Kwasi Kwarteng, the UK business secretary, has opened a new front in Britain’s culture wars by blocking the appointment of a leading academic to run a £200mn economic research body because he was supposedly too leftwing. An ally of Kwarteng said the business secretary was concerned the academic had been a member of the Communist Party in the past.
Original sin right there, what a joke country.
Worth noting the ESRC is a tiny part of the UK research budget; with STFC being comprehensively gutted (also to note STFC operates much of the big-iron experimental labs with fixed costs, so that drop is amplified in it’s effect on workers and project starts)
I want to show you that that Internet you used to go exploring is still very much there. There are still tons of small personal websites, and a wealth of long form text from both the past and the present. So it's a search engine. It's perhaps not the greatest at finding what you already knew was there, instead it is designed to help you find some things you didn't even know you were looking for.
Her ears in the little space helmet getting all folded up! Smooosh
…cosmonaut and pride of the Lapine. she rides an experimental rocket to seek the other colonies established hundreds of years in the past by an almost forgotten generation ship…
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Instead of using butter for your grilled cheese, you should switch to linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which ones work best for your needs
Thing is about the terfs sending me anons wishing violence upon me, is if I respond with any kind of anger, it'll suddenly be evidence of "male behaviours" and "male socialisation"
Well well, the first episode of a new blind let’s play? It contains… the opening of the game, what a surprise.
Paradise Killer is a game of esoteric post-real vaporwave-noir, in which banished investigator Lady Love Dies attempts to find out who killed the future, and why. Together we’ll see if it really does combine detective gameplay, a fascinatingly cosmic setting, and visual-novel storytelling to create something utterly delightful.
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