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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 2h

This sounds so wonderful that I'm rather lost for words: Steven Heller interviews Elizabeth Resnick (@elizabethresnick.bsky.social) for Print Magazine. #BookHistory #skystorians www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

The Daily Heller: Designing Women – PRINT Magazine

Elizabeth Resnick on 'Women Graphic Designers: Balancing the Canon.'

www.printmag.com

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 8h

Just because we can do something doesn’t mean that we should.

That is all.

Sympathies to all of the teachers who will no doubt be coerced into giving this trust access* to their identities.

I’d like to see the risk assessment.

#TeacherEducation #EduSky #Ethics #AI

*Unlimited? Free?

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 10h

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 3h

#HistoryEducation

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 3h

Do you like seventeenth century stuff? Then my Instagram (@kerrylouiseapps), which has zero engagement, but so many pictures of Ham House in empty periods might be for you. 🫠

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 3h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”

New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 5h

The frogs have multiplied! Wondering when they will start playing 'we all stand together'

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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StephSleeps @drsleeps.bsky.social · 6h

I went to college in Portland and my spouse grew up there. It is incredibly special to me and their response to this madness does not surprise me at all. That’s Portland. Solidarity with the chicken and his frog friends forever!

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 6h

For this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont, Matt & I talked about continuities in cultures of hate in our region & the importance of treating these histories as part of an ongoing culture that must be rooted out & destroyed: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

www.cbc.ca

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 9h

Historical research often comes at an emotional cost.

To commemorate World Mental Health Day, here's a discussion from our archives on how ideas about wellbeing can shape the historian's craft in radical ways.

Emotions, Vulnerabilities and Care in Sensitive Research

Research is emotional. Five history researchers reflect on how new guidelines on wellbeing have shaped their practice in productive and radical ways

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 8h

Primary teachers are invited to join Rachel Bruce, who is hosting our event at her school, St Barabas, and will be running a workshop with Judy Clarke on local histories in the primary classroom. And Charlotte Sellers, will share some of the great work she and Pete Jackson have been doing together.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 8h

We will also be joined by some of our SHP Yorkshire Regional Advisors @petejackson.bsky.social and @fredoxby.bsky.social and any OCR B teachers can chat to Pete about the course.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 8h

Tickets now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata.... Secondary teachers come and see @petejackson.bsky.social share his great wisdom in helping students to improve their historical writing and listen to Caitlin Palmer's fascinating work on local links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 8h

I am absolutely delighted to be able to share the news about our next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum which will be taking place in York on November 24th. We have a superb line up of workshops for #primary and #secondary #historyteachers and all for a bargain basement price ...

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 6h

#HistoryEducation

Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 8h

I am absolutely delighted to be able to share the news about our next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum which will be taking place in York on November 24th. We have a superb line up of workshops for #primary and #secondary #historyteachers and all for a bargain basement price ...

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 10h

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 7h

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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