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We simply don't call them locker rooms in this country
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
Update: A Reform UK spokesman says Kenyon's comments about women driving were "locker room banter made more than a decade ago" "We simply don't care about establishment hit jobs. We fully back Rob and are confident he will be an excellent MP for Makerfield"
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We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮
Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C).
Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.
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Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.
businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andre…
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There's too little money in HE to fund @UniversitiesUK anymore
38% of members is alarming until you realise only 1/3 replied — so it’s 12.6%, barely up from 11%
Statistical inflation like this is why people struggle to take UUK seriously
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If I could afford several Mont Blanc pens I would definitely own several
Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs
A £110 pencil sharpener? 'Several' fountain pens? How many can a man need?
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Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️
This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
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'A train wreck': Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure
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Erdogan reopens the Bilgi University three days after he closed it following a public outcry
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The Burnham problem is not that he is cleaving to govt orthodoxy, but that people imagined he was leftwing because of his man-of-the-people vibe. It's like the centrists who assumed Starmer must be a competent manager because he wore a suit.
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-ro…
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@_bezpilotnik I assume the antisemitism will be Very Bad but everything else is just Reasonable Opinion
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Can't wait to see the stupidest racists in the British public sphere relitigate which of Dickens' absolutely honking racisms were Actually Bad and which were just the kind of Sparkling Alternative Opinion to which we could all stand to be exposed a little more
The Free Speech Union@SpeechUnion
Charles Dickens Museum condemns his “prejudice” as staff are warned that his views could “cause great offence today”. Internal guidance at the council-run Guildhall Museum in Rochester has been issued to staff to combat Dickens’s “particularly upsetting” views. The museum dedicated to the life of the author of Great Expectations celebrates his work but has sought to distance itself from his views on race and the British Empire. The guidance states: “Today we reject his views, but even at the time, there were a number of important figures who argued for the universal worth of all people and cultures, regardless of race or background. We have to acknowledge that Dickens did not think like this.” In 2025, The Telegraph revealed that the birthplace of William Shakespeare was to be “decolonised” after concerns were raised that the playwright was being used to promote “white supremacy”. What absolute madness.
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Arthur Fils on standing his ground, Haiti, controlling his temper and criticism.
"I never back down from a fight. It’s how my dad raised me. My mom as well. When guys are talking to me, we’re on the same level. I’m not the kid and they’re not the adult.”
theguardian.com/sport/2026/may…
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This kind of bric-à-brac urbanism is what makes Taiwanese cities so compelling IMO
csz@cszabla
people in or who identify with the mainland dunk on HK and taiwan for having rotty exterior façades (“looks so old and outdated”) and then a not insignificant portion of building stock there (even in shenzhen where little is more than 45 years old) looks like this
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@Arbeitologist A colleague used to do this to start large lectures, because when you turn the music down people naturally stop talking. But the idea of having to chose a track in the first place has always prevented me from adopting it.
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when i was a seminar tutor, a colleague asked me if i play any songs in class because they open every class with a track. Are you kidding me? I dont need kids' validation like that. Literally the only track I ever played was Schoenberg, to show them what Adorno was talking about.
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this is why those academics that think you should be the Cool Professor are misguided
Trey@treydayway
I just called Dua Lipa "Dupa Lupa" in front of college kids at work and now I need to find another job
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Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found.
Watching the mayor up close in Manchester, I’ve seen his unusual gifts and glaring weaknesses. Would he make a good prime minister?
Our weekend read - by @joshi
manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking-f…
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When it comes to the "misallocation of resources", compare this to the idea that social housing in London is wasted on the poor.
Financial Times@FT
Providers charge the state an average of £384,020 per child per year, a huge rise from a decade ago. That is multiple times the cost of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools such as Eton College and of its young offenders institutions. ft.trib.al/tGiZ9z0
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