@suvartula.bsky.social
He/him. Retired UK civil servant.
Eventually I found it a comfort that reality had become worse.
27.11.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One hopes they have not been using the Sorting Hat.
08.11.2025 09:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August
Listen to Hamish Henderson’s “The John Maclean March”, sung by Dick Gaughan (1972)
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Ed tech is bottom of the barrel for enshittification (in part because of how university procurement works). Canvas was all in on “predictive analytics” a while back, to offer graders predictions on student outcomes based on…racism. Then its Zoom interface became a surveillance tool. Color me shocked
20.07.2025 08:56 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0This has been a big worry, effectively removing many journalists from our environment. You'd have to really want to do this to have any chance of making a go of it, and even then finding the right platform is clearly often a hard process to navigate.
10.07.2025 20:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So looking forward to it!
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What an appalling sequence of assaults on your psyche.
14.05.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As if I couldn't love Edwyn more. And yes, the Sparks story is brilliant. Support The Quietus!
16.03.2025 07:37 — 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0What a difficult loss. May you both find all the comforts.
01.03.2025 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your cohabitants on the list seem quite entertaining company!
28.01.2025 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Certainly by the late '70s this was the nomenclature in use, Ben.
27.01.2025 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post from Hans Henrik Bruun (hhbrun.bsky.social) reading “To claim that a person has deeper insights into how ecosystems work due to their skin colour or ethnic origin is fundamentally racist”
Post from Hans Henrik Bruun (hhbrun.bsky.social) “I see new ecology papers about "indigenous knowledge" coming out al the time. And I wonder why so many academics seem to prefer wokeness over science.”
These are extremely problematic (and fundamentally misleading) dog whistle hot takes from someone who has a professorship in ecology at a major European university. If he’s your colleague, maybe have a word? & if you’re choosing reviewers for grants or papers… is he a fair judge?
12.01.2025 08:51 — 👍 66 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2Unaware of that earlier usage, I had thought the word's arrival in these new structures was indicative of something like Doge meme language.
30.12.2024 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The thing is, there is generally a known, stable, finite number of monkeys.
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3 books in a boxed set; volume 1 features a beautiful Black woman with a shaved head, against a blue background featuring a spaceship and a planet.
#Hopepunk #sapphic #spaceopera What happens after rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire...but cannot win? A trilogy of novellas about choosing hope, recovery, building community, and working towards a new life on the utopian planet Refuge. #cozy #specfic #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐
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(From experience as well) Yes, I think we very much need to be getting that right, and making the policy choices to enable it - rather than trying primarily to obviate it.
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