Eidolon Prime

Normally late to the party

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Together we will stop the boats.

[Max @banthebbc]

@Verbatim_Media Well well well. Whatdayaknow?

[Eidolon Prime @eidolonprime]

@matthewdmarsden Agree. It does look good but it feels like there are impostors playing the roles as the memory of the original cast is still too fresh.

[Daily Gondor 📰 @DailyGondor]

Gondor is no longer able to call for aid due to new emissions regulations put forth by the Isengard Commission.
Emissions from Isengard and Mordor are exempt from the regulation to help the nations "catch up" in the name of "fair play".

[Megan, Queen Bee 🐝 @IAmMeganAmbers]

Someone once said this is Roman and Cody in a parallel universe and I can't unsee it.

[Ron Manager Remembers Nottingham @ronmanagernottm]

I've signed an Executive Order...

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

Rodimus Prime was sworn in at 6:47am eastern time this morning.

[90’s Football Memories @90sFootballUK1]

Back in the 90’s when folk stood outside a Dixon’s window at 4:45pm to see the football results come in.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

Britain abolished religious tests for public office in the 1820s.

Politicians today would have them back… for software suppliers.

Progress!

[Brandon Acosta 🇵🇷 @KinglyRed]

RIP to the man behind the greatest line read of all time

[ChanMan @ChandranTheMan]

Solo is COMEDY 😂 He keeps adding something new every week, and that’s what’s going to keep him from ever getting stale.

The new thing is already over, then Jey goes for the warning shot and Solo hits the damn Matrix move 😭

He’s kinda a genius at this, actually. Every week he finds some new little thing to add to his character.

[𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐕𝐞𝐧 @WrestlingCovers]

😂😂😂🫡 #TNALockdown

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Returning today as the Vice President of the United States, standing in the exact steel mill where my Papaw worked for decades to put food on the table, I couldn’t help but feel immense pride.

Pride not only of where I came from and the impact places like this had on who I became, but proud to share the amazing news of investment being made here in Middletown, Ohio.

Thanks to President Trump’s economic agenda that puts America First, the future of the United States is not going to be sold out to the highest foreign bidder. The future of American industry and manufacturing is going to be built in towns all across these great United States.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

“Johnny 5 Will Return In Avengers: Doomsday”

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

As punishment for American academic @nathancofnas being the first to report publicly that Jason Arday’s DEI research was full of plagiarism, Ghent University, where he is a researcher, announced he is being investigated.

The person who announced the investigation is the trans rector. He was recently forced to admit that a speech he gave at the university was written with AI and included fake quotes. https://t.co/BjUKS6Mea6

[Kat "I'll bring the sausage rolls" @KatarinaHill2]

Well Private Eye moves away from the "silly season" sneering and sums up the Arday tradegy really well.

[Eidolon Prime @eidolonprime]

@jonatanpallesen People are also focusing near enough entirely on the plagiarism case as the main point of their argument about racism and right wing media. They fail to discuss the other untruths that came out after the initial plagiarism story was published.

[i/o @avidseries]

Here are just a few of the outlandish fabrications your dead hero engaged in:

Extensive plagiarism in his 2015 PhD thesis: More than 100 passages identical or nearly identical to Paula Zwozdiak-Myers’s 2009 Brunel University thesis.

False funding declarations in research: Claims of funding (including from Mind) that the organization denied.

Claimed authorship of a published book Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan) that was never published.

False or exaggerated academic positions and qualifications: Visiting professor at University of Glasgow School of Education (denied); visiting professor at Ohio State University Office of Diversity and Inclusion (denied; office later closed); visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University (at most a temporary adjunct); honorary professor at Durham (contradicted); master’s in psychodynamic counselling/practice from Birkbeck (no record).thetimes.com

Non-verbal/mute until age 11 (or profound non-verbal autism from early childhood): Diagnosed at age 3 with autism, global developmental delay, etc., and claimed doctors said he would never walk, talk, or read (“no better than a vegetable”); schoolmates, neighbors, and others described a verbal child who joked, imitated voices, played football, and was “just normal” or a “class clown.” Experts noted the claimed trajectory had no precedent.

Illiterate until age 18 (or unable to read/write until late teens): Contradicted by school records/experiences and recollections; accounts of when/how he learned varied (e.g., vs. statements involving his then-partner).

Running 30 marathons in 35 days (around 2010), including continuing after an epileptic seizure/fit and hairline leg fracture on roughly the 20th/21s.

Running 600 miles in six days (Edinburgh–London or treadmill, for charity): Would rank among elite ultra-endurance performances; later revised to ~12 days with rest days for “cumulative wear and tear.”

Raising £5–5.5 million+ for charity (often via the above running feats, “most notably” for Shooting Star Children’s Hospices and Shelter, over ~20 years, sometimes framed as personal): Evidence showed far smaller documented sums (e.g., one JustGiving page at £380); later clarified as part of a “syndicate”/collective of ~100 under NDAs (none named); bios and speeches escalated the figure over time; publisher later softened related memoir https://t.co/EgwOa4Nh0V

Installing water points/pumps in South America (e.g., Rio favelas) and West Africa with/for WaterAid: WaterAid stated it does not send volunteers abroad and does not encourage/facilitate self-funded visits.

Appearance in the BBC’s Seven Up documentary series: Claimed participation (or being “pulled out” at 14); the original series began in 1964 (Arday born 1985); BBC stated he had “nothing to do with our films.”

Academy-level and/or semi-professional football career: Claimed in at least one speaking engagement; not detailed or repeated in the memoir, with no club specified

Substantial prize money from local snooker competitions while at secondary school (enough that his mother suspected drug dealing): Records (e.g., CueTracker) show limited amateur participation with no significant winnings.

Corporal punishment at secondary school (teachers striking knuckles with a pen for incomplete tasks): Corporal punishment was banned in English state schools in 1987 (Arday born 1985).

Threats by a masked intruder (twice, once at knifepoint) in his Cambridge faculty building, demanding resignation: No CCTV capture, not reported contemporaneously to colleagues/police in full detail, panic alarm response issues noted, and he continued work (including a viva).

Severed pig’s head delivered to his family home in south London (plus related claims of investigation linking it to a local butcher who sold a whole pig that morning): Metropolitan Police stated “categorically” that no such investigation occurred; the butcher had no recollection of police contact or the sale in that context.

Major medical/life events with inconsistencies across accounts): Teenage car accident leading to months in a (conscious) coma/locked-in syndrome, doctors suggesting switching off life support, then relearning to walk/talk (in proposal; omitted from final book); testicular cancer (proposal) vs. one or two brain tumors (book/other accounts); origin stories for epilepsy varying.

Additional disputed or unsupported elements appearing in bios, speeches, or the memoir proposal: Carrying the Olympic Torch (2012); various unproven awards/accolades; a claimed large book advance; and the resignation letter itself flagged by some AI detectors as fully machine-generated.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Fabulists are always psychologically vulnerable or they wouldn't be fabulists. I've known a couple personally (both white women, one of them very young) and both, beneath a veneer of apparent narcissism, were damaged people who clearly felt they weren't and never would be good enough if the fabrications were stripped away.

Journalist Johann Hari survived plagiarism charges. Belle Gibson, of the fake brain tumour, the best-selling cookbook and the deal with Apple, is still alive and well. On the other hand, Brenda Leyland (another fabulist) killed herself rather than deal with the aftermath of exposure as an obsessive online persecutor of the McCann family.

If it's true Arday's stories about himself weren't challenged because Cambridge was excited to appoint a charismatic young black man, it's equally true that his blackness meant he became a lightning rod for discourse around DEI, and I don't doubt the weight of shame, and mockery and condemnation, even if a lot of it fell on Cambridge rather than Arday personally, seemed unsurvivable to him. He and Leyland both became unwilling, living symbols of something bigger than themselves: DEI taken to a ludicrous extreme and vicious online trolling.

I have some personal experience of becoming a dehumanised online punchbag. It takes a lot of psychological strength not to go under and when I heard that Arday was dead I felt utterly miserable.

I don't disagree that he'd never have found himself exposed in such a public way if he'd been challenged, kindly and privately, before he was given a highly-publicised professorship at what is supposed to be one of the world's best universities. However, saying that his promoters 'don't give a toss about him' seems extreme.