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Elizabeth Eva Leach is a British musicologist and music theorist who specializes in medieval music, especially that of the fourteenth century. Much of her scholarship concerns the life and work of Guillaume de Machaut. .. more

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · Aug 29

Let's zoom out a bit shall we?

I think that bird has already flown.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · Aug 29

Locals fear that developing the grey building next to the railway below into a block of 46 flats will harm the “village feel” of Highams Park.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · Aug 29

No, Acrobat, I don’t want you to summarise this gas boiler instruction manual. It might be safer if I just bit the bullet and read it the old-fashioned way.

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Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History @brianwernham.bsky.social · Aug 29

Having vaccinations protects others who for medical reasons cannot take the vaccines

If you refuse a vaccine without a good reason, you are being selfish.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 28

Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”

Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?

Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to.

I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · Aug 27

For the next few days, there’s a Viking longship in London, and it will be open to the public to go on board for a look around.

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A Viking longship arrived in London last night

For the next few days, there’s a Viking longship in London, and it will be open to the public to go on board for a look around.

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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ummmm..... the shooter didn't enter a school. They shot through the windows of a church.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Aug 28

After Wednesday’s mass shooting, Fox News host Sean Hannity proposed a “simple” solution that, in reality, would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy earlier that day.

"Every school in the country should have a metal detector."
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Sean Hannity Offers Dumbest Solution After Minneapolis School Shooting

The Fox News host appears to have no idea what happened in Minneapolis. That’s not stopping him from talking to millions of viewers about it.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · Aug 28

The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh…

Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population)

Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK

Immigration isn’t draining us

Inequality is.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · Aug 28

Trying very very hard to resist....

Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · Aug 22

If you have a Switch and like relaxing games, I recommend Tiny Bookshop. You run a mobile bookstore in a seaside town and can decorate it, manage the inventory and hand-sell books to customers. All the good things about bookselling, no vacuuming or trash. 🥰

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New Video Game, ‘Tiny Bookshop,’ Has Booksellers Talking (and Playing)

The new “cozy narrative management” video game from independent studio Skystone Games lets gamers become booksellers and score points for performing tasks. Real-life booksellers give it positive revie...

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · Aug 28

Massive walkout underway at CDC.

RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · Aug 28

Throwback Thursday:
Teaching Danny Dyer to play the lute.
(Filming Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family at Ingatestone c2018/9
#earlymusic #throwbackthursday

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Thomas Maluck @maluckamuck.financialflock.com · Aug 28

Hundreds of thousands of households worth over $20 million. What does a consumer market even look like under that influence. Economists like to use the term K-shaped recovery, but that's within a K-shaped economy.

"Michael Eisner, Disney’s chief executive at the time, created a bevy of products for the affluent — including fancier hotels, a cruise line and white-tablecloth restaurants. But he rejected the idea of allowing customers to pay to skip lines at the parks, according to a Disney historian, Aaron Goldberg. When a rival, Universal Studios, introduced paid line-skipping in the early 2000s, Disney — perhaps fearing backlash from its large fan base — stood firm.

In the mid-2000s, however, the growing ranks of the affluent presented a profit source that could not be ignored. According to Datos Insights, in 1992 there were 88,000 households worth $20 million or more in 2022 dollars; by 2022, there were 644,000. Those who could pay almost anything for a vacation were becoming their own mass market."

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · Aug 28

OK, fine, I‘m not American & I don‘t live in the US, but I‘m sure I‘ve repeatedly heard, over decades, that private gun ownership is vital a) to prevent violent crime, b) to protect citizens from tyrannical government. Any minute now we‘ll see some evidence that it does either, I‘m certain.

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · Aug 28

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon

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