Reposted by Tyler ButlerAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19hIf you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.” 1031089
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 22hHe "won't need trade" if he can just have the US take it, or have it be subject to his "deals," like the sketchy Argentinian beef. Please please please read between the lines, everybody. 000
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 22hHis office plans to rule the western hemisphere like an empire. This hasn't been subtle. They liked what they're able to do with Venezuela, and they want to do it to every nation in the Americas. Mexico, Canada, Greenland: all will be expected to bow and obey like Argentina, or be conquered. 100
Reposted by Tyler ButlerChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 05/10/20261/ Moscow has reportedly been put on plague alert as part of a 'special sanitary operation', while hospitals in Irkutsk have been closed and medical staff put under lockdown. Indiscriminate Russian government censorship is leading to a wave of panicked rumours and criticism. ⬇️ 43671217
Reposted by Tyler ButlerPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026new wolfenstein looks like shit 298125212469
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Garvaghy Road-related Republican Irish demonstration in Glasgow had a masked black-clad anti-immigration counter-demonstration, which included a dude who had, among others, an "I LOVE BEING WHITE" sign, which... rather gives the game away about the Orange Order's intent. 050
Reposted by Tyler ButlerElizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026 173128253007
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Current "play it on repeat til I'm sick of it" song: "Love Triangle", Angèle (ft. Caroline Polachek & SebastiAn) youtu.be/imb-MQLbpYo?...youtu.beLove TriangleYouTube video by Angèle - Topic 020
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026brain rotted by LinkedIn "so glad for the opportunity from my fired job" tries to express emotions 020
Reposted by Tyler ButlerUNISON @unison.org.uk · 01/10/2026Solidarity with staff across all three unions at Glasgow Caledonian University taking action to stop compulsory redundancies and protect essential services students rely on. ✊💜 Unions remain ready to work with the university on a solution that secures jobs and supports students buff.ly/mPb0PR1buff.lyGlasgow Caledonian University staff to strike for two weeks over compulsory redundanciesSecurity staff, cleaners, couriers, accommodation and registry workers at the university are set to walk out over the dispute 074
Reposted by Tyler ButlerKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is my new favorite thing. 74164925294
Reposted by Tyler ButlerSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act. 13341061198
Reposted by Tyler ButlerJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Here’s a funny new version of th crowding-out argument. In the old days, we were told fiscal tightening was needed to solve the problem of weak private investment. Now, we are told tightening is needed because private investment is so strong. Austerity: always the answer! www.ft.com/content/d96c... 620753
Reposted by Tyler Butlertransylvan(ian) 🧛🏼 @illpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026imagine being 40 points underwater on "people wanting you to stay alive" 492949593
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Final Fantasy IV. I'd played plenty of games before, even other JRPGs, but FF6 was "the one." 030
Reposted by Tyler ButlerPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026International recruitment down 27%. Another policy triumph from the government, at an estimated £100,000 in net economic benefit per student.thepienews.comCAS issuances down 27% as UK visa refusals jump 30%, Enroly data showsRecruitment behaviours are changing, with South Asian and African countries the worst hit amid the UK's compliance squeeze, according to new data analysis from Enroly. 45720
Reposted by Tyler ButlerSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is absolutely true. Centrist politicians have essentially fetishised "tough choices" into being an end in itself. If you don't have to throw someone under the bus to achieve some broader strategic goal (even if you're not certain what that goal is), it's not grown-up politics. 11343103
Reposted by Tyler ButlerSir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is depressing, they are just going to keep going with the earned settlement reforms, including some frankly insulting and weaselly reasons why their retroactive application of the changes to people already here isn't really retroactive because those people haven't applied for ILR yet. 173
Reposted by Tyler ButlerDanny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom 273859898
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My uni. So far, two of my three days of classes for my postgrad degree this semester will be instructor-less for as long as management refuses to take compulsory redundancies off the table. I stand with the unions, even as I'm terrified for what it'll mean for my degree and student visa. 021
Reposted by Tyler ButlerUNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026UNISON members at Glasgow Caledonian university 🎓 are on strike today, fighting for jobs, education and the student experience.✊ You can support the UNISON campaign to save higher education and #FundOurFuture by writing to your MP today: action.unison.org.uk/page/193558/... 📝 033
Reposted by Tyler ButlerUNISON @unison.org.uk · 17/09/2026Glasgow Caledonian University staff on strike over job cuts. "These staff play a crucial role in keeping the university running and supporting students. Losing up to 100 jobs would put even more pressure on those who remain and damage the services students depend on" UNISON buff.ly/yw0uadabuff.lyGlasgow Caledonian University staff to strike over job cutsSupport staff, including IT workers, security, catering and student welfare, are due to walk out on Thursday 054
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If my degree is interrupted, I sincerely doubt the current Home Office will extend visas to complete degrees whose interruption is not just their fault, but their plan succeeding. Unfinished degrees means students must leave. If we can't get Grad or Skilled Work visas? That's less immigration! 030
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026UKHO began calling int'l students "immigrants," and count lowering enrollment as "controlling immigration." Lower enrollment hurt UK higher ed. My uni's strike is over response to funding issues, and int'l attendance is a huge part of their budget gap. 160
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Staff at my university (Glasgow Caledonian) are going on strike. I support them and all unions. At the same time, as an international student on a postgrad program, I'm scared. Student visas are neither cheap nor forgiving. If this delays my degree, what happens to me? 182
Reposted by Tyler ButlerJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We should start calling these Cronenburgers 511592265
Reposted by Tyler ButlerDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy. 8411171
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this exact problem came up in a discussion group on the idea of district heating. "some people I've anecdotally created use more then their fair share of the free communally beneficial heat systems: my LLM idea would automate the temperature based on use, to keep it fair and viable" 000
Reposted by Tyler ButlerEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Created this for a reply on LinkedIn, but it applies pretty generally, so posting it here, too: 537287
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026static.klipy.comBryce Dallas Howard as Claire: Is That Good?ALT: Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire: Is That Good? 020
Reposted by Tyler ButlerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Past 72 hours. 🇺🇸 @cnbc.com @bloomberg.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/w... 52918336
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"Trying to stay sane under that sort of madness drives us nuts." –"Dhalgren," Samuel R. Delaney 000
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Current conspiratorial thinking: Data centers are just ways to launder the billions that various various scams, grifts, and bubbles at the national and international level have accrued, such that real value is extracted by their creation, operation, subsidies, etc. for the illegal/inflated money. 000
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'm expecting: this, but Godot is there as the one human, Muppets style 050
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Vance is connecting their big attack lines to lead the MAGA base and channel successful past comms into the new messages for the midterms and beyond. He's saying woke = Communist = ""suicidal empathy."" 010
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Yes, they talk badly about given ethnicities (e.g. Haitians). Yes, what he said is on its face hypocritical. If you care about the hypocrisy you aren't the target audience. You are among his despicable Americans. You are the one who wants to give from one group to another. 100
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Watching people miss the point. The second clause is key. This is dogwhistling that cutting affirmative action was not just necessary, but good for everyone. This is AfD's position that many of Germany's problems stem from feeling guilty about the Holocaust. He's justifying erasing history. 100
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Playing Zero Company, picking up bits about where the story is in the timeline of the Clone Wars, and hoping that head wound in Trick's past ends up coming in handy :( 000
Reposted by Tyler ButlerKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As a millennial the Iraq war was when I learned America felt no responsibility for human life abroad and hurricane Katrina was when I learned it felt no responsibility for American lives either 222790564
Reposted by Tyler ButlerErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Oh CAN the sun and plants and animals all work together well wow who knew the shade might make grass more nutritious for lambs thus requiring fewer acres of grass per pound of lamb wowweewowm.economictimes.comLambs grazing under an Oregon solar farm had 38% less grass than those in an open field, yet gained the same weight as shade made the pasture more nutritiousLambs grazing beneath solar panels at an Oregon State University research farm had access to 38% less forage than lambs in an open pasture, yet gained almost exactly the same amount of weight. Researc... 623463
Reposted by Tyler ButlerMike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 30/08/2026“My marriage ended when I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife” is one of those things that should make you check yourself 997041
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I started, stopped, read a summary for "Alchemised" by SenLinYu. It's a Harry Potter Draco/Hermione fanfic ripped straight from the acrimonious HP "shipping wars" era. Not just the plot, but the writing level itself is of the era; this is not a good thing. It has a "kid goes to Hogwarts" ending. 000
Tyler Butler @lerler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Living near a UK football stadium as a foreigner not initiated into sport culture means not knowing when game days are until periodically half the city is walking past or getting trapped in traffic outside your flat all wearing the same color. 000
Reposted by Tyler Butlerรℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 29/08/2026always pay attention to the real ppl in these photos. 1511223