/9 In other words, I reject the Ezra Klein position that if you do evil with the right formalities and debate-team traditions and the right formatting, you’re actually doing good.

/6 I do have a question for the people who are supporting/defending Wurman et al., the dishonest academics who are pushing this farce. The question is this: are there any limits to what arguments you will defend, so long as they are done in the rituals and style of academia?

For my fellow UKians, here is a very useful thread from the US about fundamental rights and how these are defended/overturned, with an excellent end note on the hideous veil of quasi-academic 'legitimacy'.

/5 I think — hope — that getting SCOTUS to lie about history, law, and facts to overturn birthright citizenship is still a couple of votes beyond their grasp. But it’s far far closer to possible than it ever should be.

This by-election is not a turning point for the Labour Party, which is clearly incapable of rediscovering its conscience. It is, I hope, a turning point for Labour voters who now realise there is an electable, compassionate, progressive alternative.

HMS Manchester - lost due to the actions of its leader, who the resulting court martial "negligently performed his duty" in deliberately scuttling it. Don't know why that came to mind this morning...

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Well played Gorton and Denton folks! That is a pretty emphatic win for the Greens over the grim right wing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Take TWO raptors into the shower? Not me. Not since I got myself a

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Ride into the Plunger Zone!

I see problems with the USS Gerald Ford's plumbing have come to a head, and indeed to the heads, with its current deployment. Apparently the vacuum system for dealing with sewage sucks... or rather more accurately doesn't.

Recalling multiple instances of a malfunctioning Jabsco on a 27' boat and scaling that up...

Y’all do get that you have to do Jeans Modeling to work out the Joort Constants, yes?

Bro is gonna be mayor for 9 terms

Ahem, @hobscowboy.bsky.social

Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression

So the guy with the Nazi tattoo is now sayi... ...never mind

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Also the audience should know there's an *actual* bear being held in reserve backstage for "This is more of an observation than a question..."

And make no mistake - this matters bsky.app/profile/timb...

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

I just watched Bad Bunny's Superbowl halftime show. Did I understand his words and all the conent? No. Did that stop me enjoying it? Also, no. It was glorious. London 2012 opening ceremony glorious.

Happy Valentine's Day❤️. On this day in 1951, Mr and Mrs Snoddy, their two children and pet tortoise moved into a three-bedroomed flat in Gladstone House, the first residents of the Lansbury Estate in east London. We built 162,584 new council homes that year.

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

"Remember that product you use every day at work? We removed the most useful features & replaced them with a chatbot you didn't ask for that's wrong a bunch & we've made it unavoidable. We also did this for your search engine, your graphic design app, & for even more inexplicable reasons Adobe PDF"

When reviewing The Muppet Movie, Roger Ebert said he could find out how they made Kermit ride a bike, but he didn’t want to know. He preferred to think he did it himself. I think about that all the time.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

It's incredible to have a party of 404 MPs with so few acceptable leadership options. It's like having a kitchen full of food but it's all gone off and so you're left wondering how many calories there are in shampoo.

Something compelled me to make this

Elon's building a colony on the Moon, but he needs to build a colony within himself. youtu.be/SZgIk2b68gQ?...

YOUNG MAN what’s that thing that you found, I said YOUNG MAN it’s a leaf on the ground, I said YOUNG MAN it will make a cool sound, when you PUT IT IN YOUR LEAF HOLE [WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP] It’s fun to eat a cool LEAF FROM THE GROUND

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn. Erasure. Just like the Nazis. gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn

Oddly enough, exactly true to Tolkien's vision, where he offers Rings of Power to elves, dwarves, and humans to ostensibly empower them, but the Ruling Ring is the embodiment of totalitarianism with an Eye that can search out whenever you use a Ring. Throw the crap down an active volcano.

Macbeth: SHIT

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

It feels like a lobster trap to me. Once you’ve vibe coded something it’s basically unmaintainable by a human so you’re kind of stuck interacting with your code through that interface forever.

Elon not being happy despite having all the money is like someone losing at a game in tutorial mode, which he also does

A common critique of Democratic Party leadership is their failure to groom suitable successors and outright hostility to natural inheritors i.e. AOC, Ilhan, Mamdani. The Labour Right is infinitely more pathetic and comical. They had a ten years to prepare and failed to craft a single talent.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Hey, I lost a bunch of followers when I reposted this last night, so this morning I'm ordering MORE boxes and reposting it again!

The thing about the dude in my mentions insisting that Helen ought to appear Greek is that Helen was Helen of TROY. Troy was in Anatolia. Ain't nobody's business but the Turks

I mean you could say that Nolan lost integrity with the whole gravity/time distortion bollocks with Miller's planet/Gargantua in Interstellar but people still like the movie

This is beautiful.

This doesn't sound good for the postman...