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We all live in the USA, apparently!

They’re right: protesting genocide is ‘anti British’, as historically it’s often been the British supporting and on occasion committing genocide.

‘Did you girlboss too close to the sun’ is genuinely beyond satire

There was obviously a moment when not dismissing self-evidently bad popular art - such as the music of Taylor Swift - was original/interesting, but surely that moment is now long gone, and an insistence on seriousness, judgement, aesthetic value &c. has become the useful or unconventional position.

Why is the UK intent on speedrunning Children of Men?

This is really insightful and impressively done: Will Davies (@will-davies.bsky.social), "Stupidology: The outsourcing of judgment" (@nplusonemag.com): www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

I guess it’s time to continue work on my neo-luddite manifesto

No Enya?!?

No Kneecap?!

Andy Bartlett and I have a book coming out in November called Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry. Combing an STS analysis with cultural sociology we hope this contributes to the burgeoning field of the sociology of mystery. Below I include a list of abstracts for the main substantive chapters

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Apparently we have to rewrite a lot of sociology, because the origins of 'class conflict' are not more than 9 years old, beginning in 2016!

Blurbed by Alain de Botton!

(This is a bad joke about neuroticism dropping that much over the lifecourse)

Neurotics of the world, rejoice!

Think it’s very important we situate their claims to desire a “post-racial” nation within their demands to eliminate any policy which would actually address the material effects of racism. They’re wanted a code of silence around systemic racism, because Obama won an election.

"By any sensible definition, 'racist' is a word you can't apply to someone who doesn't want Romanians living next door."

Says Fraser Nelson, who happily published Taki's Nazi fandom, racist liar Liddle, and white nationalist Douglas Murray.

Beyond satire.

frasernelson.substack.com/p/who-thinks...

Someone needs to make Adolescence, but for grown-ups who lose their marbles on the internet. And also make it funny. Like Four Lions

From experience: pray the adults get it somewhat staggered.

Biosocieties?

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

It feels almost, at this point, as if Reform’s strategy is just to push out outrageous policies, see Labour repeat them/fail to push back, and thereby shift the Overton window…

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”