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And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Sitting on the sofa with my laptop and also two cats who have somehow managed to force their way between me and the computer
Trying to work from the sofa on my first day back after ten days away was maybe ambitious...
I almost missed that in a video where the former Chancellor of the Exchequer talks about "Institutional Credibility", the video misspells the word "credibility", which kind of sums this whole thing up
God the DC look is weirdly ageing isn't it? Having just seen his age and a few photos from his influencer era that's really something
Extremely my mood right now
Okay I'm calling it, the Internet has broken my brain.
War! Huh?
I've had anxiety nightmares that were more coherent than this speech.
Oh I dread to think
God, their ads at this point might as well just say "DATA DASHBOARDS FOR INSECURE MEN WITH SMALL PENISES", it would surely save us all some time.
No, that's something of a fiction. They 100% waited until significant US assets were in place across the region. The US wasn't bounced into anything this time. It was just convenient to say they were.
There is absolutely no chance elon reads books. None at all.
be careful if you pick the wrong one it could ruin EVERYTHING
That's a quote for the ages
Thanks for your understanding
Obviously that was just a RUSE to [elaborate gestures]
Eyyy
It's a VC funder, not one I was familiar with
I have not! I'm not much of a joiner, you'll be shocked to hear
She's just stepped down as ceo yeah
Bluesky power users both can't stand Jay but are also furious she's gone because no one can make any of us only pick one dammit
Bluesky's most uncanny resemblance to old skool twitter is surely the full-on antipathy from its power users towards the company itself. It's both extremely 2015 energy but also the most high school thing ever.
more like venture CRAPital amirite
There's two separate attacks on desalination plants, one in Iran and one in Bahrain
I think that accounts for about half of them
@jaredlholt.bsky.social I'd assumed you'd seen this but after today's episode, maybe not? youtu.be/Q71Xb1Sd86M?...
Just realised I've probably said about 200 words out loud, if that, in the last eight days, which is quite a weird thing to realise.
Tbf if it was for the spelling in that post I'd completely understand
Points to be for the most original spelling of "essentially", though.