Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.

> “when men use AI, we question their effort; when women use AI, we question their integrity” [...] (Pringle, 2026). What is framed as a literacy deficit is [actually] a form of rational refusal [&] within that frame, the only direction of travel is toward more adoption. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Literature profs everywhere *NO*

every fiction book i've bought this year has been because someone on here posted about it. Not once have i regretted it. if you like a book TELL THE WORLD. this post brought to you by Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning which is MAGNIFICENT. Go read it. my thanks to whoever shared that on my feed

Thanks for the warning @runalongwomble.bsky.social I'll be giving that a miss!

90’s PE Teacher - ‘A likely story. Fine, you’ll have to do it in your underpants then’

A European alternative to MS Office: Software auto shuts at 5pm. It does not load on weekends, public holidays, & most of August. Any out of hours messages sent are diverted until 9am on a workday. It will occasionally refuse to open documents in French in solidarity with striking rail workers.

It's only an invasion if it comes from the Invasion region of Eastern Ukraine. Otherwise, it's sparkling incursion.

Just got a survey from my university asking how I use AI in research, wanting details on barriers to use as well as burdens that AI has reduced for me. Not one question about barriers or burdens that the use of AI has created. So the unstated position is that it must be good. This is advertorial.

A stunning emotional smart tale of ghosts and family secrets awaits in The Girl With A Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean - you needs this www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/5/...

Jenrick listed the money as coming from 'Spott Fitness' - a company which had no employees, had never made a profit and carried debts of over £300,000. In reality it came from Gary Klopfenstein, a Chicago-based investor who pled guilty to wire fraud and misappropriating funds

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

Insane dystopian shit here, totally unacceptable. I expect politicians and commentators to be outraged by it, regardless of their opinion of the crimes these people were convicted of.

Oh that’s gonna be a tshirt…

Mifepristone is: ✅ safe ✅ effective ✅ backed by decades of science ✅ critical for abortion and miscarriage care ✅ essential to protecting our reproductive freedom

"because the computer being a boy would be too gay, I need to have the illusion of being able to engage in intimate acts with my digital parrot"

I cannot see a good argument for this post in particular: • It reads “fanboi” rather than professional coms. • It also brings the Met into disrepute by approvingly responding to slurs. • It’s nakedly political.

Yes folks, it is true, dragons build nests

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only

"Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock." www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Friends, if you’re taking sertraline, check the batch number as there is a recall out and you may have ended up with a mislabelled lower dose of citalopram. www.gov.uk/government/n...

It's a shame that the Suzanne Moore who writes for the Telegraph in 2026 never met the Suzanne Moore who wrote for the Guardian in 2013

Another spotted coincidence this week. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Government advisers have warned ministers that parents are forcing children to drop out of apprenticeships once they realise the scale of the loss to household benefit income, and young people are turning down training schemes because it would impoverish their family." #R4Today

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

I encourage *everyone* on my skyline to read this excerpt. 🥚

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

the penne opticon

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Between Iraq and a Kharg place.

Not a single health expert quoted in the article, a ‘while heath experts say… others say’ waffle opening paragraph, four people from raw milk producers or distributors quoted at length. Atrocious article from the Graun

I suspect this photo is going to be one of the most shared over the next few years if Labour is stupid enough to select Streeting to replace Starmer.

BREAKING - Zarah Sultana MP exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

they are gonna be soooo mad when they find out what we call them

If the #JCB Family of Multi-Millionaires are so hard up to pay proper Inheritance Taxes, why are they able to donate SO MUCH MONEY to #Reform Party? Oh ... so they have expectations of #Reform helping out the Multi-Millionaires? Right. Noted. "Party of the People", eh?🤮🤮

There is nothing newsworthy about putting people seeking asylum at risk. There is nothing in the public interest about misleading the public as to the scale of people seeking asylum based on being LGBTQIA+. There is nothing in the public interest about ignoring the barriers they face to safety. 8/

A phrase to send chills up & down a historian's spine: “cognitive surrender.”

If you invested $10,000 in Trumpcoin just before Trump's inauguration, it would be worth $367 today

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

It was such an absolute pleasure to be interviewed for this piece!!

Fabulous photo Irish 1916 rebels Margaret Skinnider (front middle) & Nora Connolly (front right) in New York, 1917,when they were on the Republican women’s tour. Would love to know who the 3rd woman is - just putting it out there into the universe more in hope than expectation of a name! #spéirghorm

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

"helpful elves" 🧐 hmmm. <grips cast-iron skillet tightly>

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

For my latest Guardian Long Read, I looked at a part of the university funding crisis that doesn't get so much attention: the foreign students stacking up monumental debt to prop the sector up and the sometimes unscrupulous recruitment system that draws them in www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

Has this just happened the day after Wes Streeting wrote that article?