NotPrinceHamlet
@anattendantlord.bsky.social
Ambivalent academic. Occasionally swelling a progress, starting a train or two. Not keen on peaches these days.
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Would have been helpful for Jacqui Smith to have seen university financial modeling on this. Because it’s going to turn hundreds of surpluses into deficits. But never mind, perhaps she’ll be fired before she has to deal with the fallout.
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Would have been helpful for Jacqui Smith to have seen university financial modeling on this. Because it’s going to turn hundreds of surpluses into deficits. But never mind, perhaps she’ll be fired before she has to deal with the fallout.
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it is so funny that larry and sergey have gotten people to just not analyze the company's actions in terms of their personal motives and psychology by the simple life hack of "shutting the fuck up and not posting their thoughts on twitter all the time"
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
it is so funny that larry and sergey have gotten people to just not analyze the company's actions in terms of their personal motives and psychology by the simple life hack of "shutting the fuck up and not posting their thoughts on twitter all the time"
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Despite the fact that it has been the case for at least 40 years, I'm sure most Brits have no idea that overseas students massively subsidise home students – and that far from taking up places that home students are being denied, they are creating *more* places for home students.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Despite the fact that it has been the case for at least 40 years, I'm sure most Brits have no idea that overseas students massively subsidise home students – and that far from taking up places that home students are being denied, they are creating *more* places for home students.
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Folks asking what the aim is for this, and what the results will be, here's my take.
aim: Gov thinks intl students can be soaked, and unis will pass 100% of the cost. They know # will dip but not by how much.
result: Rich unis will go harder into clearing, pack even more domestic students in.
aim: Gov thinks intl students can be soaked, and unis will pass 100% of the cost. They know # will dip but not by how much.
result: Rich unis will go harder into clearing, pack even more domestic students in.
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Folks asking what the aim is for this, and what the results will be, here's my take.
aim: Gov thinks intl students can be soaked, and unis will pass 100% of the cost. They know # will dip but not by how much.
result: Rich unis will go harder into clearing, pack even more domestic students in.
aim: Gov thinks intl students can be soaked, and unis will pass 100% of the cost. They know # will dip but not by how much.
result: Rich unis will go harder into clearing, pack even more domestic students in.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing for me, Charlie Brown.
God is dead. God remains dead. And it is we who have killed him, Charlie Brown.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, Charlie Brown, in this life or the next.
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing for me, Charlie Brown.
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and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes, Charlie Brown
God is dead. God remains dead. And it is we who have killed him, Charlie Brown.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, Charlie Brown, in this life or the next.
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes, Charlie Brown
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I can't think of what would be the best Hark A Vagrant but everyone should know Kate Beaton
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I can't think of what would be the best Hark A Vagrant but everyone should know Kate Beaton
Have been procrastinating while trying to avoid lecture preparation (what else is new), and ... for the DW watchers out there, how about:
Remembrance, but with 10+Rose
Happiness, but with 13+ That Initial Gang
Nemesis, but with 14+Donna (being a self-plagiarism of Remembrance)
Greatest: 11 + Clara
Remembrance, but with 10+Rose
Happiness, but with 13+ That Initial Gang
Nemesis, but with 14+Donna (being a self-plagiarism of Remembrance)
Greatest: 11 + Clara
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Have been procrastinating while trying to avoid lecture preparation (what else is new), and ... for the DW watchers out there, how about:
Remembrance, but with 10+Rose
Happiness, but with 13+ That Initial Gang
Nemesis, but with 14+Donna (being a self-plagiarism of Remembrance)
Greatest: 11 + Clara
Remembrance, but with 10+Rose
Happiness, but with 13+ That Initial Gang
Nemesis, but with 14+Donna (being a self-plagiarism of Remembrance)
Greatest: 11 + Clara
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I sincerely have developed the take that everyone in politics or adjacent has to work hospitality/customer service for one month every 2 years so they stop writing complete nonsense about what work actually is like
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I sincerely have developed the take that everyone in politics or adjacent has to work hospitality/customer service for one month every 2 years so they stop writing complete nonsense about what work actually is like
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Been away from here for a month for a MH break
This week, my employers took CR off the table for academics until 31 July at the earliest
Effective local union action makes a difference
Still so much to do
Solidarity
This week, my employers took CR off the table for academics until 31 July at the earliest
Effective local union action makes a difference
Still so much to do
Solidarity
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
chng.it
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Been away from here for a month for a MH break
This week, my employers took CR off the table for academics until 31 July at the earliest
Effective local union action makes a difference
Still so much to do
Solidarity
This week, my employers took CR off the table for academics until 31 July at the earliest
Effective local union action makes a difference
Still so much to do
Solidarity
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
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"I somehow fell and landed directly on a ‘send mass-redundancy email’ button", said HR Director at University of Derby
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Derby apologises for redundancy email blunder
Several staff members received confirmation of redundancy applications when they had not applied.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"I somehow fell and landed directly on a ‘send mass-redundancy email’ button", said HR Director at University of Derby
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
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Madness in Perth! Here's our summary of all the extraordinary stuff that happened on day 2.
#Ashes2025
#AUSvENG
Guerilla Roundup Ashes Test 1 Day 2 youtu.be/6IjbKYiZ3vA?...
#Ashes2025
#AUSvENG
Guerilla Roundup Ashes Test 1 Day 2 youtu.be/6IjbKYiZ3vA?...
Guerilla Roundup Ashes Test 1 Day 2
YouTube video by Guerilla Cricket
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Madness in Perth! Here's our summary of all the extraordinary stuff that happened on day 2.
#Ashes2025
#AUSvENG
Guerilla Roundup Ashes Test 1 Day 2 youtu.be/6IjbKYiZ3vA?...
#Ashes2025
#AUSvENG
Guerilla Roundup Ashes Test 1 Day 2 youtu.be/6IjbKYiZ3vA?...
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and then I log on here and there's crying and gnashing of teeth about how some independent artist just trying to make rent was *mean*, was *so mean* about AI to me, a poor tech bro just triyng to making the world better. how could such a travesty occur
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
and then I log on here and there's crying and gnashing of teeth about how some independent artist just trying to make rent was *mean*, was *so mean* about AI to me, a poor tech bro just triyng to making the world better. how could such a travesty occur
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For readers outwith Scotland: gritters in this country are canonically part of Iain M. Banks's Culture. Formally, they should be referred to in the form "GSV Ploos Yer Doos"; the initials stand for "Grit Spreading Vehicle".
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
For readers outwith Scotland: gritters in this country are canonically part of Iain M. Banks's Culture. Formally, they should be referred to in the form "GSV Ploos Yer Doos"; the initials stand for "Grit Spreading Vehicle".
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NEWS! Man surprised to see Ashes series starting with dramatic one-day international newsthump.com/2025/11/21/m...
Man surprised to see Ashes series starting with dramatic one-day international
Cricket fan Simon Williams has this morning woken up to the surprise that the Ashes series in Australia has opened in surprising fashion with a one-day international.
newsthump.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
NEWS! Man surprised to see Ashes series starting with dramatic one-day international newsthump.com/2025/11/21/m...
Just checked the score in the first Test at Perth, after going to bed with a kind of gloomy satisfaction at the familiar EnglandBattingCollapse <bloodyhell>
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Just checked the score in the first Test at Perth, after going to bed with a kind of gloomy satisfaction at the familiar EnglandBattingCollapse <bloodyhell>
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Alongside our YouTube commentary, we also have a live blog on offer for you, which can be viewed using the link below!
A welcome first boundary from Duckett.
Ashes 2025-26: Live Blog – England vs Australia | Day 1, Perth www.guerillacricket.com/78083,ashes-...
A welcome first boundary from Duckett.
Ashes 2025-26: Live Blog – England vs Australia | Day 1, Perth www.guerillacricket.com/78083,ashes-...
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Alongside our YouTube commentary, we also have a live blog on offer for you, which can be viewed using the link below!
A welcome first boundary from Duckett.
Ashes 2025-26: Live Blog – England vs Australia | Day 1, Perth www.guerillacricket.com/78083,ashes-...
A welcome first boundary from Duckett.
Ashes 2025-26: Live Blog – England vs Australia | Day 1, Perth www.guerillacricket.com/78083,ashes-...
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
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Me in 1995, pulling an all-nighter in an Edinburgh computer lab: One day Artificial Intelligence might help us diagnose cancer.
2025...
2025...
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Me in 1995, pulling an all-nighter in an Edinburgh computer lab: One day Artificial Intelligence might help us diagnose cancer.
2025...
2025...
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is”
<facepalm>
<facepalm>
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is”
<facepalm>
<facepalm>
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A very stark reminder why no one goes out on foot after dark in Churchill, Manitoba. This mom and her cubs came just off the beach and behind the town complex. The Polar Bear Alert staff gently herded them away from town to keep everyone safe. #mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
A very stark reminder why no one goes out on foot after dark in Churchill, Manitoba. This mom and her cubs came just off the beach and behind the town complex. The Polar Bear Alert staff gently herded them away from town to keep everyone safe. #mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿