Jeez that looks like paradise
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Jeez that looks like paradise
I thought about this. Is it because the same set of techno fascist corporations want to send us back to peasant times?
Saw a plushy one propped up against a skip and thought of you
My poor students when I try and explain it 😬🫣
TIL where the British term 'public school' comes from.
The goal now is just to destroy UK HE as fast as possible I think.
*Wider readership not you PE. Public school = famous private boarding school like Eton - don't ask me why
Wait till you hear about public schools*
Exactly
Really coming for universities now, aren't they?
Next thing you know, it’ll be ‘hobbyist’ to make sure that students are functionally literate.
Can't bear to read it but do they mean research time on our workload? I.e. my WAM is 40% research?
Could they mean research time on our workload? Like 40 of my WAM is research. And thats 'unfunded'?
Might have been conditioner... it's been a long time since I've given hair products much thought 😬
My mum's shampoo for my entire childhood
Bold and ambitious
You got it 👍🏻
I insist on calling it Downtown Abbey when I mention it in lectures. Thought the students would find it funnier tbh.
Is that your AI prompt?
That's really plumbing the depths
Looks cool tho
Does it involve whales?
Burn after reading
Assistant prof: "My ideas about X are not fully cooked yet. I need to gather more data before I could consider publishing." Full prof: "My ideas about X are not fully cooked yet, but I've promised to contribute to three special issues, so YOLO here goes."
Oh boy... that's some deep catalogue British culture
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#societyofrackets
And I can't even connect to the guest wifi
Is it time for injured baby springbok to engage seriously with hyenas?
Is it time for injured baby springbok to engage seriously with hyenas?
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Bluesky, give me a visual representation of the concept 'hauntology' 👻
Now is not a good time, gravitational waves
I explain to my students that we are the ones who write the articles and books. There's no one 'out there' we are it.
British person here. I and people I speak to hold no ill will towards the people of the USA. We know better than to generalise across a whole population. I hope good prevails, and that you wish the same for us, in turn.
'In pieces' is the term I'd use (based on personal experience)
Let's not leave out the UK #societyofrackets
#societyofrackets
Try saying that after a couple of drinks!
#societyofrackets
They're doing purges
I only like mince pies if they're not too sickly sweet. Which is weird cos I like Indian sweets. Which are often ridiculously sweet.
No pressure! - I just happened to see your profile then this in the same 10 minutes.
This is appalling
Wrong kind of free speech. Wrong kind of academic freedom.
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@megabeth.bsky.social might know someone
I should look up what @alcs.co.uk are saying about all this
Also 'beeping' their horns (facepalm)
Sigh
Fantastic
Where is that?
I remember them bepping their horns in support when we were on strike in Manchester
'Creative writing is my passion'
I want both - and the first one doesn't even exist here
FAFO
I think lots of things count as strategy tbh
"The authors declare that they have no interests as the need to work on papers like this has sucked up all the time they might have available for other pursuits."
TBF dads are usually pretty difficult to shock.
This is called 'strategy'
Got to do some writing this week (derogatory)
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In the next workshop... materials for the repair of parquet flooring
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'A club for rose gardeners'
Even that looks like AI
I need to check mine but I think it does (recognise). No WAM for editor roles tho, when I asked.
Ha ha yeah - for an 'end of work' guy I've not really 'walked the talk' 🤣
I'm kind of heading in this direction
I'm winding down my reviewing, with some regret.
Frankfurters
I sometimes daydream about applying for a job somewhere like this. 'Read this extract from Marx's 1844 manuscripts and now, citing Adorno...'
'Subscribe to my substack - you have nothing to lose but £4 a month'
American friends: is this real?
So...Peggy got fleeced...
In truth, I was more pointing out the somewhat limited options. Pay huge bills in a cold house, or get ill in a mouldy one. Consumer choice!
Touché.
Correction, 54 mpg. Looked again today.
I'll do it for nothing
FFS let's just fund universities properly
We call it 'managed decline'
The alternative is damp and mould!🥴
Service guarantees citizenship!
'shock and awe' but with culture
I used to do did this with my office fan heater.
I can't comment on hair unfortunately 🫣😬
Looks like they're crane-ing their neck.
People still do that?
Contradictions of capitalism
I think I saw an ev charging via a cable across the pavement the other day - in one of those rubber strip things.
Petrol. 1.2L
Not quite, around 51 which is still satisfactory. Aircon on most of the time. Plenty of delays around junctions.
Probably not Anyone's dream car, but I just drove my 19 yo Micra to Cambridge and back and it ran beautifully all the way.
All that is solid melts into air...
"Abundance? In this economy?"
People talk about C19th workers' housing being bad and I'm sure it was but it looks so cool.
