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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 47m

Still really enjoying Radio Free Brooklyn.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 12h

Amaretto sours is a dream.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, phone set up. That should be the last security numbers change of the day. Apologies, Signal contacts.

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quiabo the exhorter @yungquiabo.bsky.social · 14h

not the ex libris developers having a mini nova festival

Bones Hyland's Homeopathic Cold Relief @wellburrowed.bsky.social · 15h

Aight I'm out

LinkedIn post for rosh Hashanah about the lil festival workers got from their employer the Israeli library technology corporation Ex Libris, featuring DJs and a self defense course lmaoooo

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 16h

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 17h

Replacement phone procured. Apologies to my Signal contacts get notifications that my security number keeps changing...

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22h

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

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 22h

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

“a supply chain attack”

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 18h

It didn't work.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 19h

Annoying factory reset to see if I can unbreak my phone to avoid having to get a new one.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 20h

I’d love higher ed policy to be made by people who actually worked in higher ed, but apparently that’s too much to ask

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 20h

This could benefit research environments, publishing environments, scholarly experience/participation, and public access to knowledge without facilitating commercial exploitation and extraction from research budgets.

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 20h

more transdisciplinary work could be facilitated through cooperative approaches to scholarly communication through open infrastructures.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Body horror dreams: not right now.

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Scott Fright @scw.bsky.social · 1d

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Steam review that reads “game is good but im some bugs”

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 1d

. @prisonculture.bsky.social's zine is very popular in our library free zine distro (76 copies have been taken, # only limited by that's what I've had time to fold/staple/put on the rack yet). It's a friendly+free workbook for connecting your values, strengths, needs to advocacy you can do now:

my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · 2d

Today in #ZineCataloging

One Million Experiments volume 8: Making a Plan
It's an activism workbook zine by @prisonculture.bsky.social. The whole series: millionexperiments.com/zines

Read the Zine: One Million Experiments

Read the Zine from One Million Experiments, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

millionexperiments.com

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 23d

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023!

An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

New INTERACT study: German Academia after October 7

interact.fu-berlin.de

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

So police used a paedophile to spy on green activists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 1d

I'm honoured to be part of the Palestine Days 2025, organized by Transaidency.

Amid violence & erasure, the event provides a space for perspectives that are painfully absent from the German public!

🗓 Oct 28-30
📍 BulBul Berlin
🔗 transaidency.org/palaestinatage-begegnung-kontext-kultur-solidaritaet

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

I WON!

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Last game of crown bowls of the season...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Katharina Schulz @girl-friday.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Mein Ex-Kollege Lasse Ramson vom Projekt VEStOR und @openrewi hat die Causa Verfassungsblog vs DOAJ kommentiert: https://open-access.network/blog/disziplinaere-realitaeten
CC @verfassungsblog

Disziplinäre Realitäten

open-access.network

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