If you are a landlord and your tenants pay you while receiving Universal Credit, then you, the landlord, are also receiving Universal Credit

The three stages of life:

1. Too young
2. Too busy
3. Too old

An AI generated image of Jesus attached to a news story about how apparent Christians are chatting with a fake Jesus, completely unaware of their own Scripture

It’s _literally_ a false idol, folks.

CYMERA

Grab your early bird weekend pass for this year's @cymerafestival.co.uk before time runs out.

One of my favourite genre literary events in the writing year, and all the better for being nearly on my doorstep

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On an unrelated note: dementia patients often lose the ability to keep their inner monologue to themselves, as well as losing the ability to filter private thoughts from public speech

“400 years ago, they would not have [heard of or recognised] introspection.” I think Shakespeare would like a chat with you

"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing

The war is apparently being promulgated by twelve year olds

This is also true for most cultural artifacts - films, tv, music, literature, etc . Fan criticism is usually spot on, but their suggestions for how to fix it are almost always misguided

A bar chart showing sustained grown in the number of physics related jobs over the last 15 years. The caption reads "Physics-related roles account for over 1.85m jobs in 2020: 1 in 20 jobs"

1: UK employers need and want physicists.

@iop.org study found 1 in 20 UK jobs rely on physics-related knowledge. The demand for physics skills and knowledge is growing fast and is becoming ever harder to meet.

Conclusion: We need to train more physicists.

Source: www.iop.org/sites/defaul...

This should be illegal

To echo @richardalexander.bsky.social ‘s point, STEM funding helps create jobs and support jobs across the knowledge sector

A very selfish point from the diaspora - the tech industry (esp. companies leveraging various facets of AI/optimisation/machine learning) crave STEM PhDs and postdocs. We are hiring like mad and have had enormous success hiring recent science grads/postgrads regardless of their specialism.

bsky.app/profile/dh4g...

If you lose a by-election in a historically safe seat because *George Galloway* endorsed your opponent, then you and your party are in dire straits

Nigel Farage grifting about the Chagos Islands

Fighting age man attempts to enter British territory illegally on a small boat

An open goal is only helpful if you time your kick well

I’m not exactly an SNP fan, but I also know not to interrupt my opponent when they are making a series of fatal mistakes. May is still months away and people aren’t interested in campaign positions yet. I think Swinney is being sensible by staying off the pitch for now

Elon Musk’s latest ketamine rant about building stuff on the Moon despite not having a proven lunar launch vehicle or any track record in keeping promises

How can he be simultaneously ultra-divorced and super-twelve? Defies physics

Is the thesaurus sentient asks person paid by thesaurus publisher to ask questions like that.

Sloppist defends sloppism by saying she can make more slop than you can make decent art

Orwell was pretty clear that the novel writing machines were bad.

Hobbie is looking for Luke Skywalker, but only to scold him

It is weird seeing essentially the same headlines I saw as a first year astronomy PhD student in 2007/2008 as STFC first came into being. Does nothing ever change?

Almost _nothing_ is an engineering problem

It's finally the year of Linux on the desktop, and all it took was the end of the rules-based international order

Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on EU nations supplying military support to Greenland

Europe, the continent that perfected bitterly held, centuries-long grudges, is an ideal continent to engender a grudge with.

I fervently wish we could return to days when the news was indistinguishable from satire