An Irishman went for a job interview on a building site. The foreman asked him "Do you know the difference between a joist and a girder?"

The Irishman replied, "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."

It’s a Ponzi Scheme. The alternative of renting is even worse though - and the suckers are the young on the whole. But yes - move to Vienna?

Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...

Some significant %age of quantitative work is just rediscovering stuff that humanists (or indeed ordinary people) already know (b/c we read literature, understand history, do ethnography, etc.), but which doesn't count as "real" knowledge b/c not quantified or experimentally "proven." Sigh.

Ok yes - you give so much joy on here that I’m a gonna give you some cash for just being so brilliant… especially this tho - especially this 💪 more power to your elbow!

But lo! What is this? The wife of the Russian agent who bribed Nathan Gill visiting the Guardian offices during the same period?!?

Why, yes it is. Read all about it in this week’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...