Dr Matt Barnard

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Cat-owning philosophy academic | existentialism | phenomenology | new project: philosophy of AI - Web: https://matthewbarnard.phd/ - Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@mattbarnardsays UCU NEC/HEC UK Elected Representative

Screenshot of bsky trending list shows 3. green gains
an impossible tandem bike where the forward seat and handle bars are as high as a penny farthing bike, but the pedals are in the usual place. Even a giant would struggle to use it. The rear handlebars are below the rear seat. The model also attempted to label the bike and there are many mistakes, including labelling the rear set 'rear handle bar' and the rear wheel rim is labelled as 'rear derailleur'
Ed Miliband with a labour rosette backdrop behind him. The image is styled in stark white and black colours that are used to evoke that che guevara tee shirt everyone student wears at some point
"UK consumers will notice an immediate difference," she added. "Using Alexa+ is a very different experience." For example, I asked the current Alexa whether I needed an umbrella today. It responded, "no rain is expected today". At a UK demo of Alexa+, it responded, "actually, you can leave the brolly at home, with sunny skies and no rain in the forecast, you'll be sorted without it".
me about to set off to London for the HEC meeting on 6 March 2026, with my tuxedo cat skulking grumpily on my backpack
A tuxedo cat very cross with me for being out all day. She is sat on the back of an arm chair staring into my soul
Me standing next to a postbox on Oxford Road, Manchester, behind me you can see the Grosvenor East building of Manchester Met. I and posting my ballot
Green leaflet for gorton and denton says 'Only Greens can Stop reform' with polling data showing vote share change for gorton and denton constituency from ElectionMapsUK. The graph shows reform+13, green_11 and Labour -21 with other -2. It does not show any other contextual data
A tuxedo cat dozing on the back of an armchair completely flopped out with half open eyes
A tuxedo cat sat comfortably on a copy if gödel escher bach, a large softback book
Screenshot of the article shared below: “In Britain,” he said “if you went to a group of undergraduates, how big would that group have to be before you found someone that said their choice of going to university, and that choice of going to that specific university, was because they wanted to become a founder? ““The entrepreneurialism simply isn’t there – the drive, the vigour.”
me posing as I post my UCU ballot into a post box
Starmer quote: So – here in this document – the mission: secure the highest sustained growth in the G7. A measurable goal. An invitation for the British people to judge us on whether they feel better off after five years of a Labour Government.
A black kitten snoozing politely on my leg
An adult tuxedo cat loafing on the top exhaust vent of a gaming pc
Me posing by a post box mailing my ballot for myself in the UCU NEC casual vacancy election
A ridiculous black kitten hiding inside an empty box of cheerios on the floor
A tuxedo cat loafing sulkily on a pile of ttrpg books while my hand holds a road atlas of britain and ireland next to her for scale
A black 15 week old kitten dozing under my monitor
A very sleepy tuxedo cat dozing on the too of the back of a sofa but whose butt has slipped down the back of it and is basically a puddle on top of the radiator
a black 13 week old kitten sleeping on a cat tree with her head and legs spilling off the ledge
3d model of the “orion” star fighter from the 2000 game “Tachyon: The Fringe”
A paragraph from page 186 of Heidegger’s Conception of freedom. The key quote is “There is no rock to use as a foundation of ethics here, only the truth that all foundations are made of sand. […] I have found nothing in Heidegger’s philosophy that should have either directed him towards or saved him from this wrong choice.“
perhaps a crop of Patrick O'Connor, prebeard, shading his eyes watching the greatest football team on earth. or, perhaps someone else if I have guessed wrong.
An amstrad cpc 6128 with its included colour monitor