Wuthering Heights uni module given content warning for students A Cardiff University module featuring Wuthering Heights carries 'distressing content' warning

Apparently today's university students may be such delicate flowers that they may have an attack pf the vapours upon reading some classic literature.
Should smelling salts be provided?

If you take 8 planes in a month and you’re not cabin crew you’re an eco criminal.

A book review cannot replace the book it reviews, but the best ones can offer much the same reading enjoyment.

In a similar vein (but much rarer) are authors’ accounts of the background to their book. Exhibit A: @kph3k’s ‘preview’ of “Original Sin”.

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Peter Mertens en Victor Orbán: één strijd ✊

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Hoe bedoel je? Het is een verplicht in te vullen veld en de keuze 'geen' ontbreekt.

Helaas, ik kan niet deelnemen. Ik heb immers geen genderidentiteit. Ik heb wel een geslacht, maar daar wordt niet naar gevraagd.

Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans Transgenderism is in rapid decline among young Americans, indicating it was a social contagion. A few weeks ago, I published results from six waves of the massive Foundation for Individual Right...

1/2 Despite the resistance of parties on the left to acknowledge this, the transgender trend that began in the 1990s is in reverse.
It started in America and it's fading there, where there's been a 50% drop in students identifying as trans or non-binary. It's been explained by social contagion.

Many profoundly useful inventions rest heavily on information that, until it was applied, was often pretty useless.
Tim Harford considers the usefulness of such useless information:

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Cool. My electric mixer stirs faster than my finger

The irony of course is that many of the names mentioned in the Epstein files have ties to Putin’s Russia, like Noam Chomsky.

But then again facts become moot in the presence of people committed to running defense for Putin. (2)

Lentekriebel blijkt soa Het is lente: De zon laat zich weer vaker zien, lammetjes worden geboren en koeien springen in de wei, en ook Eva (23) heeft het flink te pakken.

Lentekriebel blijkt soa

“Station Groningen Vertrokken. Stuur niets meer. Dag voor eeuwig. Moeder”.

De uit de trein geworpen brieven die zich ook in onze collectie bevinden, zijn voor het nadenken over deze vraag bijzonder relevant. Bijvoorbeeld dit briefje, in maart 1943 geschreven door Sophia Barentz aan haar dochter: “Vertrokken. Stuur niets meer. Dag voor eeuwig. Moeder”.

Het is -los van het onderliggende, rechtsstatelijk problematische discours- ook inhoudelijke onzin.

Het EHRM is -inzake migratie- op veel dimensies aanzienlijk terughoudender dan het dan het Hof van Justitie 😅

President Zelensky had previously stated that unnamed ‘partners’ had asked Ukraine to stop bombing the oil infrastructure on ‘various’ levels, in a closed-door briefing with journalists. Where among those partners European partners? 'Mostly not', Zelensky says in #buitenhof

Is het ongepast dat de *Belgische* detective Hercule Poirot wordt gespeeld door Britten als Peter Ustinov of David Suchet? Is Al Pacino, als *niet-jood*, een verkeerde keuze voor de rol van Shylock?

ICYMI, mijn @apache_be stukje, Rolverdeeldheid:

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Nu iedereen de straat van Hormuz in de gaten houdt, zoom ff uit op de vesselfinder-kaart en besef hoeveel van deze schepen fossiele brandstoffen vervoeren. Wek energie lokaal op, dan ben je van een hoop vervuiling, klimaatontwrichting en geopolitieke drama's verlost. www.vesselfinder.com/nl

Donald J. Trump @ O @realDonald Trump • 5h Has anybody looked at how badly the country of Spain is doing. Their financial numbers, despite contributing almost nothing to NATO and their military defense, are absolutely horrendous. Sad to watch!!! 4.59k 28.5k

Spain’s unemployment rate is high — 9.8%, compared with 4.3% in the U.S., but the claim that Spain contributes “almost nothing” to NATO is false. Spain’s NATO common-funding share is about 5.78%, and NATO says Spain hit the 2% of GDP defense benchmark in 2025.

Ahhhhhhh the first thing they did after they freed her from the display case and decked her out in flowers was give her a great big helping of cardamon sweets!

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

Vine is zooo 2015. Iedereen zit op Myspace nu.

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Detrans rights are human rights

'Kerr wants to highlight that there are no agreed medical protocols for supporting detransitioners in the UK. Many adult gender clinics, including those run by the NHS, operate a so-called “affirming” model of care.'

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

The idea that the EU would want the UK back when Reform is leading in the polls... Imagine Nigel Farage wielding (veto) power at a European summit. After all those years we finally got rid of Orban ffs!

Mij heeft Bruno alvast geblokkeerd 😬

Zie bijvoorbeeld

Trump doet voor links wel vaker dienst als een soort negatief moreel kompas, en niet alleen op Bluesky.