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Hel in a hand basket

@helodare.bsky.social

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Still sad that I didn’t grow to 5’7” so that I had the opportunity to join the Rockettes. Book trade chica. Trying to understand this world and how to make things better for people. Maybe making Kate Bush and Dolly Parton world leaders would work

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 29m

It’s already happening. What blows my mind is how actually learning something has become so quickly devalued. The joy of learning means nothing to the qualification earned. The job earned from the qual will absolutely be taken by AI

Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 1h

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 22h

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 54m

I don’t even know what to do with this heartbreak and frustration that no government appears ready to deal with the dreadful changes coming

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1h

When on Hard Quiz, I chose to use an oblique reference to a Kate Bush song for what I’d do with the big brass mug. Regretting that choice now, would like a Time Machine to change it to my knitting needles, come the revolution

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 2h

Oh that is brilliant!

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 3h

Oh I wish I was in sydders!

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 3h

You see it again and again online, sometimes from people who have actual reputations to uphold, and it never gets any less fascinating.

The *total* inability to go ‘oh silly me, my bad’.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 5h

Things that delighted me today

Pamphlet about Brunswick in the Great Depression. Did the walk with the group today lead by Professor Joan Beaumont, absolutely fascinating

My neighbour’s artichoke - all purple and green

My cat Wacket, black cat backlit by afternoon sun

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 1d

If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily

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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 8h

In #Melbourne #Australia the police issued a statement to stop calls to the emergency number after people spotted “demon hunters” and other anime characters roaming the city’s streets (on the way to a convention).

ChattyCathyPRGuysGrandma @chattycathyau.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile in Victoria, where 3AW & others tell the people to be scared in the Melbourne CDB, you get the Police having to issue this statement 🤦‍♀️

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 17h

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

Incidents which were mistakenly described as antisemitic incidents by NSW Police

20-Mar-24 A Palestinian protestor was sitting outside Anthony Albanese MP's office when a man approached, made remarks about hostages, and verbally abused the demonstrators, calling them 'anti-Semites." He then damages a Palestinian banner taped to a pole, returned shortly after to repeat the act, and stomped on the banner's frame.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

It was two OUP books.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

Surely this is unlawful?

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

Effing hell Cheryl. You swapped Larry David for this?

Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 1d

And the placenta looked at me

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

My bestie was first diagnosed with ME, but 30 years later was properly diagnosed with acromegaly, the length of time for women especially to be correctly diagnosed is appalling

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1d

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gobsmacked

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

What do you do when your manager is very yay women, but takes your summary of a major project and copies your words to the two bosses without attribution, I’m leading this but now it sounds like I don’t

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1d

"Oof" - Oswald Mosley's speech in Liverpool

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 1d

Sentences that wouldn't have made sense a decade ago

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 1d

Portland reclaiming frogs for the forces of light in meme semiotics is a delight

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

It was bad in 2017, when I was waiting for exploratory surgery. I was moved up when I said I had anxiety post BC. Doubt that would fly now

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

Oh LOVE!!!!!!

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 1d

It’s better to give than receive and I think the mutual delight was magic (some things work in this topsy turvy world!) 😊

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

Fleabag season 3 writes itself

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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