Is substack the one run by Nazis? Is there one that everyone is using that isn't run by Nazis?

Dropped my jacket potato with beans and cheese (classic, sophisticated, autumnal, mature) on the floor so had to air fry some oven chips with beans and cheese (unsophisticated, immature).

Reading + Leeds lineup and vibe this year confirms, once again, that Daphne and Celeste won.

Closest thing we get to peak Twitter Cameron fucking a pig is collective finger wagging about national alerts about BBQs.

Vaguely related point, but I oversaw someone on a train Google search "how frequent are trains running from Bristol to Bath on a weekday" or some other very long winded way of asking the question, and then only looking at the AI returns. Click your train app and see when the next one is, please.

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · last mo.

One thing I have noticed since the adoption of AI is how many more people will use other people on social media as a chatbot: asking for easily searchable facts (even in the era of search engine decay) or asking questions answered downthread

It always amazes me during an academic scandal how little people understand about qual work and its role in knowledge production, but how loudly they criticize it.

I fear we judged Trump too harshly for looking directly at the eclipse.

The really fucking dystopian end of days type climate change news got here quicker than I was expecting, to be quite honest.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · last mo.

“Experts say camels comfortably beat the heat up to 40C…(but) in many parts of the Sahara, summer temperatures now frequently exceed 50C… (and) the unprecedented intensity of current heatwaves directly threatens their vital functions, turning this historically resilient animal into a climate victim”

While we are investigating academics promoted with very little quality or impact in their research, can someone tell me how Stock reached professor at Sussex with their pre-transphobia scholarship?!

Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · last mo.

In a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"

This whole Arday mess feels as much, if anything, as the logical endpoint of the academic ⭐superstar⭐ system. It's never been good or healthy for anyone.

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · last mo.

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

No, I don't think I will.

Maybe businesses need to start actually paying to train their own workers rather than decrying the fucking fact that students don't know exactly how to do the job you're hiring them for.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last mo.

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I might start dressing exclusively like a mid- to late-20th century masked professional wrestler because every look fucking rocks.

@amosmurphy.bsky.social I've never shouted at a football podcast so much as me shouting that you've got to be having soybeans for the tofu.

I've also been surprised by how little appetite there has been for anything resembling a liberal arts model, not just top down but from colleagues as well.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Strip away the grandiose language and a pattern emerges – some combination of fewer, larger modules, almost always wedges of 30 credits, an all-core or heavily prescribed first year, reduced optionality in later years, curated pathways instead of individual module choice... [cont.] 1/4

If they hadn't completely destroyed British cultural studies, there would be whole conferences dedicated to vaping cultures in just completely unhinged ways. None of these white papers on the culture industries (but not how Adorno meant it).

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 2mo ago

If British Universities want to continue to thrive and stay relevant, they need to adapt and operate more in line with British economy and business, which is thriving and relevant.

It's very good having a one year old because she finds everything I do funny. I danced to the coffee machine noises, huge reaction, comedy genius. I assume this state of affairs continues forever.

In a world of AI slop, it's kind of refreshing to see the type of take that could emerge from the id of some of the world's most unhinged people promulgated in the dying embers of conservative print news.

Sean Bell@seancmbell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I stand by this, but even I wasn't expecting the Spectator to publish a hatchet job on Anthony Bourdain, written by a far-right influencer, which opens by *approvingly quoting the Unabomber*

What would it say about the psyche* of someone who claimed to believe they were about to birth an era of universal abundance who took a detour to cut global aid in the present.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

I refuse to believe that independently everyone in the UK just decided to start using "picky bits" like they'd always called food that.

Live action Moana is so bad it makes The Rock look like he was miscast for his own role.

Andrew Tate isn't wearing those flamboyant clothes because he's secretly queer or because he has no taste, he's working heel and knows that you'll hate him more for wearing them. He's an evil piece of shit, but he understands the game better than most commentators.

Burnham is far from perfect, but a huge chunk of sensible reaction to him is that the government is the source of all the country's problems, but that no government could *ever* solve these problems.

Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Seen a few people saying rough sleeping policy isn’t aimed at median public concern. Quite apart from any policy/moral imperative it really is - rough sleeping comes up time again in focus groups as one of the most visible signs of Broken Britain and community decline!

Messi's late era heel turn about as enjoyable and considered as John Cena's.

It's so frustrating how good the sporting product FIFA offers is because everything else is fucking atrocious.

No notes. 10/10.

I've lived through a decade of club and country having the best ten years either will ever have and it's still pain outweighs pleasure. It's a hobby for fucking sickos.