there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting

again, i am not exaggerating

Reform voters favouring Sharia Law type punishment is the most fucking ironic thing this week.

Hell yes!

Economics does the same, but they have established quite wide-ranging evidence that doing so creates "alphabetic discrimination" in which there are career and publication advantages to those with names at the start of the alphabet. See, eg: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Pretty sure the entire membership of all the affiliated unions can vote. That’ll kick it up by a lot.

Can’t get no Satisfaction unless you’re the Dutch coast.

So we have to guess how many students will hit their offer while not also getting accepted somewhere they’d rather be. No part of this makes sense.

Yes. It’s insane. Students apply before they know what their grades are (which leads to the effect observed in the research above of affluent students making more assertive applications). We then have to make binding offers along the lines of “if you get these grades then you can come”.

Yet another piece of evidence in favour of post qualification admissions: which of course we will never do because we mustn’t ever inconvenience Oxbridge.

Surely “polling related” is redundant in that sentence.

It was very special. Conor’s presence rang around the church.

Isn’t that how the LCS happened?

Congratulations! Cargo bikes are the best baby transport.

One of my smartest colleagues calls Generative LLMs “the ultimate force multiplier for morons”

Nieuwe Kerk (new church) in Delft. Burial place of the Dutch Royal family. Built over the 15th Century