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If you're in Manchester on 5 November, you can forgo the usual fireworks display for a display of intellectual fireworks* as I speak to CHSTM about Victorian medico-military modernity & the discourse of bloodshed *intellectual fireworks not guaranteed blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/09/…

I haven't read the article and don't intend to, but this is a great addition to the series "headlines apparently aimed at a reader suffering from severe concussion":

Small suggestion: maybe they should instead try *literally* pissing in the wind. It would at least be a novel approach, and what's the worst that could happen? (Well, the worst that could happen is there would be piss everywhere, but that scarcely qualifies as a deterioration.)

AI was always already a scab

I'm literally unable to understand why serious analysts use these geographical maps instead of hexmaps. This (benansell.substack.com/p/hostage-to-f…) is serious analysis by anyone's standards. Data being visualised: 308 blue, 230 red. (308 is more than 230) Colour of map: basically red.

I will admit I didn't consciously categorise him as "unfit for office" until I found out he was running for office.

when you accidentally write the most pro-Kamala tweet of the election

Going against ingrained habits, I deliberately avoided the news today till I'd finished teaching. This was the correct call. Students received three hours of reasonably competent lecture delivery and seminar co-ordination instead of intermittent glassy staring and mumbling.

Yes well on the one hand I'm not exactly coping, but on the other hand it would be pretty worrying to be coping at the moment. If you know anyone who shows signs of being OK, now would be a good time to check in with them in case they've lost all sensory function or become evil.

yeah maybe if you’ve not been paying attention to anything in the last 5-10 years

Next up: Metrolink extension to the Airport?

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RIP. An amazing body of work, but, for some reason, I've always thought his greatest triumph was the moment in the TV adaptation of Police at the Funeral when he successfully delivers an entirely undeliverable line: "Because it mewed at me, it said 'meow, meow'".