Irim Sarwar

Let alone actually have reading, textual analysis, synthesis, interpersonal, problem-solving, and administrative skills that would make so many MBAs and lab types sit in a corner and cry?

You know, the skills you *actually* need for a job.

What the heck, Microsoft?

Special shout out to @ox.ac.uk who, despite having an overall safeguarding policy, claims that the clubs/organisations it funds and requires to *apply for affiliation w/ the university* somehow don't come under it and 18 yo students have to make up their own policies.

Do better.

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Clearly Rafael Behr and I have completely different ideas about what constitutes 'intellectual'.

Quite frankly, Badenoch's words are propaganda and don't even touch the edges of 'intellectual'.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

Having said that, loving it. Amanda Redman is magnificent as his mum.

#MurderBeforeEvensong

You know I'm Gen X b/c my reaction was WAIT, Fine Young Cannibals didn't come out till DECEMBER 1988/early 1989, and it's only April 1988 according to his sermon writing.

#MurderBeforeEvensong

A pin on a desk, it has a codfish silhouette holding a library card, with the words "having fun isn't hard when you've got a library cod"

The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book

*crying laughing*

"A string of lovers, including a nun." Oh, Quispe Lopez.

I cannot tell you how here for this, especially the future Spanish television dramatisation, I am.

archive.ph/K17ZW

Don’t complain & use your voice!

Catherine Connolly TD, leader in the Irish presidential election campaign. Throughout the campaign she has been the only intellectual voice & when challenged* gives thoughtful honest responses.

"And all because the lady loves... Mlik Tary."

Everyone going on and on and on, wringing their hands about how the Conservatives were the most successful political party in the Western world - like that's some plaudit, not an indictment of humanity - really need to just stop.

They've always been this, but w/ a better veneer.

whoever runs the Homeland Security Twitter account is reaaaaaaal well-versed in the propaganda aesthetics of 2021-era Neo-Nazi / accelerationist Telegram

sure convinces me this administration isn’t fascist

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I don't know how this show keeps destroying me from season to season, but this RTC scene with Aisling just shattered me. OMG, this is beyond brilliant. #BlueLights

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

Training for the priesthood.

Sukkot chag sameach!

They have no principles, no intellect, nothing solid to offer but the hot air of hate. And here she is pretending they're some kind of centre right party. They're not. They jumped the shark over a decade ago.

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

Imagine Zoe Williams making this argument. She clearly hasn't read this correctly: in no way, shape, or form are the Tories the 'mainstream right' - they're collapsing because they've *become the hollowed out far right*. Ditto the Republicans.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sorry, Nerdle, but 1*X is cheating.

Except...he never looks right into the camera.

So here’s why my answer is a hard NO: the number of times I was called the N word in my first week of using Mastodon was unprecedented in my experience of using social media

Thank you!

Uploaded to Moodle. Even MORE joy. Oy vey.

Essay started at 2000 words, was trimmed to 1261 (word limit: 1200 + 10%, so within that), and is now submitted a day early. Result.

That essay is so tightly referenced, I DARE Turnitin to find plagiarism.

Judge Diane Goodstein’s home burns to ground after ruling against Trump Judge Diane Goodstein's husband was among those injured after he jumped from the burning house.

JUST hit Newsweek, it seems

www.newsweek.com/judge-diane-...

She is a whole person, one who decided to double down on Tory policy. This isn't 'defining her by him', it's about *her own judgment*. If I did that about her friends, would you complain? We are the company we keep. As a woman, I question the judgment of women who date MAGA men, so?