William Carruthers

I’m not convinced Cheltenham exists, tbqh

Be careful with idioms, David…

Would like an episode of This Country featuring Vance’s Cotswolds visit

it was called New Model Army because Cromwell predicted that in centuries to come England's economy would depend on the production of Games Workshop miniatures

Re that Guardian ‘career-focused degree’ rubbish:

John is entirely correct (haven’t read the comments…)

I really think we’re underplaying just how much mass psychosis the pandemic has caused in the world

Former commander of Greenham Common here

‘Common entrance standard’ not quite where AI is, in fact

Great mysteries of our time: why vast swathes of the US are actually much more formal than Britain (Britain!)

I don’t know what this says about where my head is these days, but I spent five minutes presuming this was the BBC

Sudan, Congo, & What You Can Do Humanitarian catastrophes are increasing before our eyes—here's how you can help counter the injustice

A reminder that Sudan is entering stage 5 famine. I wrote this detailed piece months ago and it is still relevant on how you can get involved and support those who are needlessly suffering in Sudan.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
www.qasimrashid.com/p/sudan-cong...

So there’s a pretty insignificant gap between the number of students doing all three subjects?

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

this is quite good, and gets at something related that i also believe should be normal (but often seems less so on social media), which is that there are a lot of things in this world that are supposed to be for children *first*, and a certain kind of adult has forgotten that

This tweet is the funny version of this absolutely terrific Pomegranate essay. Almost all of the people who complain about the need for “childfree” spaces are, frankly, babies.

They’re generally, of course, the ones who like to remind parents that ‘having children is a choice’

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Faced with rising seas and falling aid, Fijian villages move uphill As the effects of climate change are felt across the Pacific, Fiji has become an authority on the logistically and culturally fraught process of community relocation.

How a small island nation that produced virtually none of the emissions changing Earth's climate is struggling to move its people and villages uphill amidst USAID and other foreign assistance cutbacks: wapo.st/3JsEao4 [gift link]

(Not all, of course, but overall siloing stem students away from books and humanities, and more than that, convincing them those things are beneath them/obsolete, has done them a disservice. There just isn't really a way to learn critical thinking skills without, apart from lived experience.)

Yeah, me too

Also not sure that there are actually numerically fewer jobs in tech etc.

Great thread, impossibly good picture.

Yep, that too

Presumably quite a lot. I very much doubt whether, say, lots of private schools will have altered college admissions advice/I’m sure the more well-known SLACs are thriving despite all this

Not in Crystal Palace

I’m a terrible cook, but even I can tell that the quality of fruit and veg at our local Sainsbury’s has got consistently worse

E) I’m really not sure employers care what you studied at undergrad in the slightest.

Bad

This from @profserious.bsky.social (who knows a thing or two) is very good although raises the question of what has to change...