With thanks to @brynleyheaven.bsky.social for the headline
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With thanks to @brynleyheaven.bsky.social for the headline
Image made of two adjacent Bluesky posts: top one a headline reading "UK first as Spalding kickboxer John Stevenson pulls two ton Seat Leon using his testicles", and the lower one reading "fantastic PhD opportunity for someone"
Adjacency pair of the day
Local newspaper headline "woman jailed for not using a shopping basket"
In my local store.
Sounds a bit severe.
(Paragraph 6: she used the bag to nick £30 worth of booze.)
omg
Preach, Allister!
Aye!
I remember something similar – I had a discussion with the telephone poster about whether the midpoint on a five point scale meant that I was ambivalent about the item, had no basis for an answer, or couldn't care less. Well, "discussion"...
Fair enough, Marina!
Marina, do you think the material would work as a ROLSI.net blog post?
Great story, Nick, and a very welcome tonic in our times
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A paragraph from the Guardian report on Epstein's influence over a number of senior academics in the US
How cheap we are, and how easily seduced.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ian Drury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGV...
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Clip from a piece in the garden in which an evolutionary psychologist explains crowds booing by appeal to "our DNA"
Astounding that anyone, let alone a (presumably qualified) psychologist, produce such codswallop..
"85-90% of our decisions are ..... completely emotionally driven."
"DNA".
For shame.
Lord, what a conundrum.
First order of the voting day is to keep the fascists out; but PR would guarantee them a presence in Parliament.
But if 1st-past-the-post means they actually form the government...
Thanks for passing that on, Amy -that was great. If it was written by Källstrom himslef - and why wouldn't it be - he might be an even better writer than footballer (and he wasn't bad).
Perhaps he was too busy practising to canvass
Headline reading "Jim Ratcliffe sorry his "choice of language offended some people" after saying UK colonised by immigrants"
"Choice of language" - hmm. Often used. Of course it distracts attention from the substance, which remains nasty and objectionable.
Implies that there is a better way of being racist.
Ah! SPSS. Many are the final-year dissertations I've marked which confidently informed me that "the data were analysed by SPSS"
Is Howe, Paul Stephen the only one who uses his middle name?
Does it explain why he didn't medal?
New paper, expertly led by Matthew Ivory, on whether ChatGPT could pass a psychology degree. The answer was pretty much yes (albeit a low scoring pass). A lot to unpack in the paper but tldr is we really need to rethink how we assess our degrees and what we want students to get out of university.
Detail from a map of bluesky users, showing the CA community (with ROLSI's account in the centre) and its near neighbours, academic linguists and progressives
Intriguing to see where in the BlueSky universe CA users sit, and pleasing that the journal is at the heart of the community.
bluesky-map.theo.io
A fascinating new book on mental disorder (though here "madness" is indeed better) and the sea
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
An explanation of the mysterious headline. It turns out that a doctor's surgery wanted to expand, but they were turned down because there would be too many cars coming.
Aha - yes, that makes sense. Phew! Nice one, Kari.
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