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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 11h

William Blake and Werner Heisenberg, radical poet and pioneering quantum physicist, shared the same fear: that science, while enabling us to intervene in the world ever more powerfully, was at the same time cutting us off from reality itself. iai.tv/articles/hei... #Blake #Heisenberg #philsky

Heisenberg meets William Blake: The danger of science's "single vision" | Mark Vernon

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9h

till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 11h

fascinating - resonates with wider work?

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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 14h

Lots about the role of technology in pushing these attitudes, the need for community, real world connections and uncertainty about what the male role is

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 11h

Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 12h

Very much enjoyed the excellent @quietriotpod.bsky.social on run this evening - great stuff @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 1d

SUNDAY SCHOOL DROP

☮️🏆 Who is María Corina Machado & how bruised is Trump?

💸 Reform struggles to find DOLGE cuts

📚RIP Jilly Cooper & all hail the trashy novel

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Sunday School: The Big Blag Theory

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 1d

SUNDAY SCHOOL DROP

☮️🏆 Who is María Corina Machado & how bruised is Trump?

💸 Reform struggles to find DOLGE cuts

📚RIP Jilly Cooper & all hail the trashy novel

open.spotify.com/episode/2jKt...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Sunday School: The Big Blag Theory

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13h

Goes back to the argument I made in the Guardian earlier this year that the world is in danger because the techbros have completely misunderstood a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15h

One of my friends recently said "We should all be sitting round a campfire and making sure everyone is OK"

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 15h

interesting! do post any insights!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15h

we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 16h

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 16h

open.spotify.com/album/2Vh0l1... nice to see Deluxe album - some great live versions from Paris and London on 'disc 2' @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social

Rainy Sunday Afternoon (Deluxe)

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Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 3d

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

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On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 3d

The weather’s not looking great but don’t forget the annual Poe reading at Ivy Hill Cemetery on Saturday Oct 11th at 7pm. ivyhillcemetery.net/event/the-de...

The Death of a Beautiful Woman - Ivy Hill Cemetery

Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 1d

That is very sad

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

Fired up an old iPad today. It was stuck on 2015. Obama was in the White House and the UK was in the EU. Sigh.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

An old director I worked with used to say: "You can write, block, time, direct, and perfect every aspect of comedy. But some people just have a comedy multiplier."

Keaton just had whetever that is; that unteachable, undirectable multiplier. She made the mediocre, good, and the good, side-splitting.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 5d

How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice

Women in Philosophy: Elisabetta Lalumera

YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden

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David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social · 5d

“Schopenhauer offers no easy remedies to a disease with no final cure, for the living at least, but Bather Woods successfully shows us if your eyes can adjust to his dark vision of the world, there is much to see” @andyowen.bsky.social

How Schopenhauer can change your miserable life | Andy Owen | The Critic Magazine

Philosopher David Bather Woods notes that there is a popular style of philosophical biography that presents the philosopher’s life as a model for how to live well. He tells us his new book on Arthur…

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 5d

Seen in Weiner Library, London. Prototype for a children’s game in Nazi Germany 1938. Jews Out.

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych.bsky.social · 5d

NHS teams and partner organisations have less than one week left to submit their nominations for the Seni Lewis Award 2025.

We spoke to last year’s winner @merseycarenhs.bsky.social to hear about the positive impact it had on their teams.

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2024 Seni Lewis Award winner shares their story

The Mental Health Triage and Response Team, run by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with other organisations, shares how winning the Seni Lewis Award 2024 affected their team.

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 5d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... baffling and I imagine untrue.

Jenrick defends calling Handsworth 'worst-integrated'

The shadow justice secretary is accused of racism after saying the Handsworth area was one of the

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Also, shout-out to the man next to me in the auditorium getting maximum efficiency out of the Jenrick speech by eating a quinoa salad throughout. Top marks, no notes

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