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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 49m

I don’t review there any more.

Same for being the editor and being pressured to accept a paper after multiple reviewers wanted major revisions. I don’t edit there any more (nor review, nor send my own articles for consideration).

Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 51m

Well it depends what the original verdict was: reject vs major revisions vs minor revision vs cosmetic changes…

I’ve been in the situation of being one of two that rejected a paper, with a third requiring major revisions - and then the editor accepted it with very few changes at all.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 7h

Oneday, Twosday… 🙄

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 8h

I did the same, because it’s what the school library had. By the time we got to ~Wyrd Sisters I was reading each new one as it came out in paperback.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 17h

iTunes *will* rip CDs for you but hides the files in the Audiobook directory of your Library - you then have to manually add the files to Apple Music to play them

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 17h

Apple Music works fine for playing your music files but (for me at least) doesn’t see the CD drive so you can’t play directly from that. It also can’t rip anything. iTunes does still exist but supposedly only handles audiobooks and podcasts.

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Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 21h

Is there a minimum size to qualify as an island?

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

It’s their party and they’ll die if they want to

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 1d

Also because of their deep incompetence at literally everything, to be fair, including naming themselves

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be really funny if Your Party lose the battle of the left-wing parties purely because they thought it was too risky to explicitly support trans people

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Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 1d

transwrites.world/ciara-watkin...

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation

by @gemma.transwrites.world

Ciara Watkin has been convicted and imprisoned for being transgender in a transphobic nation - Trans Writes

Ciara Watkin is now a 21 year old woman who, 3 years ago, met a man of the same age through instant messaging apps and engaged in sexual activity with him. She has now been convicted and will be house...

transwrites.world

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

youtu.be/1CbN6TUTRZs?...

Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

“ResearchFish isn’t a fish”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

media.tenor.com

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

I got it but was distracted by memories of AFPhantom (IIRC) singing, “A kick in the head can be quite detrimental: karate is a girl’s best friend”

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr Ecuador. Look at how happy he is. This is a chap who is just *thrilled* to be there. Also look at how tiny his feet look peeping out of those giant fluffy trousers.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

when we talk about political theatre sometimes being Good, Actually™️, this is what we mean. the trads are the reason Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament came back in fashion in the youth ministry world (where I learned about it). they take it REALLY seriously. this priest weaponized that so adroitly

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/MmVKMb1wmTU?...

#JustTheScore : Victoria - Alma Redemptoris Mater - I Fagiolini (Score Video)

YouTube video by I Fagiolini

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 2d

More here from the Sing the Score podcast - this Victoria Alma Redemptoris is on my coma list [1] together with the Brahms Requiem, Elgar Cello Concerto (Du Pre) and Kindertotenlieder (Janet Baker).

[1] As in, if I’m hit by a bus, play this to me and it’ll find me wherever “I” am at that point

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