Rob
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Hummus-loving plant-botherer.
Dedicating my life to ensuring that Liz Kendall never achieves Inbox Zero.
He/him.
lnk.bio/rotster
Dedicating my life to ensuring that Liz Kendall never achieves Inbox Zero.
He/him.
lnk.bio/rotster
There were 4 unfair dismissal judgements during the last round if redundancies, costing the university nearly a quarter of a million just in compensation, let alone the amount they must have spent in attempting to defend the claims.
Leicester VC Prof Nishan Canagarajah gets a knighthood.
A tribunal ruled three academics were unfairly dismissed during the same period and redundancies loom.
Universities need investment and government intervention, not gongs.
A tribunal ruled three academics were unfairly dismissed during the same period and redundancies loom.
Universities need investment and government intervention, not gongs.
December 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There were 4 unfair dismissal judgements during the last round if redundancies, costing the university nearly a quarter of a million just in compensation, let alone the amount they must have spent in attempting to defend the claims.
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Leicester VC Prof Nishan Canagarajah gets a knighthood.
A tribunal ruled three academics were unfairly dismissed during the same period and redundancies loom.
Universities need investment and government intervention, not gongs.
A tribunal ruled three academics were unfairly dismissed during the same period and redundancies loom.
Universities need investment and government intervention, not gongs.
December 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Leicester VC Prof Nishan Canagarajah gets a knighthood.
A tribunal ruled three academics were unfairly dismissed during the same period and redundancies loom.
Universities need investment and government intervention, not gongs.
A tribunal ruled three academics were unfairly dismissed during the same period and redundancies loom.
Universities need investment and government intervention, not gongs.
Could the contestants in celebrity apprentice really be even more annoying than the regular contestants?
I think that’s a ‘yes’.
I think that’s a ‘yes’.
December 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Could the contestants in celebrity apprentice really be even more annoying than the regular contestants?
I think that’s a ‘yes’.
I think that’s a ‘yes’.
Not a fan of fireworks, but closing off public spaces so that people can’t enjoy themselves is miserable, cruel to those that couldn’t otherwise participate and, frankly, very zeitgeisty.
December 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Not a fan of fireworks, but closing off public spaces so that people can’t enjoy themselves is miserable, cruel to those that couldn’t otherwise participate and, frankly, very zeitgeisty.
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So Primrose Hill is being closed off tomorrow night to stop people daring to crane their necks and watch some fireworks for free.
What a miserable, soulless, bleak, depressing country they are creating for us.
Fuck off.
What a miserable, soulless, bleak, depressing country they are creating for us.
Fuck off.
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So Primrose Hill is being closed off tomorrow night to stop people daring to crane their necks and watch some fireworks for free.
What a miserable, soulless, bleak, depressing country they are creating for us.
Fuck off.
What a miserable, soulless, bleak, depressing country they are creating for us.
Fuck off.
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Omg shut up already, this is absolute bullshit and you should know better. Argh I’m so tired of this crap www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Omg shut up already, this is absolute bullshit and you should know better. Argh I’m so tired of this crap www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Attention restaurants: when offering a fixed-price menu, a slab of cauliflower does not offer equivalent value to a steak or a filet of salmon. Don’t pretend this is a decent main course.
December 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Attention restaurants: when offering a fixed-price menu, a slab of cauliflower does not offer equivalent value to a steak or a filet of salmon. Don’t pretend this is a decent main course.
Excellent.
December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Excellent.
Not that I’m into honours, but nonetheless it’s lovely to see this article lead with Denis, who has been an absolute heritage stalwart of his community for many years, and leave other, perhaps less deserving, recipients of (higher) honours further down the page.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leicestershire war memorial fundraiser appointed MBE in honours
Denis Kenyon has dedicated 30 years to preserving history and war remembrance in Leicestershire.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not that I’m into honours, but nonetheless it’s lovely to see this article lead with Denis, who has been an absolute heritage stalwart of his community for many years, and leave other, perhaps less deserving, recipients of (higher) honours further down the page.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person that remembers Toby Young was just relatively recently a social pariah after he was booted from an appointment to a state position when it was revealed he was involved in a secret white supremacist eugenicist conference at UCL, and also creepy sexist tweets
Toby Young - who now sits as Baron Young of Acton in the House of Lords following his 2024 political peerage from the Conservative Leader of the Opposition - has tweeted bemoaning "handing out honours to a motley crew of woke failures" in policing, the NHS and the National Trust
December 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person that remembers Toby Young was just relatively recently a social pariah after he was booted from an appointment to a state position when it was revealed he was involved in a secret white supremacist eugenicist conference at UCL, and also creepy sexist tweets
Would this taste better if I deep fried it?
Some alternative questions:
1. Should I add butter to this food?
2. Would melted cheese on top improve this food?
3. Should I add a bit more butter to this food?
4. What's on telly?
1. Should I add butter to this food?
2. Would melted cheese on top improve this food?
3. Should I add a bit more butter to this food?
4. What's on telly?
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Would this taste better if I deep fried it?
May a badly touched-up Paddington lead her to the eternal art room in the sky.
December 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
May a badly touched-up Paddington lead her to the eternal art room in the sky.
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Likeness to the burning of the Hirschfeld institute are purely coincidental
December 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Likeness to the burning of the Hirschfeld institute are purely coincidental
Seems like decimating subject areas across your institution and losing multiple employment tribunals can get you a knighthood if you are a vice chancellor…
December 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Seems like decimating subject areas across your institution and losing multiple employment tribunals can get you a knighthood if you are a vice chancellor…
They gave Jon Ashworth a CBE. Of course they did.
December 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
They gave Jon Ashworth a CBE. Of course they did.
Is that the same king that very much coveted his neighbour’s wife and then committed adultery with her?
And that’s before we get on to pride, lust and greed…
And that’s before we get on to pride, lust and greed…
December 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Is that the same king that very much coveted his neighbour’s wife and then committed adultery with her?
And that’s before we get on to pride, lust and greed…
And that’s before we get on to pride, lust and greed…
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
December 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
I once gave a doctor from Casualty a guided tour around a concentration camp memorial site.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I once gave a doctor from Casualty a guided tour around a concentration camp memorial site.
Just applied for my new passport. The picture I will have to tolerate for the next ten years is, of course, *awful*.
December 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just applied for my new passport. The picture I will have to tolerate for the next ten years is, of course, *awful*.
“Celebrity Homes Under The Hammer”? Well I guess it’s at least a good way to identify celebrity landlords to put on the naughty list…
December 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“Celebrity Homes Under The Hammer”? Well I guess it’s at least a good way to identify celebrity landlords to put on the naughty list…
I see it’s Monday. How did the first week of the holidays go so fast? I now feel like I’m on the depressing downward slope to January.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I see it’s Monday. How did the first week of the holidays go so fast? I now feel like I’m on the depressing downward slope to January.
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THIS. Read Asterix in English, and see how Hockridge and Bell don’t just transliterate but remake whole puns and wordplays that sparkle in English culturally as well as linguistically. Flawless work that simply cannot be done without true understanding of *the concept of meaning*
AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
December 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
THIS. Read Asterix in English, and see how Hockridge and Bell don’t just transliterate but remake whole puns and wordplays that sparkle in English culturally as well as linguistically. Flawless work that simply cannot be done without true understanding of *the concept of meaning*
Fucking hell, that vile ‘caricature’ of Zack Polanski in the Daily Mail (on the same day they’re claiming to care about antisemitism in relation to another story). Revolting.
December 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Fucking hell, that vile ‘caricature’ of Zack Polanski in the Daily Mail (on the same day they’re claiming to care about antisemitism in relation to another story). Revolting.