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Our new blackboard finally arrived! Look how shiny and new it is..! Reposting one of my favourite earworms to celebrate.

My worst nightmare at work was sharing an open plan office! My idea of hell … and to this day I don’t get how people can work in coffee shops!

Let’s see…

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

He refuses to call it genocide — because even acknowledging the risk would trigger legal duties and raise serious questions about complicity and criminal liability. Instead we get mealy-mouthed theatrics from this PM. It is a genocide and the UK is actively facilitating it.

And here am I, trying to write a short proposal for a fellowship and still doing background research and reading rather than using ChatGTP! Just because … 😏

🔴‘A Warning From Europe on Why Keir Starmer’s ‘Blue Labour’ Strategy Is Such a Dangerous Dead End’ Attempts by centre left parties to mimic the right on immigration almost always ends up strengthening the far right parties they hope to defeat, reports Olly Haynes bylinetimes.com/2025/06/05/e...

We tried to explain. You refused to listen, and instead listened to the liars and charlatans on the other side.

Good article, well worth the read. Captures perfectly how much has changed ("Wombles for Europe") and yet how the UK is back to the same arguments as in the 60s and 70s about identity and sovereignty. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

The joy of ChatGTP, if only those using it could understand how it works and its limitations, but everyone is an expert on AI nowadays w/o even understanding what LLM are… my fight for STEM education continues!

zeteo.com/p/an-ongoing... The created Israel and because of their guilt, they allowed Israel to violate every law in the book

Oh well … it applies to all non-EU/EFTA citizens, it’s not a punishment travelobiz.com/ees-delay-20...

🔥 Well said these MPs. This government now appears to be deliberately misleading the house on their position on Israel & Gaza. Everyone write to your MPs and ask where their voice is.

Conservative MP Kit Malthouse speaking in the UK Parliament, "Israel has replaced the UNRWA distribution centres with a shooting gallery, an abattoir where civilians are lured out to be shot."