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THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN MAY IS TONIGHT

go get em folks

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no, thank YOU!

I dream of war crimes tribunals

as a parent whose kid spent several hours in rapt attention watching your livestreamed event on saturday, pausing and unpausing it so he could meticulously draw every single detail, i very much second this.

look what just arrived! i’m absolutely delighted to be included in this excellent new collection on elizabeth bowen, edited by allan hepburn. every single chapter looks amazing. www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Vital journalism here. Read/repost please. We need to grapple with the entirely human decisions leading to the slaughter of children in Iran & beyond.Tempting to file it under “AI” but they would be inaccurate & deadly too. And, as a treat, this article may help put ppl in prison one day.🍬

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk
Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

And now a happy Sheila's/Sile's/Sheelagh's day to you all! A good day to remember that behind most great men in history there was a woman doing most of the work; and that behind so many of our modern holidays is a woman who has been written out of legend. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheelah...

i watched it last night and it made me cry. so..yeah.

Daisy Johnson: ‘I wasn’t a fan of David Szalay, but Flesh is a masterpiece’ The Booker-shortlisted author on a momentous teenage encounter with The Bone People, getting a buzz from Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla, and trying to avoid The Lorax

having recently taught daisy johnson's excellent collection, 'the hotel' (which went down a storm with my second-year students), i am delighted to learn that her love of writing began with shirley hughes' beautiful alfie books. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

paging @phlaimeaux.bsky.social

Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked

Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS.

The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals.

The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

IGALA list: Deborah Cameron, one of the greatest feminist linguists ever, has passed away. Everybody interested in the relationship of #language and #gender, please go and read her witty and myth-busting blog: https://
debuk.wordpress.com/ .
#linguistics #GenderLinguistics

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Look no further than an English or other Arts and Humanities degree
#EnglishCreates excellent careers

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.

This is not new but it is expanding.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Renee Nicole Good.

May her memory be a blessing.

7-year-old is extremely delighted with his looshkin, @jamiesmart.bsky.social, lovingly handmade by his auntie eszter (in the background).

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

LIVE: Global Sumud Flotilla Approaches Gaza YouTube video by Novara Media

‼️IMPORTANT‼️ LIVESTREAM from the Gaza flotilla as they near Gaza. This is now the most vulnerable time for these brave folks. We need as many eyes on them as possible. Please watch/stream when you can & spread this far & wide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAN...

This is great work. But this article in particular should be raising eyebrows and a LOT of questions

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

LOCAL AI ZONES: what's at stake?2025-09-26T08:05:27.412Z <<The Government’s announcement that Blyth in Northumberland and Cobalt Park in North Tyneside will become designated AI Growth Zones has prompted debate about the trade-offs we need to consider. Durh...

Last week, a new North East AI Growth Zone was announced, with new data centres at Blyth & Cobalt. But what is at stake for resources & the environment? Prof Karen Lai (@karenpylai.bsky.social) of Durham University explains the issue in a guest blog. www.climateactionnewcastle.com/post/ai-grow...

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Consider the Snail — The Dial “In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...