Jonny Kiehlmann
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Jonny Kiehlmann
@kiehlmann.bsky.social
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Climbs and read things. Used to do numbers (PhD) a bit. Scottish Politics researcher, for my sins Underpaid subscription servant of the culture wars
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“The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida” by Clarissa Goenawan. Exploration of a young Japanese woman’s suicide its effect on those left behind.
They are playing an orchestral show in Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday. Sold out, but you can probably find some resale tickets. I did for their show today
Brixton. It is in the area of London called Brixton
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Radicalised billionaire Elon Musk articulates the dystopian hallucinations about Britain that underpin his sustained personal commitments to depose the elected government; to fund an extremist-led movement; dissolve anti-racism norms + legitimise political violence/civil war in our country
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
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Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would be a big change from the UK’s current two-year qualifying period.

The Government should keep but *reduce* ‘qualifying periods’ for unfair dismissal protection ⤵️ buff.ly/WepH7zY
I did not foressee "Zarah Sultana declares she no longer supports a two-state solution"
There is not a single political party or mass movement in Palestine that advocates for this idea. Or in Israel for that matter.

A British politician making such statement is doing imperialism pure and simple. Giving up on an independent Palestinian state is for Palestinians to decide on. Not you.
Ah, yes, a house style differing from every other presentation, which basically is the opposite for Ai issues.
“Funny Boy” by Shyam Selvadrai. Fantastic novel, of a queer Tamil boyhood: six stories of family build to an epilogal pogrom.beautifully
“Mona Lisa” by Alexander Lernet-Holenia . Young noble falls in love with recently painted work, madness ensurs
“This Part is Silent: A Life Between Cultures” by SJ Kim. KOR-born US-raised entry-level UK academic reflects, struggling amid covid. Great
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Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
Minimum wage being 71% of median hourly earnings feelings like a serious, serious issue
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We are already helping several employees sue employers for enforcing the EHRC Interim Guidance, which *we think* is unlawful. Should the High Court agree, we plan to make available in generic form, for free, and in a usable state, all the legal materials a trans employee needs to sue their employer.
I'd venture politely to suggest that if the EHRC had done its job and written a code that was about the law rather the pursuit of an anti-trans ideological agenda duty bearers would be better able to do what she urges upon them.
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Very poor from the government: it won't review suitability of X for its communications, and insists on keeping secret its previous review.
Thinking about it, the fact she's genuinely got a strong case to be beating Liz Truss as "worst female leader of the conservative party" is actually impressive.
The part where she complained that journalists looking for a quote from the business secretary were harassing her was something
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It’s Brexit accelerating the normal pace of political careers. In the universe where Theresa May becomes prime minister in 2020, Badenoch is a 2020 intake MP getting her first minister of state job in the 2024 reshuffle.
Look, it maybe old news but I still find it *INSANE* that this person ever managed to become a minister, never mind the LOTO, when this would be be a disbarring fact in any other career.
She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.
“Fever Dream” by Samanta Schweblin. Women lies dying in rural Argentine clinic. A boy, not her son, talking to her. Dread fills this novella
TBF, politicians do write their own social media more than you might think.
I mean, not all parties -- notably Fergu's former party's leadership has been clear.
(The examiners did ask me about it. I had realised it was in just after submitting)
I would say I had actually deleted the bit I needed to delete! Just forgot to remove the marker telling me to delete it...
My PhD thesis submitted for viva included a line reading

"DELETE whatever Ohsomuch".

(I passed; With corrections, obviously)
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
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This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.