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I maintain my position that white collar crime remains the most underprosecuted, and more vigilance on this would have saved us from at least two Trump presidencies before they happened. These guys are sloppy, they're just also stupidly intimidatingly rich. But not richer than the State.

Fully excellent NHS experience today - I'd never passed out before in that 'no idea who or where you are as you come round' way before. I didn't panic, because I was surrounded by lovely kind voices, asking me gentle questions and offering support. I immediately knew I was safe.

the BBC is going to get worse before it gets worse

why are they "trad wives" and not "girls gone laura ingalls wilder"

I am smiling :)

Given that one of my all-time favourite books is Cannibalism and the Common Law: a Victorian yachting tragedy (no really, and it's exactly as its title and subtitle suggest) this thread is today's fave!!

Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group.

U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines.

They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration

I just had to call the NHS to rebook an appointment, only to be told the guy on the appointments line will now email the team and I'll hear back in 2-3 days. What is this system? Like, I'll just fax the bank and ask if they can update my online account for me?!?

Some genius in the comments just called it the Tipping forecast.

Genius!!!

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If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.

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And shout out to the Salamander pub for the vintage Bon Jovi. I cannot remember the last time I heard Bad Medicine on a playlist. Cheering me up no end

"Maybe we haven't heard enough about the benefits of literally owning human beings" is a hell of a take. Jaysus.

The world is miserable but my students and colleagues continue to be excellent. I work just one day per week, and my queer gothic seminar continues to be the highlight of each week.

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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

An excellent thread

Every day they tell the world how scared they are of dying, of fading into the darkness which inevitably consumes all of us
They think they are Colossi straddling the world, but really, they are sad little boys whistling in the dark, self-radicalizing in group chats, and shitting bricks about aging

I have done too much* and it's a teaching day tomorrow. Ugh.. chronic fatigue is the most frustrating illness.

* Friday I caught up with a friend, Saturday I assembled a small flat pack shelving unit, today I cleaned two saucepans.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I don't know why the really British ones are so funny - I think it's the distance from the original text that I just love.

Thank you!! I've not got problems in my current teaching as it's mostly literature electives, but this is such an excellent exercise for all of thus that I'm going to trial sharing it with all of them not just the 'problem' groups of core courses

CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.

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Seen as it looks like I won't have a main job for a while (and seen as I haven't been paid anything since September) if you'd like to support the work that I do through Romancing the Gothic, you can!

You can also buy courses (in case you didn't know!)

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A tax of 2% on wealth over £10 million would raise £24 billion every year 🤯

This could be used to fund our public services properly - from schools to hospitals.

While Reeves says we must all “do our bit”, Plaid Cymru believes it’s time for those with the broadest shoulders to pay their fair share.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

This is everyone I know on the job market right now. Capitalism is the problem. The system is rigged against humanity. There is simultaneously only money and no money. You are brilliant, and your worth cannot be measured by an HR metric xxx

Also inspiration for one of my all time favourite jokes from Red Dwarf: the team is functioning like a well oiled machine! Unfortunately that machine is a ktel nose hair trimmer.

AI is killing people. We don't have to let companies hawking these products embed them in everything. If you work at a college, your students are already struggling with mental health, and you want to give them this?

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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.