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‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;
October 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;
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The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses
October 2, 2026 at 4:35 AM
The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses
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Lotta people defended this fucking guy to me in 2020 and all of you are suckers and losers.
a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
September 30, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Lotta people defended this fucking guy to me in 2020 and all of you are suckers and losers.
All I want for Christmas is a lesser evil, so I can signal all me virtue.
Story time again. Since I’m already seeing grumbling about potential 2028 Democratic Presidential candidates from the usual suspects, I’m going to put this out there; THERE IS NO CANDIDATE WHO WILL CHECK EVERY BOX. The object is to vote for harm reduction.
September 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
All I want for Christmas is a lesser evil, so I can signal all me virtue.
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“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
September 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
FAO @handle.invalid you may wish to bring this to the attention of Professor Ogburn.
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress.
They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post.
I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail!
www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post.
I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail!
www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
September 5, 2026 at 9:09 AM
FAO @handle.invalid you may wish to bring this to the attention of Professor Ogburn.
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Do yourself a favor and leave your phone in the other room. Pick up a book and read it uninterrupted for a long time. Pay attention and notice how good it feels not to be constantly interrupted by digital notifications. It's a miracle that we used to live like this. We don't know what we're missing.
September 4, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Do yourself a favor and leave your phone in the other room. Pick up a book and read it uninterrupted for a long time. Pay attention and notice how good it feels not to be constantly interrupted by digital notifications. It's a miracle that we used to live like this. We don't know what we're missing.
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Took the wife out for dinner last night. All she kept saying was she wanted to pay for it for a change.
I said, 'don't be silly, we're halfway down the street, just keep running.'
I said, 'don't be silly, we're halfway down the street, just keep running.'
September 4, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Took the wife out for dinner last night. All she kept saying was she wanted to pay for it for a change.
I said, 'don't be silly, we're halfway down the street, just keep running.'
I said, 'don't be silly, we're halfway down the street, just keep running.'
What's wrong with these people?
🧊🚸⛓️ ”ICE just arrested a 5-year-old boy on his way to a soccer game in my home city of Austin, Texas. His name, just like the name of the little boy from Minnesota, is Liam. And Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.”
Texas Lawmakers Call on ICE to Close Detention Camp Where 100+ Children Are Held
In Texas, calls are mounting to shut down the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where it’s estimated more than 100 children are being detained by ICE. This comes after a 5-year-old boy,...
www.democracynow.org
August 25, 2026 at 5:08 PM
What's wrong with these people?
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August 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Let this be reposted far and wide.
With respect to Cofnas, why is nobody talking about this in the MSM?
> We find it [improbably] that [he] was the best out of 14 candidates for this job[. His boss] repeatedly stated in the press that [he] published in highly ranked journals and had been affiliated with leading institutions.
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> We find it [improbably] that [he] was the best out of 14 candidates for this job[. His boss] repeatedly stated in the press that [he] published in highly ranked journals and had been affiliated with leading institutions.
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www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5... Statement of the department. Has been taken offline due to complaint of the prof who hired Cofnas
August 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Let this be reposted far and wide.
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I'd like to compare how Irish commentators wrote about Jason Arday with how they wrote about Brian Lucey, the Irish academic who had several papers retracted earlier this year because he had been corruptly peer reviewing his own work, but literally no Irish commentators wrote about it
August 15, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I'd like to compare how Irish commentators wrote about Jason Arday with how they wrote about Brian Lucey, the Irish academic who had several papers retracted earlier this year because he had been corruptly peer reviewing his own work, but literally no Irish commentators wrote about it
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This encapsulates a great deal. As an African you notice that the UK doesn’t know how to contend with blackness except from a lens of disparity. Whether you’re the son of an oil baron or a farmer, once you enter the UK academic system the assumption is you come from lack because you are black.
As a woman, who isn’t feminine, won’t perform middle-class identity, who doesn’t aspire to class and status, an unashamed northerner, who won’t hide the accent, English academia is about the fight. You fight to get in, you fight to be taken seriously by male colleagues, and you fight to stay.
August 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM
This encapsulates a great deal. As an African you notice that the UK doesn’t know how to contend with blackness except from a lens of disparity. Whether you’re the son of an oil baron or a farmer, once you enter the UK academic system the assumption is you come from lack because you are black.
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A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
August 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
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I’m less curious about how Jason Arday got his appointment at Cambridge than I am about how Noah Carl, who published in Nazi pseudoscience journal Mankind Quartetly, got his, and how Nate Cofnas, also fired for being a race science crank, got his.
August 15, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I’m less curious about how Jason Arday got his appointment at Cambridge than I am about how Noah Carl, who published in Nazi pseudoscience journal Mankind Quartetly, got his, and how Nate Cofnas, also fired for being a race science crank, got his.
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Crickets when 4000 academic jobs a year are being lost in the UK and entire campuses are being shut down because of lack of funding and the secondary effects of Brexit but plenty of ink to hound a man to an early death. Despicable behaviour from the British press.
August 15, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Crickets when 4000 academic jobs a year are being lost in the UK and entire campuses are being shut down because of lack of funding and the secondary effects of Brexit but plenty of ink to hound a man to an early death. Despicable behaviour from the British press.
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Shame on you Guardian for this headline, shame on all the press and shame on the the University of Cambridge who did this. You have blood on your hands.
August 14, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Shame on you Guardian for this headline, shame on all the press and shame on the the University of Cambridge who did this. You have blood on your hands.
"Ted, I'd love a pop tart".
August 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
"Ted, I'd love a pop tart".
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A British veteran has been left “trapped” and “homeless” unable to return from Dubai, even to attend his mother’s funeral.
Brit 'trapped and homeless' in Dubai blocked from going home for mum's funeral
www.mirror.co.uk
August 6, 2026 at 5:04 AM
A British veteran has been left “trapped” and “homeless” unable to return from Dubai, even to attend his mother’s funeral.
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As a philosopher I hate to say it but I agree. Because narrowly in philosophy we do, genuinely, use "social construct" to neutrally classify a class of things in social ontology. But we're clearly outliers in this in the humanities, and the vulgar usage better gets the typical spirit of the thing.
"social construct" = "thing I don't like" is a case where the vulgar usage of something isn't actually that different from its academic deployment
Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?”
It “seeks to determine whether ADHD
is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
It “seeks to determine whether ADHD
is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
July 31, 2026 at 11:35 AM
As a philosopher I hate to say it but I agree. Because narrowly in philosophy we do, genuinely, use "social construct" to neutrally classify a class of things in social ontology. But we're clearly outliers in this in the humanities, and the vulgar usage better gets the typical spirit of the thing.
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"On this day, 19 July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland. Shop worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer's South African fruit, as members of her union, Idatu, had voted to not handle South African goods. Manning was then suspended, and she and 11 of
"On this day, 19 July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland. Shop worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer's South African fruit, as members of her union, Idatu, had voted to not handle South African goods. Manning was then suspended, and she and 11 of
July 19, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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"On this day, 19 July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland. Shop worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer's South African fruit, as members of her union, Idatu, had voted to not handle South African goods. Manning was then suspended, and she and 11 of
"On this day, 19 July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland. Shop worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer's South African fruit, as members of her union, Idatu, had voted to not handle South African goods. Manning was then suspended, and she and 11 of
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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
July 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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The men were clothed in outfits associated with White nationalist organization Patriot Front.
Masked Demonstrators With Confederate Flags March In D.C. Amid July Fourth Celebrations
The men were clothed in outfits associated with White nationalist organization Patriot Front.
www.forbes.com
July 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
The men were clothed in outfits associated with White nationalist organization Patriot Front.
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Happy birthday to Roméo Dallaire, born on this day in 1946!
He was the force commander of UNAMIR during the Rwandan Genocide and is credited with saving the lives of 32,000 people.
Four schools are named for him. He served in the Senate from 2005 to 2014
📸 Canada's Walk of Fame
He was the force commander of UNAMIR during the Rwandan Genocide and is credited with saving the lives of 32,000 people.
Four schools are named for him. He served in the Senate from 2005 to 2014
📸 Canada's Walk of Fame
June 25, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Happy birthday to Roméo Dallaire, born on this day in 1946!
He was the force commander of UNAMIR during the Rwandan Genocide and is credited with saving the lives of 32,000 people.
Four schools are named for him. He served in the Senate from 2005 to 2014
📸 Canada's Walk of Fame
He was the force commander of UNAMIR during the Rwandan Genocide and is credited with saving the lives of 32,000 people.
Four schools are named for him. He served in the Senate from 2005 to 2014
📸 Canada's Walk of Fame