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New Scientist @newscientist.com · Apr 22

"It’s a justice problem that we can only solve by addressing injustice."

In a special episode, @tinymaddie.bsky.social and @rowhoop.bsky.social are joined by climate attribution pioneer @frediotto.bsky.social and Africa's most famous climate scientist, Joyce Kimutai
www.youtube.com/watchv=7A7Jj...

Why the climate crisis is an issue of injustice and inequality

YouTube video by New Scientist

www.youtube.com

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 11h

It's very funny that Zack is just willling to say 'You're talking shit and you know you are' and nobody in politics or the media really knows how to cope with it.

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 20h

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 4d

Proven: strange patterns in the prime numbers that require chaos to understand. And a way to beat a 200 year old prime-hypothesis. My latest for Scientific American!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

#Science #ScienceNews #Research #stem #ScienceWriting #Math #Discovery #BigIdeas 👩🏾‍🔬🧪

Fractal Chaos Discovered in Prime Numbers

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

www.scientificamerican.com

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 2d

I don't think we talk enough about the very fundamental and insidious role by EdTech consultants in the whole fascist project. And, the fact that administrators defer to them and dismiss or even punish educators that contest or question the AI in education paradigm is telling.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday I received three(!) emails from Pearson trying to sell me AI ed tech that they marketed as explicitly "safe for students." They know this stuff is dangerous and are desperate to head off the criticisms.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products.
Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, do you like gay whalers? Gay bank robbers? Muscular lesbian artisans? With a side of magic and weirdness? All of this and more is in Call and Response, my collection of short stories out from Neon Hemlock next week! Available to pre-order from the publisher: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

www.neonhemlock.com

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 2d

(Still going to see if someone from SOAS will let me audit Amharic classes…)

Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 2d

Opencourseware and coursera have been great for African archaeology/ancient history, visual studies and linguistics - it’s definitely no problem finding the courses!

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that would be great is being able to take open modules via coursera etc. as part of one’s masters.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem auditing extra online modules to make up for what’s missing but making it more cost effective might actually make coursera etc courses more appealing.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2d

Shares appreciated! We’ve never been asked to resign to hopelessness. Last week, you helped single mom Mai escape from north Gaza—with 5s and 10s. This was nothing short of lifesaving. Let that fill you with boldness.

18 hours left 🚨 She needs food & blankets. Give/find her link here. 10/500

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 2d

Reference of course like what do you take me for???

www.jstor.org/stable/24616...

Masculinity, Appearance, and Sexuality: Dandies in Roman Antiquity on JSTOR

KELLY OLSON, Masculinity, Appearance, and Sexuality: Dandies in Roman Antiquity, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 23, No. 2 (MAY 2014), pp. 182-205

www.jstor.org

Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 2d

*actually don’t need this asterisk. You can all play along just fine lol

Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 2d

Look I love Ciarán Hinds as Caesar, 10/10 no notes, so glad the acting thing worked out for him, honoured to have witnessed such an amazing debut*

BUT now I’ve read this paper about Caesar as ancient Roman metrosexual dandy and I’m… I’m intrigued what a Chalamet-type could do in a ROME remake…

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most hilarious episodes in British history to learn about, particularly the decades and indeed centuries of “definitely nothing fishy was going on here, everything was legit and above-board” that followed.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky... • 21m
I think the historiography is changing but it used to be taken for granted that England had never been successfully invaded since 1066. London was occupied by Dutch troops for a year and half!

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely have never had an issue since I started approaching mine with reassuring noises and words of solidarity

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

Printers are like horses, they can sense fear and exploit it accordingly. The trick is to approach them with confidence and never show your belly.

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

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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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 3d

Ohhhh that’s why it looks so great tonight!

Was thinking this was truly a night for walking in woods, the moon is so high and (here, anyway) the sky pretty clear 🤍🩶🤍

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Don't forget to go outside and look at the supermoon tonight! I will be pointing my Seestar at it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 3d

Yes yes, pronunciation on both sides has drifted over time I’m sure.

And still.

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 3d

Learning Igbo and reading in Latin scripts (serious Nsibidi studies comes next year) is such a trip because every word has a moment where I’m like “sorry but how exactly did these repressed Victorian missionaries actually speak because *in what world* does this transliteration make sense??!??!?”

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Shaun @theblkgaze.com · 4d

Born from the exhibition Nationhood: Memory and Hope, Near the Cross is a limited edition zine of faith, memory and belonging.

100 copies only. UK shipping.

Pre-order now. shaunconnellphoto.bigcartel.com/product/near...

Near the Cross: Nationhood and Hope Zine

Pre-order is now open for the first 100 copies of Near the Cross. Near the Cross is a self-published photography zine created in dialogue with the...

shaunconnellphoto.bigcartel.com

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 4d

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back?

From my understanding:

Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned.

opencollective.com/blacksky

Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

opencollective.com

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 4d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 5d

Oof it’s funny how I agree with this and yet one ‘thinking point’ I regularly arrive at is that a program also has to/should be considered enough (ie with safeguards and feedback loops and accountability/disciplinary measures embedded) that it can be effectively ambivalent of inherent ‘worth’?

Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, very relatable!

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

My views about society are pretty independent of how annoying or silly I find people in academia or on the internet dot com. So I've pretty much retained my belief in Luxemburgist socialism despite finding online socialist culture cringe/infuriating, and academic socialists shallow and embarrassing.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 5d

Bravo.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

Good write-up this. Every bit of research shows that 'pre-buttal' (i.e. people don't see the misinformation or malinformation first) is much more effective than factchecking. Part of that is 'government should try and make it so that you can cover UK politics without being on X'.

PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 6d

Both the government and the company, Multiverse, have confirmed the claim is false

PoliticsHome understands that the government is looking to ramp up its communication around the digital ID scheme to combat misinformation

@zoecrowther.bsky.social reports

BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme

The BBC has apologised for airing a false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a government contract to produce the new mandatory d...

www.politicshome.com

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Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️‍🌈 @finokoye.bsky.social · 6d

Not even going to get into the political aspect eg investing whilst socialist (it’s fine, it’s fine - I’ll just research co-ops in need of members by myself).