people are pointing out that this is obviously antisemitic, and it is, but one notes that this is sort of the natural endpoint of building your entire political identity around cultural criticism.

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My "Neferkare is established and living" cartouche is raising a lot of questions already answered by my cartouche

So we did appoint a Minister for Drought, then.

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I’m not getting into the merits of the whole Arday story but - come on, word count is bullshit and the people in academia who care about word count need to get a life.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · yesterday

Calls for the Office for Students to investigate Liverpool John Moores University, after it passed Jason Arday's PhD thesis despite plagiarism and the thesis being 38,000 words over word count. He says received just one supervision in 2.5 years. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

excerpts of these remarks should be read out to every Tory being interviewed while this guy remains an approved party candidate

Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · yesterday

The judge's sentencing remarks when this man was jailed for antisemitic harassment of Luciana Berger are absolutely horrifying www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

also, tax haven microstates have to raise their income tax three times right now or we will simply no longer protect their banks from cyberattacks

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guys i'm starting to wonder if þæt wæs god cyning after all

richie@theregoesrichie.bsky.social · 4d ago

post your worst draft

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Introducing a 'new' 'written' constitution is an incredibly high risk manoeuvre with almost no actual upside. It weakens the longstanding norms you actually rely upon just when you need them most. Tho tbh I think it's vanishingly unlikely to be done so I'm not all that worried.

The pissing about with the constitution will continue until the difficult problems get easier.

Jennifer Williams@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bluesky catnip: written constitution talk plus detailed devolution things as.ft.com/r/a78e8a40-2...

I will have power and I will eat under the branches of the tree of Hathor my mistress, who made offering of bread, beer and corn in Heliopolis. (BDF)

Students who need to remain local will no longer be able to study History, English, Philosophy etc. That means working class, carers, mature students etc etc

Bath has corrected the post now to reflect a video of the interview which shows prof arday did not suggest he had joined a professional snooker tour. How an interview where he said he wasn't good enough to be professional was transcribed as Arday saying he joined a pro tour is a hell of an error.

Scott Wortley@scottwortley.bsky.social · last wk.

Others can comment on plagiarism and Prof Arday but I note one oddity about snooker in his bio. In an interview when at Bath blogs.bath.ac.uk/vice-preside... he said he had joined a professional snooker tour. Jason Arday played in the English amateur championship in 2002. He lost 4 0 in the 1st rd

I bring you the menu-beverage that gives brilliance to your ka. (OGC)

The term "Black Pharaohs" is a classic example of colonial racism in modern Egyptology No serious scholar would ever refer to the Ptolemaic dynasty as "White Pharaohs" Egypt had 5 foreign dynasties (Hyksos "Asiatics", Libyans, Kushites, Persians, Greeks), but only one of them is othered this way

Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ram's-head Amulet Third Intermediate Period, Kushite Period ca. 712–664 BCE

eating a bunch of books to keep up with ai

mildly funny that people who have not been to the mainland do not realize Canada (at least for now) is to the left of the mainland on public healthcare (though the Chinese state is getting close to universal provision)

Wannabe Apparatchik@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 6d ago

the other part is that most americans think “socialist” means “universal healthcare” and “welfare state” so obviously communist china would have those, because americans mostly don’t consider it possible for other places to have different politics than the united states, the center of the universe

Root and branch reform, sack the lot, prosecute some of them.

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You can't force kids to major in engineering. Lots of those immigrant engineers have traditionally been Chinese. Manufacturing economies are ecosystems. You can't make a couple of policy changes and suddenly have one.

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