It’s interesting how folks mock academics for their specialised language, but this fuckass business jargon is used daily like it’s some oracular chant.

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 12h ago

The assistant minister argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth for the broader economy.

Happy 9th birthday to TEETH.

Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 14h ago

It was so predictable that the right would switch from denial to calling people snowflakes when climate change started kicking off in earnest, but it’s still kind of amazing to watch it happen in real time

girls be like “i know a spot” and then take you here

Sure, official FPL site, why wouldn’t I use an AI tool to make my fantasy football team? Why not just look up crossword solutions instead of wasting time working them out? Why not just sit in a cupboard in the dark

This is basically the whole game.

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterday

just to be clear, what I think is happening here is that (white) Americans dislike the fixed point unmanned cameras because they can no longer talk their way out of a ticket, and I think they need to get over it for the sake of non white Americans

My mind’s still blown at learning that the US doesn’t really have speed cameras

obviously Kathleen Stock is making an odious argument here but it’s also very funny to call to the eradication of autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia from Academia, the Neurodivergence Factory

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author?

American anti-fascist songs (mournfully over a banjo dirge): the boss man sent the tanks down to the picket line and every honest worker died Italian anti-fascist songs (over a disco beat): I will live free! I will die free! I will dance free! I will dance forever! I will punch every Nazi!

You say you like Life Without Buildings, and yet you choose to live in a building? Curious

Okay so in principle cycling to meet your friends in the wood for a party is a good idea, but in practice cycling back in the woods in the dark is a challenge

Oh godammit, I miss my first Clapton match for a few weeks and we win in the FA Vase on pens. I love winning on pens!

On a related note, here's the beautiful poem I wrote after reading too many J.G. Ballard novels in a short period.

Of course if you’re Johann Hari then every time you get caught plagiarising or making things up you get offered another book deal

Man, having to take antibiotics four times a day sucks, but it beats having to go to A&E and telling them you got injured while fighting with pretend swords

I’m always haunted by what happened to Denholm Elliott’s daughter, simply because her father was famous - the British press has a direct death toll, often chosen completely arbitrarily

Wow, first time I’ve had a national alert on my phone I think. That was fun to experience in a pub

Wondering what the term is for sequels that actively diminish the work that was there before them, e.g. Furiosa, while being perfectly good fun, implies that Gas Town, the Bullet Farm and the Citadel are the only places in contact with each other, rather than just places mentioned in Fury Road

Just thinking about how nice it’s going to be to go out in the rain when it finally happens

haven't seen Balkan coffee shops at 8am on here in a while please enjoy

Re: the music on trains discourse, I’m begging libertarians/commentators to acknowledge that there is a spectrum of social acceptance between “perfectly fine” and “illegal”, which is something most of us have been navigating every day since we were literally children

"I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory... and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies"

Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1

priscilla page@priscillapage.bsky.social · 4d ago

that's right, Bruce Campbell www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

Spent 90 minutes and £10 dyeing my hair just so I get to use the little sachet of conditioner you get in each box

The only poll that matters today: vote common woodlouse, early and often

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I’m glad that everyone’s talking about this 2011 space exploration and combat strategy board game

UK pubs don't die thy are eaten alive by transnational private equity... They are assets on a balance sheet that extract value while destroying community

Found the best information board I’ve ever seen

Very glad I walked to the village of Felpham to see the William Blake stained glass window, which is incredibly beautiful

The fact that post-Python Michael Palin and Terry Jones wrote an episode of this series goes to show that you might as well give things a shot, people won’t remember your bad stuff anyway

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