Thomas Vye
@thomasvye.bsky.social
Medical Historian MA Medical Humanities
Medical History, horror, rpgs, water birds, squirrels, sumo (相撲), Japanese culture, games. Autistic.
Medical History, horror, rpgs, water birds, squirrels, sumo (相撲), Japanese culture, games. Autistic.
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『かわ血ぃめたもるふぉ～ぜ』発売。みにつけられる、かわ血ぃアイテムたち。
"Kawachi Metalforme" is now on sale. A collection of cute, wearable items.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『かわ血ぃめたもるふぉ～ぜ』発売。みにつけられる、かわ血ぃアイテムたち。
"Kawachi Metalforme" is now on sale. A collection of cute, wearable items.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/43911
『かわ血ぃめたもるふぉ～ぜ』発売。みにつけられる、かわ血ぃアイテムたち。
"Kawachi Metalforme" is now on sale. A collection of cute, wearable items.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『かわ血ぃめたもるふぉ～ぜ』発売。みにつけられる、かわ血ぃアイテムたち。
"Kawachi Metalforme" is now on sale. A collection of cute, wearable items.
#ガチャポン #gachapon
I personally don’t understand why people enjoy getting the decapitated remains of plants anyway. >.>
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I personally don’t understand why people enjoy getting the decapitated remains of plants anyway. >.>
Yeah, the wide scale theft of artists’ work to train them and the incredible waste of water to cool servers to generate rubbish when humans can already do better might be a bit upsetting too. *sarcasm*
no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
The predominent anti-AI position on bsky is that AI is useless, fake, shit and basically the same as NFTs, destined to collapse in months once everyone sees how poor it is. So anyone who suggests that it could improve or be useful to any boss in any situation in the future must be evil.
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Yeah, the wide scale theft of artists’ work to train them and the incredible waste of water to cool servers to generate rubbish when humans can already do better might be a bit upsetting too. *sarcasm*
My glasses are already smart Facebook. They see you coming. (How sad are ‘smart glasses’ anyway).
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
My glasses are already smart Facebook. They see you coming. (How sad are ‘smart glasses’ anyway).
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We have been working on something fun with
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social Our Hospital Through Time explores 900 years of history, showing how Barts evolved from medieval origins into a modern centre of medical excellence 📜🥼
Ep 1 airs 8pm on 18 February on Channel 5! Tune in to see our collections!
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social Our Hospital Through Time explores 900 years of history, showing how Barts evolved from medieval origins into a modern centre of medical excellence 📜🥼
Ep 1 airs 8pm on 18 February on Channel 5! Tune in to see our collections!
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
We have been working on something fun with
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social Our Hospital Through Time explores 900 years of history, showing how Barts evolved from medieval origins into a modern centre of medical excellence 📜🥼
Ep 1 airs 8pm on 18 February on Channel 5! Tune in to see our collections!
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social Our Hospital Through Time explores 900 years of history, showing how Barts evolved from medieval origins into a modern centre of medical excellence 📜🥼
Ep 1 airs 8pm on 18 February on Channel 5! Tune in to see our collections!
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Matt is finding it really hard to get any work.
AI has had a devastating impact on his writing jobs. He’s had five clients let him down this year.
If you need the services of a great writer, have a look at his website
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
AI has had a devastating impact on his writing jobs. He’s had five clients let him down this year.
If you need the services of a great writer, have a look at his website
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Matt is finding it really hard to get any work.
AI has had a devastating impact on his writing jobs. He’s had five clients let him down this year.
If you need the services of a great writer, have a look at his website
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
AI has had a devastating impact on his writing jobs. He’s had five clients let him down this year.
If you need the services of a great writer, have a look at his website
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
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This is true of all franchises where fandom drives most of the negative discourse and fans are taken on another adventure.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
This is true of all franchises where fandom drives most of the negative discourse and fans are taken on another adventure.
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@theduncanmackay.bsky.social BBC News - Ancient Roman altars found in Scotland to go on display
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh
Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social BBC News - Ancient Roman altars found in Scotland to go on display
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Accurate. :)
Just ran across a tumblr thread of Slutty Boy 15/16th century mercenaries. Historically accurate costuming! The past was alive, y'all, and it was fabulous.
February 11, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Accurate. :)
lol, ‘mild forms’…..
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Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
![The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreibeoudvh2b4ifuiqq7pmnzwg6y6n3caschubukvo6kzqcfn2kdf5i@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 9:03 AM
lol, ‘mild forms’…..
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:o Incredible find!
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 9:01 AM
:o Incredible find!
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Eagerly waiting for a peanut. The quicker the better really becasuse it's raining
#cawmunity #crow #corvid 🪶
#cawmunity #crow #corvid 🪶
February 10, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Eagerly waiting for a peanut. The quicker the better really becasuse it's raining
#cawmunity #crow #corvid 🪶
#cawmunity #crow #corvid 🪶
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ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
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💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥
📰 Exquisitely-Frescoed Vesuvius Villa Reveals Frozen-in-Time Construction Site 🏛 🖼 🚧
📰 Tudor London School Treasure Trove 🚸✍️
📰 Did the First German Neolithic Farmers Fight Local Hunter-Gatherers? ⚔️🛡🚜
open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
📰 Exquisitely-Frescoed Vesuvius Villa Reveals Frozen-in-Time Construction Site 🏛 🖼 🚧
📰 Tudor London School Treasure Trove 🚸✍️
📰 Did the First German Neolithic Farmers Fight Local Hunter-Gatherers? ⚔️🛡🚜
open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 PM
💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥
📰 Exquisitely-Frescoed Vesuvius Villa Reveals Frozen-in-Time Construction Site 🏛 🖼 🚧
📰 Tudor London School Treasure Trove 🚸✍️
📰 Did the First German Neolithic Farmers Fight Local Hunter-Gatherers? ⚔️🛡🚜
open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
📰 Exquisitely-Frescoed Vesuvius Villa Reveals Frozen-in-Time Construction Site 🏛 🖼 🚧
📰 Tudor London School Treasure Trove 🚸✍️
📰 Did the First German Neolithic Farmers Fight Local Hunter-Gatherers? ⚔️🛡🚜
open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
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Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
[writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfs7afx6ue4mknbhhpnrzkyz/bafkreiel77b25truczj372qokmg5p3apa2dphux3jtplpz3dv35jul6wdu@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
Very good! New programme! :3
Hello everyone! If you’re watching Channel 4. If not, why not? ALL NEW ROMAN EMPIRE BY TRAIN ON RIGHT NOW!!!
February 7, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Very good! New programme! :3
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News from the edge of the visible universe:
JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.
(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.
(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
February 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
News from the edge of the visible universe:
JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.
(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.
(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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We're so excited about these workshops. Stay tuned for more news soon about dates.
We are delighted to be partnering with @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social at The Royal College of Surgeons of England in our research on hands, craft and haptic skill in the nineteenth century!
Stay tuned for news about our collaboration and how to get involved!
Stay tuned for news about our collaboration and how to get involved!
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 PM
We're so excited about these workshops. Stay tuned for more news soon about dates.
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New this week! 📚
Very, very quiet here, not many book buyers around at the moment, but if we can tempt you?
We’re a family-owned indie bookshop, not a US billionaire-owned giant (like W’s and A) and we need your support to keep going.
Browse our new arrivals here: foxlanebooks.co.uk/new-in
Very, very quiet here, not many book buyers around at the moment, but if we can tempt you?
We’re a family-owned indie bookshop, not a US billionaire-owned giant (like W’s and A) and we need your support to keep going.
Browse our new arrivals here: foxlanebooks.co.uk/new-in
February 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
New this week! 📚
Very, very quiet here, not many book buyers around at the moment, but if we can tempt you?
We’re a family-owned indie bookshop, not a US billionaire-owned giant (like W’s and A) and we need your support to keep going.
Browse our new arrivals here: foxlanebooks.co.uk/new-in
Very, very quiet here, not many book buyers around at the moment, but if we can tempt you?
We’re a family-owned indie bookshop, not a US billionaire-owned giant (like W’s and A) and we need your support to keep going.
Browse our new arrivals here: foxlanebooks.co.uk/new-in
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From this week’s Beano.
August 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
From this week’s Beano.
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Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!
Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
Getting started on ancient Greek
This free course, Getting started on ancient Greek, offers a taster of the ancient Greek world through the study of one of its most distinctive and enduring features: its language.The course ...
www.open.edu
February 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!
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This monologue and his delivery are almost overpowering.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This monologue and his delivery are almost overpowering.
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Want to learn more about the surgeons behind the portraits, including our brilliant Women in Surgery Forum Chair, Felicity Meyer?
Join us for a special viewing of Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery, celebrating International Women's Day, on 10 March, at 6pm. Book now: ow.ly/RQ4l50Y5kat
Join us for a special viewing of Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery, celebrating International Women's Day, on 10 March, at 6pm. Book now: ow.ly/RQ4l50Y5kat
📢New Exhibition📢 - Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery
Friday 6 February - Saturday 18 April 2026,
Wednesdays to Saturdays, 10am-5pm
hunterianmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Friday 6 February - Saturday 18 April 2026,
Wednesdays to Saturdays, 10am-5pm
hunterianmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery
An exhibition shining a spotlight on women in surgery working across the UK today, offering an intimate and contemporary look at surgical life.
hunterianmuseum.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Want to learn more about the surgeons behind the portraits, including our brilliant Women in Surgery Forum Chair, Felicity Meyer?
Join us for a special viewing of Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery, celebrating International Women's Day, on 10 March, at 6pm. Book now: ow.ly/RQ4l50Y5kat
Join us for a special viewing of Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery, celebrating International Women's Day, on 10 March, at 6pm. Book now: ow.ly/RQ4l50Y5kat