Oh this is GREAT 😁

8647Russ@massivruss.bsky.social · 21h ago

OK this discourse is WAY worse than the "do you soap your legs in the shower" one. Dear god.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

On the Arday case; this is very good.

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 3d ago

New post: those wanting Jason Arday to face 'justice' of some kind are not going to get what they want willd10.substack.com/p/how-the-ja...

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

These are hysterical!

AJfromBrooklyn@ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.

Lowest number of graduate job openings since 2020. This is a core labour market problem that universities cannot fix, but routinely get the blame for.

UK graduate job openings fall to lowest level since pandemic

Indeed’s findings point to challenge facing Andy Burnham to boost youth unemployment and cut welfare bill

ft.com

Yes, the long COVID estimates with children can be especially scary… Some suggest it is now equal or more common than asthma is children. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Hey @lewisgoodall.com here is our Lancet article on Long COVID. Happy to chat. www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

School closures had devastating effects on children. We see this first hand with covid cohorts coming through university and really struggling, socially as well as mental-health-wise and academically. But what was the option, when it DID spread amongst children and to adults? Death and disablement?

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

Speaking as an erstwhile orchestral viola player — GOD I hate Bolero.

Jay Rayner@jayrayner1.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bolero is an extraordinary piece of music: a soloist’s piece, for orchestra; a rhythmic exercise; a vibe. But right now I just keep thinking about the percussionist on the snare, and how Ravel must just have hated drummers.

I did not have Boy George turning into Morrissey on my 2026 bingo card.

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 3d ago

Now THAT's a headline

How old do you think you look? I’ve watched my face and body as it changes over the years. I’ve tried to take care of myself but the goal is to feel well (physically and emotionally) not to look ‘young’. So I think I look my 58 years and I’m ok with that. Pic: me at Trans Pride last week.

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

If we’re discussing covid, back in August 2020 the Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, introduced a programme that subsidised £850m for people to congregate in enclosed spaces and get infected with the disease that killed people, then the state broadcaster depicted him as a superhero

Do tune into Channel 4 tonight (Saturday) to watch this doc on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's fantastic, despite me.

Great-grandparents, as my oldest grandparent was 13 in 1926: Obviously I would be a wife as very few women had jobs. But I would be educated to university level, and the wife of a well-known and high-placed Congregational minister (two of four great-grandmothers), or a farmer's wife (the other two)

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?

Aaah the Leto story is finally emerging from plain site. I wrote one of my interactions with him here, the most palatable. What I also witnessed was much less amusing. open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

Working science into great movies, and also with Jared Leto

The joys of being a science advisor on movies, and the HORROR.

open.substack.com

Jason Arday is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them. Stand up to their hate and division by adding your name. goodlawproject.org/s/3ec4c0

Stand up to hate and division by adding your name.

Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them.

goodlawproject.org

As an Australian citizen, I give thanks every day to this holy trilogy.

Many folk consider Australia’s compulsory voting anathema to ‘freedom’, but I would argue that they are looking at it from the wrong perspective. A thread. 🧵 #auspol 1/9

I bloody love @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social translations of the Homeric epics, and here she is on Start the Week in full flow www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Start the Week - The Iliad and the right to rule - BBC Sounds

Adam Rutherford with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard and Ben Riley-Smith

bbc.co.uk

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · last wk.

The *first* comment on The Sunday Times interview with Emily Wilson about her translation of The Odyssey and views on Nolan’s film is: “Tattoos are never a good idea.” Some bloke more bothered by the surface of Wilson’s arms than her extremely interesting thoughts.

The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.

I have been spending a long weekend in Italy mostly just sitting with my beloved best friend who is very ill in bed. I have not had such wonderful conversations about ideas and Indian history and culture and literature in literally years. I feel like I have been starved of nutrients.

Again, the most important legal and ethical issue raised by this is something like "no you didn't, that's a lie, that didn't happen"

Actual professor of genetics Adam Rutherford says 'no he hasn't'. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs

‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur

independent.co.uk

🟡 Print Edition: ‘There’s a Value in What We Produce Because We Feel – and an AI Chatbot Can’t Feel’ Hardeep Matharu meets Kate Devlin, Professor of AI & Society at King’s College London, to explore how relationships with AI companions aren’t particularly new, why… Read the full story below.

‘There’s a Value in What We Produce Because We Feel – and an AI Chatbot Can’t Feel’

Hardeep Matharu meets Kate Devlin, Professor of AI & Society at King’s College London, to explore how relationships with AI companions aren’t particularly new, why she believes the under-16s social media ban is flawed…

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🇬🇧 "The capital’s homicide rate has fallen to the lowest level in recorded history on a per capita basis. It’s now lower than that in Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, Paris – and every US state." London is not lawless. It is a myth used to sow fear about multiculturalism and diversity.

If you’ve heard that London is dystopian and dangerous – read this. It just isn’t | Sadiq Khan

Britain’s capital has faced social media, press and political attacks designed to make residents and tourists feel unsaf

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