'tis a very good read #nufc

What a belter. Sad to see him go. Good luck under the big Barca lights AG10 #NUFC

If you scan the new shirt you get 20% off on transfers #nufc

Great write-up. Find myself in total agreement about Woltemade. Nice lad. Not a Premier League player nor a Newcastle... 8? 9? 10? #nufc

This is ace, and pretty much how I built my own PhD in an academic setting that resisted difference:

not 1 thing changed from last week. He's still a manager who ran a club while the place was on autopilot. Still got his star striker poached. Still had 60 games on a squad of pensioners, panic buys and misfires. Still had PIF fucking it all up. Let's just see what transfer Santa brings eh? #NUFC

it appears to be Howe-Out o'clock once again #NUFC

Eddie Howe is getting the heat, but I think we’re doing him a massive disservice. It’s not his fault that #nufc move at a glacial pace. It’s not his fault we played almost 60 matches with a squad that we all knew was inadequate. It’s not his fault players were injured or dead on their feet.

Here's a free version of the same article gcaptain.com/drowning/

He's from Blyth 🖤🤍🖤🤍 #nufc

Is there not some way of just accepting all the cookies and moving on with life?

"The desire for Brexit, a yearning for deep political, social and economic change, for which the electorate keep voting, has to be reckoned with and it does not require rejoining to achieve." Enjoyed this and largely agree. Much as I'd like to rejoin, it would bury progressive politics

as long as Ross Wilson doesn't quit, this will be the first time since June 2023 we've had a sporting director in post at the start of the summer transfer window. Exciting times #nufc

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

I remember the excitement when we signed him. Being in the Gallowgate for his league debut against Watford and knowing it was a turning point. What a total legend #nufc

Each time I join a party, within ~8 weeks I get so riled up with mentalist nonsense from other members I leave. If you're Green & wishing Reform victory over Burnham in Makerfield, you're fucking daft, not progressive. That doesn't mean the Greens shouldn't bargain hard for standing aside!

accidentally deleted the old post. Exactly this - lovely to hear Burnham taking the correct weapon to the fight. Reform as ex-Tories responsible for the rot, rather than the usual performative anti-immigration crap

A cynical bureaucrat endlessly lamenting the old world & farting into the void, a neglected understudy who fights for the system but can't remember why, a team of hapless narcissists & weirdos, and a world they hate which nonetheless constantly propels them into grudging action to defend it.

Their circumstances aren't rigid. They're clearly excellent if deeply flawed spies. But it's not the flaws that prevent escape... it's institutionalised passivity. Which is both anti-dramatic & an excellent analysis of modern Britain. Fuck me... is it actually the most socially relevant sitcom ever?

Finding latest series of Slow Horses v frustrating. It's essentially sitcom but unlike Del Boy, Lister, Basil, or Baldrick - Jackson and River both have the wherewithal to leave but choose not to, and the reason is never explained. It's really annoying! This skeet brought to u by Sat morn laziness

Poor old Steve Reed doing his best impersonations of both 'dog in burning house', and 'condemned man tied to stake', on the news this morning

This is super cool: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Parachuting someone in to run as an MP, in a constituency they have no connection with, bypassing the normal democratic processes - who would ever do such a thing?

Labour literally just blotted out potentially the most damaging Farage story there's ever been! Almost to the minute! Even though they must have known it was coming. They actually just did that! Makes Theresa May's 2017 campaign look like political genius. 🤡

New post: Embodied Disintegration. On post-viva collapse, single parenting, and the meritocrat voice in my head. Would love if you read it. #adhd #phdsky

Informative in here the reactions to the implied critique of class. My point, I think, stands. Most people don't identify as middle class, and identity determines voting. For ~20 years these people haven't been voting to protect a settlement — rather 'is the alternative less shit than what we have'

This is, of course, the middle class reading - the status quo being policies that preserve wealth, property, & credentialed privilege. For most of everyone else it's 'how bad is the status quo vs is the alternative possibly less economically punitive.' Thus populist alternatives

Most people (including me) don't have a Westminster view on the world. We get lampooned by journos in the Westminster bubble, but most just want some fucker in power to enrich everyday lives, rather than billionaires' lives

The laser focus on personalities rather than what they would do to change things says *everything* about UK politics. 'Ed or Andy? Fuck poverty, who has the most big brown eyes?'

There is no strange phenomena around the churn in Prime Ministers. It's not particularly hard to figure out: the country was systematically asset stripped, the public got mugged, and a succession of ministers perpetuated it while blaming people of colour & Europeans.

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.

Utterly, utterly horrifying. Please note this piece comes with a content warning.

Brilliant resignation letter. Speaking for everyone in the country who voted Labour but feels utterly let down by the milk sauce of 'Starmerism', and alienated by his often crass deconstruction of the Labour base

Wow. The post-viva crash is *real*. #phdsky #academicsky

Slightly increase a band Red Floyd

It's a bit concerning to say the least, that in a party of ~400 MPs and a huge majority, there're only 4 leadership contenders and none of them will risk their political careers to contend.

He just needs a bit more time to think of some.

Hopes and dreams

Still low on confidence, but we look so much more front-footed. Burn slow but we know that. Woltemade just needs a goal to boost him. One of Osula's Tasmanian devil turns will come good. We're all good #nufc

Most dangerous we've looked in attack all season. Enjoying this #nufc

Zia Yusuf on BBC news could've been speaking for the BNP a decade ago. The super rich using far right propaganda as a stealth weapon to win power. Why isn't their wealth foregrounded more in the news when they bang on about elites?

Starmerites: we'll face electoral oblivion if we change leader 2 years in. The electoral oblivion ship:

My constantly-on #adhd brain... Me: Get PhD. Go out and get drunk. Wake up fuzzy. Body: How's about let's have a lie down day, brain. Brain: No way! Time to work! What's next? What's next? What's next? Go! Go! Go! #academicsky #phdsky

I think it's more about what they're wilfully refusing to see

Seems we really are, as a whole, a country of cap doffers desperate to be ruled over by wealthy landowners and oligarchs

I am now officially... DOCTOR CHRIS. The artist will see you now #phdsky

In a dramatic third act complication: Viva pants were handed back to the store by a very kind person. Yay! Dramatic twist: Power cut across the whole campus today. Dun dun duuuuuuhhhhhn.

Good luck to the Greens today. Sock it to 'em. 💚

In other viva prep news: went and bought myself a nice new pair of pants to go with a lovely shirt. Promptly left pants on train.

in which a recruitment agent sends repeated texts asking for proof of NI so I can get paid, from a number I can't respond to, after *four* emails in 4 months I've sent providing proof of NI. Eat your heart out Kafka.