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WHAT.

Who do I need to slap?

14 pieces of coursework remaining.

A great thread for alien worldbuilding. Our exoplanets will have limpets

I absolutely loved that the experiences Dan and Fin went through didn't result in a very specific change to their household circumstances. Another great installment in the series!

Ken is lovely!

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners:

https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

a spongebob squarepants scene with a mailbox and a flower Alt: a spongebob squarepants scene with a mailbox and a flower. Spongebob is posting his vote.

Looks like job losses in Chemistry then.
Guess I know what I'm doing with my ucu ballot now.

Possibly the greatest "in mice" outcome of all time

Cast of Wonders 680: Firecrackers on 28 Mott Street | Cast of Wonders The children wield firecrackers as they enter the old shop on Mott Street. Copper wind bells chime as the door closes behind them. Inside, velvet curtains block all natural light. Here the glow of…

Happy Lunar New Year!! www.castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast...

Cast of Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Kaleidotrope: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...

Don't mind me, I'm just going to go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours while my brain attempts to assimilate this crucial new information

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Crucible theatre Sheffield

14yo successfully interviewed for a work experience placement at Sheffield Theatres. So proud!

An owl like figure offer a claw displaying three talons. Three drops of blood depend from each talon. Pencil drawing with applied colour.

...at any rate, good afternoon.
Queen of Owls from Hookland for you.

Weird bloods but nothing's wrong with you.
Normal bloods, nothing's wrong with you, lose weight.
Oh wait, bloods ARE weird, let's do more tests and get you on thyroxine.

Only taken a year?

They all hold a Guinness World Record. (Speed-recitation of Hamlet, Pogo-stick bounces, number of supernumerary teeth, not necessarily in that order)

They all appeared on the gameshow Blockbusters as children

Still from The Shining. A slightly untidy kitchen with a bookshelf and laundry basket in view. At a table covered with a checked cloth sit little Danny and his mother Wendy. Danny is obediently eating a sandwich; Wendy is reading a copy of The Catcher In The Rye. Neither looks at the other; each sits in quiet isolation.

Apparently there’s all sorts of conspiracy theories about why, in Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING, Wendy Torrance is reading JD Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.

I haven’t read Stephen King’s book, but I know the answer to the mystery. It’s storytelling!

It tells us about Jack’s abuse.

1/17

Also:

bsky.app/profile/kris...

"It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, "But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?"

(Source: www.ala.org/sites/defaul..., pg 22.)

Excellent piece on how universities are important economic players in local economies, but also how they have been giving people hope about the future in very practical ways. 5min read.

Only partially inspired by that Lightspeed story. Last year they evicted the protest outside the SU and put in a heavily planted garden, fenced off from the concourse. It looks pretty, sure...

The gardeners were there again today
Cutting back ornanental grasses, pulling weeds
New growth budding through the soil
And the fluttering of tenacious, long-dead leaves.
Students hurry, hunched in heavy coats,
Past the landscaping where tents once
Crowded the lawn, disorderly and free.

Fuuuuck.

I cannot imagine why this story would resonate so strongly with me? What could possibly explain it?

Fellow academics, read this one.

Know any UK based LGBTQIA+ mathematicians (or other STEM people!) who deserve some credit for their work??? Vote for them by the 1st of March!

Read this

Mandelson’s Fifth Column The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Gorgeous!

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.

Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman