Colin Danby

Yep. When people tell you, repeatedly, what they are, believe them.

Wouldn't live there, but I've connected through that airport. I hope I would've had the foresight to cancel if I'd been flying today, but it's easy to assume normality.

exploded

Have you eaten fresh peas?

Yep. I suspect the video is bait, but in particular the "French style" and "Mexican style" jars are sanitised blends for the unadventurous.

Yikes. Use of the word "identity" is a tell, as is the angry refusal to even consider the possibility that the Labour government's ostentatiously punitive immigration policies might have mattered.

My experience too! On the whole, successful military service selects for competence, maturity, time management, and seriousness about work. It is also a ladder of class mobility, and I've learned to listen to students who found it useful.

Is anyone writing about the Boer War and contemporary responses to it, with the questions you are raising?

These moments bring out a lot of bigotry, including the belief that nobody is Muslim willingly.

I felt sad as I packed boxes of discards last week, but also realized I'd been curating a museum of past enthusiasms.

Just back from Fellow Travelers at the Seattle Opera, which was excellent.

Sad puppy being carried

When you get kicked out of the bar for humping a baby goat

Is it so barbarian
to nosh on tasty carrion?

Yes. And it's pretty clear that what Starmer means by it any campaign prepared to speak to Muslim Britons. The degree to which he has adopted Reform's language and assumptions is appalling.

And that McSweeney is an authentic Starmerite. Or maybe it is the other way around.

If you read the letter in its entirety, it puts substantial weight on Galloway as an explanation for Labour's defeat.

Galloway is horrible. But the Starmer letter is an implausible effort to attribute this defeat to him.

This! Also the way the letter attributes their defeat to George Galloway. He cannot admit the possibility that his policies have alienated people.

And the letter blames the defeat on George Galloway? Seriously?

Saw one today in Seattle, charging itself in the supermarket parking lot.

All faculty careers start with naivete about your role in the institution, and end in the realization that you have almost zero influence and admin thinks you're a loon. Support your colleagues and be happy you have a job.

"Much of this is on me. I have ­never done well with institutions whose performances fall far short of their ­s­tated principles."

Smith is a sociologist? *Every* institution's performance falls far short of its stated principles.

The preening, the tedious length, the absent self awareness.

Early, Middle, and Late March

Such a strange vertigo at this moment. DEI work addressed tacit, structural, unacknowledged discrimination. Usefully! And at the same time these luridly evil people were plotting it explicitly.

Particle traces in a bubble chamber. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/513924/what-causes-the-spirals-to-be-inward-in-the-bubble-chamber-images

If AI works out how to reverse time we can draw all kinds of lines.

Thanks!

Not seeing the problem here.

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Get well, Enkidu!

The crinkling of the wrapper, the crumbs on the floor.