Assholes who make fun of people eulogizing their dogs: There aren't many places for folks to do that, and it's a big moment in some people's lives they weren't exactly ready for. So shut the hell up and let them do it.
Martin Paul Eve
@eve.gd
Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
If moderation tools were made available only to those who never ever have an unpopular opinion, none of us would have moderation. So I suppose it'd be nice if we stopped the fake incredulity about people using their blocks/mutes as they wish. It's only ever cringe to complain about it.
look, I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up but I think I may have discovered something incredible on worldcat
Make a little girl excited about being generous
Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 8h agoMy friend's daughter is donating her hair to make wigs for children with cancer. The world is terrible. There are so many worthwhile causes to support. But a little girl giving her hair to another very sick child is so pure. Hopeful. Do donate if you can. www.justgiving.com/page/lyra-ha...
Properly gone at the idea of having this awarded like a corporate award gigs in one of those massive but soulless business hotel ballrooms, with Romesh Ranganathan hosting.
Civil Service World@civilserviceworld.bsky.social · 6h agoBritish foreign intelligence agency ranked top in Europe in Ballon d'Or and Eurovision-inspired competition www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
This doesn't include government spending so it's actually about half the estimated oer household cost calculated by Moody's. Either way, the price is going up.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h agoBrown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time
theregister.com
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
theguardian.com
"We need to undo people’s view of dependency as a source of shame (...) centring the principles of the disability justice movement is a good place to start."
Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 11h ago"Look around at the paltry nods to accessibility in our public spaces or the degrading assessments of people seeking to claim disability benefits. For people who have lived their lives independently and able-bodied, the slip into dependency can be hard to accept" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My friend's daughter is donating her hair to make wigs for children with cancer. The world is terrible. There are so many worthwhile causes to support. But a little girl giving her hair to another very sick child is so pure. Hopeful. Do donate if you can. www.justgiving.com/page/lyra-ha...
Lyra's fundraiser for Little Princess Trust
Help Lianne d raise money to support Little Princess Trust
justgiving.com
Every morning, just before my writing time, I do some walking practice with help from my wife. This is very difficult. My left hip needs replacing and so is very, very painful. My right replaced hip means my leg is turned out. I lose my balance and fall at the smallest camber. It's hard. Very hard.
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
Pro tip: regardless of the field you want to major in or do graduate work in, favor universities with good humanities and arts. I can give you the long explanation, but you can think of them as hard to fake signals of many things that are important in unis that are hard to evaluate from the outside.
"Look around at the paltry nods to accessibility in our public spaces or the degrading assessments of people seeking to claim disability benefits. For people who have lived their lives independently and able-bodied, the slip into dependency can be hard to accept" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What if older people refuse help outside the family? This is the taboo that could wreck care reform | Emily Kenway
Many fear losing their independence if they agree to care workers looking after them. Any social care review must take this on board, says Emily Kenway, a social policy doctoral researcher
theguardian.com
From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.
Today’s arguments about disability benefits have been raging for 500 years
From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.
theconversation.com
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Virtual Conference Announcement! The Society for Disability Studies is excited to announce our call for papers, themed Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World. sites.google.com/DisStudies.o...
SDS Conference 2027
Call for Papers Note: A text-only version of the information below is available as a Google Doc at this link.
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I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.
Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterdayThe Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.
Tragic to think how few whales will have had the opportunity to read Moby Dick due to basic accessibility issues. 1) English-to-whale translation not yet that advanced; 2) flipper-to-page ratio; 3) omg, that book is getting soggy.
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2d agoOne of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old. Original post
I used to enjoy getting emails from people to say that they enjoyed reading one of my books; now it’s a time-consuming source of suspicion and wondering for what purpose AI is being employed to manipulate me.
'A survey of 381 members of the Society of Radiographers revealed a “noticeable” rise in instances of overt racism experienced and witnessed by radiographers across the health service over the past 18 months.' This has been actively enabled by politicians and media. That's a choice being made.
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
theguardian.com
This Rod Liddle? Credit for image and alt text: @snig.bsky.social
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
'The simple disagreement about a few inches of land escalated into an all out war, with the Gibsons left devastated when the News removed a "sentimentally valuable" squirrel ornament from a post between the houses.' www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Couple face huge court bill after losing neighbours fight over ornamental squirrel
The simple disagreement about a few inches of land escalated into an all out war
independent.co.uk