Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗

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Fashion journalist and academic
News editor @costume_society
World's first PhD in Vogue China ✨

[Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger]

Want to time travel & tell my 10 year old-self playing football all summer that one day in Hong Kong I would meet my hero @alanshearer @BBCMOTD

[Nota @jornalnota]

“Quando uma mulher é levada a se preocupar o tempo todo com sua aparência, ela tem menos tempo para questionar a ausência de suas liberdades.”

Marjane Satrapi
(1969-2026)

[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

The moment a woman is no longer the object men own, they show the true nature of that relationship. Imagine learning the man you love would rather you dead than his sexual ideal. And at your most vulnerable time.

[Tatiana Walk-Morris @Tati_WM]

For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.

[💖Sophie💖 @PinkPonyS0phie]

very important quote!!!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

Those paragraphs baldly describe £95M of money squandered by @UniofNottingham’s senior managers, *none* of whom were held to account; they slipped off to new jobs. The staff they left behind are being made redundant to pay for it. It is sickening.

https://t.co/8flce3rI8S

[Lisa @lisathebeauty1]

Work beef is so unnecessary like just do your job 😭

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

No one is ready for the amount of fraud that is coming.

[4 Day Week Foundation @4Day_Week]

It’s ridiculous that we’re still working 1920s hours in a 2020s world.

Ford’s assembly line is long gone. The 40-hour week should be too.

It’s time for a 4-day week. ⏰

[Jack Califano @jackcalifano]

I love AI. I love having to re-read every single sentence on the internet twice to discern if I am getting the advice and experience of a living, breathing human being, or the sludge of a demonic greed machine engineered by 300 losers in San Francisco to steal my money. Fun !

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[⟲ @unotfbg]

u can tell when a coworker got nothin going on outside of work

[ellory smith @ellorysmith]

Sam Levinson thinking about the options in a woman’s life

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

The Soho Society's decision to oppose all new and extended licence applications is the wrong one - it's bad for London.

Once in force, new licensing powers I’ve been granted by Government, coupled with our bold new proposals to support London’s hospitality and nightlife, will help us protect venues, extend London's late-night offer and allow the capital’s nightlife to flourish.

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

BOSHHHH

@Johnfis08605918 has set a NEW Guinness World Records title for the most takeaway dishes memorised in 30 seconds 💪

[Aditya Bidikar @adityab]

I don’t understand this. Till a couple of years ago, EVERYONE wrote without AI. Now you can’t write without it? What’s this learned helplessness?

[Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger]

Once I quit a role at a university due to stress caused by the head of department - he would shake with anger when alone with me, always aggressive - just a vile bully.
The head of HR asked me if I had tried to sit down 1 on 1 with him and tell him how I felt.

[21group @21percentgroup]

One reason why UK universities are in trouble is growth of layers of management, HR & marketing

These depts do not bring in money. They consume but do not produce

Worse still, many of them like HR create massive additional problems & costs -- all distracting from core mission

[a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms]

funny 1-2 punch on observer front page

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

Here is the map of data centres in Ireland - over 130 of them.

Data centres now consume 22% of Ireland’s electricity

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

It’s terrifying that boys this young are already raping little girls.

It should be considered an emergency.

It should anger everyone that rape culture is so pervasive and normalized that children are doing it.

Sadly our society doesn’t care about women and girls.