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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

The link between "cutting red tape" and "more apprentices" is... what, exactly? Weaker qualifications required? Fewer health & safety checks? Lower standards of training from employers? Poorer educational links?

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

This is such a great magazine - African journalism by African journalists, delivered weekly for free via whatsapp. Subscribe: wa.me/27738056068?...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Always slightly worry the articles about how it's impossible to make art if you're from a working class background tend to reinforce the thing they say they deplore

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

My Sussex colleague Zahid Pranjol on ways the UK higher education sector can work in solidarity with Gaza: wonkhe.com/blogs/uk-uni...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Nobody actually has “immigration concerns” that Starmer can in any way address! They want someone to perform joyous cruelty on migrants, and he’s simply not got it in him to be joyous!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

good morning! www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/20...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 3 days ago • 389 comments

Unsurprisingly, Labour chasing after Reform has led to Reform demanding something even more extreme.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

This is, remarkably, more unpleasant when you read the article than the top line would suggest.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Faint sound of a long way off car playing Sigur Rós

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Metaphors getting increasingly heavy handed bsky.app/profile/joel...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

An air of abnormality pervades, so much for the world’s conscience

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submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

am about 172cms, both children over 192 and still growing, their dad about 198, the fun we could have with this if it weren’t so grim

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

the layout on that djt factsheet is horrendous

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

1/ Europe at Munich Security Conference looked like deer in Trump administration's headlights. How have we got this far without a concrete European plan for Ukraine to put on table? How is there still no proper consensus among major EU governments (+UK) on how far Europe is willing to step up?

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I like the way boxers clench their fists in photos so you know they’re boxers. Whenever you pose for a photo you should make it clear what your job is. I think that’s a fun thing to do

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

As Wes Streeting trumpets the role of the private sector in “saving the NHS”, it’s worth remembering what happened the only time a whole NHS hospital was handed to the private sector to run. The care failings - gaining the worst CQC rating ever - were chilling (& barely reported at the time):

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Problematic.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

'BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. It's a film that my colleague Yousef Hammash and I co-directed from London, because international journalists have not been allowed by Israel to enter the Gaza Strip and report independently since the start of the war 16 months ago.' 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

Two days ago I mentioned how the UK state solves problems by dictating a short-sighted ‘fix’ to a media panic, without any consideration to the obvious consequences of their actions—their response to the papers pissing blood over unis relying on international students is a paradigm example

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I am so sick of these "resist" types doing anti-slav xenophobia. The problem with Melania is that she is a fascist. Not that she is an immigrant. Also Slovenia and Russia are not the same fucking thing oh my god. Bonus sex worker shaming, of course.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

I like fiction and don't always trust people, but am confident that if an old man was stabbed in a room where no one reads fiction at all, a FTSE100 company, say, or a university, people would still get up and help ffs

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

mmm, not crazy about the curation on some of those - these are Brit/whoever/whatever values - icky tbh altho sympathetic that they’re directed towards dangerous monsters it’s difficult not to be derogatory about

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Chastising people for "opting out " like they do or even have a choice is quite a look. Especially if you (like Starmer) have a special law opting you out of, for example, tax.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Good to see @sarahowen.org.uk questioning Lab Women & Equalities team for an Impact Assessment of refugee citizenship changes. She rightly points out it impacts victims of trafficking & gendered-violence. I sincrerely doubt the assessment exists. All eyes on Bridget Philipson's written response...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

PSI: these people were not allowed in by a “loophole”, they were allowed in by an entirely correct and justifiable application of human rights laws which were strongly supported by the PM himself at a time when he believed in something

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

UK Minister - Govt will “ban bonuses if water company executives fail to meet high standards”. Thames Water said it will circumvent ban by increasing the base pay of company execs. Let customers to vote on exec pay. No offending exec would be rewarded, or escape accountability.

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

The link between "cutting red tape" and "more apprentices" is... what, exactly? Weaker qualifications required? Fewer health & safety checks? Lower standards of training from employers? Poorer educational links?

This is such a great magazine - African journalism by African journalists, delivered weekly for free via whatsapp. Subscribe: wa.me/27738056068?...

Always slightly worry the articles about how it's impossible to make art if you're from a working class background tend to reinforce the thing they say they deplore

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

My Sussex colleague Zahid Pranjol on ways the UK higher education sector can work in solidarity with Gaza: wonkhe.com/blogs/uk-uni...

Nobody actually has “immigration concerns” that Starmer can in any way address! They want someone to perform joyous cruelty on migrants, and he’s simply not got it in him to be joyous!

good morning! www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/20...

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

Unsurprisingly, Labour chasing after Reform has led to Reform demanding something even more extreme.

This is, remarkably, more unpleasant when you read the article than the top line would suggest.

Faint sound of a long way off car playing Sigur Rós

Metaphors getting increasingly heavy handed bsky.app/profile/joel...

An air of abnormality pervades, so much for the world’s conscience

am about 172cms, both children over 192 and still growing, their dad about 198, the fun we could have with this if it weren’t so grim

the layout on that djt factsheet is horrendous

1/ Europe at Munich Security Conference looked like deer in Trump administration's headlights. How have we got this far without a concrete European plan for Ukraine to put on table? How is there still no proper consensus among major EU governments (+UK) on how far Europe is willing to step up?

I like the way boxers clench their fists in photos so you know they’re boxers. Whenever you pose for a photo you should make it clear what your job is. I think that’s a fun thing to do

As Wes Streeting trumpets the role of the private sector in “saving the NHS”, it’s worth remembering what happened the only time a whole NHS hospital was handed to the private sector to run. The care failings - gaining the worst CQC rating ever - were chilling (& barely reported at the time):

Problematic.

'BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. It's a film that my colleague Yousef Hammash and I co-directed from London, because international journalists have not been allowed by Israel to enter the Gaza Strip and report independently since the start of the war 16 months ago.' 1/2

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Two days ago I mentioned how the UK state solves problems by dictating a short-sighted ‘fix’ to a media panic, without any consideration to the obvious consequences of their actions—their response to the papers pissing blood over unis relying on international students is a paradigm example

I am so sick of these "resist" types doing anti-slav xenophobia. The problem with Melania is that she is a fascist. Not that she is an immigrant. Also Slovenia and Russia are not the same fucking thing oh my god. Bonus sex worker shaming, of course.

I like fiction and don't always trust people, but am confident that if an old man was stabbed in a room where no one reads fiction at all, a FTSE100 company, say, or a university, people would still get up and help ffs

mmm, not crazy about the curation on some of those - these are Brit/whoever/whatever values - icky tbh altho sympathetic that they’re directed towards dangerous monsters it’s difficult not to be derogatory about

Chastising people for "opting out " like they do or even have a choice is quite a look. Especially if you (like Starmer) have a special law opting you out of, for example, tax.

Good to see @sarahowen.org.uk questioning Lab Women & Equalities team for an Impact Assessment of refugee citizenship changes. She rightly points out it impacts victims of trafficking & gendered-violence. I sincrerely doubt the assessment exists. All eyes on Bridget Philipson's written response...

PSI: these people were not allowed in by a “loophole”, they were allowed in by an entirely correct and justifiable application of human rights laws which were strongly supported by the PM himself at a time when he believed in something

UK Minister - Govt will “ban bonuses if water company executives fail to meet high standards”. Thames Water said it will circumvent ban by increasing the base pay of company execs. Let customers to vote on exec pay. No offending exec would be rewarded, or escape accountability.

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

hard to imagine an uglier, more malevolent object www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/m...

les magiciens n'existent pas