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Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · 21h

All lactose is tolerable for the pure of heart

Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 1d

BTW why didn’t Midas himself become gold? Or at least grow golden bit by bit, a gold cheek as he itched his cheek, gold teeth and lips from gnawing on the edge of his thumb? What about his clothes, I mean at least his underpants?

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 2d

tbf phone numbers were only 3 digits long in those days - mine was 910

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 5d

"Currently, Israel holds some 11,000 Palestinians in its prisons, a third of whom are administrative detainees, held without charge or trial. About 400 of them are minors" mondoweiss.net/2025/10/what...

What we know about the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and what comes next

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas includes halting military actions, an Israeli withdrawal, increased humanitarian aid, and a prisoner swap. But it doesn’t guarantee an end to the war or tha...

mondoweiss.net

Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 5d

Couple on train talking about their friends Rachel and Phoebe losing my mind is this even legal

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 6d

The Digital Humanities

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6d

New from 404 Media: a data hoarder created a searchable data of Epstein files. "This is a public service project. All documents are from public releases. This archive makes them more accessible and searchable."

www.404media.co/data-hoarder...

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

www.404media.co

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 7d

Does the EHRC Interim Guidance imply people have to use their "biological sex" bathrooms? Are there case studies of organisations that are taking different approaches? Do they offer legal reasoning?

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · 8d

WE’LL NEVER STOP: 9 More Ships Now 140 Nautical Miles from Gaza.

The mission continues! Despite the illegal abduction of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla crew, a powerful new fleet is now critically close to the shores of Gaza.

@freedomflotilla.bsky.social

t.me/globalsumudf...

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 13d

Many many years later I'm still like where's my Chumbacappela at

Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 13d

Was anyone there that time Chumbawumba took the stage and just said, We're sorry we can't play, somebody stole all our instruments and then they left again

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 14d

The world's first carbon border tax is about to go live, roiling — and possibly reshaping —global trade share.google/yTtxujzkAx8a...
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The world's first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade

The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 14d

The famous planetary boundaries OH NO!UGHNUT, updated for 2025 + disaggregated into MINI DOUGHNUTS

Diagram showing three "doughnuts" (planetary boundaries and social boundaries) showing huge amounts of climate change being caused by the richer countries, and huge amounts of social protection shortfall in poorest 40% of countries

Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 14d

terrible sunset

Theciscokidder @theciscokidder.bsky.social · 14d

Not everything is terrible ♥️

A picture of the sunrise off my back deck this morning. There's an L shaped pond with a farmhouse and a barn off in the distance. The clouds are a deep pink reflecting off of the pond.

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 15d

The Typhoon in Orbital: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...

On the typhoon in Samantha Harvey's Orbital

WHM considers his changing emotional reaction to death and destruction in fiction with a close reading of Orbital of Samantha Harvey.

buttondown.com

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 15d

Can anyone think of a worse use of the final scraps of our carbon budget than a new TikTok style social media app based on AI generated video content www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos

The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.

www.wired.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16d

Left: Inside the Labour party conference

Right: Outside the Labour party conference

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 16d

My Twine slide deck turned into a Twine handbook, for you: docs.google.com/presentation... #Twine

Twine Handbook

Twine and Interactive Fiction: The Handbook October 2023

docs.google.com

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 16d

short ai

Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 17d

Can students read? Can I read? What is it to have read Bleak House? muse.jhu.edu/article/922346

Project MUSE - They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities

muse.jhu.edu

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 20d

Actually would you mind not smoking in here? That’s not an ashtray that’s a mobile sandpit for me to stick my head in when I’m driving between my home sand and my work sand

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Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · 23d

Sneaking into the rapture to fight god

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“abbey” “willis” @abbeyiguess.bsky.social · 29d

for whom the tad poles

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Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 26d

Clear Jo they call me because of my communication style or maybe my conscience

Jo Lindsay Walton @jolwalton.bsky.social · 26d

who called it Freshers' Week and not Lurgy Hadron Collider

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