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“I’m going to the conference featuring fascists and eugenicists, but I’ll be shaking my head the whole time so people know I disagree with them.”

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I’m enjoying Katja Hoyer’s Beyond the Wall and am very tickled by the idea of trying to combine yodelling and twisting

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I’ve gotten pretty good at packing for trips thanks to my ever expanding packing list but today I managed to pack several dresses and nary a pair of tights

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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Put on a jumpsuit this morning, thought, I should wear this more it looks good, then remembered that it takes fifteen minutes to pee while I’m wearing it

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NHS nurses: please pay us more money so that we have what we need and can attract adequate staff to the profession. Wes Streeting: Would a detatched from reality plea help at all?

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(guy whose business is entirely government contracts) we’re going to run the government like a business

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Incredibly shocking development which ought to be a source of shame for everyone responsible, journalists and politicians alike

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It has come to my attention that not nearly enough of you know about Bernd das Brot, the German children's program about a clinically depressed loaf of bread who enjoys studying his wallpaper and eating gruel and whose catchphrases include "my life is hell" and "I would like to leave this show."

submitted 6 days ago • 181 comments

Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013

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AAR deadline is about to be extended to 10th March! My two big bits of advice in case they're helpful: your abstract does NOT need to be 1000 words (300ish is fine!); and if you're able to pull together a panel proposal with other people that does increase your chance of success #aarsbl #sblaar

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New: Ex-Twitter workers keep winning severance claims against Elon Musk. Employees are 20 for 20 so far in getting full severance from Musk via arbitration, including four people who were laid off after the "Fork in the Road" ultimatum www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Tomorrow Cambridge University will go to the High Court seeking to impose an unprecedented ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university. This is a major assault on longstanding principles of freedom of expression and assembly on campus. (1/8)

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Fancy a stay at the gorgeous Gladstone's Library to work on a new writing project? You've got until Friday to apply for the Freelance Writing Jobs bursary. freelancewritingjobs.substack.com/p/the-freela...

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One thing that's gone under-reported: Workers and communities are protesting hospitals that comply in advance with Trump's anti-trans EOs. And in some cases they're having an impact. Children's Hospital of LA recently lifted restrictions on hormone treatments, & workers say it was due to protests.

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apropos of nothing found this in the depths of my meme folder:

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Alongside feeding a general climate of fear and outrage around trans people, this panic actually serves to normalise sexual assault by police by appealing to - and thus creating - the fiction of an "ethical" strip search

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I just filled this out and it was pretty straightforward with the ALCS guidance:

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for a brief moment i was worried i've been misgendering balibar

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So The Empusium is basically just The Magic Mountain but sarcastic?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

On this day in 2015, I made this flowchart for my Ancient Greek survey course. It still hits 🎯 (and yes, I made it first).

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I think this is a central feature of charismatic church life, too, and is tied in with worries about the 'feminisation' of Christianity

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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

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I watched a video of Rowan Williams on facebook and have gotten increasingly mad about it, went to try to find it again, and of course it's just lost forever in the mists of the algorithm

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truly wild that plenty of centre-left parties would be too cowardly to use this slogan which should be entirely uncontroversial for any nominally left party (looking at you, Labour)

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From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . . The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

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Like clockwork 2022: management gives a consultancy a load of money so the advice they give cannot be denied (because: money... (?)) Consultancy's boilerplate advice: reduce uni to something bland with shrunk programmes and no input from the experts 2025: crashed student recruitment & job losses

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I don't want to alarm you all, but someone has put the entire Mr Blobby VHS is up on the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/mr-b...

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

We asked a robot to tell us whether it would be acceptable to say the hard R if it would prevent the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a populated city and its answer, the statistical prediction of the most likely words to come next based on millions of pirated books, surprised and frightened us

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