reallyquitetired
@reallyquitetired.bsky.social
Academic (biblical studies, religion-culture-politics) | hobby designer | retired DJ | TV fiend | antifascist | 'tool of deep Woke' | (he/him)
Exeter, UK
Exeter, UK
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Exeter is for Everyone ❤️
The far right tried to intimidate and sow hatred. Devon showed them what community looks like.
The far right tried to intimidate and sow hatred. Devon showed them what community looks like.
October 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Exeter is for Everyone ❤️
The far right tried to intimidate and sow hatred. Devon showed them what community looks like.
The far right tried to intimidate and sow hatred. Devon showed them what community looks like.
Great to see Djed Spence coming off the bench to be the first Muslim man to win a senior England cap. #SRBENG #WorldCupQualifiers
September 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Great to see Djed Spence coming off the bench to be the first Muslim man to win a senior England cap. #SRBENG #WorldCupQualifiers
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More data centres are coming to the UK, with British citizens being expected to foot the electricity and water bill. A textbook example of socialism for corporations, cutthroat capitalism for the public.
Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount - BBC News
The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
More data centres are coming to the UK, with British citizens being expected to foot the electricity and water bill. A textbook example of socialism for corporations, cutthroat capitalism for the public.
Semenyo was abused by a fan who leaned out of his seat when Semenyo was about to take an attacking long throw on the near side a few mins before the stoppage. #LIVBOU
August 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Semenyo was abused by a fan who leaned out of his seat when Semenyo was about to take an attacking long throw on the near side a few mins before the stoppage. #LIVBOU
@solioanalytics.com Hi. Really enjoying playing around with the tool—such an interesting and complex yet intuitive way of approaching optimisation. Great work! Can I just ask, how do I restrict the projection table to fewer than 12 GWs?
August 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@solioanalytics.com Hi. Really enjoying playing around with the tool—such an interesting and complex yet intuitive way of approaching optimisation. Great work! Can I just ask, how do I restrict the projection table to fewer than 12 GWs?
For clarity, the code isn't C1724G—the C is just to cancel any previous presses, so the code is 1724G and beginning by pressing C is just best practice.
June 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
For clarity, the code isn't C1724G—the C is just to cancel any previous presses, so the code is 1724G and beginning by pressing C is just best practice.
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"Got called transphobic in academia earlier lads"
"Tell us what happened lad"
"I got called transphobic in academia"
"Ye but why"
"I was being transphobic"
"In academia?"
"Yeah it was in academia"
"Tell us what happened lad"
"I got called transphobic in academia"
"Ye but why"
"I was being transphobic"
"In academia?"
"Yeah it was in academia"
Academics who sued union after being called transphobic lose tribunal case
Academics who sued union after being called transphobic lose tribunal case
UCU had claimed film called Adult Human Female by Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne attacked trans identity
Two academics who sued their own union after being called transphobic have had their discrimination claims rejected by an employment tribunal.
Dr Deirdre O’Neill, a lecturer at Hertfordshire University, and Michael Wayne, a professor at Brunel University, were criticised by the University and College Union over a film they had directed, Adult Human Female, which UCU said was an attack on trans identity. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Got called transphobic in academia earlier lads"
"Tell us what happened lad"
"I got called transphobic in academia"
"Ye but why"
"I was being transphobic"
"In academia?"
"Yeah it was in academia"
"Tell us what happened lad"
"I got called transphobic in academia"
"Ye but why"
"I was being transphobic"
"In academia?"
"Yeah it was in academia"
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The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.
Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article)
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.
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There is one obvious piece of #CanCon to mark the passing of Brian Wilson, and that of course is this:
youtu.be/Ch84fmOa414?...
youtu.be/Ch84fmOa414?...
Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson (Video)
YouTube video by Barenaked Ladies (official)
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There is one obvious piece of #CanCon to mark the passing of Brian Wilson, and that of course is this:
youtu.be/Ch84fmOa414?...
youtu.be/Ch84fmOa414?...
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"We don't think article 8 rights apply"
If article 8 rights don't apply when you're taking a piss, when DO they?
If article 8 rights don't apply when you're taking a piss, when DO they?
Here it is... the smoking gun that should bring down this entire EHRC committee.
June 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"We don't think article 8 rights apply"
If article 8 rights don't apply when you're taking a piss, when DO they?
If article 8 rights don't apply when you're taking a piss, when DO they?
Me bending down to pick up the several parcels the low-cost courier has just photographed strewn across our doorstep and saying "what has she been buying now then?!?" even though all the labels clearly have my name on them.
June 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Me bending down to pick up the several parcels the low-cost courier has just photographed strewn across our doorstep and saying "what has she been buying now then?!?" even though all the labels clearly have my name on them.
Me thanking the delivery driver and before closing the door calling "food's here" up the stairs even though they know full well that I'm eating alone.
June 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Me thanking the delivery driver and before closing the door calling "food's here" up the stairs even though they know full well that I'm eating alone.
Great to see Tom Banton back playing for England. He scores lots of runs of the face of the bat, unlike his dad Pato Banton who was always bye bye bye bye bye bye, bye bye bye bye bye bye. Still, Pato did often help his teams recover when slightly behind—not a full reversal, just a baby comeback.
June 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Great to see Tom Banton back playing for England. He scores lots of runs of the face of the bat, unlike his dad Pato Banton who was always bye bye bye bye bye bye, bye bye bye bye bye bye. Still, Pato did often help his teams recover when slightly behind—not a full reversal, just a baby comeback.
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May 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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1/5 All true. But it overlooks the most important wedge driving conservatives apart over the last 60 years: race. Macmillan’s government introduced the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act restricting Black and brown people’s immigration.
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
April 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
1/5 All true. But it overlooks the most important wedge driving conservatives apart over the last 60 years: race. Macmillan’s government introduced the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act restricting Black and brown people’s immigration.
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
Saudi sportswashing just levelled up. All the punditry is about the romance. RIP Jamal Khashoggi. #CarabaoCup
March 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Saudi sportswashing just levelled up. All the punditry is about the romance. RIP Jamal Khashoggi. #CarabaoCup
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NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...
propub.li
March 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
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“It comes back to the question of: safety for who?”
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
Universities used pro-Palestine protests to expand surveillance
New technology and support from law enforcement and federal agencies allows universities to monitor student activists like never before
prismreports.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“It comes back to the question of: safety for who?”
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities nationwide to monitor student activists like never before, Sophie Hayssen reports.
prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...
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STOP USING GENERATIVE AI.
Seriously.
Listen to Alex please.
Seriously.
Listen to Alex please.
Was giving a presentation on the material harms of AI. Got 45min in before someone interrupted demanding to be told they could still use it. We just listened to an Ethiopian woman talk about the vile content she saw while data training, and this person just did not care. That dismissal is common.
At the end of the day, we tell you that generative AI is built on unethical copyright theft, exploits and underpays its workers, causes catastrophic environmental damage, and produces increasingly terrible looking shit, and you just decide not to care.
March 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
STOP USING GENERATIVE AI.
Seriously.
Listen to Alex please.
Seriously.
Listen to Alex please.
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"As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures"
A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...
A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...
January 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures"
A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...
A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...