This project has guidance for organisations and individuals for dealing with the new segregation regime in the UK. Includes a list of venues that promise to be safe. goodweeplace.com

The "this" in this case is the BNA, but it applies to just about every website redesign I've seen in the last few years.

Andrew@generalising.bsky.social · 6h ago

My suspicion that the designers of this are all in the pocket of Big RSI is certainly coming to a middle

Status: trying to reconcile two versions of the local Big Spreadsheet.

So am I now allowed to accuse any random subset of my students of being pawns of an alien power, or is that only a protected belief if etc.? (Replies not expected, and if you don't know what and who I mean then consider yourself lucky.)

In case any Edinburgh social history people are interested: I have an MSc student looking at bath- and wash-house usage statistics, and he's turned up a Carnegie report from 1918 with these photos of the Simon Square wash-house.

Someone is trying to persuade me to do a podcast. The main arguments against this are that I hate my own voice and have nothing to say. Careful enquiry suggests that one of these might be a problem.

I see academic commentary on the Arday affair has reached the stage of "what, these jokers don't even install a reciprocating murgatroyd on every svart flange?" Universities might be less confusing to many of the folk who work in them if we accepted that every other discipline _always_ looks weird.

If I'd spent my career being offensive to and about particular groups of people and they _didn't_ celebrate when I died, I think my shade might be quite disappointed; and that's the best argument I've seen so far for silence about whatshisnamewhocares.

We now go live to Glasgow.

Hohenzollernbrückekormoran, and friend. #DominieAufUrlaub

Exam-invigilation musing: there is clearly money to be made marketing caffeinated syrup to macho twerps. I might try to get a piece of the action with an energy drink called "The Joule in the Clown".

Yesterday, thanks to @rmbflk.bsky.social, I learned about the Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem, which has been sitting in the same place since at least 1728. It cannot be moved because doing so would require agreement from six bitterly opposed sects and there is no process for reaching agreement.

Putting on my happy face for Monday morning.

The Angel of Paperwork says you're not changing that lightbulb until you've completed your annual Ladder Training module. It'll be fun! There are some online videos, and a quiz. [St. Michael's, München] #DominieAufUrlaub

Pet theory: when you go looking for an unusual bird and can't find it, the wretched creature is usually doing something like this. (Also: osprey on the Clyde! Wow.)

Brian Gallagher@bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 3d ago

An Osprey over the Clyde this afternoon. I looked upriver from Parklea and saw a guy fishing at the Finlaystone burn and assumed that meant there would be no birds around there. When i looked again I realised the Osprey was sitting very near him on top of a post. #birds

Bu the Emotional Support Parrot was at the market again today.

Pug loved Leo dearly, but wished he wouldn't insist on taking selfies _everywhere_. #DominieAufUrlaub

Some humans of Govanhill.

It was Govanhill Carnival today. More humans of Govanhill later...

A couple more shots of the Eisbachwelle surfers in central München. #DominieAufUrlaub

New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · 3w ago

One for the fluid-dynamicists. Surfers on the artificially assisted standing wave where the Eisbach — part of München's extensive system of buried millstreams — enters the Englischen Garten.

If anyone out there is an expert on gnome semiotics, please explain this object that has appeared on campus. If explanation is possible, of course.

Everywhere: *is on fire* University of Surrey: The environment? Who needs to learn about _that_?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Recruitment suspended on UG environment & sustainability, mathematics and physics. At postgraduate level, suspended courses include international corporate finance, water & environmental engineering and environmental strategy. If you think your subject is safe because not Humanities, rethink. 1/2

... aaand once again the notices all over campus saying "There will be no fire-alarm tests during the exams" have been read by everyone except the people who run the fire-alarm tests.

The tufted duckling crew on the big pond this evening.

UKGov immigration policy: "can we make it look like racism to people who want racism but also somehow not be racism?" Reality: no.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d ago

I think v few people in government or the media understand that the 15 year offer is not viable/fake for most people. [The 10 year offer is not viable for some people]. Whether the November proposals designed as a remigration policy - or is an unwitting remigration by stealth policy remains unclear

Thought for the Day for fellow Scotrail users comes from the incomparable Douglas Adams.

More #DominieAufUrlaub pics from the Ausburger Puppenkiste. (They did have one of the current Chancellor as well, but it's really just a collection of loosely-jointed limbs that flails randomly whenever someone yanks its strings.)

Pro-tip for academic authors: it is your job to explain what you mean and persuade the reader that it is true. It is not the reader's job to take a bucketful of ill-written adversarial prose and swallow it unless they can prove that what you meant to say was false.

*peers cautiously over back of sofa* If you've followed me on the strength of the OCR thing then, er, hi. Please don't expect quality. Usual service on this feed is described here: bsky.app/profile/ncdo...

New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sometimes I write rather nerdy blog posts about aspects of Glasgow history, which appear here: new-cleckit.dominie.scot This bsky feed is largely complaints about life as a mediocre university maths teacher, and some equally mediocre photography. No offence taken if you quietly unfollow now.

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