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Thread 👇. Relevant for ppl interested in Wales. And for people who might otherwise assume they can understand Wales through English lenses.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

This poll is extraordinary and would add Wales to the list of countries experiencing political earthquakes. Whether the #Senedd26 result looks like this exactly is ofc speculation but to think a century of Labour dominance could come to an end with them trailing Plaid Cymru and Reform is WILD

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

“The days of the unaccountable ivory tower” have indeed been over, certainly since tuition fees were introduced, probably since Thatcher abolished tenure. It’s all metrics and performance ratings and league tables now!

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

I was ready to accept a lot of disappointments from Labour in government but I wasn’t ready for them to sign up to insulting right wing tropes about universities, at a time when they need support more than ever. Disgusting

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Adobe Acrobat AI I swear to god if you try to show me a "summary" of the score to my opera I will hurl you into the sea

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Three options to get university finances stable again: 1. Keep/increase international students. 2. Higher fees for UK students. 3. More taxpayer funding. Anyone proposing to ditch 1 of these needs to explain what their plan is to plug the funding gap with the other 2.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

Here's a Reform party election leaflet... distributed in Kent in the run up to May 1st. It's making A LOT of promises there and mentions stopping the boats TWICE 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1291 comments

I would have definitely voted for the muppet. (Good job, Australia.)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

When people look back on this decade from 2050–while grappling with dictatorships and forest fires and heat waves—they’re going to be so confused and disgusted by the politics of the 2020s.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Oh my, this has come out of the blue

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

No more of these stories please, universe. Enough.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

He and Poilievre could do a podcast.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Magician: “Think of a number between 1 and 10” Archimedes: [thinking of Pi] Magician: “Have you thought of one yet?” Archimedes: [still thinking of Pi]

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

David Cameron destroyed the UK’s place in Europe to try to prevent this, less than a decade ago. Amazing.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Mae streiciau ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd wedi cael eu canslo ar ôl addewid na fydd yna unrhyw ddiswyddiadau gorfodol eleni

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“As Paymaster-General, I could so cook the accounts that, as Lord High Auditor, I should never discover the fraud. But then, as Archbishop of Titipu, it would be my duty to denounce my dishonesty and give myself into my own custody as First Commissioner of Police.”

submitted 90 days ago • 15 comments

<stares directly into the camera>

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

1) Waltz 2) Waltz 3) Walt's 4) Walts

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

submitted 5 days ago • 2010 comments

Absolutely bonkers

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Oh, it is this time of year again: did people in medieval Europe have a different relationship with work and free time than we do? Yes, of course. Did they just lie around half of the year doing nothing and enjoying their church-prescribed holidays and basked in their free time? No. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Palgrave is now doing Companions (long edited collections focused on a specific figure or method/approach) & I would love pitches for Palgrave Companions to: Beyoncé Boy Bands Kendrick Lamar Dolly Parton Any major music genre

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I had a right old rant about Tony Blair's ignorant, self-interested statement on The Jeremy Vine Show today. I mentioned that he has worked as a lobbyist for PetroSaudi, earning Tony Blair Associates £41,000/month, plus 2% of any deal he brokered. Starts 9 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

As a person who keeps a toe in both the Lonely Person community and the Magick is Real community, I can tell you that LLMs are absolutely devastating these people.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

this feels like an incredible new urban legend taking shape on reddit otoh I've lowkey seen this happen. like jerusalem syndrome but for talking to the computer

submitted 6 days ago • 134 comments

I do, increasingly, think that there’s more merit in the Conservative critique that too few Labour MPs have ever created a job than I realised. It’s easy to be casual about universities shuttering and how you’d fix with a more “active state” if your whole career has been in the public sector.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

ooh, an immediate reduction in emissions from the Tony Blair Institute

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This seat projection was from four months ago

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

This sounds like a scene from Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' (1985)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Ping! An email from the BBC Director General himself, Tim Davie. He wants my opinion* on the Future of the BBC. ' Aha, I think, a chance to say; 'put the arts back on TV!' But alas... 1/🧵 *(Not just mine, it's a mass email).

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Delighted that @royalphilsoc.bsky.social Award winning composer Katherine Balch is visiting @guildhallschool.bsky.social to present on her work this coming Friday 2nd May at 19:00 in the Music Hall. The event is free and open to all: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/com...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Wales not on target to meet health, climate and nature goals, says its future generations commissioner - Steven Morris reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We've extended the deadline on this to 6 May 2025! Don't forget we're around to chat if you want more info about whether this could be the perfect way for you to make a difference ❤️

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“Spain hit by blackouts after massive power outage, with Portugal also reportedly affected” Wild! Anyone from Spain or Portugal still online? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

when i say that there was a venture capitalist conspiracy against american democracy i cannot express how literal i am being

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments

A company called "The Woodlander Initiative Ltd" (TWI) has been purchasing plots of land in Cymru. According to HOPE not hate, TWI is “a land-buying scheme aimed at far-right activists and conspiracy theorists with links to Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s largest fascist group”.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments