took a selfie in some fun new shades and it struck me that it won't be THAT long before I'm ready for one of those HRT before/after posts

the work day: - following up all the sources in order to say 'this doesn't say what you said it says', thereby spending five times longer marking the assignment than the student put into entering the question into an LLM - invitation to join an 'AI in writing curriculum materials' workstream

well you learn something new every day - I have lived in England all my life and I would have said that the answer to this question is "it's a terrible dirge that everyone hates so it's kind of funny but also soul-crushing that it gets played a lot" - turns out there's more to it than that?

I made exactly this point to a prospective PhD student just yesterday I hope she took it to heart

Every genre is science fiction if you analyse its underlying epistemology closely enough

when I check in on my daughter's social media

just found out the council's welfare rights department has been subsumed by the local social housing association, so i have to ring my fuckin landlord for help with a benefits appeal

I'm the opposite: if I think something I'm reviewing really should be citing me, I only seem to be able to hint very obliquely that there is material out there addressing the point. & reviewers have done this to me - I once had to ask an editor to suggest authors the reviewer might have had in mind.

God even the USians who normally have good takes have terrible takes on The Topic gotta uninstall this app if this discourse goes on any longer

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The introduction to the S/I on Open Marxism and Political Marxism is out along with the 5 banger contributions!!! Introduction written with @jackcopley.bsky.social @harveymurenow.bsky.social Teddy Paikin and Sam Salour journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

on suncalc.org working out EXACTLY what time the sun is gonna start coming in at my west-facing windows (1:19pm)

just thinking the other day how it's now standard for me to see as far as the North Downs when my run route takes me over Parliament Hill whereas it used to be only on an unusually clear day

I'm here to chew bubblegum and crack eggs in the replies to Fesshole posts, and I'm all out of bubblegum

Today I learned that there are some little guys that live on lobster mouthparts that are so unlike any other creature in existence that they have an entire _phylum_ to themselves wtf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbion

economy's in the toilet, pound's in the toilet, labour party's in the toilet, the only thing not in the toilet is the people the ehrc say can't be in the toilet

Urgh I could just read philosophy of biology ALL DAY and yet I am a legal scholar and must produce legal scholarship 😫

Crystal Palace Station is so cool

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Next reading group item 👇

Thinking about this reply alongside some great as-yet-unpublished work I read from Kay Crosby recently and reflecting on the trans person's duty to tone down our anger to make ourselves approachable.

increasingly convinced singular 'academia', 'university', 'faculty', etc does significant ideological work in management's favor in higher ed, because higher ed's really multiple sectors divided between public/private, research/teaching, and workforce in each divided in terms of rank, pay, security

The whole internet sympathises with Milkshake Duck, a gay duck with an awful bigot mum who thinks her kid is her property! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you that, as a teenager, the duck appropriated ritual ear adornments sacred to the Bajoran religion

Posting again for the morning crowd that we have a fully-funded PhD place for a UK home student available including a £21k+ a year stipend - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX657/l... (please rebleet!)

omg I just realised that the Crawler in @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's Annihilation is Markov chain horror - THE monster for the chatgpt era

Exciting news!! We have a fully-funded PhD place for a UK home student available 🚨 including a £21k+ a year stipend 🚨. Come and do a PhD with me as your supervisor! Critical tax law, value theory, global production and the legal form, that kind of thing ... fancy it? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX657/l...

It has just struck me that Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice is one of those rare rap songs in which the police turn up and are extremely helpful, neatly resolving the situation for the protagonist

new issue of Mediations, "Total Sexual Difference" and damn mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3...

She had friends all over the country, all over the world, and the Government's response to her murder has been to make sure nobody like her can ever have that kind of support network again

Transphobia in the workplace is pernicious. Permitting 'Gender Critical' networks leads to a deeply unpleasant environment and causes direct harm to Trans people & anyone not GC. This statement on the impact of such a network at UK Government's Defa & naturalengland.bsky.social is harrowing. Shame

An old lady I walked past just now said "you look lovely" so I took a selfie to record for posterity what the old ladies of north west London think looks lovely these days

The reason the government is specifically banning it for kids is because provincial reactionaries across the nation (who are their constituency) have been told that social media is turning their kids trans

People sometimes think I'm being hyperbolic about this, and I'm like no, this is official social and fiscal policy. www.gov.uk/government/p...

ohhhhhhhhhhh ok this makes a lot of sense

It has got to the stage where I instinctively ignore something where even just the infographic used to illustrate some research finding appears to be machine-generated. I am glad all my slides use clip-art with the watermark left in, but I am seriously thinking hand-drawn diagrams only from now on.

updating a classic

swingeing expropriations needed from all boomers to pay for the re-education camps they all have to be sent to

One of the great frustrations of being a parent in North London is the tea one could spill about celebs, politicians & media figures if it weren't for the fact that it is gossip involving their kids @robmanuel.b3ta.com I feel sure you can empathise lol

This is a great thread

It's been extremely easy these past couple of days to criticise Americans talking about Belfast for knowing all of fuck all about the Troubles. But to be totally fair to them they also didn't teach us shit about it in school in England either, which is worse in every way.

hahahahahah this is hilarious (being opposed to criminalisation and the carceral state in all its manifestations it gives me no pleasure at all to rebleet this material wherein a senior tax barrister facing criminal prosecution for tax fraud is an arrogant pr!ck in correspondence with HMRC)

I’m so proud of this powerful speech exposing the bigot and fake academic, Michael Foran. He has no place in our communities.

I get why people think that archaeologist's TikTok about the invention of agriculture is wrong - I, too, think that it is wrong! - but I don't get why people are so incensed by it??

Second day in a row of finding myself reading the Wikipedia page for Lake Turkana, today's reason wholly unrelated to yesterday's reason. Is this my life now?

wow someone wrote a novel about the National Audit Office from 2007-2010

working out how long I've got before I start regretting saying "Supreme Court" instead of "UK Supreme Court" in my previous post

Amazing what a bit of standpoint epistemology does to a girl. I knew that the Supreme Court was structurally racist, sexist &c but I also thought that it was made up of mostly top notch lawyers. Since FWS tho I just think that it is a wholly illegitimate institution that is literally out to kill me.