Josephine

I'm delighted to share my latest paper on #Neurodiversity. It focuses on the #empowerment of #women with #ADHD: "An Arendtian perspective on responsibilized heroes: Why marketing needs a new model of heroic action" …urnals-sagepub-com.libproxy.ncl.ac.uk/doi/10.1177/14…

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Derrida lives!

The Purposeful Company (which I co-chair) has been making the case for British utilities to incorporate as public benefit companies for ten years. Today’s water review recommending just that is a bit of a moment for us. Good arguments can make a difference. Now for every utility!

@dumbandfunn Brassic

is there any show that’s comparable to Derry Girls? I miss all the silly low-stakes shenanigans that they get into!!!

A reminder that we cannot have this in London, not only because the Thames is too polluted, but also because we have left the tidal Thames in the sole hands of an unaccountable legacy organisation founded in 1908 called the Port of London Authority (@LondonPortAuth) which basically exists to pay its own inflated salaries whilst pretending that London is still the greatest port of the Empire. This organisation is generally useless, but quite effective at blocking both nature restoration on the Thames & the river actually being used by the people of London.

@Feargal_Sharkey My favourite Spike Milligan poem.

Wow! I was wrong. The trial I thought I would never see started yesterday. This is HMG’s £122M claim against Medpro. This should be super-interesting. If the govt. wins how will it enforce the judgment, Medpro having no assets? If not, incompetent procurement will be spotlighted.

More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined

I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will. I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't. My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby. I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else. The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud. There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families. I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane. About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants. I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wasteful government spending. The militarization of law enforcement is over the top and only escalate the situation. I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away. If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters. Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.

Thames Water's future in doubt after investor KKR pulls out. TW is financially, environmentally and morally bankrupt, can't be run for profit. Govt must not bail it out, let it collapse, buy for low price, end Thatcher's curse, start a new era. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"Thames Water preferred bidder KKR pulls out of rescue deal." That's it. Game over for @Thameswater. Govt needs to put TW into special administration and today! theguardian.com/business/2025/…

I am pleased to say I have received a fulsome apology from @HeathrowAirport about this morning’s mess-up. They are buying more high-lifts, which is good news as it’s not as if this is the first time this has happened! Thanks everyone for your kind words.

Heathrow airport: BBC Security Correspondent @FrankRGardner, who uses a wheelchair, was kept on board a flight from Singapore for 1h35m after other passengers left the plane. ‘Why should disabled passengers have so much worse service than everybody else?’ independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

OMG the breakup is complete. 🍿🤣

We once lived in a world where Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter sang together. Happy Birthday Ella.

Eric Schmidt says intelligence is about to decouple from us. “The computers are now doing self-improvement.. They don’t have to listen to us anymore.” Within six years: a mind smarter than the sum of humans -- scaled, recursive, free. We have no language for what’s coming.

This looks as bad as it could possibly be It must be investigated

Are you kidding me?! Think twice before you take that cruise. I worked the COVID cruise evacuations during Trump’s first term—they scarred me for life. And now, in his second? They’ve gutted the CDC unit that inspects cruise ships for norovirus, E. coli & other outbreaks. This is how preventable disasters happen. Again.

At @cardiffuni leadership are slashing jobs while opening a new campus in Kazakhstan @DrJoGrady tells @CommonsEd what universities are spending on while making staff redundant #StopTheCuts

Singapore PM Wong speaks eloquently and sensibly in response to Trump Tariffs, Shockwaves In U.S. & Europe ; ... youtu.be/Io1G_5I7a-0?si… via @YouTube