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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1h

YES! This is such excellent news. Utrecht University now supports Knowledge Commons.

PLEASE ask YOUR library today if they will consider supporting us. We are free to all to use, but we NEED university support to make that possible.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/13/u...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h

Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Went to the farm earlier. Saw the most coquettish pig you've ever met.

A pig, working the camera like her life depends on it.

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Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 16h

Portland frog with a founding fathers wig and the text “give me ribberty or give me death”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 56m

Nearly all employees within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) were dismissed in Friday’s reduction-in-force, leaving only a few senior officials and administrative staff.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 1h

ICE is vicious www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 6h

Publication day today for this, with short stories by Alison Moore, Wyl Menmuir, CD Rose and others — including my short story ‘You’!

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Bodybag Jones @daydreamcomix.com · 1d

Sure, it’s an Auntie who uses Facebook type meme, but damn it this means something to me.

The iconic breakfast club poster with all the heads photoshopped to the three iconic masks from Halloween 3, Tom Atkins, and Stacey Nelkin.

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Mark Griffiths @markauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Few things more redolent of an English autumn than the traditional willow diplodocus.

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 1d

The idea of defunding universities on the basis of the sector's set of joke 'metrics' for success is the logical conclusion of the perverse consumer model of UK HE that UUK wanted.

Uni senior managers created this to justify their own salaries.

Now the entire sector will go down.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

The idea of linking fees to TEF is clearly an attempt to bankrupt a set of universities. The reputational damage of association of cheaper tuition with lower quality* will ring a death knell.

* of course, TEF does not measure teaching quality

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 1d

Diane Keaton by Annie Leibovitz, 1986

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

So last night's six course taster menu actually had nine courses (including the innovative "pre-dessert") and a trick question - turns out "Two glasses of wine with dessert?" actually meant two glasses each of two different wines.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Legendary interview moment with the director of Morbius about Jared Leto’s behavior on the set of Morbius

uproxx.com/movies/morbi...

I heard a story about filming and I want to see if this is true. Someone told me that Jared Leto was so committed to playing Michael Morbius that even when he had to go to the bathroom, he would use his crutches and slowly limp to get to the bathroom. But it was taking so long between for pee breaks, that a deal was made with him to get him a wheelchair so someone could wheel him there quicker and he agreed to that. Is this true?

Yes.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Masshole57✌🏼 @masshole55.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: A librarian fired in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves just got the last laugh – a $700,000 settlement for violating her first amendment rights. 👏 May this be a warning across the nation.

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad to hear that passing of the great Diane Keaton (1946-2025). We loved her in many things; but especially crime thriller Looking for Mr. Goodbye (1977). #RIP

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Read the piece on P Thiel's views on the antichrist and the apocalypse and I find it so horrific that someone with so much power and influence via wealth has such barking views, rooted in such cruelty. I can imagine him arguing that many people should die to lower his taxes, and this is "Christian".

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Masshole57✌🏼 @masshole55.bsky.social · 2d

Listen. We only have 4 months to learn Spanish. Here is how you say, “Release the Epstein files.”

"Libera los archivos de Epstein"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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