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Scott Hurrell

@scottalexander19

Work & employment academic, trade unionist, and social scientist. Love to wonder at the world but increasingly screaming at it. Sports nut (esp. ⚽️ ⛷️& 🏏). Views my own (if the self exists, anyway).

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Turns out the ref doesn’t know the new handball law/guidance, as soon as it deflects off another part of the player it ISN’T a handball offence!

08.03.2026 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How is this a pen? Sat behind the goal and no handball?! #stmirrenvthistle #coyj #scottishcup

08.03.2026 20:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hahaaa!

03.03.2026 22:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

09.12.2025 11:46 👍 1168 🔁 504 💬 33 📌 39

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

03.12.2025 21:04 👍 1552 🔁 360 💬 23 📌 13

Uhm, indeed it is. Wtf?!

13.11.2025 10:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

13.11.2025 00:34 👍 3749 🔁 613 💬 51 📌 23
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Whenever someone in power blames immigrants on the difficulties facing working people, working class communities and those struggling to make ends meet in disadvantaged areas, remember two words: 'managed decline'.

11.11.2025 10:45 👍 120 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 0

Amazing how opinions can change when enough people tell you you’re wrong!

11.11.2025 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know it’s a cliche, but…

Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?

If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?

6/9

29.10.2025 13:05 👍 996 🔁 119 💬 5 📌 0

Do they typically award Nobel Peace prizes to someone who murders people every day by blowing up their boats while claiming they deserved it for transporting drugs, but doesn’t give them due process, a fair trial, or present any evidence or proof of guilt to anyone?

30.10.2025 00:25 👍 10034 🔁 2483 💬 590 📌 113

This is just *french chef’s kiss*

25.10.2025 18:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is that in Chelmsford?

16.10.2025 13:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think ‘disaster’ is harsh, as much as they’re making things hard for themselves. It’s a talented squad, they’ll be fine (if they hold their catches) x

15.10.2025 22:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not all heroes wear capes (I THINK that’s a neckerchief)

11.10.2025 17:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We used it! ‘The apparatus’ makes it sound gloriously sinister, though!

08.10.2025 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photograph of Suleiman al-Obeid, former captain of the Pakestinian national football team, killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food.

A photograph of Suleiman al-Obeid, former captain of the Pakestinian national football team, killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food.

I admire Mo Salah's restraint.

"Farewell". Really?

Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

09.08.2025 17:27 👍 2224 🔁 844 💬 15 📌 9
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You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

08.08.2025 00:50 👍 24850 🔁 7366 💬 545 📌 377

Haha brilliant

05.08.2025 17:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No criticism of those players mentioned btw who played themselves into the ground/were put in impossible situs (special nod to Woakes); both teams can be proud of what they produced in one of the most memorable series I’ve seen x

04.08.2025 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But also dropping 6 catches of course 😬

04.08.2025 11:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BONKERS to pick a 6 who has played 0 competitive red ball cricket all year. J Overton prob not a test bowler 😔, Tongue too shotgun (obv talent), so playing Archer & Carse in last test, given oval pitch, also q’able (with hindsight, but seemed odd at time). Smith’s loss of form also v imp.

04.08.2025 11:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing test match, well done India and esp. Siraj. WHAT a series! The two teams are pretty much equal with different strengths, so a fair result. But thoughts on England who lost it in the selection ..

04.08.2025 11:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Always the same story: millions on consultancies by the central university, and departments made to cut in operational costs to meet surplus generation targets (to pay for those central costs).

Much solidarity to TAs & those left to add the work to their already burdensome workload #UKHE

23.07.2025 07:31 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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The SNP leader repeated his claims that the man currently favourite (Farage) to become the next Prime Minister ‘has faced no consequences for collapsing the economy’

21.07.2025 10:30 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Thoughts and prayers.

20.07.2025 11:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#BookSky

19.07.2025 08:15 👍 39125 🔁 7769 💬 539 📌 526

That north easterly/central trousers bit is utterly wild.

18.07.2025 22:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dear god what is that?!!

18.07.2025 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The "grab em by the p***y" guy is an Epstein guy? The wander into Miss America change rooms to ogle guy? That guy? Mr. "found by a jury to have committed sexual assault"? Really? The guy in all the pictures with Epstein? He's an Epstein guy? Are you sure?

18.07.2025 03:44 👍 259 🔁 61 💬 5 📌 3