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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 2h

Meet Hazel the Rainbow Flower Ghost bag! I designed and hand-sewed her, and I hand-embroidered her rainbow flowers. As a bag, she enjoys carrying cursed or enchanted items, depending on her mood.

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Here's a lovely photo of Hazel. She's a fabric art ghost bag with a metal clasp on the top of her head. She's a white ghost with a gray face, large twinkly black eyes, and a little frown. She's covered with hand-embroidered flowers. Each petal is a different color of the rainbow. There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background. Hazel is resting on my palm.

Here's a lovely photo of the back of Hazel. She has one rainbow flower embroidered on her back.

Here's a lovely photo of a peek into Hazel. The lining of the bag is a black fabric featuring gold mystical objects. There's a moon, stars, a crow with a witch hat, a potion, a tree.

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 2h

Reposting my hooded crow from this time last year because I love his little fall vibes.

(Ref photo by Akbar Nemati)
🦢🐡 #art #birds

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 1h

As a teacher, I hated AR so much. What a deeply frustrating waste of time.

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 2h

THIS THIS THIS

Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 20d

If it's important, then make room in the curriculum for it. Have a scheduled weekly visit to the school library. Have a story time. Have creative writing. Have drama classes. Have author and theatre visits.

I bet private schools have all these. I bet there's no concern about literacy there.

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All I see is risk. When AI systems fail, and the apps and services that depend on them fail, there will be spectacular catastrophic consequences like we've never experienced before.

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2h

🌸 The orchid that blooms underground

Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#Botany #SciComm 🧪

Plantwatch: An extraordinary orchid that lives and flowers underground

Botanist trying to conserve highly vulnerable rhizanthella that survives by feeding on nutrients from a fungus

www.theguardian.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 17h

White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name.

I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 2h

I sadly missed Bernadette Lynch & @helengraham.bsky.social in conversation today - discussing museums and participation - but I'm sure some of it is captured here, in Helen's insightful writing for @museumsassociation.org.

'Why is participation in museums so difficult?': tinyurl.com/2umebhc6

Why is participation in museums so difficult? - Museums Association

Ideas and practices of participation have boomed in museums over the last 20 years

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 1h

I just ate half a box of shortbread fingers to celebrate making it to Thursday.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 1h

Yes, that film has it all (and a decent running gag with the green drink).

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 1h

Wrappers delight!
Get your #Christmas wrapping paper here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

Four Christmas gift wrap designs in a collage

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 1h

same same

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 2h

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!

This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart

weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...

light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Yep. All they have left to sell is surveillance.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

All I see is more ways for tech companies to surveil and control

“You should be able to talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that,” says Mehdi. “With your permission, we want people to be able to share with their AI on Windows what they’re doing and what they’re seeing. The PC should be able to act on your

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 3h

new survey research from CDT: 85% of teachers & 86% of students report they have used AI in 2024-25.

Half of students say using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teacher & 70% teachers worry that AI weakens important skills that students need to learn cdt.org/press/cdt-su...

CDT Survey Research Finds Use of AI in K-12 Schools Connected to Negative Effects on Students, Including Their Real-Life Relationships

New data shows that half of students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teacher, and one in five students report that they or someone they know has had a romantic rel...

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 5h

Clippy, am I too old to learn Linux

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 7h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 20h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 2h

Well now I have to figure out how to explain “what’s so funny” to the six year old.

Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 2h

It’s a little early in our family cycle of “get so angry at Microsoft that you put all the computers on Linux” but here we are. (This is usually on a five years Windows/2yrs and a bit Linux rotation)

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 2h

Since the upgrade to Windows 11, my work laptop refuses to recognise that there is a microphone unless you use an external one. Would deeply enjoy this system melting down as it tries to listen with the computer equivalent of a heavy cold blocking its ears.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4h

Microsoft: Let us add another layer of accessibility and security issues to your computer, come on, it'll be fun

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 7h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

Just learned the difference between a croque monsieur and a croque madame is an egg and it’s named that because the egg looks like a ladies fancy hat. That’s when society worked, when we were all putting little hats on sandwiches.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 3h

The common thread here is the absurdly unrealistic beliefs that:
- education is information delivery
- there is a 'best' way of delivering information that works for (almost) everyone
- learning is something you do once and move on
- learning one topic has no relationship to learning any other topic

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 8h

Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 2h

As someone who moved to the UK from the US, the apples are legit amazing and well worth the trip.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

British.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

1. Friends, I have a major career update. And it is bittersweet.

My time at Rolling Stone is coming to a close this week.

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