Gav Maclean
@gavmaclean.bsky.social
Small time sociologist.
He/him
He/him
Ok, so people have seen Star Trek Discovery
‘Nature’s original engineers’: scientists explore the amazing potential of fungi
Unique properties of fungi have led to groundbreaking innovations in recent years, from nappies to electronics
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Ok, so people have seen Star Trek Discovery
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My favourite soap opera is doing a fantastic bottle episode.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My favourite soap opera is doing a fantastic bottle episode.
It's Your Party and you can cry if you want to etc etc
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It's Your Party and you can cry if you want to etc etc
An example of populism is the elevated media coverage of every (affected) actor and journalist berating the decision about prostate cancer screening despite medical opinions disputing it's worth.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
An example of populism is the elevated media coverage of every (affected) actor and journalist berating the decision about prostate cancer screening despite medical opinions disputing it's worth.
The ED209 of cars
What a complete joke and failure of a car the Tesla CyberTruck ClusterFuck is.
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The ED209 of cars
People will do anything except overthrow capitalism
Rage rooms: can smashing stuff up really help to relieve anger and stress?
Venues promoting destruction as stress relief are appearing around the UK but experts – and our correspondent – are unsure
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
People will do anything except overthrow capitalism
Another reason to hate Wrexham AFC
Wrexham AFC receives £18m from government despite Hollywood backing
Welsh government grants used to fund football club even though it is owned by wealthy movie stars
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Another reason to hate Wrexham AFC
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Sometimes my news feed offers up some *wild* arguments www.ft.com/content/3a3b...
The coup de grâce for woke
The Booker Prize would not have gone to David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ a few years ago
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Sometimes my news feed offers up some *wild* arguments www.ft.com/content/3a3b...
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ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
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how come people in the comments here are coming out for Amazon and data centres.
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
how come people in the comments here are coming out for Amazon and data centres.
Sure, Pontius Pilate was just an ordinary guy organising an extrajudicial execution
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Sure, Pontius Pilate was just an ordinary guy organising an extrajudicial execution
For sure, we all remember when Jesus cleansed the temple, he was in fact upgrading the money lenders to VIP accommodations.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
For sure, we all remember when Jesus cleansed the temple, he was in fact upgrading the money lenders to VIP accommodations.
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"Get your own fucking fish and bread you lazy, benefit, scrounging plebs" (Matthew 14 v 21)
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"Get your own fucking fish and bread you lazy, benefit, scrounging plebs" (Matthew 14 v 21)
really, Verso adding to my unbelievable email deluge on so-called 'Black Friday' is the final straw.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
really, Verso adding to my unbelievable email deluge on so-called 'Black Friday' is the final straw.
The quickest ballot I've ever sent away. Voting to defend jobs at Edinburgh Napier!
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The quickest ballot I've ever sent away. Voting to defend jobs at Edinburgh Napier!
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
We're not exchanging our labour power for a wage anymore and I missed it?!!!
How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism | Yanis Varoufakis
Amazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs, says the leader of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We're not exchanging our labour power for a wage anymore and I missed it?!!!
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It’s easier to imagine the end cows than the end of cowpitalism
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It’s easier to imagine the end cows than the end of cowpitalism
My last lecture of the term is also the easiest lecture to avoid accusations of political bias today: unemployment.
Doesn't matter what party, you can just fill the lecture up with quotes from any party that all say the same thing for over 40 years.
Doesn't matter what party, you can just fill the lecture up with quotes from any party that all say the same thing for over 40 years.
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My last lecture of the term is also the easiest lecture to avoid accusations of political bias today: unemployment.
Doesn't matter what party, you can just fill the lecture up with quotes from any party that all say the same thing for over 40 years.
Doesn't matter what party, you can just fill the lecture up with quotes from any party that all say the same thing for over 40 years.
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What did I tell you?
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What did I tell you?
No, it doesn't. We already have celebrity children's literature.
Artificial intelligence poses an increasingly real threat to children’s literature—and children’s learning.
AI is coming for your toddler's bedtime story
Artificial intelligence poses an increasingly real threat to children’s literature—and children’s learning.
www.motherjones.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
No, it doesn't. We already have celebrity children's literature.
Liverpool are some team at the minute.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Liverpool are some team at the minute.
So much for Ed Miliband "getting it" on climate
North Sea plan permits new drilling on existing fields and no big shifts to clean energy
‘Tiebacks’ will permit small amount of new fossil fuel extraction, but campaigners want bolder strategy
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
So much for Ed Miliband "getting it" on climate