The only reason this racist crank has publicity here is because Arday, in his hubris, used legal threats to silence the far more credible people who discovered his frauds previously. Don't make Cofnas the winner here by drawing attention to him. There should be no winners.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 22h ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Coincidentally, both at some point have shouted "up the 'ra!"

Kevin Schofield@kevinschofied.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sky News legend Jon Craig points out that Nigel Farage is the first by-election winner not to turn up for the count since IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 1981. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

I *think* the seller means Kurt Geiger

Whelmed

if the moon can just block out the sun that makes solar power pretty stupid imo

I still absolutely think that the English rugby team should learn how to morris dance properly and do it in response to the Haka against New Zealand.

A bit of mid-90s nostalgia. Recorded this week in my home studio.

Radiator bleed key. Importantly though it vanishes when you actually need it.

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · last wk.

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? a mysterious key that does not unlock any thing

Not a doctor and not words, but a radiographer going "oooooof" with a sharp intake of breath when x-raying my wrist wasn't great.

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · last wk.

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

This is a very unfair reading and quoting of the article. He's not dismissing or excusing it. He accepts it based on widespread reporting elsewhere, so rather than relitigate that he's looking at another very valid angle.

David Chance@davidchance.bsky.social · last wk.

The giveaway in that Guardian opinion piece. ‘I do not care to examine the quality of Arday’s scholarship…’ Isn’t that the precisely the issue?

This is good on Arday. Basically, progressives have no independent critique of tokenism so they cede ground to the right on the topic. They need to stop treating people like this as mascots. Do the real hard work around genuine barriers and nurture genuinely good minority academics.

JT Welsch@jtwelsch.bsky.social · last wk.

Very good, sharp response to the awful Arday mess. Just on the point that ‘the right has enjoyed a near monopoly on criticism of DEI’ - see Sara Ahmed, ‘On Being Included’ (2012), Herman Gray (2013, 2016), Anamik Saha, and lots by Clive Nwonka on the ‘diversity industrial complex’, among others.

[Phone rings] -Hello, MI6 -Da, hello, comrade. I am judge for European Intelligence Agency of the Year. I can ask you some questions? -Yes, sure. -Is good. The first question, comrade, can you tell me the biggest secrets you have kept this year? I write them down, for other judges.

Replies to this are very...

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2w ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

"We've found an easy guaranteed solution to climate change, but it means having to ditch they/them pronouns and saying that Israel has a right to exist. We're putting it to a referendum" ... which way does the current Green Party campaign?

This Guardian piece is interestingly written, because what it's basically saying is this: a) Black people in the public sphere receive huge amounts of hate, as well as attempts by crank race-scientists to discredit them. b) But these guy's claims do not add up www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

theguardian.com

It seems more and more that this guy is a total fantasist as well a plagiarist www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

theguardian.com

Cambridgeshire@cambridgeshireuk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row defends his work #Cambridgeshire #BBCNews

“The NATO campaign against Russia”… How the hell was Dianne Abbott allowed back into the Labour Party? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMBj...

Diane Abbott MP

YouTube video by StoptheWarCoalition

youtube.com

Business-to-business Keytar Email First world problem Neoliberal

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2w ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

So much for the claim the JKR wanted to bankrupt them rather than just seek an apology for a libel...

Good. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

amnesty.org.uk

Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w ago

European nations agree to boycott World Cup if FIFA goes ahead with World Cup sell-off

Good

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: Andy Burnham says the assisted dying debate should wait until after palliative care and social care have been fixed. “It’s very challenging to introduce that wider debate” when the systems are in crisis, he says. ‘Not now’, in other words.

Pretty sure this just isn’t true

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 3w ago

i mean Blur, at their absolute peak, chose to write and release a song about how much of a bell-end Morissey was. Made top five in the UK charts. (He's who "Charmless Man" is about)

TL;DR: “women, know your place”

GC Rust@gcrust.bsky.social · 3w ago

All she had to do was keep her views to herself and donate quietly to causes and she could have coasted the rest of her life as a beloved children's author who had infinity billion dollars. Honestly, one boon to Social Media is a lot of these scumbags are out and proud.

Respectfully, I strongly suspect that the movie most scholars envision being made about something in their field that lives up to their expectations would be absolutely dreadful.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3w ago

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

mmm hmmm

This is a flounce because he didn't like the hurty reviews of his laughably bad documentary and didn't like being challenged by @danneidle.bsky.social, isn't it? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Gary Stevenson to quit YouTube channel, citing health concerns

Former City trader’s weekly Gary’s Economics videos took off during the Covid pandemic

theguardian.com

“The Bluesky Experience™”

@theguardian.com why are you literally parroting Russian propaganda in this review?

Tristan @tristanod.bsky.social · 3w ago

WTF are The Guardian and Lucy Mangan playing at with this review? They parrot the Russian Government’s statement to undermine Ukraine without attributing the statement to them. Literally spreading Russian propaganda! This is utterly shameful www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...