Nick Wise

$10 per citation.

Everything is for sale

*North west

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Big shoes to fill

@jamesomalley.co.uk PAF next?

Would love to know why Cambridgeshire has such a preponderance of NSFW villages

Dad, 99, and son, 80, hold Wintzell's Oyster House to their promise of free oysters Jimmy Rush has a constant craving... for oysters.Always has, at least for most of his 99 years.

"We have literally been talking about this for decades," says Carl, proudly. "That's why some many people have come down to be a part of it. Some of my friends were glad it happened today, so they could quit hearing about it!"

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

This is how I discovered Polanski’s position on ‘natural birth’ and god, fuck this so so much

You may already know about this but if not I think you'll be interested @jonnelledge.bsky.social

Part of a map of Canada from around 1710 showing areas called New North Wales and New South Wales

For anyone who's ever wondered about the naming of New South Wales, it used to be in Canada and accompanied by New North Wales.
(Map circa 1710)

After a brief change brought about by COVID, several Cambridge degrees have returned to handwritten in-person exams.

Best part of living in Cambridge is that the council already does this.

www.instagram.com/reel/DBsuxkT...

Ban on World Food aisles in supermarkets

Shrive, Shraugh, Shrove ✌️✨💖

Color Memory Game — How well do you remember colors? We show you 5 colors. You try to recreate them from memory. Challenge your friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think.

A game a game!

dialed.gg

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Who signed off on this?!

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.

"the broad-muzzled canids" @secondmentions.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...

Seems about right

New CMYK just dropped

People: 8-Month-Old Baby Goes Viral After Hairdresser Mom Gave Her a 'Fresh' Set of 22 Inch Extensions (Exclusive)

Baby with 22inch hair extensions

This photo is funnier than it has any business being

people.com/hairdresser-...

Shame John Virgo has died because I really wanted him to be my co-host on my forthcoming Goalhanger Podcast, The Rest Is That Thing They Lean On When It's A Tricky Shot In Snooker.

A wall behind some traffic lights with a mural of Mr Blobby that’s been partly stripped off leaving an ominous pink and yellow polka dotted silhouette

Signs and portents

Grindcore is the new hustle culture In Silicon Valley, long hours have fused with a monastic male wellness aesthetic

I read this, and I am freshly reminded that one of the most important insights in humanism is that this our one and only life.