Terry

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

So here’s a modest proposal.

Jason Arday is dead. The circus has lost its main attraction. The tent is still up, the popcorn machine is still warm, and several of the ringmasters are wandering around pretending they were merely checking the fire exits.

Perhaps The Telegraph, The Spectator, Kathleen Stock, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Julie Bindel, Andrew Neil, Brendan O’Neill and the rest of Britain’s newly discovered Society for Relentless Academic Due Diligence could turn their tremendous investigative appetite towards Nathan fucking Cofnas.

You know Nathan.

The self-described race realist whose intervention helped detonate the Arday story.

The bloke who already believed DEI was corrupting academia.

The bloke who has argued that genuine meritocracy would leave vanishingly few Black professors at elite institutions.

The bloke who talks about a “hereditarian revolution”.

The bloke who, while discussing what comes next for his own career, joked that after “the revolution” he might become head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard.

That Nathan Cofnas.

Come on, lads.

You have just spent weeks demonstrating that no biographical pebble is too small to overturn in the sacred pursuit of Truth.

So get the fucking tweezers out.

Go through his history.

Interview the old classmates.

Find the former supervisors.

Call the ex-colleagues.

Dust off the teenage writings.

Read Reptiles with a Conscience from cover to fucking cover.

Check every citation.

Check every footnote.

Find out what he believed before he acquired the qualifications he now uses to defend those beliefs.

Ask when exactly the fascination with hereditarianism began.

Ask what evidence changed his mind.

Ask what evidence could change his mind.

Ask whether race realism emerged reluctantly at the end of an exhausting empirical journey, or whether the destination appeared on the map first and the intellectual road-building project came afterwards.

You wanted to know whether Jason Arday really ran every marathon he claimed.

Excellent.

I would quite like to know whether Nathan Cofnas has actually demonstrated that Black people are genetically less suited to elite intellectual life, or whether he has spent years developing increasingly elaborate reasons for believing something he found compelling in the first place.

Seems at least as fucking interesting as somebody’s 10K split time.

And while we are at it, perhaps ask why the alleged misconduct of one Black academic became so magnificently useful to a man whose existing political project already concerned Black representation, DEI and declining standards.

Was Arday merely a plagiarism case?

Or did Cofnas look at him and see Christmas morning?

Because once you have spent years arguing that progressive universities are artificially elevating Black academics, discovering a celebrated Black Cambridge professor with serious questions hanging over his work must feel less like stumbling across evidence and more like finding a fucking golden ticket inside your ideological Wonka bar.

And apparently that angle is not worth the same excavation?

Really?

Jason Arday tells a tall tale about running and Fleet Street behaves like somebody has discovered the Pentagon Papers.

Nathan Cofnas spends years developing a political programme around hereditarianism and race, then helps frame a national scandal involving a Black professor, and suddenly everyone develops a tremendous respect for intellectual privacy.

How curious.

I am not asking for another pile-on.

I am asking for the same thing you all claimed to worship while Arday was alive:

scrutiny.

Context.

Provenance.

Motivation.

Evidence.

Standards.

Those lovely grown-up words everybody suddenly remembers when they are about to put somebody else under the microscope.

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[Terry @_Tez_1]

@nuel_irl You're a twat

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

4 women have accused Jared Leto of alleged sexual misconduct & assault that took place when they were teenagers.

The BBC has seen photos & messages that corroborate the women's accounts as well as an NDA that Leto sent one woman.

(Source: https://t.co/Sf7VubeiDa)

[Terry @_Tez_1]

@DramaAlert Well it's very clear this fella is a twat. I just don't understand how he can tell the story himself and still come off as a massive knob without realising he is in the wrong

[ROMINA || lifestyle video creator @REDROMINA]

serious question for the people who are in support of this lawsuit:

How do you expect us creators to make a living and continue to make videos for you to watch?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There are approximately 560,000 Universal Credit claimants aged between 60 and 65, and an additional 62,000 claimants who are over the age of 65 in the UK.

It is the fastest growing demographic of benefit claimants.

But they won't tell you that.

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Ed Davey(LibDem leader): "I cannot back joke figures with ridiculous policies, which is why I'm supporting Count Binface." 🤣

#PMQs

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

I’ve reported at least ten traceable and credible death threats (plus a few detailed gang rape threats) over the past few years, including a hand delivered note to my house. No arrests. No investigation.

Farage caused this increase in violence.

He can FUCK OFF.

[aether @bluewdrift]

my therapist changed my life when he taught me there are 4 types of conversation:

1) small talk (weather, etc)
2) swapping (you tell a story, I tell a story)
3) listening (you tell a story, I listen/validate)
4) problem-solving (you tell me a story, I help solve the problem)

[Andrew Hsieh @AndrewOnSeeAIR]

Wish I could do what Catherine Tate did, by having an air conditioning tube up myself to keep cool during a dreaded heatwave.

[John Kirby @csljohnkirby]

Robert, you joined the Conservative Party in 1997 and remained there until January 2026, approximately 29 years. You were a Conservative MP for more than 11½ years and spent nearly five years as a minister, including at the Treasury.

During the Conservatives’ 14 years in government, the IFS records 15 new taxes or levies, alongside frozen personal tax thresholds, VAT rising from 17.5% to 20%, corporation tax rising from 19% to 25%, National Insurance increases, a frozen inheritance tax threshold and insurance premium tax more than doubling.

The Parliament beginning in 2019 was the biggest tax-raising Parliament in modern British history.

There were tax cuts too, and every proposal should be judged on its merits. However, accusing others of ���reaching for other people’s money” while presenting yourself as detached from that record requires a remarkable degree of political amnesia.

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

A lot of people don’t know this but being able to smell rain before it rains, the smell of cold air, bathroom tap tasting entirely different from the kitchen tap and overnight water tasting thicker is a sign of neurodivergent sensory. they don’t experience the world like we do.

[𝓓𝓮𝓵 @delonperc]

the autistic experience of involuntary leadership because everyone is bad at their job

[maeve ~ @miaaowing]

my parents did this to me when i was younger. fixed their behaviour by immediately leaving the room every time they said some shit like this - only took a couple months before they stopped entirely LOL

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A tourist was seriously injured after a bison tossed them about 8 feet into the air in Yellowstone National Park. The attack was captured on video by photographer Mike Macleod.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

INSANE: 900 Snakes, Including Venomous Cobras, Escape into Village from Breeding Farm After Massive Flooding in China.

[James @james99512]

Hahahah classic

[💗 @ma1ybe]

This man murdered Chloe Devey Waterhouse by stabbing her. Headline glorifies him as a maths graduate while reducing her to the ‘sweetheart’ of a violent man who didn’t love her. Chloe held a first-class maths degree and a Master’s in statistics.

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