Neil McCutcheon

I like how banal evil is becoming

Russian state media mocks Trump’s post.

The Beatles released ‘Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 58 years ago on May 26, 1967

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Blondie's "Sunday Girl" from 'Parallel Lines' hit #1 on the UK singles chart 46 years ago on May 26, 1979

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Good for him. He's realised something about Putin

A tweet from NBC news: Measles vaccination among babies skyrocketed in Texas as the outbreak grew, new research shows. Reply by Alex Griswold: Because in practice anti-vaxx is a luxury belief based on the assumption that your neighbors' vaccines do in fact work

I've never seen it so well put before.

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You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job This past Tuesday I received 37 pitches for upcoming books from 37 different publicists representing 37 different authors. I am always aware of how many books keep coming out and how little space t…

"AI is such a pressing labor issue in creative fields because so many of us know that generative AI is bad at doing our jobs." - @maris.bsky.social

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Interesting article on LinkedIn about the role of AI in grading student work. www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-a...

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.

The NSF helped fund the tech in your phone, the models that forecast deadly storms and 268 Nobel prize-winners.

The Trump Administration has proposed cutting its budget by 55% – and 1400+ grants are already terminated.

**Multimodality in English Language Teaching and Learning ** This is my slide deck from the APPI conference in Lisbon - It includes lots of activities for developing multimodal literacies bit.ly/4d0lxmq

BBC boss says disinformation ‘trust crisis’ putting social fabric of UK at risk Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok

NEW: With the media landscape is changing around our ears, what's the point of the BBC?

Tim Davie's answer - it's the thing that will stop us falling into polarised crisis where there are no shared facts.

Expect more beeb on YouTube/TikTok.

Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Kennedy Clashes With Top Democrat Who Accused Him of ‘Destroying’ Health Agencies

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashed on Wednesday with a senior House Democrat, who accused him of “destroying the crown jewels of our health system” and of violating the law by cutting funding appropriated by Congress for lifesaving medical research.

Snapshot: The Grotesquerie of Corruption Reflecting on Trump’s sickening plan to take a $400 million "gift” from Qatar

Trump dismisses criticism by saying he’d “be stupid” to not take the plane…underscoring he is the most unprincipled human to ever cross the threshold of our Oval Office. “I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer,” Trump blithely told reporters.
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The dystopian world that is American fascism. No child should die from measles, even really sick ones. All children have a right to live.

▪️Please ensure your babies are vaccinated. This chump is going to hell.

Fun fact: 20,500 British moved to Ireland from the UK in 2024 alone.

That’s the population of Sandhurst in Berkshire.

23,456 applied for an Irish passport via a parent/grandparent. That’s the population of Truro, Cornwall.

YouTube video by Deep Track Zach Crosby, Casady & Faryar - Guinnevere (1968) [demo]

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This demo of David Crosby's song "Guinnevere"—in which he's joined by Jack Casady on bass and Cyrus Faryar on bouzouki—is thrilling, and better than the version that made it onto the Crosby, Stills & Nash 1969 debut album. See you around.

Canadian province could hold secession referendum – premier Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said a vote on separation will be held next year if a petition gains enough support

Danielle, mission accomplished!!!

Russian state media rejoices your secessionism and weakening of Canada. You make Putin proud.🇷🇺

#ableg #cdnpoli

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a man in a blue shirt is holding a small frog in his hand . ALT: a man in a blue shirt is holding a small frog in his hand .

The amazing #DavidAttenborough is 99 years old today!

A truly remarkable and wonderful human being! Wishing him the happiest of birthdays!

Vance Ripped After Making Cringey Joke About Deporting 2026 World Cup Attendees Nobody's laughing, JD.

Not funny.

Steam rising from orange pipes on a Manhattan Avenue.

The rats have chosen a new pope.

Guardian article. Drawing of young people looking scornfully at a trio of women taking a selfie. Text reads Cringe! How millennials became uncool They are mocked by gen Z for everything from their trainer socks to their mom jeans and selfie technique. A maligned millennial asks: how did we get here?

Teens & 20-somethings think 30-40 year olds are uncool? Wow this is a brand new phenomenon.

If you only watch one thing on here today make it this thing of beauty.

Multiple vaccine experts said that Memoli and Taubenberger’s work is not, on its own, a $500 million initiative; half a billion dollars would be “a truly absurd amount of money” for any single research initiative, one NIH official said.

Ban Octopus Farming in the EU! 🐙Octopuses are among the smartest creatures in the ocean, but now they face torture at an industrial farm planned in Spain. Octopuses deserve freedom, not factory farms. Add your voice to help ban oct...

🐙Octopuses are among the smartest creatures in the ocean, but now they face torture at an industrial farm planned in Spain. Octopuses deserve freedom, not factory farms. Add your voice to help #BanOctopusFarming in Europe: action.wemove.eu/petition/202...

Imagine a system where the richer you are the more taxes you pay, instead of one where the richest pay none at all.

Why can't we have that?

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Spooked’: Trump officials hoarding supplies over shortage fears, Rolling Stone reports

WATCH: Rolling Stone reports that even members of the Trump administration are hoarding food, household supplies, and cash over fears about the impact of the president’s trade war. One Trump aide explained to Rolling Stone: “Because it would be stupid not to!”

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