Lyncus: this is yet more nanny-state interference from Demeter and Triptolemus. Ordinary people aren’t interested in what the agricultural elite are selling and down-to-earth leaders like Lyncus know this.

Universities across the world seeing this: "its only wrong 45% of the time!! Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!! Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

It looks so interesting!

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."

I keep thinking about the time Nick Griffin was on Question Time. Would love (feel depressed by) a long read: retrospective about that moment.

"If I’m being honest, I’ve seen a serious dip in your overall performance ever since the beast of the sea emerged."

the time of pepe has ended, now is the time of amphifa

I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.

Lee Miller, Frankfurt immediately post-war. Note that the scales of justice are missing a pan.

I really feel like bogs and bog bodies are having a moment. I keep seeing stuff about them.

did everyone know that Thong Song uses an Eleanor Rigby sample except for me

Had two cases of plagiarism by AI this week. And while the students are accountable for their actions (since my policy is crystal clear), the exploitative nature of the tech itself and its proselytizing overlords is very much part of the equation.

People are rightly pointing out that Marilyn was abused and exploited. That’s fair; it’s a division t way to treat her memory. But she was also a gifted comedian and the idea that slop will do her talent justice is ridiculous.

From Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social.

A really excellent Open Letter to Students on using GenAI, which I came across over on Mastodon: librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/a...

antifascist and anti-capitalist organizers need to understand space as one site of struggle because our opposition definitely understand it as one

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

I finally tried Ethiopian food and let me tell you: I am all in on the injera hype. Then there was the handwashing, the delicious stews, the chilli relish, the tej honey wine - a 10/10 experience all round.

The good ol’ £200-a-year hope-I-don’t-die tax

Today's small step to the right direction in UK. So happy on the behalf of these Gaza students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Just hoping all this sinus pain goes away so that 1) I don’t fall massively behind with teaching prep and 2) I am well enough to enjoy SELF ESTEEM this weekend

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I don’t have a “usual” at my local, but I do at my train ticket office. 🙃

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Farewell to Patricia Routledge. I saw in Anouilh’s Wild Orchids at Chichester in 2002. That lady had star power!

I’ve been despising this avalanche of Grammarly ads: the workplace ones normalise overwork and deskilling, while those targeted at students basically tell them not to trust their own judgement or ability and that they should run everything through their linguistic peristalsis

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

I had no idea that the completion rate was so low for apprenticeships, although I’m not altogether surprised, based on family experiences

Started googling Robert Kilroy-Silk because in the middle of intermediate Latin today I remembered the Veritas party. I did not know he published a book called Socialism Since Marx.

Last night, we watched an episode of Zillow Gone Wild wherein a young girl in the 1970s convinced her parents in Lake Tahoe to paint her bedroom like the palace at Knossos and I have never felt closer to a small child.

Another weekend trying to finish the Bloody Book and it looks like I beee to write about Victorian stereotypes of GRT people, which I was not expecting, but it helps to fill in the gaps.

I've been podcasting again! This time I spoke about how 'Plato: a civic life' provides the historical background to Plato's thought and helps to explain how his ideas developed - with Morteza Hajizadeh from New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/plato

Unfortunately there is also bad news: there are another 40 students with funded places in Gaza, including two women PhDs with dependents, who were offered places in the first evacuation, but had to turn them down because the Home Office wouldn't let them bring their young children.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

This petition gained a million signatures yesterday. If we can keep up that growth it will terrify people at the Labour conference. #PapersPlease petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I've never been screened or diagnosed as ND, but this post has lived in my head rent free since the first time I saw it

Mark Zuckerberg calling his proposed data centre Hyperion when he should be calling it Phaethon

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This morning, working on the Bloody Book (tm), thinking about Charley’s Aunt and then somehow getting sidetracked by G. K. Chesterton.

Ah, so even Oxford has staff who hate what their colleagues do.

Gary Owen’s unforgettable ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ is released as a Student Edition this month from @methuendrama.bsky.social, with a fascinating intro by @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social. It’s extra special to have this play - a blistering aria against austerity on a mythic scale - as part of the series.

Ok, Scorcese’s Megalopolis: I’m going in!

I got yer timeline cleanse right here, folks. A whole clutch of teeny tiny snapping turtle behbehs emerged one at a time from their underground nest and crossed the gravel road while I and a couple other humans watched and made sure they were safe from anyone else coming along.

Every day is another opportunity to discover a new favourite Wolf Alice song