Jason Davies

🚨 BREAKING | Police confirm 466 people were arrested for "terrorism" for holding signs at a Palestine demo.

This means more people have been arrested under terrorism legislation in 2025 than **any** other year.

(Source: Home Office)

Those IR modems were amazing (Palm pilot and Sony Ericsson phone for me). It took all evening to upload one photo but it seemed proper sci-fi!

Aug. 9, 2014 | White Police Officer Shoots and Kills Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury refused to indict the officer, who was never held accountable.

An area with intense construction, including a partly built tunnel, currently exposed

A large mound of grey soil, size of a small hill

It possible it’s still there in the forbidden zone. Behind the newest Chiltern hill

So … early neighbourhood FB?

Strangely this (near enough) also applies to Plato. I’m seeing a theme here.

Well they’re plums that are round and small so we haven’t ruled them out yet;) used to be one near us but #HS2 flattened that little wood:(

Are they ripe? Look like cherry plum but those are often less green

Yeah but the old urinals are all very efficient at spraying urine back all over the place. Once you see it you can’t unsee it…

🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".

In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.

(Source: @TheTimes)

<looks up in Mac Pro 2010>

<remembers all the paid-for-but-now-subscription software that I still run on it that is now broken>

Narrator: the rabbit did not, in fact, stop.

@goze01.bsky.social good stuff, we were talking about things like this but you’ve actually written it up (proper academic response!)

UK HE shrinking a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

And @qmucu.bsky.social is now getting emails directly from universities' press offices to say how many people they're planning to make redundant.

Appreciate the recognition that our page remains a source of info about the mess that is the sector. Bit of a mindfuck though.

I still have various copy/drafts of my PhD and many drafts of the subsequent book archived,in case of weird problems like vanishing footnotes. I submitted it in 1998.

My mouth is no longer ‘crowded’, finally;)

I swear. 6 as a kid (at least four adult teeth and I think all of them). As of today, all 4 wisdom teeth so far one episode of excruciating dry socket and hoping this one doesn’t do the same.

Not the worst thing happening to anyone but I really hope that my tenth adult tooth extraction today is the last one...

WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.

Oh good! That’s lovely! I nearly killed the parent but have recently been coaxing it back to health. And that’s a much better name for it;)

A young tree apparently grows out of the decayed stump of an old tree

I’m not here enough to keep up with almost any dialogue so here is a photo about survival through sheer stubbornness

Excellent new materials on hidden redundancies up on the
@ucu.org.uk website. I feel this particular one very keenly...

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1412...

Apparently we were the ones ‘going too far’.

Dunno about ‘gone’. I had glass bottles thrown at me cycling home in London about 2010. They’re definitely working hard to maintain that kind of thing.

Significant portions of Article I of the U.S. Constitution were removed from the version published on Congress’ official Constitution website. Large parts of Section 8(which outlines the powers of Congress) were deleted, and Sections 9 and 10,

BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.

Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:

- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.

See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.

Beech trees in a wood

The woods:)

Cannot be arsed to join the latest round of “but everyone is using/will use LLMs discourse” except to say that a) people should have the option to reject genAI but that’s hard as it’s being relentlessly pushed; and b) the future isn’t determined yet so why shill for an entirely shitty version?

Uh <looks around>I think there is just us.

Transphobia is infuriating AND self-defeating. If you're AFAB, you're going to go through menopause...HRT has been a lifesaver for me. It may even stave off dementia!

If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?

A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.