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Jo VanEvery

@jovanevery.bsky.social

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I help academics protect time for writing and resist overwork. Meaningfulness matters. You are more than your job. I also make things with textiles, read romances, sing alto in a choir. Subscribe to my newsletter: JoVanEvery.co.uk/newsletter

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 11d

If writing is what makes this job meaningful for you, it will make a difference to protect time for it, even when things are busy or uncertain. A Meeting With Your Writing can help. 4 sessions weekly. Will 1 of them work for you? academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 15m

We’re not drinking the fucking Merlot!

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 36m

My partner picked the remaining tomatoes this weekend and made chutney.

Glad yours are still ripening.

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 38m

I’m not paying close attention but my 98 year old mother is a fan so I think it would be nice if the Jays could win at least the American league. She’s kind of bored if living and that would be a nice note to go out on.

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 42m

🧵 I’m glad he tested it out. This is terrifying in terms of misinformation

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2h

I tried Sora today because know thine enemy etc etc. Anyway, the thing is great at faking people but here’s “abstract geometric pattern that resolves into a cute puppy” 🤣 Good job, massively expensive robot

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. What are they going to use that power for? thats what I’m most worried about.

Seems to me that with this strategy we get a reform government either way. Or near as dammit.

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks to The Guardian, I had a very good cinnamon bun this morning. (My partner was inspired by a recipe in the Feast supplement)

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 10h

I’d settle for it being made by pe who value education as something other than a crude sorting mechanism

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 10h

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 10h

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 10h

The boomers had been doing ’send to seven friends or …’ on paper with stamps for years. I think the ema version was for your generation 😉

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like this weekend is a great compromise between « spooky season starts at the equinox » and « Halloween isa one day holiday »

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 22h

Could be.

It struck me as one of those words I hadn't realised was of French origin until I heard it pronounced that way.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 22h

i pronounce it my-grain but I’m foreign. I think mee-graine is the standard English pronunciation in my experience.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 22h

You can ask

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 1d

i use 💕 for the same thing. and Have to trust people understand.

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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching Reading is also about bringing kids to understand there is a value in being able to read. It’s about realising that funny stories, crazy poems and journeys of imagination and fantasy are contained in books. If all they experience is the chore of chanting at letters, that value is not there

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed.

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 1d

😲

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 2d

I mean this just seems like precision.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 2d

Or both

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 2d

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 2d

So quite recent. Im glad it’s not. annd I agree with your original point.

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn’t possibly comment. I do have a lit of craft supplies. Some of which haven’t been used For a while.