Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 13m

Is it the Antichrist Peter or is it the drugs?

a man with a beard is smiling while talking to another man .

Alt: Thor pulling a face and saying “is it though?”

media.tenor.com

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 24m

What’s the point of things like food hygiene ratings and the smiley face stickers in the window if the food you order then comes from somewhere completely different

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1h

The STI one is GBH though in the context of HIV. Definitely not part and parcel of life.

2 3

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 15h

There’s more men called Paul on there than there is women.

1

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 16h

One year I will say something but not this year. I don’t have the energy for their stupid tick box smugness.

1

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 17h

I hate mental health awareness day at work. Hate it. A Teams call where mentally well people tell other mentally well people to make sure they get outside for a walk at lunch time. Absolutely fuck that shit.

1 1 4

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 21h

virtue signalling is when everyone tell you you’re wonderful is more important to you than the action itself. This isn’t that.

1 1

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

Would also appreciate if the news headlines were about the actual winner rather than a man who didn’t win.

10

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with class discussions is if the outcome is just more exposure to those extreme views

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is, we don't see what exposure to ideas does to us. The human brain is a machine for rationalising the irrational. It will tell you you're the same person you were a year ago no matter what you've been through. We all think - every single one of us - that we can't be manipulated.

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 2d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

1 2

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

I think, just like adults, there will be a huge range. My own 16yr old is on the very informed and very interested end, but some of her friends really are not.

3

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

When people say 16 year olds aren’t informed enough to vote, my response is to ask them how informed they think adults are

1 12

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

Like Wikipedia’s description of how to spot AI writing. Smoothing over stand-out details and regressing to a statistical likely mean with generic positive statements.

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pre 1975 and I just pressed like

5

Reposted by Arbre

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Thread

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

🧵

2 12

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

Their ignorance helps explain why post pandemic, where everybody’s lives to protect the elderly, there has been no payback to the generation who suffered most ie children and teens

1

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d

Based on my survey of one family, they bore their children instead.
We eventually said ENOUGH!!!
So now they bore their MP instead and he gets long letters about why everything is wrong. Sorry not sorry.

1 5

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 2d

Genuine quote said to me about 20 years ago by someone who visited central Leicester
“who do they think they are coming over here and driving Mercedes”

Person who said it was a lazy arsehole.

1 1

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 2d

France, a country where collecting ethnicity data is against the law, is doing a better job at managing a multi-ethnic society?
I’d be really interested in their data on that claim

3

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3d

Move the car park not the cricketers

4

Reposted by Arbre

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

37 640 1.9K

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry

1

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely ridiculous. Don’t read it if you’re already wound up enough about the MUGA story.

Jez 🤍💛💙 @madmidweeker.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, I've found it on the BBC. Man was hit with a ball, on the leg, as he loaded his car so all proper cricket is banned. FFS.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Danbury cricketers stumped as council bans all play - BBC News

People in an Essex village are upset the sport has been banned after a passer-by was hit by a ball.

www.bbc.co.uk

1 1 4

Reposted by Arbre

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 3d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

130 690 2.1K

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3d

2 stories in one day about ridiculous decisions to stop people playing sport. Cricket banned in an Essex village. A MUGA for teens scrapped here. It makes me so mad. Bet these people also moan kids are always indoors on their screens these days.

1 12

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3d

Move the car park not the cricketers

2