I believe Stancil (who I have no beef with) can be explained in evolutionary terms. Social media promotes argument - we agree that’s just an inherent feature of it. So it’s natural social media would produce a person who argues with anyone over anything at any time for any reason. Pure argument.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6h ago

Since people are still relentlessly abusing me over this, here’s why the so-called “boots theory” doesn’t make any sense. First, what is it? Some people have suggested I haven’t done the background reading, but it’s not a deep idea. It’s from a passage that’s four sentences long.

A first-year undergraduate describing themselves as “in the antepenultimate year of my degree”.

Putting it out there: my guess is that the Vinicius Junior saga ends with him signing a new contract at Madrid. It just smells that way. I would be delighted to be proven wrong.

Another morning of waking up, checking the news, hoping this will be the day…and another morning of being disappointed.

small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 15h ago

tell me about your town’s weird mall

i LOVED Star Wars. this was when the extended universe stuff was just kicking in. He put me down with Bantam Press etc as the shop rep. For YEARS after they sent me promo book covers, details of upcoming releases, posters, the odd freebie. Dude was a legend. hope he found happiness elsewhere /end

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

I’m failing to understand why a graduate tax isn’t the simplest solution. Based on actual income in a given year, rather than projections of future income. If they want to be equitable about it, take all prior HECS payments as a credit balance. theconversation.com/even-the-gov...

Even the government agrees Job-ready Graduates has failed. Here’s what should replace it

An arts degree under the Job-ready Graduates scheme will now cost more than $54,000.

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Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/

Another Nolan Odyssey take: I liked that Odysseus shows his “I am the thing which brings down my civilisation by ignoring the values which bind people together” through not caring about people getting properly buried. Less important to us, HUGELY important to the Greeks.

If I ever feel like I want to put my phone away, two-factor authentication is there to say “tough luck buddy”.

Any single year (perhaps any single month) in the 1990s produced more good music than the whole of the 1980s.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

That might be the most fun I’ve ever had watching football. #AFL

Of many astonishing things in this game: it’s not all on Cripps. He’s been fairly quiet. It’s everyone else. #AFL

To make a Carlton-related bad Latin pun: Florent, they sure do. #AFL

Well that was an astonishing quarter. I can’t remember the last time Carlton attacked like that. #AFL

Unsurprisingly, Hipwood is just as bad a defender as he is a forward. #AFL

this is my new favorite diagram

Missile strikes on Agrabah now “extremely likely” according to officials.

Lawprofblawg@lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wakanda is now a proud trading partner of the U.S. (Only slight satire) www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Rooting for a happy ending for that Weimar Republic

Babylon Berlin - Season 5 - Official Trailer (Beta Film)

YouTube video by Beta Film - Official Trailer Channel

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And if you want to know more, today I’m on Women’s Hour on the BBC talking all things kiss. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 5d ago

Kiss my ass: A history of shame and humiliation. @katieebarclay.bsky.social with a theme from her new book 'The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power'. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Since I have recently had some things come out, here's a mini-threat of published my work on citizenship 🧵

Tell me I’m wrong.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 6d ago

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Whenever I half-see that UEFA crest while scrolling it looks like the Bayern Munich crest.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d ago

European nations vow World Cup boycott over FIFA private investors plan

“Where I see the most woeful lack of understanding … the basic understanding of the tenets of our democracy, is in the adult population." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Governor general warns of ‘growing catastrophe’ that threatens to undermine democracy in Australia

Sam Mostyn says there is a widespread ‘failure to understand and engage with and feel proud of the very civic underpinnings of our democracy’

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Garbo (As in, a picker-up of garbage for Sydney City Council. Not a Hollywood actress.)

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

A point @adapalmer.bsky.social makes about identifying proto-atheists in the Renaissance: just because they opposed their society’s values, doesn’t mean they endorsed ours. People have come up with some weird and wacky moral positions.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon

What is taught in today’s graduate programs as macroeconomics is entirely useless for the kinds of questions we are interested in. Read more by @jwmason.bsky.social: evonomics.com/5-ways-to-re...

It’s common to think of the Second World War as bringing colonial practices home to Europe, especially re German conduct in the East. But has anyone made this argument about strategic bombing? I can see a through-line with interwar British colonial practices, and Harris is an imperialist caricature.