As if the ambient temperature in the North Macedonian capital isn’t sweltering enough, here is some sizzling Skopje #brutalism to get you all hot under the collar

People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.

I’ve never heard anything but the most amazing things about Dolly Parton (and her Glastonbury set was out of this world). She was a gift to our world and will be sorely missed.

OK, so when were you all going to tell me Rylan Clarke now manages Fulham!?

Good job I got a ticket in advance for this FKK Vardar game….

They aren’t. It’s only really US cities that are leaning into motornormativity. Major European, African, South American and Asian cities are all pushing for de-car-ing.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7d ago

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?

Optimist; the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Everton fan under the age of 30: what the hell is a cup?

I did a four hour round trip to get this, and managed to get a speeding ticket for my troubles, so you lot now HAVE to watch it to make it worth my time

Oli Mould on TikTok

I took a FOUR HOUR round trip to film this, and got a speeding ticket for my troubles so please like, share and comment to make it worth it! #travel #edutok #history #politics #fyp

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But let’s keep blaming universities and ‘Mickey Mouse degrees’ for low employment stats

Job vacancies at five-year low as smaller firms scale back recruitment

Small firms cite labour and operating costs as reasons for scaling back hiring, the UK's statistics body says.

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#JasonArday phoned me a few days ago to talk to someone who knows what media abuse feels like. His untimely death shows why we need part 2 of the Leveson enquiry into media conduct

Plagiarism is epistemic colonialism so it’s totally ok when white people do it.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2w ago

After Stock professed extremist ideology twice this past week (e.g. disabled women are faking; autistic people and people with ADHD are 'unsuited' for academia) and being billed as an expert during the Arday plagiarism scandal, I forgot until now that Stock was involved in her own plagiarism scandal

Sending love to Jason Arday's family and friends. He was subject of sustained and malicious media attacks which were no doubt more vicious because he was Black. We must now reflect on the impact of a trial by some of the media and online on someone under extreme pressure.

He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert.

When you think about it, it's actually pretty cool that the UK government has a button they can press to make everyone with a phone immediately shit their pants.

Having spent the last couple of days neck deep in clearing systems (for the first time), it really gives a glimpse into the marketised nature of HE. It felt like a feeding frenzy. Having to talk to anxious, emotional and stressed students with a sales pitch felt incredibly jarring.

I feel so proud to work alongside these amazing, eloquent and inspiring colleagues 😍✊ The closure of the Geography programme is a loss for the whole Penryn campus, and for young people in Cornwall.

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 2w ago

The UK is in its fifth heatwave. Wildfires. Drought. Record-breaking heat. Exeter University’s response? Close Geography in Cornwall and put vital climate expertise at risk. We need this expertise more than ever. #DefendExeterUni

Finished 'Kingdom of Death' by Christopher Ruocchio, the 4th book in the Sun Eater series, and it's an absolute belter. The best in the series so far (the are 7 apparently). Quickly becoming the best scifi space opera I've ever read (including Dune, the Expanse, the Culture and more).

There's a special place in hell for people who put OTHER PEOPLE'S UNPUBLISHED WORK into an LLM to review it or to give feedback. It's one thing to churn out slop to pass off as your own; that's only damaging you. But DON'T give OTHER people's unfinished writing freely to tech firms!!

BRING BACK CAPS ON STUDENT NUMBERS. NOW www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are the UK's top universities really 'hoovering up' students?

The most selective universities have seen the biggest rise in students accepted onto their courses for 2026.

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I didn’t think it was possible for McCoist and Fletcher to get any more “old men shouting at clouds” yet here we are… #PSGAVL

Remember it’s safe to look at the eclipse if you’re wearing Meta glasses. Look for as long as you can if you have those.

God has a very strange sense of humour in that she gives us one of the most magnificent wonders of the universe - a solar eclipse - but she makes it so our biological eyes can't actually look at it. Top trolling.

So basically, Infantino is a rival colonizer?

This is also a factor of the content/IP machine in that people have dissociated writing style, prose and general immersion with the 'plot'. These losers read simply to find out what happens next, and that is a major symptom of the Netflixisation of content.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Heatwaves are sexist. Biologically, women evidence less heat tolerance with less good thermoregulation, particularly at times of hormonal cycles and imbalances (periods, menopause etc.) Socially, women tend to have to stay at home more in hot homes & there's evidence domestic violence increases.

Went to the 1996 britpop exhibition at the Barbican Library, and while small, it’s a great nostalgic trip and reawakens some of the utopian politics of the time

He's talking about one of the 'parties' on Epstein Island

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump sounds like a total freak talking about "beautiful, healthy, lovely, delicate little children"

"Managing the process of neither war nor peace, up to the point of victory" is quite the phrase

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Iran is now publicly talking about what I’ve been saying since this war started: They’re trying to Jimmy Carter him, and he’s letting it happen while telling everyone he’s winning.

Listen! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talks to @olimould.bsky.social about the urgent “Postcapitalist cities: Towards a common urban future” newbooksnetwork.com/postcapitali...