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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 8h

Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 2d

An imperfect comparison is cell phones.

Studies showed they may be bad for concentration etc in classes. No one was like “So how can we include them more?”

And “AI” is much easier to ban from classrooms.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 2d

Friendly reminder that Harper Collins is owned by Rupert Murdoch, but I’m sure that’s unrelated.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 2d

Pasty.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 3d

This is the big tent I want to be in.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Turns out, not understanding how your own brain works can be depressing and anxiety inducing!

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 3d

This and also, sometimes a symptom of ND can be experienced by someone NT but it isn’t debilitating. That doesn’t invalidate it as a symptom!

It’s like how there is a difference between getting nervous and having anxiety, between being sad and having depression.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Similarly, if a neurotypical person recognizes a characteristic of themselves in a neurodivergent person doesn't mean that they are neurodivergent!

People contain multitudes and that's ok! we don't need to internet diagnose each other!

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Some of the World Cup matches next summer are going to be real rough.

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 3d

when I talk about weatherproofing for sports!! 🎾

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘You want a player to die?’ Heat is on tennis after players wilt in extreme conditions

Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 3d

At least with D20 there are different camera angles and such, so you don’t miss much if you decide to just listen but those watching get some visual variation.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

Actually @governor.ca.gov has until Friday to sign the bills.

Call his office and demand he sign them.

(916) 445-2841

The hold times were long— they offer a VM option if you can't stay on. Let him know the political price he'll pay if he fails to stand up for a community under attack.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 3d

If I catch even a whiff of funnel cake I am following that scent to its source like a bloodhound.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 4d

Clem might not be bright enough to know what solidarity is, but she’s happy to be here.

A fluffy beige and white kitten sitting on a windowsill, staring blankly at the camera. No thoughts, just fluff.

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for masking!

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 4d

Or here to support indie bookstores!

bookshop.org/p/books/heir...

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 4d

The way he treats trans people, unhoused people, people he has deemed “expendable” shows that he cannot be trusted with higher office. Nominating him would just show that Democrats as a whole cannot be trusted either.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 4d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 4d

I guess it's Prime Day(s) again, so here are some options if you'd rather not help Jeff Bezos grow even richer. 🧵

First, a couple of Starter Packs of Indie Bookstores to support. (If you are or know of an indie bookstore w/ a Bluesky account that's not listed, let me know.)
go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 4d

If they ever settle their blood feud with internet routers, it’s over.

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 4d

This is me with sheep.

I don’t eat meat but if any animal deserved to be eaten it is sheep if only for how mean they were to seven-year-old me for just having the audacity to walk near them.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 4d

This book was so fun; Ocean’s Eleven (but no cis men allowed) meets Starstruck Odyssey.

makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · Oct 8

it's anti-Prime day on Bookshop, which means FREE SHIPPING!!! interested in reading about a crew of scrappy lesbian thieves taking down a trillionaire tech mogul with superhuman aspirations? HAMMAJANG LUCK is available to preorder with free shipping!!!

l;nk below!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4d

which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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