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Plz unpack msg 4 non-🇺🇸 ppl

I hope all can heal. Though it looks like hamas is already rounding up and killing ppl who disagree with them within the Palestinian districts.

Can you mandate that students use the Microsoft word that exists as part of their student pkg, use one doc, and update it over time, where the record of the doc being updated speaks to whether or not they spent formative time on the essay question?

Such a lovely soul. Was slightly taken aback to discover that at 37 he was courting a 19 yr old, but we can’t have everything when it comes to male paragons I guess.

Huxley’s Brave New World predicted this:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Who will win the 2025 Booker prize? Our guide to the shortlist This year’s final six are novels for grown-ups — it’s a triumph for unpretentious, old-fashioned literary fiction

Nice.

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Our database of Queen Victoria's Journals is now back online and available to internet users in the UK: www.proquest.com/qvj/?account....

Say what you like about the cast of the Borrowers. You’ve got to give them massive props.

“Or maybe you even did an act of terror, like protesting the president while he ate dinner, hurling words at his head, harming him”… its ironic that you think this piece is ironic, or even satire considering who was publicly executed last week. For WORDS. Not by “a MAGA supporter”.

How do they they define “conservative” or do they just presume you know who they talking about… 🪞

What was meant by the word “weaponized” here? please?

Ends with shutting debate down with murder.

"Not taking dance lessons is a common mistake among men. They fail to realize that dancing is one of the few things a man can learn when he’s young that will come in handy later. Men who know how to dance—even a few basic steps—will never end up sad and alone, with nobody to play with, because women will always be looking for that rare man who can dance. They’ll take him to night clubs and parties and on cruises, and they’ll go all mushy after a simple waltz." from "Gotta Dance," Collected in I Used to Be Charming

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

Perhaps you, like me, need your attention drawn more to what is good. Here are words from You Have a Calling that I re-read for myself today. @brazospress.bsky.social

Yeah.

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
William Wilberforce

Tweet outlining Bluesky-based accounts celebrating the murder of an American man and calling for similar styled murders for prominent figures who practice democratic free speech.

Here you go: source @babybeginner on Twitter (and I think she’s on Bluesky too):

The difference: one is famous worldwide for good-faith debating, and was silenced via public execution whilst on a campus practicing free speech. The other two are hitherto-unknown-worldwide democrats of whose deaths it cannot be said was the action of a right-minded individual.

Opinion | If We Keep This Up, Charlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die

If We Keep This Up, Charlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die (Gift link.The publication date isn’t lost on me)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

I dunno, I guess we have different understandings of the word. I wonder how I can write that in binary.

I’ve seen it in many media platforms, as well as here, but couched in craven rhetoric, a bit like the following example for demonstrative purposes only: ‘lots of accounts celebrating the murder of one whose beliefs they disagree with have watermelons in their bios. 🍉 Funny that!’

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies Creators have unknowingly fueled tools that may eventually make their work obsolete.

Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:

Fetishes are not harmless.

I know you’re both joking but… 🫤

I did this once.

Pre-poem: Why isn't there an Engineers' Corner in Westminster Abbey? In Britain we've always made more fuss of a ballad than a blueprint... How many schoolchildren dream of becoming great engineers? -- advertisement placed in The Times by the Engineering Council Poem: We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints -- That's why so many poets end up rich, While engineers scrape by in cheerless garrets. Who needs a bridge or dam? Who needs a ditch? Whereas the person who can write a sonnet Has got it made. It's always been the way, For everybody knows that we need poems And everybody reads them every day. Yes, life is hard if you choose engineering -- You're sure to need another job as well; You'll have to plan your projects in the evenings Instead of going out. It must be hell. While well-heeled poets ride around in Daimlers, You'll burn the midnight oil to earn a crust, With no hope of a statue in the Abbey, With no hope, even, of a modest bust. No wonder small boys dream of writing couplets And spurn the bike, the lorry and the train. There's far too much encouragement of poets -- That's why this country's going down the drain.

#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#WendyCope

Engineers' Corner by Wendy Cope

This sounds like a great morning ritual 💙

Knowing how much more beautiful sunsets are in person vs the camera phone, when I’ve tried to capture them, may I just say, this looks like it was absolutely majestic ❤️

Wait, was Pym last year’s focus?

Arches national park, a full moon shines through the opening of red rock like the iris of an eye.

Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.