MeddazzaDuranie

Duranie super fan

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

Occasionally on this website there appears a post so perfect, you legit don’t see the point in ever coming here again.

[Rainy @rainy101]

Miriam Margoyles is the classic example of people mistaking outspoken wankery for cute and adorable. She's always been a fucking nightmare and finally everyone can see her for what she is.

[Saadat Wahid @SaadatOne]

Orange cat becomes jealous . . . 😜🤪

[badger @badger69420]

Coming home after drinking with the bros while your wife’s waiting

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This corgi passionately watching a belly dancer on TV

[Enezator @Enezator]

She gave birth to just one tiny kitten, and now all of her attention is completely focused on it. She barely wants to leave its side and is absolutely obsessed. 🥹🐱

[激かわ動物 @Gekikawa_Dbts]

トリミング中にご
主人を見つけたワンコの反応

[German Shepherd Dad 🇺🇸 & 🔥 @FlagAndFire]

German Shepherd puppies are a scam.

They suck you in with giant ears, paws they haven’t grown into yet, and that ridiculous head tilt.

Next thing you know, you haven’t gone to the bathroom alone in three years, half the couch belongs to them, and apparently personal space is no longer part of the deal.

Then somehow that goofy little land shark grows into the dog who watches the house, follows you everywhere, and would protect you without hesitation.

Still cries because you closed the bathroom door, though.

Best breed.

No appeals will be considered.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

There are not enough baby goats on this app

[ྐ❤︎ @traumadumpling]

the “i’m going home” scene in The Rocky Horror Picture Show hits even harder now. r.i.p Tim Curry. you were such a formative part of so many of our introductions to theatre, film, and everything weird and wonderful in between 🪽

[best of hannah waddingham @ofwaddingham]

rest in peace tim curry 👑💔

[ hannah waddingham with tim curry during spamalot rehearsals]

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

A pelican, around 37 years old, shows up every day at a Greek restaurant to get its portion of fish. The bird has become a well-known local figure along the seafront

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Her friend invited her to a birthday party where the invitation said, “Pets welcome.” So she brought her dog, and the pet was more excited than anyone.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

The only person responsible for Jason Arday's death is Jason Arday.

He was a liar and a fraud who was rightly exposed for what he really was by academics and journalists who were simply doing their job.

No one forced Arday to make up lie after lie about his life. He chose to do that. And he did it for financial gain and to bask in the applause it brought him.

He used those lies to deceive people into giving him a job he didn't merit, a lucrative book deal he didn't deserve,  as well as fame and adulation he didn't earn. 

And when he was found out, he called in the police and expensive lawyers to shut his accusers up, and his failed students who complained were branded as racist.

Cambridge University and Jesus College enabled this liar by lauding him as brilliant when he wasn't even mediocre. They should ask themselves why they put their DEI religion above the need for fairness in their appointments processes, above the needs of Arday's students and, most importantly, above the truth.

Arday's family and friends should ask themselves why they chose not to speak out to expose his lies which they must have known to be untrue. 

The police should ask themselves why they thought it acceptable to investigate an academic and a journalist simply for asking questions about Arday's fraudulent CV. 

The BBC and Arday's many other deluded cheerleaders should ask themselves why they were so desperate to believe Arday's outlandish claims in the face of all the evidence.

The thousands of the great and the good in academia, politics, media and law who signed the Good Law Project letter backing Arday should ask themselves why, without any justification, they outrageously branded Arday's critics as racists who just wanted to bring down a successful black man because of the colour of his skin.

All of these people made their own contributions to Jason Arday's life. And arguably all of them contributed in some way to his decision to take his own life when his fantastical claims were finally exposed for what they really were: lies.

The idea that those who exposed Arday as a lying fraudster are to blame for his death is as laughable as it is outrageous. 

The idea that Arday was "hounded" to his death is absurd. He chose to tell every single lie himself and he even chose to continue those lies in his resignation letter from Cambridge. He is not the victim. He is the perpetrator.

The claim that Arday's downfall was only a front page story because he was black is also ridiculous. He chose to tell the lies that made him a front page story in the first place. 

I feel sorry for those who loved him. It is very sad that he has chosen to take his own life rather than face the consequences of his own actions, which should have resulted in a criminal conviction for fraud. 

But actions have consequences. This isn't about right and left. It's about right and wrong.

[Emma Roberts @QuakerEmma]

My work as academic and chaplain puts me in a unique position to comment on today’s news.

I’ve seen university culture change over three decades so that critical thinking and robust feedback has diminished when paying students call the shots. The unwillingness to give and take robust criticism has been shocking to witness and catastrophic on the culture and resilience of individuals. Each day I am insisting on standards in an evermore gently gently culture. It’s not healthy.

As a chaplain, I speak with the suicidal every week. Suicide kills. It is never a good idea to talk about the “they” and “the system” and the “isms” and “phobias” that would make the suicidal believe that such things have a power over their own actions.

“If I kill myself then that will teach them” but No actually it won’t because your actions are your own responsibility and we want to keep you safe as you pass this period of crisis.

Jason Arday, like all those facing suicide ideation today, deserved better help and protection but I expect his family are distraught that nothing they could do or say prevented this.

What I know is that there are fundamental cultural issues at play in our universities which also set up this man to fail. I’m sure the public pressure recently has been awful for him and it is still not the case that one single event causes a suicide. Samaritans guidance is very clear on this. Please be careful about how you speak about suicide if you have no experience around it.

Building resilience is the key here. In schools, universities and wider society. Keep it real. Take responsibility, listen closely to your detractors and examine your own conscience and ego. Also be humble enough to seek and accept help and support. You do not need to be perfect. We are all flawed human beings.

As I share daily with despairing men in prison- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Rest in peace Jason Arday.

[MeddazzaDuranie @duranie1000]

@Dr_Black Arday invented many lies about his past, he was enabled by those that never challenged him, and he ended up in a corner when it all fell apart. In the last week he could have admitted it all and apologised. This is so sad, but don’t blame others

[Micaela @MicaDeJota]

Literalmente fue a quejarse con su mamá 🥰

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Witches don’t exist. Frauds do. Arday was unmasked as a fraud. The story kept running because he refused to admit the truth. He tried everything: denial, playing the race card, setting the police on journalists, getting Carter Ruck to intimidate critics. In the end, he could see only one way out. A tragedy, but one of his own making.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

Jason Arday has died. Though the cause of death has not been confirmed, suicide seems likely. I’ll say this: the fact that a pathological liar reacted badly to scrutiny does not mean that scrutiny was unwarranted or unfair.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Jason Arday’s death is tragic. But please spare us the sanctimonious complaints that he was merely an ‘obscure’ academic who was the victim of a racist witch-hunt. The probing and questioning and exposure were entirely legitimate.

Arday was plainly guilty of plagiarism. He had also made a series of fantastical claims about his life and career. He ended up being appointed as a professor at one of the world’s most august seats of learning – where his students, who had worked extremely hard to get there, were paying large fees for the privilege of being taught by him.

Far from being obscure, Arday had happily engaged with the media over many years, often repeating his false claims. He appeared on numerous TV shows and guest edited Radio 4’s flagship Today programme. He even carried the Olympic torch.

Moreover, he had secured a major publishing deal for his autobiography, which was set to be released in Britain and the US just as the scandal broke. By no measure was this man ‘obscure’.

When a fellow academic in Plymouth began to question his credentials, Arday (or someone close to him) made a complaint to the police. When a journalist from Times Higher Education started investigating, he was subjected to a police inquiry and also received a threatening letter from the leading libel solicitors, Carter Ruck.

Arday and those around him were clearly not averse to hounding others when they felt like it.

It’s very possible that Arday did not have sufficient support measures in place when he was finally exposed – but that’s on others. The investigation and questions amounted to legitimate journalistic inquiry.

This was never just about Arday’s fabulism. It was also about the increasingly controversial philosophy of DEI, the obsession of our political, corporate and educational institutions with pushing that philosophy, and how it might have led to someone with Arday’s subpar credentials being appointed in the first place.

These are all valid questions to ask – and, by asking them, journalists are simply doing their jobs.