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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 4h

As a mathematician who has to teach mathematics: this simultaneously makes more sense to me than the usual soft blather/metaphors/evangelism over LLMs, and makes me feel better about my own attempts to explain mathematical concepts to students

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 12h

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 20h

Reading The Waste Land and re-reading Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club back-to-back a few years ago was a fascinating and illuminating experience.

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 16h

See also: The Far Side cartoon with "what we say to dogs" vs "what dogs hear when we speak to dogs"

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 20h

tbh more worried about inserting a comma somewhere <ducks>

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

THEY’RE HERE PETE!

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

In the name of mercy, could we please go back to using plain-text boxes in forms?

The default text box in an online refereeing system. About 75% of the space is taken up with three formatting menus. You could fit in maybe two short sentences at any legible size.

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

One of the lesser-known Transformers (Hasbro reported that sales figures were disappointing)

NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

Also, wondering about where they went to university, and what they think happened to the academically minded among their cohort.

NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

Curious what "hard-headed realists" on here, who say "shame that some (tacitly assumed to be failing) universities have to make people redundant, but they probably deserve it", think is the list of such universities. How far down some <retches> league table do they go before "let them eat cake"

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 2d

The willing embrace of it by people within universities who know that it has nothing to do with teaching but everything to do with three metrics—dropout rates, NSS, & employment stats—that it can control (or try to control in terms of NSS), without lying, tells you all you need to know about TEF.

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

Have been reading the Inspector French novels of Freeman Wills Crofts, where he does literally that

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

Am Oop North (where the air is clear, oop north, where there's cheaper beer), but hope you + JB have fun

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

Thread.

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 4d

So there's this Vietnamese logger named Ho Khanh. One day he's out searching for agarwood (aka eaglewood aka Wood of the Gods), a fragrant, resinous wood used in incense & perfume.

Ho Khanh is out in the jungle and finds what seems to be an entrance into an undiscovered cave.

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

TIL

Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

There is one. Lazar Kunstmann, who was one of the people behind the project, write a book about it. It's only in French though: www.amazon.com/culture-en-c...

La Culture en clandestins. L'UX (Beaux-Arts)

Amazon.com: La Culture en clandestins. L'UX (Beaux-Arts): 9782754103411: Lazar Kunstmann: Books

www.amazon.com

NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

Would have been improved if fair use allowed a thumbnail of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_(m...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

There are many other ways in which the kids are not all right. Widespread concerns about reading comprehension are valid and threaten democracy in other ways. But in terms of being broadly accepting of racial and sexual diversity, the game's over, and the libs won. 2/2

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 1d

"Next year's timetabling request"

New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 2d

"Pivot to online teaching."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

And the Cantique is here. Some gorgeous bass lines in there!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16z...

VOCES8: Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré

YouTube video by VOCES8

www.youtube.com

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 2d

Like so many, they could benefit from taking this admonishment to heart

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 2d

given that there seems to be some DC/Marvel crossover ... has to be Squirrel Girl, right?

NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 2d

A lurker writes: wasn't her PG path a pivot from **eng lit** (of the past) to history? (Yes I know the categories overlap, but I think the point of origin is telling.)

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 2d

actually stunning to get "no leftist would ever say this" and a leftist telling me this in the replied to this post within an hour. bluesky remains totally undefeated

skelly @iid.bsky.social · 2d

I think we really, really need to question why so many leftish and left adjacent voices want so badly for the US to have been secretly, or “might as well have,” or “almost,” or “in their hearts and minds” on the side of the Axis in WW2

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 2d

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Pure Imagination Scene (4/10) | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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NotPrinceHamlet @anattendantlord.bsky.social · 2d

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty"

AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 3d

"He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert.

The next day - Monday - the HGV driver was sweating profusely and "did not feel right", but put it down to the pork he ate."

I love him, just the most diabolical himbo energy.

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