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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 7h

... no: no reason whatsoever why I'm swotting up yet again on the _very_ substantial literature that demonstrates that student "evaluations" of teaching are massively biased and have strongly detrimental effects on the people who are subjected to them.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding the impact of biased student evaluations: an intersectional analysis of academics’ experiences in the UK higher education context

This paper aims to offer an understanding of how (intersectional) bias in student evaluations of teaching affects academics’ mental health and career progression. Despite the widespread acceptance ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Murk @murky.org · 6h

In other news, asking permission to enter houses is a real pain for the burglary industry

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Paulo Navarro-Costa @germcells.bsky.social · 10h

John Gurdon, yr beloved @germcells.bsky.social first and foremost scientific reference has passed away. Here's to a person who was told he couldn't make it and decided to make it on his own terms 🥂 Rest in power, John!

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 1d

Thread.

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 1d

What is it about being extremely right wing that causes this absolute lack of reading comprehension

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen several huge screens like this and they all seem to look at every TF in the genome EXCEPT the couple I’m interested in. It’s beginning to feel personal. What have these big screen folks got against ZFX and ZFY?

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen several huge screens like this and they all seem to look at every TF in the genome EXCEPT the couple I’m interested in. It’s beginning to feel personal. What have these big screen folks got against ZFX and ZFY?

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately we’re about 6 months to a year off Nazi US having control of our own deterrent and submarines in our bases, so I’m not sure how much difference it’ll make

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, we know the former is ‘freedom of the speech we agree with’

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

* Budenuch, according to the image

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2d

Work will never love you back. Consistently make regular time for your physical and mental health and your relationships.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

"‘We taught her everything she knows,’ said Granny Weatherwax.

‘Yeah,’ said Nanny Ogg, as they disappeared into the bracken. ‘D’you think ... maybe...?’

‘What?’

‘D’you think maybe we ought to have taught her everything we know?’

‘It’d take too long.’"

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

‘This belonged to my great-granddad,’ he said. ‘He was in the scrap we had against Pseudopolis and my great-gran gave him this book of prayer for soldiers, ‘cos you need all the prayers you can get, believe you me, and he stuck it in the top pocket of his jerkin, ‘cos he couldn’t afford armour, and next day in battle - whoosh, this arrow came out of nowhere, wham, straight into this book and it went all the way through to the last page before stopping, look, you can see the hole.’
‘Pretty miraculous,’ Carrot agreed.
‘Yeah, it was, I s’pose,’ said the sergeant. He looked ruefully at the battered volume. ‘Shame about the other seventeen arrows, really.’ (J)

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Night of the Libby Dead ☠️ @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d

Again, no. The "mainstream right" isn't the firewall against the far-right, it paves the way for the far right. This is just a version of civility politics where quiet bigotry is preferred to the raucous kind. It's also a resignation to the two party duopoly, and fuck that.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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Night of the Libby Dead ☠️ @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d

The Good Tory is an oxymoron and I will not be nostalgic for a party that asset stripped this country, peddled austerity and institutionalised every form of bigotry. I don't care if some of them were polite.

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Ben Skipper @benskipper.bsky.social · 2d

Grate Britian!!!

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, but four years of the lunatic emperor having more or less unlimited power is what we’re seeing right now in the US, and the unpopularity and economic incompetence won’t do anything to stop or shorten it.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

Is there an option for pi?

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

Do you always have difficulty grasping tone, intent and basic content? If so, it may be that online communication is not for you.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

Who do you think you’re talking to? The poster here isn’t the one who made the comparison. You could perhaps write to the New York Times, who published the article.

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 2d

Universities of Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry & Swansea defer pay rises

Kent’s “review in the coming months” is temporal evasion at its finest, while Coventry’s “break even position” heroically rebrands “we won’t pay” as “fiscal courage”

The academic austerity opera continues

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d

At least five UK universities have told staff they will not be paying them the sector-wide uplift that was due in August for almost a year. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/five-uk-universities-tell-staff-they-cant-afford-pay-rises

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

a bald man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and saying mild shock .

ALT: a bald man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and saying mild shock .

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