this would make a great exclamation

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"

I'll be back in Nairobi next week (May 11-15) for the third day of this inquest - Kenyan authorities have refused us consecutive court dates, so I have to go back and forth. As ever, any journalists interested can contact me via DM or email me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

A very young boy in the swimming pool changing rooms looked in the mirror and asked his mum if he had a Tupac, which just goes to show that it's never too early to talk to your kids about the inspiration the Black Panthers drew from the Andean indigenous rebellions of the 1780s.

Fascinating and important thread.

Excellent work from @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social here who have extracted every LGBT+ related comment and commitment from all of the major Scottish party manifestos. They pass no comment on any of it here, leaving readers to reach their own conclusions. Much of it truly is damnable.

Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native #Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @neildrysdale.bsky.social looks at MacLean’s remarkable life 💙📚 1/5 www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...

Remember when we were all friends rowing in the same direction? Yeah, I don't either, cancel the dinner.

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

This is great! The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present. It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more. americanarchive.org

"The series aims to re-emphasise the importance of knowledge sharing among people, as has been done for decades: communal exchange of information and expertise based on years of lived experiences, informed by local realities, and motivated by the need to feel connected with one another."

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

It’s hard not to see Vance’s criticism of the Pope’s theological bona fides as just silly hubris. But I also see it as a stress test of sorts — can they manipulate sentiment against a pontiff. Not for Trump’s interests. More likely for Thiel’s.

Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:

Shabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just £600m – about 6% of the £10bn the home secretary claimed, according to the government’s own data. FOI data was obtained by @jdportes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe. Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Girls only want one thing and it's to conduct a go/no-go poll of flight controllers before deciding to launch the next phase of the mission.

🎵 Fly me near the moon 🎶

The President of the United States of America has virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority. There are no “nuclear codes.”

Start your day with a very moving lunch with the FT, sensitively told by @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c17...

Outrageous. Just think of all the talented young Afghan women who will never secure a place at a British university and then have the Home Office refuse them a visa.

My thoughts are with the gay chemsex party hosting community this week as they work to address the reputational damage caused by revelations that a Tory justice minister was involved.

every environmentalist who has for DECADES been saying we need to get off oil and gas, watching governments panic at this energy crisis

I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share. A short thread. www.jewishnews.co.uk/breaking-hat...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Nobody warned me that watching An t-Eilean before I watched Industry would make the Rishi character in the latter so hilarious

Substitute "cat" for "guitar" and I'm with you.

I have a maisonette joke but it's a little flat.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

The Bell smashing it again by taking the time to bring out the human stories and local history that bigger news headlines are rooted in.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

They should stop in the first safe country they pass through

This should be read as a companion piece to the Vittles article about the shittiness underpinning Jamie Oliver's campaigning on school meals. www.ft.com/content/9589...

This should be read as a companion piece to the FT article about Jamie's Italian. It's more important to read this one though.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Very very worth a read, this packs in a wealth of horrible detail and treats it with the disgust and contempt it deserves.

Come friendly bombs, and fall on this