Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
Priceless post from the official White House social media
waiting for him to do a lot check and never return
15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.
it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease
Brasseye's "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen" graphic, with the words floating in different fonts over an image of a NASA controller.
In the process, he made an entirely new revelation of a separate attempt to install in a different diplomatic post a different Labour figure who, it later emerged, had his own controversial ties with a different sex offender.
the Brasseye image but now it says "This is the two things we didn't want to happen"
This is so so stupid. The war on drugs has failed, why are we expanding it now to cigarettes?
Bit of a metaphor for the UK HE funding landscape, that.
I have a new open-access article out in Global Studies Quarterly, “What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate,” in which I argue against historian Pekka Hämäläinen’s claims that the Comanche and the Lakota constituted empires.
Yeah they are definitely trying to get those people simply to leave and not replacing them
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Ultimately this is a story with a simple cause: the prime minister outsourced his judgement to someone he *really* shouldn’t have, and now he owns the fallout from that, and hard to see how his government gets out from under that one:
there's no academic freedom in Texas's public universities
but there's no academic freedom wherever a billionaire or a state governor can exercise a veto over what gets researched or taught and be confident that university administrators will enforce it -- whether the rationale is morals or markets
It's quite interesting how many different ways they've found to misjudge the mood here, but yes, this is particularly offensive.
The weird thing about Farage is I do believe he means this sincerely, he's just unable to see the role he's had in getting to this point. Which isn't to say he's actually moderate, but he's a 90s conservative taken to the extreme, rather than a rabid 2020s conservative
BBC reports "more than 600 people crossed the Channel on small boats on Saturday, making it second busiest day so far this year".
BBC reports "Over the past three years, crossings have increased" while omitting 33% year on year fall this year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
NEW: Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise racist accounts and content Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse
BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes
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FWIW, the answer to this question is “no”
Companies are now making base civilizationist ideological arguments for their existence when "what we are doing maximizes value for shareholders" has been the accepted response to "why are you evil" since the dawn of capitalism
I'm reading the Palantir statement and I dunno, this is just profoundly odd shit for a corportation to say. Nobody asked for a bad essay, just be normal and maximize value for shareholders or something twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Getting rid of fixed border checkpoints (what Schengen actually does) is useful and popular among member state governments from a frictionless trade standpoint, whereas surrendering control over national policies regarding controversial immigrant groups is not a popular proposition for them.
wait till they figure out how much faster the airplane, a machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903, can traverse the same distance
leftists are my greatest adversary because they are destroying america destroying america or being rude to you online? being rude to me online
liberals on this microblogging website
We are a long way from a Reform government (much less a Reform majority government) and people must question the hype
at least it'll make England fans feel at home
This basically amounts to "too many people are applying, so we'll make the process entirely insufferable to reduce applications".
There would have been another option to reduce workloads of reviewers *and* applicants: making the application form less dense.
Thoughts:
Who could possibly have imagined the broadcast and print media which so breathlessly reported rises in small boat arrivals last year would fail to report the much lower number this year? I have to admit I’m shocked. 😇
"the average brit doesn't want to live near a bunch of foreigners"
ok, well, house prices say differently!!!
Educated at an in independent school and then supported in the family home, able to borrow £20,000 from a grandmother, a doctor's son who was an A level pupil at Eton, a daughter gifted a house to do up by her mum, what might possibly distinguish these 5 successful non-graduates? 1/2