Stephen Curry

Labour's plan for a levy on foreign student fees makes no sense, unless it's to appease racists who don't like foreign students, or populists who believe in the lump of student capacity fallacy, that somehow they displace domestic students out of education.

This government's relentless focus on growth has got out of hand.

“They’d”, obviously. Why do I never see these things?

Scene from Hellboy II set in the glans of Antrim. Shows Hellboy and friends facing the camera talking to a crustacean-encrusted goblin

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Okay this is important - we shouldn't take any of the Twitter geolocations seriously.

Yeah. McLaren will be kicking themselves today.

Las Vegas Grand Prix: 'Lando Norris remains strong title favourite but Max Verstappen properly in the game' Lando Norris is still in a strong position to win his first F1 drivers' championship but Max Verstappen now has a real chance of making it five in a row.

Verstappen’s going to nick it, isn’t he?
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

What a shame that no one in the White House seems to read @ldfreedman.bsky.social’s analysis. They have a much better idea of what’s going on if they did.

Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors George Eliot and Pascal

Now in my early 60s I have only just started reading Middlemarch (blame the education system…), so I am immensely grateful to @adamroberts.bsky.social for this wonderfully perceptive exploration of the epigrams at the head of each chapter. open.substack.com/pub/profadam...

Far more insight on immigration and socioeconomic policy than you will find among government ministers.

David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.

Profile of David Byrne. Sorry never to have seen Talking Heads live, a band I loved at first sight. “The lyrics are about dissociation and distance , but they are also about connection—hope in a damaged place, love where we least expect it.“ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...

'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report

www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...

Players in red and white strips watch an incoming free kick on a bright green pitch.

Players in red and white strips await the yellow-clad goalie’s free kick on a bright green pitch.

In other cultural news, enjoyed seeing Bromley FC dispatch Salford 2-0 this afternoon.

75 years young 😍
Happy Birthday Tina Weymouth, born on this day in 1950, Coronado, California

One of the greatest bass line ever:
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer - Old Grey Whistle Test

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #punkrockhistory #otd

Here is @richardaljones.bsky.social basically telling us how it is. I’ve been thinking about this since listening to him say this stuff out loud at the @royalsociety.org
on Thursday.
softmachines.org?p=3192

An elderly couple sitting down quietly to a simple meal, illuminated by light streaming in from the window.

A woman in a pale blue dress sits reading at a table. On the table a vase of red poppies. Light splashes on the chairs near her.

An elderly woman in an armchair with a red blanket over her legs and lap. The pale blue wall behind is lit by the window to her right.

Loved the quiet, luminous dignity of Anna Ancher’s portraits and her celebration of the extraordinary at the heart of the ordinariness of everyday life. (Dulwich Picture Gallery)

A Trump White House would have pressured Britain to surrender to the Nazis. Europe needs to stand strong and shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.

Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.

An elderly couple sitting down quietly to a simple meal, illuminated by light streaming in from the window.

A woman in a pale blue dress sits reading at a table. On the table a vase of red poppies. Light splashes on the chairs near her.

An elderly woman in an armchair with a red blanket over her legs and lap. The pale blue wall behind is lit by the window to her right.

Loved the quiet, luminous dignity of Anna Ancher’s portraits and her celebration of the extraordinary at the heart of the ordinariness of everyday life. (Dulwich Picture Gallery)

MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]

🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.

Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.

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Labour’s enshittification of the U.K.

Should we ban Boris Johnson from public office… y’know, to prevent him from killing again?

Better than Jesus, eh? The @royalsociety.org really should add that to their biography of Elon Musk FRS. royalsociety.org/people/elon-...

They delegate. ;-)

Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds Report from inquiry’s second module also says Johnson as PM ‘at times actively encouraged’ chaotic culture

Gosh, it looks like culture matters when you’re trying to get people to do their best work… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

The Conservative Party membership bears responsibility here for electing as leader a man who was so obviously unfit for high political office. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine benefits cancer patients. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice clown shoes.

Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too.

In contrast to many members of the Trump administration… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thorough & perceptive analysis. I sense Ben has thought more deeply than the govt about the challenges and opportunities here!