Starmer didn't appoint Mandelson; Mandelson appointed Starmer

We had a mass longevity movement in the 20th century. It was called public health. It included vaccines, antibiotics, nutritional programmes, maternal support, cancer research.

A fridge magnet: "The buck stops here!, Harry S. Truman Library & Museum"

My newest fridge magnet a sharp contrast to the excruciating display yesterday.

the penne opticon

History here being <24h away

Is it also the same Phillips who had Mandelson as his best man?

Sometimes I go on the Internet and feel positively antediluvian

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

I would watch this Lohengrin

The importance of Streeting not replacing Starmer after May cannot be overstated. Somehow, he is nastier.

I really don't know what to tell folks if they think any of these proposed reforms from Yale, or anything that we can possibly do here at UW - Madison, will change the Narrative™️ from the right in American politics about universities. We're a century into this stuff. We're not the problem.

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Let me crystal clear here: There is no utility, no time or productivity benefit, and no functionality that will ever be enough to outweigh the constantly growing mountain of ethical, legal, and social harms caused by LLMs and vibe-coded vaporware.

These are tools of technofascism. Sorry not sorry.

omg

those astronauts who are parents?

THEY CAN LITERALLY TELL THEIR CHILDREN “I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK”

What a production of Così that would make

The embarassing bit is that he was hanging out with Gideon.

on a scale of 1 to 100, my support for democracy and protecting everyone's right to vote is 99. but i admit it used to be 100 before reading some of your tweets

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

Pair this with the rise in older YA being marketed as "mature YA" and, well there's a reason a lot of us are gravely concerned about the future of the age category.

FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

Im so moved that the musicians of the Metropolitan Opera have spoken in solidarity with the musicians of the BSO. Bravo!

I am starting to wonder if you actually have a tomato thing?

The rarest badge on Wikipedia 😅

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

I will be very interested in your thoughts on Gerhaher's Wotan.

This resonates with historical research too. Slowly working through archival folders and boxes, runs of publications and reports, right to the end. This patient, thorough labour is, in part, what makes scholarship. An LLM or similar spitting out what you think you need will mean you miss so much.

Detail from a book page, with the footnotes below a black line: there is an * and a dagger. They’re not indented.

I love the book I’m reading, but the designer’s treatment of footnotes is what I call the MS Wordification of books. Note the coarse line, the loose leading, the lack of hanging footnotes symbols. So easy to do.