Sam

well that's gone down like a golden balloon

No money to keep c.600 lecturers & technicians but plenty of money to recruit PVCs on unspecified salaries to 'navigate difficult conversations with staff'. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

huge if true

just musing on the phenomenon of "Harry Potterification", whereby a historic city is taken over by an insidious parasitic fungal growth of schoolboy-wizard knick-knack shops until nothing remains but wand-shops selling wands to potion shops and vice versa.

I think casework is really important, and that local constituency offices should be properly resourced with staff (by the state) to do it. The MP should oversee this - and, sure, take the credit when it makes a tangible difference - but it should not take up a large chunk of the MP's time.

this is brilliant - try it!

killing joy, creativity and hope in order to spend more money on locking up its own Councillors and core supporters

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

The BBC's Cyber correspondent didn't know PHP existed until yesterday.

it must all be going well, because the US are pulling out their embassy staff and families from Saudi

😱 suspended from the party? how about banged up in a maximum-security wing?

one last hit, bro. Just give me one last hit, and then I'll get clean

BioWare statement

and with investment and strategy, they could double this next year

abysmal abuse to the cast of a play, received in Chichester and Brighton, correctly understood as a consequence of the drip-feed of hate in the UK media that feeds on X and algorithms

foot like a traction engine

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank

a genuinely informative and interesting thread (complimentary)

this is how Trump's burblingly incomprehensible speeches sound to Europeans

Scaramoucci, Scaramoucci, will you do the Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening - me! Zacharia (Zacharia) Zacharia, Zacharia Figaro - Magnifico!!

today I learnt that CS Lewis was a universalist who believed that people who sincerely followed non-Christian faiths would go to heaven too* (* but not you Susan)

a rare glimpse of a Super-Injunction court case in progress ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is next-level municipal socialism (complimentary) and so I hope Mayors and local governments across the UK are paying attention to how it could be done ...

this is not a well man

i just never thought the future would be so damn stupid

⚡️️️️️️️Musk suggested Trump restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports. Four sources familiar with the discussion said that Elon Musk approached U.S. President Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Ukraine's Starlink service on the battlefield.

you've just got to laugh at this point. What a pigs ear the Government have made of this by proscribing Palestine Action ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

this is a really lovely suggestion, but any picture frame that suddenly changes its aspect in my presence will be moved to the toilet windowsill or placed face down in the bin

Trump has already tried to overthrow democracy once, and obviously will do so again this time around -- now with the backing of nearly every billionaire and tech-bro.

an average of 5 goals-a-game in the Champions League tonight. (Sample size: N = 9 games)

Traitorous Trump has sold out Ukraine to Putin

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

@gork is this true

a late turn around gives Ipswich their third win of the season!

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

It works like this: 1. Home Office, without warning or explanation, begins refusing more visas from a particular country 2. This raises visa refusal rate for unis recruiting from that country 3. If overall refusal rate goes over 10%, uni loses visa licence = bankruptcy. Therefore…2/?

you know what, BlueSky, I don't think it is Banned Book Week *again* for the third successive week. I think it might be an acronym about something _entirely different_ that is confusing your vibe-coded algorithm

AI evangelists on why they need another eleventy billion dollars