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This is Butler county, Pennsylvania, where there was the supposed assassination attempt against Trump in 2024. It’s gone 18 points blue.

“Then a hero came along”

The Israeli military is detaining Palestinians, numbering them, and torturing them. These images are horrifying, yet familiar. These tactics of dehumanization clearly echo the tactics of the Nazi Holocaust, and we know where this leads.

Jason Stanley makes the case that the stuff that was most obviously in fact a lie in Arday's case was also not stuff which academic institutions care about when employing someone, whereas by the metrics academics care about Arday was doing well. jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...

i honestly thought i'd seen the worst of the british press but nope i hadn't. now i have

My mom: "Call me." Me, assuming something terrible has happened: "What's going on?!" Her: "Check your texts. I bought you a 4-foot disco ball skeleton." 💀

A Sphinx (height 4.8 cm) carved from #ivory and with face made of amber. Found in the Grafenbühl burial near Asperg, a rich burial mound from the late Hallstadt period, dating ca. 500 BC. The Sphinx is a product of a #Greek workshop in Italy (Taranto?). It was used as an applique and ...🧵1/2

What is always most troubling about these cases (see also: Noah Carl) is not that they are sacked, it is that they were recruited in the first place. If you were a student shelling out £9k a year, you would expect to be taught by people who at least understood the subjects they pontificate about.

They're just straight up doing the meme

Hi everyone! Anna here— this is my first time being hospitalized and although insurance should cover a bit of the costs, there’s still some costs I’m expecting not to be covered. If you want to give towards my recovery (which I’ll talk about hopefully soon), please click the link below:

Them: Aliens 👽 built the pyramids. Science: Here is a computational framework for evaluating an edge-integrated, multi-ramp construction model of the Great Pyramid of Giza that shows Egyptians excelled at math & engineering. Them: But aliens? Science: Again, no. www.nature.com/articles/s40...

You can always kinda tell people who have never had to make groceries last for a month

At 45k followers I will reveal which white men would have had permanent academic jobs but for EDI and which are just failures.

It is not my job to procure the facts… I’m going to speculate wildly www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

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she’s been following me around like this

everyone behold a corgi who is not allowed in our bedroom and usually sleeps in the kids room but I’m poorly so she’s decided she has to guard me tonight instead of the toddlers

As much as I knew the door led into the church, it was so magnificent a thing I always hoped one day it would to somewhere else – Elfland or a land where Bears could talk. It only led somewhere else once for me and unfortunately it wasn't to Speaking=Bear-Land. – Bella Cope #AdoorableThursday

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Goodnight from Dave Padbury, recording the thrumming song of London-bound trains going over the Horton arches to infect his new album with the sound of electric escape routes. Goodnight from the blackbirds of Bower Wood, singing tidings of secret harvests. Goodnight from Hookland.

This is going straight into my syllabus for the new year:

My friend’s child has started a petition to get her high school in TN to address the severe mold issue, which is affecting the health of the students. BlueSky: do your thing and help this kid get her school’s attention by flooding the petition with signatures: shorturl.at/zW0hq

the title of this joke is Higher Education

Government agents patrolling airport jet bridges to detain innocent people, just because of their race? Sounds dystopian and new! Unless you're a Black man that flies into Atlanta a lot.🙋🏿‍♂️ They got Eric Andre too!🤣 Why cops stop us: They get to keep whatever cash they find. Straight up theft!

Today’s writing of the next Hookland talk has featured Steve Austin, David Attenborough and Bourbon biscuits. It has also featured American cryptid imperialism.

Ah come on - Finn McRedmonds piece today eulogising the death of ‘woke 1.0’ (whatever that is/was) which apparently saw ‘university staff lose their jobs for “right-wing” views’! After a week when a black academic was driven suic*de by a racist mob this is beyond ridiculous and horribly stupid.

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

Just some medieval oak frame action for you. Look at the wind brace on that. 😘

I know that without scams and gambling we basically wouldn't have an economy at this point, but whoa damn am i ever tired of the scambling economy

what a chart

Heaven also known as Philadelphia

Oh the Nazi phrenologist who led the digital lynching charge against Arday has been suspended?

The maddest I ever got at a coworker was when this guy who I worked with for years suddenly brought up that he grew up with a pet raccoon. My dude....why did you not bring this up earlier?? This whole time we should have been talking about your raccoon's shenanigans, instead of emails and meetings.

This is a dog.

"What Radicalized You?" www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/what-radic...

begging you all to remember that when I am talking shit about how the British press treat people, I am doing so FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

“If you eradicate everything in a society that keeps people healthy, there’s going to be mass death and disease. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing” in Gaza, Dr. @ferozesidhwa.org told @camanpour.bsky.social.

We’ve decided to name it… Pelvis Presley. Now, how to get it in my suitcase when I swing through Chicago on book tour this fall 😂💀

I think the current class basis of the left is educated professionals in an alliance with urban care and service sector workers (broad enough to include public transportation workers fwiw). So "are people who work with spreadsheets a lot annoying?" is actually quite a good wedge issue for us.

I have discovered shocking evidence of corruption and an imminent threat to our national security coming from within the administration, which you can read about when my new book comes out next year!

🤔That should be the test for an awful restaurant. If I can kill your restaurant just by parking a taco truck near it? Then your restaurant wasn't going to make it anyway.🤷🏿‍♂️ Restaurants thrive being right next door to other restaurants and bars! This is called an entertainment district. Good actually

These really are my two favourite descriptions of Hookland.

Join the Apartheid Free Zone's campaign now. Demand your university, workplace, union, city, or church cut ties with apartheid Israel and respect BDS guidelines. bdsmovement.net/apartheid-fr...

Also having the debate means you accept the premise . That's what Singal got that so many others don't . He loved these debates because once something is debateable it's acceptable ( Overton Window) It's why I HATE jubilee and I don't enjoy mush of the resistance They helped build this hell

Throughly deserved. Discredited, pernicious, racist pseudoscience is an immeasurably worse insult to academic rigour than an inspirational autistic academic’s flawed reference citation & exaggeration of achievements with a basis in reality.

It was short but oh so sweet Rain - we missed you 💙

"To those who are doubting the existence of ADHD (as if it’s a belief system rather than an established diagnosis), please ask yourselves the same Qs as we always should when the media reports negatively about a minority group: why are they telling me this? Who benefits from me believing them?" 1/2

If you got 3 kids you a super producer in my eyes They should put you on a throne 😭

the actual really funny issue I had was not with Oxford, who do the translation themselves, but when I was applying for jobs here who, for some reason, asked for a-level scores despite also requiring a postgrad degree, and then would ask me why I had eleven a-levels.

Everybody forgets that the charge that Black women and trans people et al were worse than Nazis etc Got published in places like Salon The Nation UTNE Reader first A lot of people ain’t new to this

Someone else who i went to school with is posting "slavery is a myth" propaganda. This person is an adult. They have kids.

somebody please download and then upload that shit to ao3

I write jokes

i do kinda think, as somebody who did high school in the usa, that a-level/gcse results day is a very peculiar phenomenon. i could not tell you what day i got my SAT scores, let alone my AP's

So I recently was introduced to Ben Thompson's "Aggregation Theory" of the Internet, and have been somewhere between horrified and edified. I thought I'd share. As I understand it, here's the idea: People thought ending the marginal cost of sharing stuff would disintermediate the world.

some of you need to read theory

This is huge, & it’s proof of Day’s continued savvy & devoted core audience. Day is undersung in a lot of the history of things she championed (like Actual Play) I do want to note some interesting caveats in the history of crowdfunding (small thread)

this is a campaign ad, right

my mom stopped by mount airy nc this week and sent photos in the family group chat and so now i'm trying to explain the Andy Griffith Show to my british/french husband

@kayorchison.bsky.social I'm including this in the next talk. Thank you for reminding me what Hookland is about.

I am in Peru- in awe of the great Incan fort and temple Sacsayhuamán, built in the 1400s, high up in the Andes above Cusco. I will never get over it

The latin for Brown Bear is Ursus arctos, which is bear in Latin and bear in Greek. Arktos is the origin of the word Arctic, not cos there are bears there, but because of the constellation Ursa Major. But I prefer to think of one as Land of the Bears, and the other as Land of No Bears.

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I can work… i can be a co worker 🥹

Of all the radio I do, this is the most fun. I mostly just sit there giggling. But Nat keeps asking me back.

Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that’s only half the story By continuing to purchase weapons from Israel, foreign governments are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war. By Sahar Vardi. www.972mag.com/israel-weapo...

The Machine That Came for Jason Arday | The Nation To arrive through a remedy is not to arrive on sufferance. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

London was a great market for eels from the 15th C. onward. Many were imported by the Dutch, but not all. In the late 19th C. fishermen from the Norfolk Broads sold their eels in Billingsgate each fall, & the profits were enough to carry them through rest of the year if need be. 🗃️🧪

Meet the pudú. This dainty deer typically weighs ~30 lbs (13.5 kg)—making it smaller than many domestic dog breeds. This herbivore is mostly solitary. It builds small tunnels or burrows in the underbrush to hide from predators like pumas. Photo: Bryan Caro San Martin, CC BY-NC 4.0 iNaturalist

Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

If you are decent to others IRL but an evil bitch to people online, congrats, you are an evil bitch* *all genders

Spreadsheets are the waffles of pancakes

I've mostly avoided commenting on this episode, but yeah. Human nature: people that aren't good at one thing, have a hard time believing that someone can possibly be really good at two things. And that's before you add in the insecurity of racism and the violence of hate.

Zero new archaeology grants this year. 🏺🧪🫠

If you're joining in with the #ReadChristie2026 challenge then the theme for August is 'Beloved Duo.' 🔍 The chosen title is By The Pricking of my Thumbs, featuring Tommy and Tuppence, but there are lots of alternatives. 📚 Who is your favourite Agatha Christie duo? 🕵‍♂️🕵‍♀️

Not. Interested. In. Harry. And. Meghan.

We are not turning AI into “teach the controversy” y’all. (Reasonable people I respect have some variation on opinion about some aspects of the umbrella of stuff lumped together as “AI”, but sometimes consensus is consensus)

This has indeed been the general consensus among academics I have seen re Arday. But I don't get why this is only slightly better, cos I think this is just the Correct Take!

The fabulous beast and the knight did almost all of the transport. I, the fox on the helmet, remain the expert and thought leader behind this moving."

"What Harper sees as groupthink madness was interracial solidarity by experts in their fields. Rather than allowing the institution to coerce more unseen labor from our peers, CWG decided to force the issue with our colleagues: if you value DEI like you say you do, put in sweat equity." 1/

Thank you @stephenkb.bsky.social for calling out Times Radio on @thenewsagents.co.uk latest episode, for TR's disgraceful platforming of Nathan Cofnas to comment on Jason Arday. That was possibly the most vicious moment in his hounding.

Hey so every person who said we were over reacting during Trump 1 ? Let’s go outside …

And then there were four! Alchemy Lecture books that is!

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The biggest lesson I’ve learned since turning 30.