Quite Good, Thank You
@qgty.bsky.social
A twitter refugee - and the handle means "Quite good thank you" Actually it doesn't. I was looking for a short handle and that was the only 4 letter one I could find. Tend to post random quips, as reality is just too bleak
The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...
Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator
The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…
alanlester.co.uk
Blimey. Remember how Bannon promoted the Tea Party as a reaction to the bank bailouts in 2008 His pal Jeffery Epstein was give $7bn in bailout money Socialism for the rich craigunger.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short
In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Know who bailed him out? You did!
craigunger.substack.com
A delightful mini-documentary from our @uofgravity.bsky.social colleagues to celebrating the first decade of #GravitationalWave astronomy and the path ahead youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c #GW10Years 🔭🧪⚛️🎢
University of Glasgow celebrates 10th anniversary of first gravitational wave detection
YouTube video by University of Glasgow
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Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Hey, so, I've been fired. Now that I'm unemployed like the other half of Bluesky, if anyone knows of work for a writer, reporter, or nonprofit grants manager, I'd be much obliged. You all know where to find me.
Gorge Washington Abraham Lincoln Bob Hope Jack Nicholas Shirley Temple Donald Trump Are you listening Donald Trump Are you listening? We're giving your boys a hell of a beating
I got to visit the new Fenix museum in Rotterdam, an art museum about migration. That sounds weird. It’s wonderful. 1/
A new Dutch museum tackles migration through art
Fenix, in Rotterdam, lets visitors make up their own minds
economist.com
Sharing for the 3,456th time as there seems always to be someone that hasn’t seen it yet. youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc?...
Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts
YouTube video by BBC
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This is a classic of AI: transfer the routine part to a computer, make the human watch for errors and hold them liable. Like the self-driving car which transfers control to a human miliseconds before a crash
Simon Waldman@swaldman.bsky.social · last yr.pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/30/d... You wot? I See No Way In Which This Could Possibly Go Wrong.
The MP has made both a pig’s ear and a dog’s breakfast of this metaphor
Certainly hope Victoria Prentis finds time out of her packed nativity play planning schedule to contribute usefully to the House of Lords #sunakhonours
Five years ago today it seemed that the golden age of naval idiocy had disappeared forever. That was before the Venezuelan patrol vessel Naiguatá managed to recapture some of this spirit by fighting - at least at that point - the dumbest action of the 21st century.
Heathrow can be described in many ways today, but definitely not "fast moving"
URGENT request for help: I need to build a case (soon) that justifies the "broader impact" of my research (yes, this is related to recent events in the US). If you have ever used Chartability or Data Navigator in your work in any capacity, I would love to know! Please email (fje@cmu.edu) or dm me.
What is it with the outbreak of Blobby disease? It was originally crap and hasn't improved. The only reason it hasn't got worse is that isn't possible. Please, make it stop. #theLastLeg
In 1959 police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina when a young Ronald McNair refused to leave without his science book. He was just 9 years old. (Obvs this image was taken a few years later!)
“[Liz Truss] was complaining that saying ‘she crashed the economy’ was damaging her reputation. It was actually crashing the economy that damaged her reputation.” #PMQs