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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
19.02.2026 08:26 — 👍 11934 🔁 3081 💬 205 📌 243
Karen, Wales
Lost her Clinically Vulnerable mum due to a Covid infection via essential hospital care.
She was severely immunosuppressed due to Crohn's and not protected effectively.
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These folks lie with ease and frequency but the text of the emails is also an insight into the megalomania of tech bros.
You made a doorbell with a camera bro.
'VARIOUS ANCIENT PAPERS' written on an old envelope. The envelope is being held above a wooden table with a box on it.
Nice and specific, cheers.
20.01.2026 11:23 — 👍 218 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 5
It turns out that just one BIG share can change *everything* for a petition.
Please help protect vaccine access for Clinically Vulnerable people by tagging people who could amplify.
- ONLY 6 WEEKS LEFT! -
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
They all say this: "Amazon sees this as an AI that can live alongside you as you go about your day..." Their ONLY goal is to get you to SUBSCRIBE and give them your LIFE CONTENT.
They keep trying, they keep failing. If you see someone wearing a Bee, act accordingly and avoid them. Like real bees.
When a public good is framed as too expensive it's stopped being seen as a public good. The university is so obviously a place and idea that should be owned by and for the public. 💔
10.01.2026 13:26 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
A stylised poster (c. 1910 -1920) with the text “World Peace” at the top. The main image depicts a woman and two children looking towards a Star shining above a pile of discarded military equipment. Along the bottom it reads: ‘Before Another Christmas Still “Less of Armament and None of War”’ — A hopeful message for global peace and an end to war and military buildup.
An expression of hope for peace - ‘Before Another Christmas’ - by Charles Rochon Hoover (c. 1910-20) for the US National Council for Limitation of Armaments, Washington, D.C.
(Collection of Library of Congress)
Have been swithering for an age, but have finally jumped and bought a @polypane.app subscription. - So many useful accessibility simulations. Fingers crossed it's worth a chunk of my tiny budget. polypane.app
29.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A screenshot of an email from Academia.edu (received today) that shows their logo and a message that reads: “Our Al turned your paper "Recording the Creative" into a shareable comic.” Underneath is a button labelled “Explore Impact Hub”. At the bottom a small message reads “Don't want Al to create outputs of your papers? Change Al Settings.” Are they trolling me?
A screenshot of the Academia.edu Google “Al Overview.” It reads: “Academia.edu is a commercial platform for academics to share research papers, discover new work, and connect with other researchers. While it offers free access to read research, it also has paid features and has been criticized for its business practices, such as sending spammy emails and pushing users towards premium subscriptions.”
The new world of Academia and AI today.
#academicsky
Flatterers up the *ss of the rich man. Some things never change! Here in 1592 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today.
10.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 115 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 2Yes and yes
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So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social.
(Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)
Seren, this world does not deserve you. Thank you for speaking-up.
29.09.2025 19:06 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Seren is a young person who lives in a really vulnerable household.
Everyone should listen to her story.
💙💜💗 #educationANDlives
Image is a snip from Flann O'Brien's letters, reading: "It is a pity you did not like my beautiful book. As a genius, I do not expect to be readily understood but you may be surprised to know that my book is a definite milestone in literature, completely revolutionises the English novel and puts the shallow pedestrian English writers in their place. Of course I know you are prejudiced against me on account of the IRA bombings."
Today, academics, ask yourself:
Am I bringing enough of a Flann O'Brien energy to my R&R work?
Detail of a print of 1799 showing a man sitting at a desk, and a shouting man standing in front of him with an arm raised. The man shouts: Footnotes, FFS". Source: http://diglib.hab.de?grafik=graph-a1-243
25.06.2025 10:31 — 👍 49 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
Interesting question
www.chronicle.com/article/he-w...
bsky.app/profile/toon...
26.06.2025 20:26 — 👍 92 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Text: The Pandemic Isn’t Over Just Because You’re Over It. Image at bottom in purple is wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2 in the US since 2020, with more infections since Biden took office than when Trump was in office.
25.03.2025 11:05 — 👍 151 🔁 60 💬 4 📌 1Things are disastrous, but we’re hoping that learning together, celebrating public knowledge + the gloriously noncompliant, can be ✨✊❤️🩹🌱. We’re hosting our first zoom info session this Friday at noon ET; sign-up @ the bottom of the page:
17.06.2025 03:18 — 👍 54 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
Screenshot of the available information (from Stuart Semple), which reads: Well it's a bit weird - you’d expect it was that l'd spent 10 years of my life making a blue paint as good as his. But no - they admit my formula is different. Their problem is me using the word KLEIN on the packaging. They asked the judge to seize all the paint and destroy it. Luckily the judge said no. They also complained about me painting my hand blue as Yves did that too. They won that argument. Seems they now have ownership of artists painting their hands blue.
Screenshot of the Wall Street Journal video made on the paint development - which can be accessed via the link in post.
A strange case between The Yves Klein Estate and Stuart Semple. For two self-styled ‘provocateurs’ of paint, the infringement outlined seems fairly mundane and petty. For info: gofund.me/41ee201c
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What this student had come to say was that she had descended more deeply into her own mind, into her own conceptual powers, while in dialogue with an intelligence toward which she felt no social obligation. No need to accommodate, and no pressure to please. It was a discovery—for her, for me—with widening implications for all of us. “And it was so patient,” she said. “I was asking it about the history of attention, but five minutes in I realized: I don’t think anyone has ever paid such pure attention to me and my thinking and my questions . . . ever. It’s made me rethink all my interactions with people.”
Tons of thoughts about this essay, but parts like this, beyond eliciting thoughts of ELIZA, are striking because of the report that the most profound experience of attention this person has ever achieved is from a bot.
26.04.2025 14:22 — 👍 68 🔁 13 💬 11 📌 5Co-constructed realities through Google AI search and response.
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Watch the birdie...
A fascinating deep dive into Glasgow's early pioneering photographers. While some names, and work, are familiar to me, there plenty new rabbit holes to explore.
Top hat doffed to the author, the mysterious 'Cicerone'.
merchantcityglasgow.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/g...
screen shot of auction page: photo of 17th-century manuscript Item title 1623 100's of French words in brown ink (400+ Year Old) Untranslated Document!
Oddest eBay description of the day
Hundreds--count 'em!
Handwritten recipes for dyes used in William Morris’s fabric designs, from the Merton Abbey Dye Book (1882-91)
11.04.2025 06:06 — 👍 202 🔁 49 💬 2 📌 4amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down
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