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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 53m

In other news: Angry Robot Books has acquired Juliet E. McKenna’s The Riven Kingdom, described as a “fresh and gripping fantasy” that “blends politics, religion, and a battle for a dead king’s throne, perfect for fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series.”
britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...

Book News: Angry Robot Acquires New Juliet E. McKenna Novel – The British Fantasy Society

britishfantasysociety.org

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 2h

The thing is, though, and I don't want to be rude or anything, but we all know that anyone prepared to use the plagiarism machine to generate a novel will be prepared to lie about it.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 2h

UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books” 👇 #BookSky

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2h

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 2h

Say what you will about Beanie Babies, but at least they were cute and made some kids happy. I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a fad with a bigger gap between hype and reality than NFTs. Has to be one of the greatest wet farts in the history of flash in the pan trends.

web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 13h

Reddit shuts down its NFT avatars project

August 28, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=reddit-shuts-down-nft-avatars

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1h

Obligatory Alisdair Beckett-King video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OO...

Every Single Scandinavian Crime Drama

YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King

www.youtube.com

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 3h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3h

Right, so, someone saying immigrants should have “A-level English” is someone who doesn’t know what the subject “English” is, which is learning to recognise and understand deeper meaning and symbolism in a text, to be able to analyse and deconstruct and get their own reading on a text

Ron Swanson ignoring the symbolism in Moby Dick which he thinks is a book about a guy who hates an animal

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 3h

The conservative idea that education, intelligence and learning is linear, by the way, is why tech bros are convinced that Artificial General Intelligence is possible and that what OpenAI et al are doing will lead there.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 15h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 4h

If you've appreciated our work over the years, why not chuck us a fiver over on GoFundMe. We have no corporate sponsors anymore, so everything depends on your generosity. www.gofundme.com/man...
#ALD25

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 4h

This is AMAZING

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4h

"Creating Horrid Henry’s gang of characters with alliterative names (Moody Margaret, Anxious Andrew, Sour Susan, Lazy Linda), each with a unique characteristic, was directly inspired by the medieval concept of the four humours" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

www.theguardian.com

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 4h

snap! same

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 4h

I am old enough to remember people yelling at each other for spoiling the fate of the Titanic…

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 6h

Making life more difficult for migrants helps nobody.
Making it harder for people fleeing war and persecution to find safety helps nobody.
Labour pushing xenophobia as policy helps nobody.
Pandering to far right politics doesn't combat far right rhetoric or "build trust in politicians"
#r4today

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19h

We can all bitch and moan and call out the utterly contemptible policies suggested by the likes of Reform and the Conservatives, but if that same condemnation is not applied to Labour then it shows it is not about supporting migrants, it is about being party political. 2/

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h

This small boi doesn’t have upper incisors anymore due to cancer treatment so he loves the little hay bits & dust at the bottom of the box bc it’s easier to eat. I asked the company I buy rabbit hay from if there was a way to buy just the hay dust & tiny scraps—they sent a whole box of it for free😭🩷

A small gray rabbit peeks around the side of a box filled with small bits of hay.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

we aren’t going to beat these motherfuckers by being cool and detached about it, we are going to beat them by getting every working grandma and every nurse soccer mom and every shift supervisor football dad out in the fucking streets and all of us being there with them in arms

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

we have the rest of this week to rally every fucking person all of us knows to hit the streets, i have ten people i am bringing out, repost this with better numbers than mine, you competitive people, beat my numbers

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 6h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 23h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 13h

the spectacle as a deescalating tactic, absent anything to deescalate, can easily devolve into stuntery and cosplay: nothing materially impacted, but people pat themselves on the back for the sweat from dancing around for a couple hours, as if they had done something other than tire themselves out.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13h

although I think most poetry nerds for sure have not forgotten H.D. that's less important than how good and timely this is

Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 13h

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From 'Sea Garden' (1916)
—H.D. / Hilda Doolittle

#forgottenpoets #poetry #booksky

OREAD

WHIRL up, sea -
Whirl your pointed pines,
Splash your great pines
On our rocks,
Hurl your green over us,
Cover us with your pools of fir.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 7h

yessssss

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 10h

There are actors that, when they come onscreen, you’re delighted to see them and immediately assured that whatever you’re about to watch is gonna be worthwhile, mine is Jared Harris what’s yours

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 9h

New publication alert! 🚨

Relational resistance and transformative pedagogy in the global south: insights from Bangladeshi higher education

By Xianwei Gao et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #TransformativePedagogy

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Relational resistance and transformative pedagogy in the global south: insights from Bangladeshi higher education by Xianwei Gao, Monjurul Islam, Shaiful Islam and Alizah Lambri. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

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