Tom Shakespeare
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social
Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Wherever neoliberalism is involved the system collapses Local-authority auditing was privatised by the Tories in 2014, and more than a decade later, the system of local authority audit has almost entirely collapsed as a consequence. nearly 1,000 audit opinions outstanding by 2023
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.
Rod Liddle was a stone-cold arsehole who actually said in a national newspaper that he couldn't be a teacher because he would inevitably try and shag the kids Apparently his editor has said, 'he challenged conventional thinking' If you mean 'was wrong in every conceivable way' then, yes
Nicholas Collon and Aurora gave such an exceptionally wonderful performance of Mahler 1 at Proms yesterday.
"A people that elects corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices." — George Orwell #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
First FIFA backtracks and now the Trump adminstration admit they're lying shits who tried to prosecute an innocent man for something they did themselves. Perhaps today is the day?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs
President Donald Trump had blamed "sick" vandals, and a former Olympian had been charged, but prosecutors now say contractors caused the damage.
bbc.co.uk
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
I can’t help but wonder if we are headed that way as well — and the new Dark Ages won’t be because of arson. It will be because our society has decided to forgo reading for short snippets of information and AI summaries and influencer content. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Firemen Not Necessary
The end of reading
open.substack.com
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
And not just Exeter. At least 2 History Leicester FBAs have had to leave the University to stay in the profession due to risk of redundancy, and they won't be the only ones. The much broader issue affects thousands of excellent academics across a spectrum of disciplines (including STEM ones). 1/2
New British Academy fellows at risk in Exeter jobs cull
Being at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chop
timeshighereducation.com
In 1963, the CIA tried to use cats as spies (Project Acoustic Kitty). It failed fairly quickly. It cost over $20 million and was abandoned because cats were just too difficult to train.
So pleased to get my copy of this. Very timely as I am reading the Iliad & just saw The Odyssey
Is this the movie about the space traveling pedophile protector?
“Zero died because of DOGE," Elon Musk said in his interview with the Economist. This claim is utter nonsense and has been widely debunked. But Musk tried to back this up with additional dissembling that's just as bad. We took it on here: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Omg. Omg omg omg. Emily Wilson (as in, the famed translator of Homer) just published her take on Nolan's Odyssey in @lrb.co.uk... and it is SWEET, JUICY HATERADE: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I’ve always said that certain types of people will only believe in climate change when their own garden is on fire. Well now it is. #Wildfires #ClimateChange
For #StandingStoneSunday, the skyline of the Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, on a bright morning last year 📸 Mine 🏺 #archaeology
This is just to say I have turned into pigs the men that were on my island and which you were probably saving to row you to Ithaca Forgive me they were disgusting so male and so disrespectful.
Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · last wk.This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm
In Biscarrosse, southwestern France, horses were set free into the wild to escape fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated in Europe due to the fires.
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
„Scientists say climate breakdown is triggering more frequent and more extreme weather events, evaporating soils and waterways, fuelling wildfires and leading to thousands of excess deaths. Europe is heating at about twice the global average rate.“ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
More than 200,000 people flee or lock down as wildfires sweep France and Spain
‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of Cap Ferret on French coast and Spain declares national emergency
theguardian.com
Long-term study reveals how childhood ADHD impacts adult mental health, cognition, and daily life
Long-term study reveals how childhood ADHD impacts adult mental health, cognition, and daily life
New longitudinal research shows childhood ADHD increases the likelihood of adult mental health challenges and lower educational attainment. Despite these elevated risks, researchers emphasize that many adults with childhood ADHD function comparably to their peers.
psypost.org