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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1h

His final warning sounds like Latin.

A coat of arms with the motto "Haribo in moderation"

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 4h

This. Stop looking for sense or reason in fascists either side of the Atlantic. These are tiny people with tiny ambitions that extend no further than feeding the endless, famished void for validation they have in place of a soul.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 11h

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 12h

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 4h

Why do so many of these orgs manage to have *conferences* FFS

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 6h

Good morning from Brighton, where we will be reporting on the counterprotest against the FiLiA conference 2025.

The backside of the Brighton Centre, which is hosting FiLiA 2025

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Beans, Frightening Bleeble 🫀🎃 @flawlessangel.bsky.social · 5h

idk why the youtube algo fed me this but i can't describe how scary & weird it is being a woman knowing these freaks are doing presentations on how to understand & conquer us like. we are just people. have you tried being fucking normal. i will never get used to society being like this

a man stood in front of a whiteboard that is just covered in loads of text because he's solved the 'woman' conspiracy he looks like a meme

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, if calories are a concern I don't think the bagel is the issue there, yikes!

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 20h

my business idea is a late night sexy bakery, pastries made and served until late by very sexy bakers, the bakery is shut down within a week, controversies section on wikipedia

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 20h

I really gave this the business, and so can you!

A lot of the questions are VERY "hey, person who *loves* AI, how can we, a government who *loves* AI, make sure companies who *also love* AI come to Canada to do trickledown economics?"

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 23h

I've used Obsidian so much that now when I go to use something else like Google Docs, I automatically start writing everything in Markdown 🤦

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 1d

It's a full house in Atelier 4.500 where dozens of people have gathered for a panel on measurement, labor, statistics & AI.

Our first presenter is @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social, whose talk focuses on Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory, which she recreated in a #DisHist class.

#SHOT2025

Photograph of Galton's anthropometric lab at the International Health Exhibition. More info: https://galton.org/anthropologist.htm

Description of the Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory (More info: https://galton.org/anthropologist.htm)

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 1d

No GDP growth when there are frequent floods, wildfires and hurricanes, either, I bet!

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 1d

Well I know what's good for me, he's blocked

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 1d

Who is that dude and why do I know people who are following him - (the eternal questions on this site)

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before: anyone who runs down the job that teachers do, even for such nakedly political reasons rather than from any real place of conviction, (a) should try surviving even a fucking WEEK of it themselves and (b) should then go to the bottom of a well.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 2d

this kind of smug bullshit really is the main problem with the site, it's basically impossible to mention another platform without having some weird local life form appear in your mentions going on about how morally superior they are for being there

Count Otter Poppula 🧛🏼 Sr., III @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 2d

Okay I was wrong there are Two problems with Mastodon

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The problem with Mastodon is that it makes you feel stupid for not knowing how it works.
That was the real hurdle Facebook and everything that came after cleared, you could just join, it didn't take any debugging or jargon. It just, worked. For a while.
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Yeah you gotta at least try. Put a tiny amount of effort into your experience.
I you cant be bothered to think for yourself just a tiny bit then I guess just stay on this fascist friendly site with the CEO who hates you.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just learned that John Searle, whose Chinese Room thought experiment is often used to challenge ideas of “understanding” in LLMs, died at age 93 on Sunday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

John Searle obituary

American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

www.theguardian.com

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 2d

I have some genuinely close friendships that came out of random social media interactions. I also think my research managed to reach so many more people than it would have otherwise, and some of those people have become close collaborators and friends. That hasn't happened as much since 2017 or so.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Melonie @quioui.bsky.social · 2d

I'll contribute a "timeline cleanse" - my cats (RIP boys) when they were babies, under the influence of catnip, having a bit of a tussle www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Xn...

Hawaii Five-0 Cat Scrap

YouTube video by Melonie Fullick

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

This is Toronto and it doesn’t matter because when “we” do misinformation it’s funny .

And because the person who did this is a white man

They will not be harangued for days