Two to three years people have been calling it a "blast from the past" when you have Covid and I only just thought of calling it a retrovirus.

That’s wingnuts and cranks for you: you can never appease them by walloping migrants or minorities or kicking the poor. Every concession, every group of people you sacrifice to please them, is just wasted. They don’t respect you or feel grateful, they reset and demand more.

Kind of a bummer that vegan food is too good now for good jokes like this

affable gujarati muslim guy who speaks arabic, spanish, and bengali he would have been cleaning up in the 16th century southeast asian spice tride

Ok I really like Tesseract. Held out, tried to call them Sadjent Boys but I really like Tesseract. I will continue to call them Sadjent Boys but I really like Tesseract.

It was clear from 2014 that this guy had a more than academic interest in the radical right. There ensued half a decade of indulging him, and then half a decade of people shuffling their papers when his name came up, and here he stands these days: fully emboldened.

This is Nazi type stuff - but official discourse is so debased that it’s held that if you’re pro-genocide of Palestinians you can’t be antisemitic so there we are.

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show bbc.in/43Ne3zy

I wondered where all my Chinese students went a couple of years ago and the drop-off makes sense.

“You don’t need to love Jews, you just need to hate Muslims” is a pretty strong summary of American foreign policy

Strike Day 2: Pickets at Owen Building & HoTC, 8-11am. Dispute info here: ucuhallam.org The fight is against compulsory redundancies & poor governance. #SaveSheffieldHallam

This would be pretty funny if Sheffield Hallam hadn't stopped offering Chinese.

Strike Day 3: Great question in Now Then article about our dispute: 'Sheffield Hallam Staff are going in Strike but will the University listen?' nowthenmagazine.com/articles/sheff… Join our pickets today, 8-11am at Owen & HoTC #SaveSheffieldHallam

Friend on picket: "if I don't do this now when will I do it... if don't stand up for myself nobody will". 2/3 of Hillel the Elder from first principles, in the name of solidarity.

"You might be able to make blacks smarter." In case anyone was in any doubt we're dealing with actual Nazis here

A stupid cowboy builds Peter Steele out of guts while Mia Goth dresses as an elaborate assortment of cones. Five stars.

Huge "ex who tried to get you into Throbbing Gristle" energy.