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Probably not – this is incredibly half-baked… Wait, what are you talking about? For those who weren’t there when the deep magic was written, in 2011, Rebecca Watson (of Skepchick fame) talked about an incident where she was accosted by a man in a closed elevator while returning to her room during an atheism conference. […]
I watched a short on Le Instatok of conventionally-pretty talking head going on about how it’s a shame that young people today settle for things because they’re afraid of taking a risk. Specifically, staying in mediocre jobs, when there could be so much more. All you need to do is be “brave”, and all that… […]
The party looks well and truly over for UK Universities, with Cardiff now looking to axe hundreds of jobs. That isn’t a small, challenged institution, either. The rot is spreading fast to places that thought they were immune. We’ve seen multiple others contract in the last year — and, full disclosure, I’m now an ex […]
It occurs to me that I spend a lot, and possibly an unreasonable amount, of time mocking Harry Potter across various platforms. But, at the same time, I make comparatively little reference to JK Rowling’s public descent into single-issue TERFdom — including endorsing literal fascists and, since this was first drafted, a tiny bit of […]
Written with the caveat that I obviously know nothing about storytelling, and am a complete hack, and if I ever drunkenly forward you anything I’ve written, please for the love of god don’t read it. I’ve just started watching Rebel Moon. And by “just started”, I mean I’m something like 90 seconds into it. It […]
This is not an essay, this is a raw nerve… I was recently directed to a couple of protests by students and graduates demanding ‘refunds’ for their degrees… this has been going on a while, and rears its head every couple of months, either around admissions time or graduation. Now, while I’d love to boil […]
I recently read a comment to the effect that “platforms aren’t untrustworthy, people are” and that you need to evaluate information sources independent of platform. The context being a partial defence of getting news and information from Twitter, in spite of prominent examples of fake information spreading over that platform. This is from someone pretty […]
Q “What did Crick and Watson discover?” A: “Rosalind Franklin’s notes!” Haha! Ha! HA!! Ha… I hate this joke. I absolutely despise it with a passion. This has to be one of my most controversial and fart-in-a-spacesuit opinions: modern science communication, particularly with a feminist slant, is treating Rosalind Franklin way worse than she ever […]
As Twitter steadily turns further to shit, the hunt to replace everyone’s least-favourite verbal-abuse-based theme park ride continues. The popularity of long-standing free/open-source alternative Mastodon, and the accompanying Fediverse, continues to chug along. I won’t bore the uninitiated with the jargon except for the one thing needed to understand this post: you can start your […]
Another from the drafts. Allegedly 2014-5-ish. The early 2010s was a transition period for me: it’s around the time I got very disillusioned with ‘movement’ atheism and skepticism. I stopped subscribing to blogs, vlogs, groups and mailing lists on the subject. So, technically, I don’t know if it’s still a Thing, exactly. Discussions with others […]