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Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Judith Butler in 2021
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Judith Butler in 2021
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imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government
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let's fucking gooooooooooo. sign up now to converse with three minutes worth of information on your dead loved one, interspersed with made-up anecdotes inserted by an AI before the data centre is shut down with zero notice after 7 months. yes yes yes!!!!
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
let's fucking gooooooooooo. sign up now to converse with three minutes worth of information on your dead loved one, interspersed with made-up anecdotes inserted by an AI before the data centre is shut down with zero notice after 7 months. yes yes yes!!!!
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the two best websites are still gamefaqs dot org and marxists dot org because they have basically looked and worked the same since 1995.
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
the two best websites are still gamefaqs dot org and marxists dot org because they have basically looked and worked the same since 1995.
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He’s done it again!
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
He’s done it again!
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The Reform vision of the UK is Dubai but without the glamour. It really is that simple, and it’ll take years for lobby journalists on six figure salaries to figure this out
September 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Reform vision of the UK is Dubai but without the glamour. It really is that simple, and it’ll take years for lobby journalists on six figure salaries to figure this out
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Will the absence of public transport infrastructure in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?
Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?
Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe
A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads
econ.st
September 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Will the absence of public transport infrastructure in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?
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to the tune of pink pony club:
August 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
to the tune of pink pony club:
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EXCERPT FROM MY UPCOMING NETFLIX SERIES "SERF'S UP," ABOUT A MEDIEVAL TEENAGE PEASANT TRANSPORTED TO THE MODERN ERA
JENNY ORTEGA-TYPE LOVE INTEREST: (witheringly) You like farming?
SERF JOHNNY: Call that field skibidi the way I toil it
JENNY ORTEGA-TYPE LOVE INTEREST: (witheringly) You like farming?
SERF JOHNNY: Call that field skibidi the way I toil it
August 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
EXCERPT FROM MY UPCOMING NETFLIX SERIES "SERF'S UP," ABOUT A MEDIEVAL TEENAGE PEASANT TRANSPORTED TO THE MODERN ERA
JENNY ORTEGA-TYPE LOVE INTEREST: (witheringly) You like farming?
SERF JOHNNY: Call that field skibidi the way I toil it
JENNY ORTEGA-TYPE LOVE INTEREST: (witheringly) You like farming?
SERF JOHNNY: Call that field skibidi the way I toil it
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
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i think the next bullshit tech bubble will be the one. going all in on the next piece of shit thing
August 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
i think the next bullshit tech bubble will be the one. going all in on the next piece of shit thing
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ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT
The Appendix on an AI policy is actually quite bad. Having an AI deliver a summary before reading has major implications in terms of the experience of student learning. What we want students to do and how they do it is the question. The experience of reading is not the same as reading a summary.
August 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT
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Since we're apparently going to have to fight all of the revisionist Greatest Hits of the late 2010s all over again -
Corbyn was never 'unelectable'; had merely 2,227 votes in key marginals gone the other way in the 2017 GE, he would have been PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Corbyn was never 'unelectable'; had merely 2,227 votes in key marginals gone the other way in the 2017 GE, he would have been PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Jeremy Corbyn was 2,227 votes away from becoming Prime Minister
Winning seven Tory knife-edge seats could have put Labour leader in Downing Street
www.independent.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Since we're apparently going to have to fight all of the revisionist Greatest Hits of the late 2010s all over again -
Corbyn was never 'unelectable'; had merely 2,227 votes in key marginals gone the other way in the 2017 GE, he would have been PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Corbyn was never 'unelectable'; had merely 2,227 votes in key marginals gone the other way in the 2017 GE, he would have been PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...