The NYT style guide
02.03.2026 04:09
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The NYT style guide
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
I cannot wait to see the hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against this in EUrope's streets.... 🙄
@rinewithoutacat.bsky.social bit of Irish humour just for you
Celebrate author Jennifer Johnston!
Jennifer died last year at the age of 95 and her family have asked renowned sculptor Rowan Gillespie to memorialise her. They'd like to place the statue overlooking Sandycove Bay where she swam daily but the Council need persuading. Please sign & repost
@uplift.ie
Some reasons to feel positive today. Well done to all those women who push back on legal challenges, and push through resolutions
notinourname.org.uk
Are academics fun enough to have a drag queen mascot called Athena SWAN
I can’t recommend this fascinating historical essay enough
He used chat gpt like an assistant or an intern - ok.
He assumed the intern had an information management process - foolish.
Then he experimentally fired the intern and was surprised to find he no longer had the work the intern had done. Jesus.
What an incompetent academic.
This is brilliant and urgent research with pertinent relevance far beyond the UK, including in Norway.
Just in case any criminology lecturers are stuck for real world material this week….
People like to whine about echo chambers but to develop a clear analysis and agenda you actually do need to be in a closed dialogue with people who share your values sometimes.
It is how you refine your position and get a sense of what next steps are collectively possible.
All that ‘protect-our-sovereign -borders-against-people-with-no -guns-in-tiny-dinghies’ rings hollow in a world where our so-called allies kill or extract leaders extrajudicially and by invading sovereign territory.
Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum
My happiest most productive time was writing a book (creative/ memoir) with some support (small grants & mentorship) and no pressure to publish.
It’s still not published, but the feeling of writing with clarity and purpose has driven everything I’ve done since.
"The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports."
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-colonial...
You’re probably right, but it’s a cracker. Also, fascinating thread
What a delicious #bookmas, 🎄 📚 I am stoked to get stuck into this pile and most especially this one by @badaude.bsky.social
Don’t forget that #joinin is
Around for anyone spending this time alone, or feeling alone in a crowd for that matter.
Hell, you don’t even need to be lonely, you might be perfectly happy on your own, but enjoy an online chat to break it up a bit.
Do you. Join in if you like.
I knew about him since, following the advice of librarians & literacy experts, I allowed my children to read his nasty misogynistic bilge - which involved me reading it aloud and doing a lot of on-the-fly editing. He’s so transparently on Team Patriarchy
This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.
A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”
A PhD is a great idea if you want to work your ass off for a few years and then somehow feel like a failure when you finish it successfully
If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!
Sadly, I know nothing about publishing, but I suspect this is the correct take. It was dreadfully bookless, as book segments go.. #toyshow
I feel the book section is insufficiently bookish #toyshow
for budgetary reasons those are actually lafufus #ToyShow
Strong start, imho #toyshow
In Ireland they force children to stay up late to watch other children perform in a toy show for adults
Correct take.
And also: I’ll still watch it, and cry when Troy Parrot shows up, dope that I am