Martin Lloyd
@martinlloyd19.bsky.social
MA Nonproflieration and International Security. ☢️
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University Professional Services. 🎓
Curler. 🥌
Author. 📚
Welsh. 🏴
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Martin Lloyd
@martinlloyd19.bsky.social
· Feb 24
Today, and every day until the invader is defeated:
Slava Ukraini.
Death to fascists.
Slava Ukraini.
Death to fascists.
Every time we say ICE can't get any worse, they take that as a challenge.
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Every time we say ICE can't get any worse, they take that as a challenge.
'Grandma's done me!' is my quote of the year so far.
January 23, 2026 at 10:54 PM
'Grandma's done me!' is my quote of the year so far.
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Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
January 20, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
UK Higher Education policy remains a - to use the technical term - hot mess, addicted to international students' money but terrified of anything to do with migration regardless of the obvious benefits of overseas students both economically and socially.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
UK drops target for international student recruitment
Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration
giftarticle.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:36 AM
UK Higher Education policy remains a - to use the technical term - hot mess, addicted to international students' money but terrified of anything to do with migration regardless of the obvious benefits of overseas students both economically and socially.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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The Doomsday Machine that is our university funding system will destroy everything in the end. First it destroys individual lives, then social mobility, then most universities, followed by the structure of income tax and the pension system. In the end it could threaten to destroy the economy itself.
I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.
January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
The Doomsday Machine that is our university funding system will destroy everything in the end. First it destroys individual lives, then social mobility, then most universities, followed by the structure of income tax and the pension system. In the end it could threaten to destroy the economy itself.
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In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.
January 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.
Waited until after 10am to crack into all the leftover pre-Christmas chocolate in the office. New year, new me.
January 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Waited until after 10am to crack into all the leftover pre-Christmas chocolate in the office. New year, new me.
First in office day back after Christmas and I only nearly slipped over twice coming through town. That's an xS (Expected Slip) of 0.33.
January 6, 2026 at 8:51 AM
First in office day back after Christmas and I only nearly slipped over twice coming through town. That's an xS (Expected Slip) of 0.33.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
Whamageddon on Day One. The perils of having a one year old to distract me now.
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Whamageddon on Day One. The perils of having a one year old to distract me now.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
When you have a sidebar chat with the other decision maker in the group to strategize how you're going to lead the most indecisive group chat towards an actual decision.
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
When you have a sidebar chat with the other decision maker in the group to strategize how you're going to lead the most indecisive group chat towards an actual decision.
The backlash that is coming against AI is going to be huge and it is going to be hilarious.
October 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The backlash that is coming against AI is going to be huge and it is going to be hilarious.
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HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
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The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men.
The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).
The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).
Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men.
The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).
The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).
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Can we just be real about The Hundred. Bring on the new owners. It’s absolutely dreadful as it is
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
The Hundred is just influencer sport and is the worst cricket thing ever invented | Barney Ronay
The confected format has generated very few moments and developed no male players but has given women cricketers income
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Can we just be real about The Hundred. Bring on the new owners. It’s absolutely dreadful as it is
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
I suspect @financialtimes.com know exactly what they're doing (publishing this for the clicks and not any sense of journalistic integrity) but where to even start with the content?
The New York mayoral candidate mistakenly believes the economy is a zero-sum game, writes Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute. https://on.ft.com/44IOZe2
July 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I suspect @financialtimes.com know exactly what they're doing (publishing this for the clicks and not any sense of journalistic integrity) but where to even start with the content?
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow might be the best book I've read this year.
June 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow might be the best book I've read this year.
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Five things to remember about war:
Heard nothing from @liv-hopeunison.bsky.social as to what their position on this is @unison.org.uk
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
University of Liverpool staff to strike this week
It is in response to changes in working arrangements
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Heard nothing from @liv-hopeunison.bsky.social as to what their position on this is @unison.org.uk
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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It is very very funny that one of the few genuine ways we have diverged from EU law since Brexit is VAT on private schools.
Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.
Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.
June 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It is very very funny that one of the few genuine ways we have diverged from EU law since Brexit is VAT on private schools.
Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.
Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.
Airstrikes were never going to destroy Iran's capacity to develop nuclear weapons - they are too well protected and advanced. Intention can only be to increase the political costs, yet the of Israeli strikes on Iraq's nuclear program is that this will drive political will and not curb it.
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Airstrikes were never going to destroy Iran's capacity to develop nuclear weapons - they are too well protected and advanced. Intention can only be to increase the political costs, yet the of Israeli strikes on Iraq's nuclear program is that this will drive political will and not curb it.