Michael Doherty

Watching videos of police dragging away grannies for holding an anti genocide bit of card, thinking about the time the Met buried reports that one of their officers was a predator, then after he used police ID to kidnap, rape & murder a woman, they then arrested women for holding a vigil for her.

MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

Absolutely incredible scenes in Italy over the (formerly BBC) Good Food website's cacio e pepe recipe

British ambassador contacted, Italian journalists seething

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.

the guy who invented the merry-go-round and the guy who invented the ferris wheel never actually met, because they travelled in different circles

Cartoon by Stephen Collins - here's the script: 1 [Title panel] Changes to our Airport Drop Off Fees 2 Please note from August 2nd we will be charging a Dropping Mum Off At The Airport fee of £6.00 3 Please note from August 3rd we will be charging a Dropping Mum Off By Drone fee of £6.50 4 Please note from August 4th we will be charging a Firing Mum At The Airport From A Cannon fee of £7.00 5 Please note from August 5th we will be charging a Get Mum To Start Tunnelling To The Airport Four Years Before Her Holiday fee of £7.50 6 Please note from August 6th we will be charging a Getting Mum Bitten By A Vampire Show She Can Fly In As A Bat fee of £8.00 7 Please note from August 8th we will be charging a Dressing Mum Up As A Pilot And Dropping Her Off In A 747 So It Just Looks Like We Took A Wrong Turn fee of £8.50 8 Please note from August 9th we will be charging a Blowing Up The Fence And Telling Mum To Run Mum For God’s Sake Run fee of £9.00 9 [Show a couple Man and Woman doing this - a hole blown in the airport fence, while they shout at Mum]: Man: RUN MUM FOR GOD’S SAKE RUUUUN 10 [pause as they watch her running across the runways] 11 Man: THAT’S IT MUM. UP THE LANDING GEAR. 12 Woman [Looking at a drop off charges sign]: Oh they’re charging for this now Man: You’re joking [Police arrive in background to arrest them] [Ends]

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Wow

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

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gosh only just realised 6 Music - and the whole of the BBC! aren't on Bluesky. Some good BBC journalists are, but nothing as an organisation I can see

Cartoon drawing of Nietzsche hoovering and thinking "God I hate this thing". Caption reads Nietzsche abhors a vacuum.

Nietzsche abhors a vacuum

www.worldofmoose.com/products/nie...

NEW on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not buff.ly/D7hmHQP

aww Martha's Vineyard is like his second favorite island 😥

Motherfucking wind farms…

How Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Make Law School Unaffordable For People Who Are Not Already Rich Sweeping changes to key student loan programs will make it harder for aspiring public interest attorneys to attend law school—and exacerbate this country's justice gap.

Of the many culture shock moments in law school, one that still sticks with me is learning how *wealthy* most of my classmates' families were, and the notion that it's going to be functionally impossible for lower-income students to attend going forward is really hard for me to contemplate

Turns out legislation.gov.uk is 15 years old today. How the time flies @jenitennison.com!

I think it is hard to underestimate how important this website is for the Rule of Law in the UK. Before 2010, if you wanted to find out what statutes were actually in force you essentially needed a subscription to a very expensive commercial product like Halsbury's Statutes.

It seems like people have gotten pretty comfortable with putting academic articles in ChatGPT, etc. to help summarize/digest. Is there a consensus developing that doing so is fair use? What about licensing restrictions if you're accessing a paid resource? What if you know the author is against AI?

Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon

Two vital lessons from this story:

✅ never agree to a police interview without legal representation, even if officers claim they are unable to reach a solicitor, and

✅ never accept a caution to secure release, as it's an admission of guilt

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nice power stance ✊

Just imagining Jesus in interviews being like “well my mum was an ordinary housewife and my stepdad is a carpenter so I’ve always identified as working class” and then someone checks his Wikipedia page

4. Matthew B. Reeves Mr. Reeves admits that he utilized Al to generate the legal citations at issue, that he added them to both draft motions without verifying them, and that all of this was "contrary to the requirements of Butler Snow LLP and [his] obligations to this Court." Doc. 194-2 11 3-6. As the court understands Mr. Reeves's position, he does not contest his responsibility in any way and would prefer to be held solely responsible. See Doc. 200 at 24. And the court credits Mr. Reeves's representation that he will use his own experience in this case to warn law students and other lawyers of the consequences they might face if they make a similar decision regarding the use of AI. See Doc. 203-4 91 3-5.

The court has no difficulty finding that Mr. Reeves's misconduct was more than mere recklessness. In the light of repeated general warnings from federal courts about the risks of bogus citations generated by Al, as well as the persistent specific warnings, policies, and expectations of his colleagues and law firm with respect to Al, Mr. Reeves's misconduct was particularly egregious. Having been so extensively alerted of the risk that Al will make things up, and having blown through all of his firm's internal controls designed to protect court filings from counterfeit citations, Mr. Reeves's repeated decisions to parrot citations generated by Al without verifying even one of them reflect complete and utter disregard for his professional duty of candor. This is recklessness in the extreme, and it is tantamount to bad faith. Accordingly, the court will impose an appropriate sanction under its inherent authority.

The two partners involved, however, were not so lucky. First up is Matthew B. Reeves. “Having been so extensively alerted of the risk that Al will make things up, and having blown through all of his firm's internal controls designed to protect court filings from counterfeit citations…” Yikes.

Venezuelans leaving El Salvador after Trump sent them to the mega prison without due process: “4 months with no communication… no water… psychological torture… they’d hit us for breakfast, they’d hit us for lunch, they’d hit us for dinner…”

"Barrister winery"
"Former Barrister actually. And it's not whining, it's a clear proposition, with evidence, persuasively put. Oh I see. I misunderstood. Sure, let's try the Cab Sauv"

(Great wine here in the centre of Spokane, Washington)

Shutting down parliament to avoid an inconvenient vote eh

The story I heard concerned a Japanese businessman who was told we were going to make our universities more businesslike.

His response: why would you do that? Your universities are excellent and your businesses are rubbish.

But we appointed the wrong people and pressed ahead.

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’ Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

As someone who couldn't have undertaken a PhD without funding, the AHRC scholarship I received (many years ago) was life-changing. It's incredibly concerning that the the next generation of prospective academics are being denied such opportunities. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

Oh my God.

Trump: the comprehensive Mexican food acronyms

From the new Private Eye, out now.