Thomas Cheney

oh, oh, oh

of course he's ill, the conditions in these concentration camps are, well, concentration camps

but even if you're a millennial you rank Clinton above Obama?

yeah, also like when I say Obama was the best president of my lifetime I mean in comparison to the other presidents not like my platonic ideal of a US president

yeah, Biden cut his teeth in the Senate on arms control and his approach to foreign policy makes decent sense if its a 'Carter redux' (and Biden was the first Senator to endorse Carter for President) and so we got zombie Reagan on steroids

and her name: Martha Jones

indeed - Julian Assange lived in the Ecuadorian embassy for 7 years because you do not violate embassies

Trump health policy delivering on its promises! Making America Great Again!

I mean it should surprise no one that they're going to stage a coup, after all they've basically got away with the kidnapping...

guys might kidnapping the president of a country negatively harm our relations with said country?

If the UK Government is not a guaranteed customer for the missiles, then the propsect looks immediately less attractive for the businesses loking at the tender. Either way, without replacing US ISR systems having just the UK missiles won’t address US dependency concerns.

And as Henrietta Harrison argues in The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire - the infamous 'kowtow' never happened! It was a sensationalist press story.

Ground rents to be capped at £250 a year for leaseholders The reforms for England and Wales also include proposals to ban the sale of new leasehold flats.

Proper good news for thousands of people.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

jesus - this is one of the big no nos of international relations - like seriously this is end diplomatic relations territory

philly riots when they win at sports, so yeah, good luck

also its quite impressive how a 25 year old film with so much CGI had only 1 moment that really felt like it was 25 year old CGI (when Legolas does a somersault onto a horse)

got a tad damp, well worth it, Return of the King on Saturday

a woman standing in a living room talking on a cell phone and says please Alt: a woman standing in a living room talking on a cell phone and says please

Went to see Fellowship of the Ring in cinema on Sunday, and am off to see Two Towers tonight and yeah, I'm looking at the weather and, no I do want to see it in the cinema, I do, and braving this weather is worth it... [first time I've seen any of them in cinema and wow!]

Trump threats fuel concern over UK reliance on US defence and military satellites Contest between Airbus and Lockheed Martin to supply SkyNet 6 programme has become lightning rod for Whitehall debate

EXC: The multibillion-pound contract to build ‘Skynet 6’ next-gen military satellites is shaping up as key flashpoint in UK govt, as Trump’s threats to western allies are fuelling concern about London’s reliance on Washington for defence

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the funny thing with Burnham is that a) most of his rep comes from HMG during COVID being run by proper muppets and so even a veneer of competence made you look like a Titan, and b) UK public policy is shit so there's lots of low hanging fruit like make buses not shit and affordable for users...

Power point slide with a very vaaguely 'techy' background - text reads: LW5118- Regulating Innovation: Law, Technology, and Governance, Dr Thomas Cheney (he/him) with my email address listed.

Looking forward to giving my first lecture as a module lead at Northumbria University kicking off Regulating Innovation: Law, Technology, and Governance, a 2nd year UG law module looking at how the UK regulates tech through bio/info/aerospace technology case studies

I mean to be fair, if people realise that British politicians can be good and popular, like that is allowed, Keir is in trouble...

age mindset that being mates with someone in the year above or below you is weird?

I think part of it is that they don't experience non-romantic/sexual 'age-gap' relationships, like they don't have friendships with people older than them - perhaps its part of the changes in workplaces that they're not coming into contact with older people at work and so are stuck in the school

I think my favourite thing about the gold standard people is that they don't seem to realise that gold having value is also largely a socially constructed sense of value - certainly before electronics it wasn't actually that useful as a metal

Honestly, this is going to sound like a bit but Democrats should explicitly state that no Canadian territory will become American territory or a state in the union.

sounds like someone has limited knowledge of French nuclear doctrine...

This will be my first proper teaching semester at Northumbria, I'm really looking forward to teaching Regulating Innovation starting on Monday, striking is the last thing I want to do but the university is insisting on cutting my pay and my pension so it was an easy Yes vote.

Northumbria University staff vote for strike action in pay and pensions row Staff at Northumbria University have voted to take industrial action over plans to pressure them to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), the University and College Union (UCU) announced today .

UCU - Northumbria University staff vote for strike action in pay and pensions row www.ucu.org.uk/article/14383

So apparently my pension is 'crippling' university finances... great thing to hear on the eve of Semester 2 teaching starting! @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social