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Doubts about value of degrees and university expansion not backed by the evidence, David Willetts shows in new report Much of the public and media debate ignores the long-lasting benefits of higher education

Wake up babe, new David Willets report on whether going to uni in the UK is still worth it just dropped (spoiler alert: it is).

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/doubts-...

Straight to the "Policy Homework" Zotero folder with you 📂

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A-Level results day.

The day we, universities and their librarians, get minute by minute reminders why we do what we do 🥰

And the early UCAS numbers are looking strong 💪

Huge thank you also to all the school librarians who got their kids here, we'll take up the torch 🔥🤝

Why don’t you start by making some reliable lists?
But with this magic sand …
No, you should definitely start with some lists
We want to use the magic sand. We’ve written a strategy and everything
LISTS

Life of Reilly A meeting by the River Boyne.

#LongReadHotMug N.103:

Keep the world weird 😃

Today:
Life of Reilly - John Phipps
www.the-fence.com/life-of-reil...

trying to put a number on how many widgets to produce is a good number of widgets produced won't get you anywhere happy - but also there is meaning and dignity in producing work and liking that is okay

Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive? I read all the books and tried all the hacks in a mad quest to optimize my time.

#LongReadHotMug N.100

I am in this essay and I liked what I found 🚂

Today:
Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive? - Kelly Stout
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a6...

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sorry I am here not nearly often enough but seeing all the new updates coming in is exciting

History of Ideas: George Orwell Listen to this episode from Past Present Future on Spotify. This week David discusses George Orwell’s ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ (1941), his great wartime essay about what it does – and doesn�...

"I ain't reading all that!"

dw PPF Ideas has you covered 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/1IlD...

this started out as a thread about giving museums their soul back and now we are at everyone should think about toilets, but in the good way (make more of them)

clearly writing this diss has flushed new levels of unhinged out of me (ha! still got it 🚽)

Tweet by @0ptimistBiscuit “#booktweetman N.66: "No Place to Go" Verdict: You know what's also not great in 2020? Public Toilets. @lezlielowe has written one of those rare books that are funny AND will make you never look at...

if you made it this far down this thread, go buy and read "No Place To Go" i guess and then we can talk toilets as the backbone of civic society all day
https://twitter.com/0ptimistBiscuit/status/1306677968660582403

Decades on, I am still traumatised by my visit to the school toilets The first time I tried to use a cubicle, my classmates did their damnedest to put me off. Even now communal loos are a no-go area

could be as easy as just plastering this piece of art all over the walls and then asking people to comment as they come out
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2023/feb/15/decades-on-i-am-still-traumatised-by-my-visit-to-the-school-toilets

"oh no we accidentally had to refurbish them to do this, how could this have happened? :3"

when faced with despair, always choose more joy and thrill - best way forward

obviously also provide alternative, privacy-maxed, toilet facilities at the same time

Doku über die Ausstellung "Takeover - Street Art & Skateboarding" im Wien Museum Karlsplatz von 5.7.-1.9.2019(c) Mariel Bulaong Takeover - The Documentary

wien museum in vienna did it when they refurbished - turned the whole place into a skatepark and graffiti venue, where anyone could do anything within reason (German only sorry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsFwMpGZKTU

make them exhibition space for 6 months

The Secret Museum Director: 'I no longer know what museums are for' - Museums + Heritage Advisor

someone send this person a hug

and then suggest to them to use their engagement money and have "the bathroom debate" or something similarly about 'you and the other' in the toilets 👀
https://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/blogs/the-secret-museum-director-i-no-longer-know-what-museums-are-for/

we literally have one of the most desirable jobs in the world 🤯 that's the kind of perspective to approach and act like with.

just met a keen bean looking to become a librarian for a coffee and you know what, say yes, everytime one of those approaches you 🫘

one of the most rewarding things you can do in this line of work

at the same time a good reminder of the struggle and how worth it it was

Planet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica) Kyle Gordon, DJ Crazy Times, Ms. Biljana Electronica · Song · 2023

it's here 😭 it's finally here 😭😭🤩

WORLDPEACE

https://open.spotify.com/track/7xOjJ5v3SGlYl5Rb2c31dI?si=GAv_rXwqQ06V19dgu-CLgQ

went to "Bookbar" in London for the first time today, got snapped in my natural habitat

10/10 would recommend

they sell you books and serve you wine until they close

good words

[Herson, M. (2022): "Slow Horses". Baskerville, London. p. 14]

the unblinking (or worse yet - blinking) cursor comes for us all

LIBRARIES ARE FOR EVERYONE

nobody does words quite like my man here

thinking about this Nietzsche bit, For the New Year, again

I'm continuing my numbers from Twitter.

This link might at some point just not work, but if you want to find 92 other pieces of good, long writing best enjoyed with a hot drink on a weekend 👇
https://twitter.com/hashtag/LongReadHotMug%20%28from%3A0ptimistBiscuit%29?t=OUVDoGRTxeMZWPQIAYQikg&s=09