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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 4h

16 hours left, please share ⚠️ Many folks say “it’s the least I can do” when it’s exactly what we’re asked to do—giving directly to Palestinians to survive, or sharing to reach those who can give.

NOW more than ever. The needs are still here. So we escalate. One link, SIX families. 23/640

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…

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 6h

It’s written well enough to follow (though requires more attention than many contemporary patterns, and there’s no chart), but there are some odd design choices: it’s made in 4 separate pieces then sewn together, and the sleeves turned out way too long.

km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 20h

oh no oh no

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 20h

For #BannedBooksWeek

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 20h

this grant application season, remember to use person-first language: instead of “academic”, say “person in academic crisis”

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a free pattern from Hobbii and I’m happy to share it - though it’s not a very good one, alas.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a free pattern from Hobbii! It’s not available anymore, but I’m happy to share the pdf - though it’s not a very good pattern and if I was making it again, I’d make some changes (happy to share my ideas for said changes as well).

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 1d

I can't express how bad this is from the research ethics perspective.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 1d

poly relationships with complex feelings, sign yourselves up

Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social · 1d

In a forest world of fungal magic & tree portals, disaster poet Tarem confronts the reality of working for the worldwide Empire. Her two partners have opposing views: one is afraid of upheaval, one critical of the Empire. Can her love bridge betrayal and changing allegiances? #F #A #LGBT #OWN #DVPit

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 1d

Forest Antifa novel tbh

Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social · 1d

Mythical social justice with fungal magic and tree portals: the Empire’s disaster poet Tarem gets radicalised while documenting catastrophes around the world. Blood Over Bright Haven x A Memory Called Empire. #F #A #LGBT #OWN #DVPit

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 1d

I read a draft of this beautiful book, and I hope others will get to read it, too. 💚🌳🍄‍🟫

Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social · 1d

An ancient bridge crumbles, eaten by monsters. The network of tree portals that connects the world-spanning Empire malfunctions. Disasters pile up, and the Empire’s disaster poet Tarem, sent to document them, begins to realise that empire is the greatest catastrophe of all. #F #A #LGBT #OWN #DVPit

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

None of these journalists will address the specifics of what happened in 2023 on here (citing the expertise of Sydette, Aveta, Link), and none of them will talk about the entire shaping of this platform around excluding Palestinian users. This is because of racism. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 2d

Remove half a million diesel cars, let people use medicine without guilt.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2d

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

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

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 3d

A fascinating if depressing piece on competing gangs stealing rare copies of Russian literature from European libraries in the last couple of years, with a possible, though far from proved, Kremlin connection.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

www.theguardian.com

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 3d

I was born in a place with fairly cold winters, then moved further north, but I’ve always been quite sensitive to cold. I just accepted that I’ll be swaddled in wool while others are still in their summer clothes.

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km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social · 3d

You’ll be fine! Don’t look at what others are wearing, wear all the layers that *you* need. Even if it means becoming a Michelin person while your neighbours still wear flip flops to their corner shop.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 3d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 3d

Again, they’re doing this to artificially inflate ChatGPT usage numbers to feint demand as they squeeze investment out of gullible shareholders before the bubble pops.

Engadget @engadget.bsky.social · 3d

Spotify, Canva and other apps can now connect to ChatGPT

OpenAI's new Apps SDK allows developers to make their software work inside of the chatbot.

dlvr.it

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3d

Ukrainian sanctions work 💪

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 17d

do we think it's good that entire economy is based on the same entities passing money back and forth on speculative investment without anyone making anything that someone outside the loop is buying

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, to invest up to $100 billion dollars into OpenAI

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 4d

UK readers! Sour Cherry is 99p on Kindle this spooky season 👻🍒
amzn.eu/d/buvcraN

Sour Cherry: A fiercely haunting gothic horror novel examining gender and power, reimagining the fairytale Bluebeard eBook : Theodoridou, Natalia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

amzn.eu

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 4d

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"My work takes up the theoretical challenge first posed fifty years ago that reliance on agriculture is responsible for a Neolithic increase in disease"

Brenna is one of the most modest AND most sharp scholars I know - this project will be fantastic!

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 4d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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