Surely even the most dedicated Graeber-hater has got to admit there is something missing from this narrative of "there was so much abundance produced by Uruk's new agricultural methods they had to invent writing to keep track of who it was owed to" (pic is of Moudhy Al-Rashid's Between Two Rivers)

This one's too easy if you have ever been a tax lawyer

owing to the nature of the queries I use ChatGPT for, until I switched off the default flattery mode, it was like "yes! you have profoundly understood the inconsistencies in the Outlook-for-web user experience—your instinct as to which menu that option should have been in was stone cold genius"

distinct lack of judith slaying holofernes merch in the uffizi gift shop bc everyone is a coward

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

My terrible lord of the ring sequel idea. Remember: Middle-Earth is just Earth. Depending who you ask, the story ends around 4000BC or so. It's 1500 years after the war of the ring. We tell the story of the arrival of the Beaker people in the Shire and the final war of the hobbits.

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"What kind of legal philosopher are you?" quiz: jurisprudence-quiz.netlify.app - post your results

There needs to be click-through warning for photographs in the TL that are so beautiful that they make you cry because I was not ready to just scroll my way into this

interesting human-for-scale choices being made on the prehistoric fandom wiki

I’m gonna need everyone to stop writing good articles on space law/politics + history, just until my PhD is in. Please, my crops are dying. (This is *excellent* and a much-needed footnote in at least 3 places across 2 chapters. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my room.)

Can confirm: to me "Lola" definitely seems dated but not at all transphobic - I'm glad it exists - I enjoy hearing it!

With due respect, what British society has learned is that you can hound trans people to death if you apply enough public pressure.

It's me, the Marxist tax lawyer, trying to decide if I am a Marxist or a tax lawyer for the purposes of funding applications

IP nerds! To my disappointment I did not get permission from 20thC Fox to use "It's a bug-hunt" from Aliens as the epigraph to my book. Could I have used ... I did not get permission from 20thC Fox to use "It's a bug-hunt" from Aliens as the epigraph to this book ... for free instead?

You can't do this because the repugnant public school boys who run the UK consider it their destiny and birthright to exercise their privilege while surrounded by 19th century institutional architecture in the gothic revival style

I'm remembering the time someone - possibly Elaine/scattermoon - asked trans people what we'd do if cis people disappeared for 24 hours and I think a numerical majority of us said "go swimming"

I think making the PIP reassessment form a 32 page paper-only form really demonstrates great commitment to accessibility by the DWP

WAIT how are billionaires getting access to the non-fiction section of the WHSmiths at Gatwick Airport?? Those are Esoteric Knowledges from which private jet users are decisively barred!

Reminder that there is a launch event for my book happening next week (deets in my pinned post) I am going to give away a FREE COPY OF MY BOOK to whoever participates in the Q&A in such a way as to most effectively convince me that they agree with me

archive pics of queers trying to make queer lives more liveable are simply guaranteed to make me cry lol

POV you are at a law and process workshop and it is my turn to workshop law and process

This is vile, but not surprising. Parliament rejected full decrim for a weak amendment that still allows prosecution of partners, friends, etc. who help a person get abortion pills, and compels them to testify in court. Still cruel. Did the minimum to get max praise in the media. Changed little. 😡

APONE: Secure that shit Hudson HUDSON: But Sir don't you want any more of my

‪Delphic Oracle: If you attack Iran, you will destroy an authoritarian, anti democratic, religious extremist, terrorist regime. Donald Trump: Let's go! #bbcaq

Every day there's a new briefcase labour type corncobbing the hell out of themselves on this website and I think that's beautiful

This is one of those sentences that starts great and gets more awesome with every word

when they claim AI will reduce workloads, remember that Dr Richard J Gatling invented the Gatling Gun in 1861 with the belief that because it could do the work of several soldiers, armies would get smaller and fewer people would die in war

I love @sorenmau.bsky.social, but being in the middle of an election campaign focused on a wealth tax on the top 1%, I have to say that the compulsion is anything but mute. Literally every billionaire in Denmark has been in the press telling everyone about how taxes makes them feel sad

Don't share diy source information in public, those days are gone Preferably use encrypted channels like signal or encrypted messages over less secure channels, or arrange face to face meet ups (be careful!) Delete messages after they've been received Always try to verify people you don't know

People refer to MFer as a "tax expert" but she knew f all about tax! she was a campaigner against corporate transparency. Her schtick was to (i) argue against companies having to disclose how much tax they were avoiding and (ii) mock tax justice campaigners for using estimates instead.

Dril candles tweet except it's the university sector and publisher profits

I did it. You have to, don't you? when you think of a goofy new screen name ... otherwise it haunts you, torments you

made the mistake of listening again to Hole's cover of Gold Dust Woman and now I don't want to even acknowledge the existence of any other music, which is inconvenient because I am doing some tidying

Cool guys were once a common sight around Britain's coasts but are now extremely rare

oh wow this unfathomably bananas steampunk contraption really was something that actually existed!? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantele...

ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people

Want to change my handle to "Motorcycle MMTness" but I don't want people to think I am unironically an MMT crank (or a manics fan tbh??)

Love that OGWT and Tiswas are side-by-side in the TV Programme Of The Year poll - RIP Smash Hits there will never be a magazine readership like yours again

Good news, we guess. But the largest abortion provider in Poland is still Abortion Without Borders. “Iza was not the first or last woman in Poland to die for lack of a safe abortion. I hope there are no more,” Mara Clarke of @supportabort.bsky.social told AFP. www.euractiv.com/news/polish-...

A while ago I used a white hanky to clean up a curry spillage when there was nothing more suitable to hand and now it has these permanent turmeric-coloured patches & I realised yesterday when I pulled it out at a research presentation that the effect is not great, aesthetically

If you have two trans men who are married, and one but not the other has a GRC, you have: 1. The social position, that they are a male gay couple. 2. The legal position (marriage law), that they are a heterosexual couple. 3. The legal position (equality law), that they are a lesbian couple.

ACTUALLY it is more likely than I thought that I am followed On Here by prospective PhD students, because the market isn't just kids it is people who (like me) did a PhD later in life. Fed up with practice or NGO work or whatever? Do a PhD with me!!

Seems vanishingly unlikely that I am followed On Here by prospective PhD students but ... look! you can do a PhD with me as your supervisor: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

The term for that is White supremacy and any coverage of Reform that does not include that term is complicit in whitewashing White supremacy. Sometimes things really are that simple. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

Earlier today, the new Member of Parliament for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer was sworn in.

the gendercrits have never understood what was obvious to us all along which was that the puberty blockers WERE the gatekeeping option - the idiots have successfully banned their own best bet for a gatekeeping strategy and now trans kids are all on self-administered E or T

Starmer's bananas "George Galloway did it" letter shows why the UK left needs Your Party: most of the Trot-adjacent are with YP rather than the Greens, so the Labour right's defensive reflexes against the left just have them flailing about. Turns out Greens being liberal-coded is good actually?!?