Danushka Medawatte

Why were we force-fed AI when we just asked for Word not to get stuck when we produce a document with 100 pages?!!

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

“banality of evil” doesn’t quite say it

Autumn colours on trees. Green and golden leaves.

Trees wearing their
#Autumn 🍂 clothes

I was today years old when I realised that it is perfectly normal to propose on mainstream media that some of the most vulnerable people in human society like the homeless persons should be killed... how very convenient.

Free speech, eh?!

Lyrics to ‘Don’t Let me Down’ by the Beatles.

Me to the latest draft of my thesis:

Conference season is here. Run. Save yourself.

iandunt.substack.com/p/god-save-u...

So... she does not like immigrants but she herself is an immigrant?

Make this make sense...

Would she like to be treated with contempt and disrespect because she is an immigrant? I think not. But she is speaking with such contempt about others who are immigrants just like her.

I do not need AI that writes essays. I need AI to understand sections breaks and what it means when I say restart footnotes in each section in word.

Apparently that's too much to ask

Front cover of R.F. Kuang's forthcoming book "Katabasis"

Forthcoming fantasy (?) book for us who work in academia.

Two PhDers (both magicians) need to go to hell to rescue the soul of their dead supervisor so that he can write their recommendation letters. The PhDers want to become tenure track magicians, instead of just being magicians.

"We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war."

Slow clap 👏 👏 👏

this lady done taught her pups how to play uno and they’re crashing out lmaoooo

A drawing of a triceratops standing among sunflowers. The caption reads, "I don't need to try to fix everything today, I can just change one thing and see how that goes."

I don't understand rich people who spend their money on yachts and partying. If I had the time and the money I'd spend it on classes to learn to sing, draw, paint, weave, make pottery, carve wood, all the random skills I do not currently have. Become a true renaissance man. That's the real flex.

I saved a bee. It's not much and it fair focuses your humanity and empathy for the wider world, but it's a wee fluttery life 🌻

#BookSky

Men who fetishize having a "traditional woman" and obsess over women being modest, obedient, quiet, submissive and homemakers are walking red flags.

What they mean is they want a slave, a free SW, and someone to baby them. They want free labor.

Nature is full of beauty

Please take a few minutes to listen to this eloquent speech.

What's happening in UK universities is tragic. It will have longterm ramifications on families, the economy, and the intellectual growth of the country.

"but is yet to acknowledge responsibility..."

Apparently, only after you get awarded the PhD does that want pass away. Says me as I bash my head into the wall.

There’s a Hindi phrase (usually said by dads) for when someone leaves the lights on that translates to “Is it Diwali again?” A French version is “We’re not in Versailles!” But my favourite version, by far, is the Serbian “Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla?”

A Mexican phrase often said by dads when someone comes into the house and leaves the door open is “did you come with a mariachi band?” An Italian version is “are we at the Colosseum?” But my favourite is a regional Polish version that goes a drzwi ci koza zjadła? It means “did a goat eat the door?”

The daily routine

South Korea Arrests Impeached Ex-Leader for a Second Time

Must be nice not having oligarchs on your Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Switzerland has violated the rights of South African athlete Caster Semenya.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has upheld the 2023 ruling against Switzerland.

So so happy for Caster.

www.echr.coe.int/w/judgment-c...