act on for more than two years, this is much on my mind nowadays. If you spot plagiarism, you have a professional duty to flag it. (1/2)

Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

If I want to catch up with President Xi, do I need to know about the other ten presidents?

Every time I open Bluesky,

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As one Danish Prime Minister once famously said to a Labour front bencher...

Andy Burnham's a big thing on TikTok, apparently. youtube.com/shorts/K_jjq...

Oh man, this is such an unfortunate series of coincidences for the Don't Call Them Racist Because That's Very Rude Party.

This is good: it matters that the rules are enforced. But as with Johnson, we mustn't treat this *only* as a technical question about process. Whether he followed the rules or not, it's outrageous that a party leader is pocketing million-pound gifts from a billionaire & trying to keep it a secret.

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This government could have enacted anything it wished, acting in total defiance against Con and Reform, and demonstrated how socialist and left-wing values result in immediate benefits for most Britons. But instead they sit on their hands and try to do feeble Farage impressions. I hate them for it.

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Going back for Sunday lunch with the extended family be like:

We've been workshopping "pick a worse duo for a Big Break reboot", and we're going for Peter Ebdon and James Corden.

Re: sniping in various directions that has come onto my timeline this week. My centrist melt position is that I agree with both: Calling the 4 major not-Green English parties "Thatcherite" is ludicrous, inaccurate conflation. All 4 are clearly part of a consensus that centrists won't let us name.

I met Miatta Fahnbulleh, Jess Phillips and Alex Davies-Jones at a charity do once...

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Starmer has lost Catherine West, but results are still being counted in Catherine East and Catherine Central

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Several replies under this very much in the "describing the world is absolutely an endorsement of that world I am very smart" subgenre.

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

ok, but if he runs with the slogan "Chaos With Ed Miliband!" he shows more guts and insight than about 95% of his party.

It doesn’t.

LOL. LMFAO, indeed.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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It is good to see this getting attention. It’s a cliche to mention and then disregard sportswashing, as if it’s only a question of inequality in football itself - whether it’s worse than other billionaire owners, or the disparity between the Premier League and the rest of the football pyramid.

Getting ads about how an AI product can "do my literature review" for me, and... I know other disciplines have other norms, etc. ... But isn't the point of the literature review to read and digest the literature?

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This is unfathomable to me! As well as being stupid and cruel, it doesn't even make financial sense! Humanities subjects are cheap! They are subsiding expensive subjects! Please someone stop this mindless destruction!

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Today, I learnt the word "corflute". This might not be the most important message of this story.

Good. A team with a long-standing cavalier attitude to following the league's financial rules just got a draw with Manchester City.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

You can't even do Star Wars anagrams these days because of ewok.

Would broadly subscribe to this at university level, too. We can invest in giving people the time and resources to do what we already know works well, and then find ways to experiment around the edges. Or we could change the VLE every 5 minutes and integrate expensive AI contracts, ymmv.