Ewan
@ewannic.bsky.social
All of them, fools. Our real enemies are the lanyards.
You get the reverse of this on the right, where someone dislikes capitalism, but believes that what they object to is 'modernity'.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
All of them, fools. Our real enemies are the lanyards.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Reading Michael Barber's 'Instruction to Deliver' which has lots of good stuff in it, but this caught my eye:
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
October 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reading Michael Barber's 'Instruction to Deliver' which has lots of good stuff in it, but this caught my eye:
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
"You have to have a long term strategy but unless it delivers short term results no one will believe you"
Me: "I will start paying you pocket money when you can count to 100"
4YO: "I don't think hundred is actually a number"
4YO: "I don't think hundred is actually a number"
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Me: "I will start paying you pocket money when you can count to 100"
4YO: "I don't think hundred is actually a number"
4YO: "I don't think hundred is actually a number"
I'm intrigued by statements like this '…in addition to this, the "constant background of running commentary on the upcoming budget" was likely discouraging consumers from discretionary spending.'
Is there evidence that consumers actually think like that?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is there evidence that consumers actually think like that?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Retail sales hit highest level since 2022
While food stores saw very little growth, good weather in July and August boosted clothing sales, according to the ONS.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I'm intrigued by statements like this '…in addition to this, the "constant background of running commentary on the upcoming budget" was likely discouraging consumers from discretionary spending.'
Is there evidence that consumers actually think like that?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is there evidence that consumers actually think like that?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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October 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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Students Unions! Do you want to better support your disabled student reps & improve overall student experience?
We’re launching our Representative Empowerment Project (REP) to support you!
We’re launching our Representative Empowerment Project (REP) to support you!
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Students Unions! Do you want to better support your disabled student reps & improve overall student experience?
We’re launching our Representative Empowerment Project (REP) to support you!
We’re launching our Representative Empowerment Project (REP) to support you!
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We want to know your thoughts on...
🔹What we do
🔹How well we do it
&
🔹What our stakeholders think about us
Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
Closes 31 December⏰
🔹What we do
🔹How well we do it
&
🔹What our stakeholders think about us
Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
Closes 31 December⏰
UKRI seeks your views in 2025 stakeholder survey
In our third annual survey, we are asking for feedback on what we do, how well we do it and what our stakeholders think about UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
www.ukri.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We want to know your thoughts on...
🔹What we do
🔹How well we do it
&
🔹What our stakeholders think about us
Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
Closes 31 December⏰
🔹What we do
🔹How well we do it
&
🔹What our stakeholders think about us
Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
Closes 31 December⏰
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.
How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.
How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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The responses to this are just great. I realise my own opinions are distressingly hinged.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The responses to this are just great. I realise my own opinions are distressingly hinged.
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This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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NEW on Wonkhe: What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality buff.ly/89mzFbe
October 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality buff.ly/89mzFbe
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That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...
'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record
New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall
www.businessgreen.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...
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I have had a very positive message from the in-laws in Billericay about this Guardian interview today: "you managed to give a view from every angle" says Kathy. (There may be some pro-me bias there in its potential to bridge!)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’
The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I have had a very positive message from the in-laws in Billericay about this Guardian interview today: "you managed to give a view from every angle" says Kathy. (There may be some pro-me bias there in its potential to bridge!)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
All parents agree that ParentPay is awful right?
A system that sends an email to one parent with a4 pdf attachment that doesn't name your child is clearly not fit for purpose.
Why do schools use it?
A system that sends an email to one parent with a4 pdf attachment that doesn't name your child is clearly not fit for purpose.
Why do schools use it?
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
All parents agree that ParentPay is awful right?
A system that sends an email to one parent with a4 pdf attachment that doesn't name your child is clearly not fit for purpose.
Why do schools use it?
A system that sends an email to one parent with a4 pdf attachment that doesn't name your child is clearly not fit for purpose.
Why do schools use it?
This sort of reporting is a bit aggregating. I feel it makes the government's denial seem like a perspective, rather than it being completely bizarre to anyone who knows anything about public procurement
metro.co.uk/2025/10/04/g...
metro.co.uk/2025/10/04/g...
Have I Got News For You episode removed from iPlayer after 'jaw-dropping error'
'An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking.'
metro.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This sort of reporting is a bit aggregating. I feel it makes the government's denial seem like a perspective, rather than it being completely bizarre to anyone who knows anything about public procurement
metro.co.uk/2025/10/04/g...
metro.co.uk/2025/10/04/g...
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
I see the Co-operative is in discussions about co-operating with the Co-operative.
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I see the Co-operative is in discussions about co-operating with the Co-operative.
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
Excellent culinary news.
September 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Excellent culinary news.