Someone seems to have hacked Canvas run by the company 'Instructure' twice this week which Universities use around the world. Currently appears to be down globally - techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/h...

When a legacy band like that play the prices All Rise.

The usual price for three nights in Bradford hotels is about £150, but for some reason the prices go doolally in a couple of weeks, and the only thing I can see to make them do that is because the boyband Blue are playing at Bradford Live. I didn’t realise they still had that kind of pull!

I am aware.

SNL UK was pretty poor this week but for some reason the last sketch of every show is unbelievably odd or niche, and this week they chose to take the piss out of a 1984 British pork advert. I love it!

Feeling sad about Ted the dog :(

I’ve written for @politicshome.bsky.social about yesterday’s free speech judgement against the Office for Students [disclosure: I used to work there]. Clearly things are going to have to change, but the regulator’s woes are a symptom not the cause of problems in English HE—the system is incoherent.

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A finding that says a) you acted beyond your powers b) your understanding of free speech within the law was wrong is about as devastating as it gets for OfS. A head should roll, surely?

Man, the e-mails in the ruling relating to this case are quite something - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What's the positive spin for why an MP would post something like this which is clearly going to wind people up? What electoral benefit is there?

Bojji and Bing are becoming very adapted to a garden and sun

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

They say Football Focus has passed. Lovely weight on it, too.

Really important Big Read this on what is just straightforwardly a misselling scandal taking place in plain sight in my view:

Dominic Cummings has written a section in his latest Substack post directly to AI agents including this:

My hairy son is an idiot

Sorry they refer to top officials in the Foreign Office as mandarins? The tiny oranges? And we’re supposed to take this seriously?

Lee Anderson really earning his MP salary today 🙄

At Survivor Series, facing off against The Rock and Roman Reigns

Bloob watch

The one where Jesus curses the fig tree because he’s hangry

Here it is, the most middle class post ever to be made

mfw Bluesky down

I like how the "I received a scam phone call trying to get me to give over my bank details" reporting website only allows you to report it if they used a phone number and not a withheld number

Hall of fame FT correction

26.1C the confirmed high at #London Heathrow, this is 12C above the 91-20 average daily max. So we claim the earliest 25C on record from 2017 by 1 day and more impressively the earliest 26C formerly of 1949 by 8 days.

Highlights from Danny Dyer: I Believe In UFOs, the most important documentary of the 21st Century.

It's important to remember that Iran has a population of 92 million people. Actual human beings who have lives, who have dreams, who want to live.

Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to | Zoe Williams

Holiday.

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

I’m *exceptionally* pleased by how well Nibbler and Bojji & Bing have adapted to each other over the last few months!

NEW on Wonkhe: This isn’t a fraud crackdown. It’s a financial emergency with no one at the helm wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

I’ve been commuting to Bradford from Walthamstow (!) once a week since November and this is the first time I’ve arrived and it’s still light ❤️

As part of my ongoing and failing battle to learn Brazilian Portuguese, I can’t say no (não) without sounding like I’m doing a Christopher Walken impression.

Post on LegalAdviceUK Reddit - “I'm on the board of a student union. They've started a service where they offer immigration advice to students. I warned them this was against the law. They are continuing anyway.” - www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...

Meet me at the Cyber Centre in the next 15 minutes if you want a discussion about the Intel Pentium 166 MHz CPU

I’ll have the peas please

markets right now www.ft.com/content/06db...

Why does Leeds Trinity shopping centre have an ugly non roadworthy car in the middle of it?

Whoever got me a certificate of friendship from the Crab Museum, reveal yourself!

The median age in Britain is about 40. The median Briton has not experienced sustained economic growth in their adult life time.

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones)

Roaring Twenties indeed

“The minute the sea spray hits your face, so too does a hankering for something battered.” I go on a silly little trip to Deal: open.substack.com/pub/sillylit...

Love spending £'s on a new Macbook and my Onedrive folders all get duplicated with a second folder for everything, so you reset the laptop to try the migration again,but it gets stuck on "Activate Mac" saying select a wifi network without any way to do that, so you're stuck with an unusable laptop 🙃

"In that book which is my memory, on the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, appear the words: Here begins a new life."

I have a trickle-down economics joke. Give it time, you'll get it eventually.