Sentimental Value (2025) πΏπ
Sentimental Value (2025) πΏπ
This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.
It took longer than i thought for the REF to get weaponised this way, but this is horrifying and so blatant
fuck's sake, this is so grotesque and pathetic
Outrageously corrupt, prejudiced "science" from the NHS:
- Enforce one particular treatment pathway for years
- Rig your literature survey to exclude that pathway
- Declare that, amazingly, there is "no evidence" for any treatment pathway
- Ban the treatment
- Shrug as people suffer untreated
It really is quite grimly hilarious how the drive for "Open Access" in academic publication was almost immediately captured by publishers who declared that, if readers weren't going to pay, then authors and their employers would have to.
And we bought it, schmucks.
so it's bullshit just like we all said it was.
Five Iranian soccer players are reported to be in police protection in Australia after seeking asylum following the squad's exit from the Asian Cup tournament
Let me tell you something. Yβall are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
They are not 'transphobic', we are told. They don't hate trans people.
They simply feel deeply 'concerned' about children being 'trans', & therefore, need to put 'sensible' people in charge of trans children's healthcare, people who, for example, don't believe in the existence of trans children.
Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
THIS. If youβre in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, youβre at risk.
A huge fire is currently blazing in Glasgow city centre
Emergency services have been tackling the blaze on Union Street since around 4pm on Sunday
πΈGarry F McHarg / FOCAL Scotland
My Letterboxd review of Where is the Friendβs House? Four stars and a heart, with the comment, βMay we all have a friend like Ahmad, and may we all be a friend like Ahmad.β
Watched Where is the Friendβs House (1987) last night. Amazing Iranian film about a young boy desperately trying to find his friend and give him his notebook from school so the teacher doesnβt expel him. So good β€οΈ (Itβs on Kanopy.)
On International Womenβs Day a reminder that my Alice had a mother and a sister and grannies, aunts, girl friends and girl cousins.
They all loved her as a woman.
When the transphobes say they speak for all women and are protecting women and girls, they are wrong.
A magazine titled βEmbrace your hobbies with ChatGPTβ on a rack with other magazines
oh ffs (magazine rack in M&S) π
It doesnβt matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. Itβll never cease to amaze me that people donβt care that itβs happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a Β£185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that theyβre the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.
Delighted to see this! ππ
Beyond delighted by these election results. Huge congratulations to @markpendleton.bsky.social and @suzitoole.bsky.social : I cannot imagine a better VP duo. And some incredible UCU members will be joining the NEC in June! #ucu
i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need
This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and weβre going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future
Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesnβt matter if itβs comics, magazines or books as long as theyβre engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.
for anyone wondering why thereβs so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MPβs husband for spying for China, take your pick
New in #EPER: βIt's already set in my mindβ: Investigating the acculturation of secondary school pupils aspiring to teach PE (Sprake et al., 2026) doi.org/10.1177/1356... #OpenAccess