for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

Quite amazed at the amount of typos and grammar errors on the BBC website. What's going on there that didn't happen before?

what a week for sociology

since we're talking about dead writers saying weird things about children, can we talk about how I still have to read stuff citing wittgenstein

is it ok to already hate the Ted Lasso S4 concept to go with my general 'meh' about the series as a whole

Ah, the moon on a stick stage of shoring up a share price.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

It's been my outspoken opinion of well over a decade that Tulisa is a national hero who deserves nothing but the best in life (.. and the one good X Factor judge back in the day)

‘This isn’t some vendetta’ – Tulisa Contostavlos on taking on the tabloids, sex tapes and shame

The N-Dubz and X Factor star’s career went into freefall after an elaborate sting by the Sun on Sunday, and she’s still campaigning for tougher press regulation. But will it work?

theguardian.com

But will she get any grief about this? I doubt it. The political commentators gave her a pass on saying the Tories were back in May.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 9h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Wouldn't it have been great if the SpaceX rocket could have at least taken out one of the American flags on the Moon.

got a text today from an unknown number asking me if I'd seen Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and if I had any thoughts on it ... it turned out to be from a friend's new number, but for a while I really thought it was a devious new scam targeted at heterosexual men

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Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

well, I'll give you jobs if you give me £200m and call me baroness mone

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 21h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

It’s horrible and bleak but it’s also grimly funny that, even as the press have decisively chosen to reimpose Labour vs the Tories as a more manageable system, the Tory leader is underlining that she is so disastrously stupid, she’s incapable of being normal and not embarrassing everybody involved.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

theguardian.com

I did a talk 10 years ago but never published on Bourdieu in the age of algorithms and talking about how our MCAs have been turned against us. Ho hum.

Josh Bowsher@jbowsher.bsky.social · yesterday

"Bourdieu may now work for the bank as his conceptual toolbox has been captured and operationalised by finance and its data infrastructures to rank and manage risk."

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

just plain centrist clickbait now

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

Great news for any South American countries who elect a mildly left of centre government this year.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterday

The US has now used up 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, Reuters World News reports.

gonna go all emily wilson in a minute about people being disappointed about House of the Dragon's lack of fidelity to the original text

Yuto Ice vs Yota Tsuji makes me feel sad for people who think chops have no plac in wrestling.

Great news. I'm from Lewis and have always found this weird even before I appreciated it was cruel.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: The Scottish Government’s environment agency has officially blocked the centuries-old Western Isles 'guga hunt' from going ahead this year 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

womens safety advocates in memory of convicted domestic abusers

Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d ago

Dear god

Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness

🚨On 8th Sept. the BSA Digital Sociology Study Group are holding an event at University of Salford Media City Campus to map our future direction. We want to hear from digital sociology researchers in the field to shape our plans, so if you'd like to be involved you can register at the link below 👇

Liverpool John Moores University, where Jason Arday got his PhD, is currently offering £203 as a PhD examiner’s fee. Their PhD’s should have a maximum length of 80,000 words. That’s a novel of about 300 pages. Let’s assume it takes you 10 hours, between reading, checking citations and making notes.

Football Associations about to make out withdrawing support for someone they supported is taking a moral stand

why are the BBC still describing her as a democracy icon?

Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar military releases photo of detained former leader

Photos newly released by Myanmar's military government show Suu Kyi meeting with an ICRC official.

bbc.co.uk

getting ready to post tomorrow about how I, a 41 year old man, can be an example to young people of not being limited after doing poorly in high school exam results.

Often wonder about the prospect of these unstaffed higher education institutions just sitting there earning revenue with a healthy balance sheet but doing nothing. This seems to be the current management dream for the sector.

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)