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I have no fixed plans... beans not a firm favourite though

Will we ever read books again? – podcast Author and academic Katherine Rundell explores the precipitous decline in reading books for pleasure, and what can be done to reverse it

a librarian and a library in every school should not be just a good idea www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2... get your brick now getbrick.app

Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness? The long read: Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences

apparently uses the words #phenomenology and #phenomenologist without making much effort to talk to one...? Enjoyed poke at Hurlburt's trenchant empiricism tho www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

picking beans in a field of mainly strong weeds for 50p a 5kilo box was unforgettable

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Reform’s by-election candidate Matt Goodwin received a salary of up to €10,000 a month from a far-right pressure group based in Hungary 👀
https://goodlaw.social/pif5

@evernote.bsky.social - please ditch the automatic AI lookup 'writing a quick answer...' delay garbage and just give me a faster accurate result on the search for the note I made with the help of Large Language Models. Also, release a non-AI version of Evernote at a discount to the new price

a row of social media badges from a website that sells utilities, such as internet. We have facebook and instagram, linkedin and youtube. Still a little shop of horrors but xcluding xecrable x is laudable.

happy that my ISP isnt showing Xecrable in its socials badges @utilitywarehouse.bsky.social

next time you see a guy cycle through red it could be an asylum seeker distracted by the confronting reality of our racist hostile environment and water torture asylum processes

This is great news Jo - next water please. And, while I'm on, writing from a 'City of Sanctuary', reverse the wannabie hostile environment.

agree Erin - I so hope Bluesky stays rigidly off the AI train. I come here for the wondrous humans (like you, and you if you're reading this).

reeling from reading the latest update from UCU Cardiff - darkening days - gutted for the great people enduring it

large tree with snow running up along one side - the rest of the scene is snow and a dusky but light sky so the non-snowy bits of the tree are dark and stand out fairly dramatically - location is the hill above Dingwall in Scotland 1st January 2026

Thankyou for the humour - trees deserve better than humanity generally throws at them 😵‍💫

A photo of Jimmy Lai looking towards camera and writing that says "Hong Kong court sentences Jimmy Lai to 20 years"

🚨BREAKING: British citizen & Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 yrs in prison.

Lai was charged with “collusion with a foreign country or external elements” under the Beijing's National Security Law. In reality, his case is an attack on press freedom & freedom of expression.

Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a a suited man saying "The student nurse! Workhorse of the N.H.S. strong, reliable -- cheap to run..."

Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. A hand holding a pointing stick reaches into this panel and directs the attention at a poster. The hand belongs to the suited man from the previous panel. He says "She is the solution to our over-manning + under-funding problems". The poster depicts a nurse with disposable had, disposable uniform, disposable arm, disposable legs, disposable shoes all labelled. A thermometer labelled compassion scale indicates over 90% compassion.

Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a nurse above flames with steam or smoke emanating from her person as her eyes form spirals. The suited man's voice reaches into this frame and says "After 3 years training - working very hard for almost no money - she spontaneously combusts..."

Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a the man rubbing his hands in glee. He says "Thus requiring no further employment."

Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).

🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing

Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to seven more years in prison Women’s and human rights activist, arrested at a demonstration in December, is said to be on hunger strike

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... brave lady #iran

Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV

horrible crisis in higher education depicted by reps from Scottish Uni's www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

Mamdani and Sanders Join Picket Line as NYC Nurses’ Strike Enters 10th Day One contract priority is keeping ICE out of medical facilities, says nurse and lead strike organizer Michelle Gonzalez.

Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay, a staffing increase to manage patients, improved benefits and workplace protections against violence. Senator Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined the picket line at Mount Sinai West on Tuesday.

faith must extend beyond every horizon to be worthy of the name

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panenka... #panenka Wikipedia page good value for light reading as agent krasnow continues to shred nato

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube Google wants Gemini to give you more personalized responses.

Tech execs continue to struggle giving examples that make sense for why you should let their bot connect to every aspect of your online life.

So Loved - John 3v16 Dewi Higham 25 Dec 25 10.30 AM Please SUBSCRIBE to the Tabernacle Cardiff YouTube channel and enable notifications, to receive alerts of NEW Tabernacle Cardiff services and other Tabernacle Cardiff related videos published regularl...

#HappyChristmas from #Roath www.youtube.com/live/38dT5XV...

reviews - need patience to take comments seriously when they apparently arise from epistemological clash

a British postal box has been decorated with knitted Christmas mice, some of which are pulling a cracker!

#HappyChristmas from #sherunscardiff (inviting you abandon other, less civilised, platforms ;) #roath #nadoligllawen

Pedagogical Relations in the Postdigital Classroom - Postdigital Science and Education Postdigital Science and Education -

This: "educational language and thought have become so functionalist and instrumentalized that they can no longer distinguish between actors in a use case and flesh and blood individuals in a classroom."
Thank you @normfriesen.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s424...
@pdse.bsky.social #phenomenology

apologies again!

I would love to know what AI prompts the designer used for that one

the pixel 10 one with vanilla ice-cream cones is just as bad. Lots of people seem to be getting lots done with their ice-cream cones. The plus for pixel 10 lady buying cut flowers is apparently the reassurance that the flowers will last a while. Is this what we're burning the planet for?