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Singapore. Today I learnt. Long covid. Occasional BDSM. She/her. Profile pics are my own calligraphy. https://abjectsub.com
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perryodontal.bsky.social
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
'You're adopted'

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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
Single panel comic in sepia tones of a Tyrannosaurus addressing a Nanotyrannus with the words 'you're adopted,' to which the Nanotyrannus replies, 'WOW.'
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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allegrak.bsky.social
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.

www.thecut.com/article/teen...
Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”
www.thecut.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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echo262.bsky.social
Happy 8th birthday to Prussia the Dog.
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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evilrooster.bsky.social
Sounds like what people who want to enable harassment say about dating.

Same issue, too: consent.
October 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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nicolechung.bsky.social
One year there was an issue with the Chromebook licenses at our kid’s school, so the teachers had to start the school year NOT having the kids work on laptops, and—shocking, I know—the students learned a ton, said they preferred “hands on”/analog teaching, and asked for more laptop-free lessons.
lutzfernandez.bsky.social Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Sep 29
Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
I don't think the average person is going to learn much by accessing a paywalled scientific paper.

But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.
scientificdiscovery.dev Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Sep 28
In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
September 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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twotrickpony.bsky.social
IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English!

Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!
Go in: Settings > Languages> Content Languages and make it *unset* !
September 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
The bees have discovered Brutalism
killhamster.bsky.social Satanic Manic @killhamster.bsky.social · Sep 28
Nature is healing
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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jcpxdesigns.bsky.social
I'm not gonna share the AI "Walmart was cool in 2002" video, so instead as a person who worked at several Walmarts between 1998-2011 I'm gonna share stories of what it was actually like back then.

A man with a 32 oz Budweiser in his pocket tried to tickle me several times & we had to call the cops.
jacobdavison.bsky.social Jacob Davison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · Sep 29
People falling for that AI nostalgia slop of propagandized versions of the past like the eighties, nineties, and 2000's is bleak as hell.
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
You're watching 12 hrs of live cell imaging compressed into a GIF.

A multi-nucleated mouse pre-adipocyte tries to undergo mitosis, triggers a checkpoint because it has too much DNA, & undergoes apoptosis.

The last stage is called "blebbing", which is wonderfully descriptive.

(🔬: NanoLive Imaging)
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
post-doc-club.bsky.social Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · Sep 29
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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nathanfowkes.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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privatechand.bsky.social
This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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poorfrankraw.co.uk
Read this. If you wanted to distill the first couple of years of a stonemason's apprenticeship into a short thread, and add in a few decades of experience, here it is:
jamestaite.bsky.social James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · Nov 2
The art of persuasion with a 3-pound hammer, or stonecutting…

a 🧵 for anyone interested in the tedious magic of working stone:
a collection of stonecutting hammers, mallets, and dummies
September 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
yingtai.bsky.social
I just got back on Tumblr and I can't believe how much fun it is. Brought to you by this post about a new fish hybrid accidentally created by scientists. www.tumblr.com/yingtai-is-r...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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guinnessisacat.bsky.social
WATCHING THE TUMBLEWEEDS OF ETERNITY ROLL PAST
Guinness the black cat sits in his wooden kitchen chair with an absolutely blank expression. Not a single thought is happening in that fuzzy head, The barest tip of his tongue pokes out in a tiny blep.
September 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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michellewitte.bsky.social
Useful info for authors to figure out if they’re part of the class action. Plus she answers questions for authors outside the U.S. on how to see if you qualify, and how to submit your info if you don’t have a U.S. address.
courtneymilan.com Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27
Since people are finding this thread but not finding my thread where I explain how to figure out if you are a part of the class if you're outside the US, I'm putting this longer explanation here.
courtneymilan.com Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 27
Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file.

Here is the class certification:
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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garthnix.bsky.social
With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
www.lieffcabraser.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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fiascothecat.bsky.social
Catsitter am gone for the day... Fiasco am once again solitary ruler of hims domain... king of castle.

Only problem is, all hims subjects consist of fluffy clown with boundary isues
me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby looking very very majestic, sitting on the top level of a beige carpeted cat tree with paws hanging over the edge, looking into the distance
September 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Heard the vet nurse ask for "Oedipuss" once and my eyebrows went up so fast.
September 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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economeager.bsky.social
I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I wrote something about respectability in dress over on Twitter. The topic is nuanced for me, so unfortunately the post had to be long. Since Bluesky (reasonably) has character limits, I can't easily import the text here. So I'm including screenshots, if you would like to read it.
ON RESPECTABILITY IN DRESS Every once in a while, people here will get mad at me. And it often involves the same issue: respectability in dress. Or its related cousin: dress codes. Judging someone's deeper, more important qualities based on attire often feels so natural; people get upset when I refuse to engage in the same judgment. To them, it feels as though I'm denying something so obvious, I'm dishonest. I've written about dress respectability no fewer than half a dozen times in my 15 years of writing about menswear, but never so thoroughly and comprehensively on Twitter. This post will be long, but I hope it is engaging. And I hope you stay with me because I find this sentiment to be so noxious — so antithetical to any notion of "good," whether religious or secular — that I hope I can convince a few people to resist such temptations. What is respectability in dress? It's the idea that you can show respect through clothes, such as wearing a suit to a wedding. Or the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect, such as a man in a suit versus another man in a hoodie. I will address each in turn. I believe dress is a form of social language. And thus, you can signal certain things through clothes. For instance, if I were to attend a wedding, I would wear a suit as an outward expression of a sentiment in my heart (e.g., "I'm happy for my hosts and wish to honor them on this day"). The suit is simply a representation of my sentiment, which already exists, even if I was in jeans. However, if I arrived at a wedding and saw someone not wearing a suit, I would not judge the person's more important qualities based on their attire. Perhaps they didn't have time to buy a suit. Perhaps clothes shopping gives them great anxiety. Perhaps they can't afford a suit that fits. If I wanted to know whether that person is of good character, I would judge this off their more direct actions, such as how they treat the people around them. Are they genial to g… In 1852, Cardinal John Henry Newman penned an essay, initially delivered as a university lecture, titled "Definition of a Gentleman." A gentleman, he says, is someone gentle and kind, considerate of others, humble in social relations, and respectful of boundaries. He compares a gentleman to "an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue." He writes: "The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at his ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring." There is notably nothing in his essay about clothes. It's impossible to judge a person's deeper, more important qualities based on clothes because people are often just following social conventions. To go back to the wedding example, many people wear a suit not because they hold a particular sentiment in their heart, but simply because a suit is protocol. A friend who works as a wedding photographer revels in telling me stories about suited guests getting into fistfights—certainly not a way to honor your hosts. The irony of dress codes is that the stronger the enforcement, the less you can tell about someone's character based on dress. Let's now turn to the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect. The sharpest, most pointed counterargument for this is Pierre Bourdieu, who in his 1979 book Distinction, pointed out that our notions of "Good Taste" are often nothing more than the habits and preferences of the ruling class. Edward Carpenter, a gay British reformer in the late 19th century, understood this a century earlier. He hated suits. In an essay about the "simple life," he compared suits to coffins, as they have "stiff layers upon layers of buckram," which he believed prevented people from getting enough sunlight and air. But more importantly, he hated suits because he recognized that Victorian dress codes weren't about dress codes at all — they were about status signaling and social hierarchy. In May 1889, Carpenter wrote a letter to The Sheffield Independent about how 100,000 of the city's residents were struggling to find sunlight and air, enduring miserable lives, and dying of illnesses because of the thick, black cloud of smog arising out of factories like smoke from Judgement Day. Meanwhile, as Melton-clad plutocrats nattered on about proper dress codes, they concealed their cruelty and vulgarity under refined manners. They weren't concerned with virtue, but rather with showing their supposed higher moral status. And then those socially under them aped those manners to seem higher class. (A dynamic that German sociologist Georg Simmel recognized in his 1902 essay "On Fashion.) Our judgements of dress are often more about the person underneath the clothes, rather than the clothes themselves. We see this with the pre-war British Guardsmen, who dropped their Edwardian-inspired fashions as soon as they were adopted by the "ruffians" known as Teddy Boys (and some Teddy Gals). Or how the slacker hoodie became a symbol of meritocracy in the New Economy when (white) coders wore it in the early 2000s, but it symbolizes criminality when worn by black teens. Clothes ind… I'm fundamentally opposed to any notion of respectability in dress, as I find it antithetical to a fundamental moral principle: you should treat everyone with respect unless they behave in a manner that suggests otherwise. And so, if John Fetterman lumbers through the halls of Congress in hoodies and shorts, you should object to him based on his politics, not his dress. If a student shows up at Oxford Union in sweats, you should consider his ideas, not his pants. I am perfectly fine with saying certain outfits are ugly. I'm deeply uncomfortable when people make moral judgments based on clothes. A person is not more or less deserving of respect based on dress; they can only do so based on more meaningful behavior. My guess is that you know this in your heart. As you travel through the world, look around you. Are your poorly dressed cousins and uncles bad people? Do shabbily dressed teachers or nurses on the train not actually serve society in positive ways? Do suited politicians not occasionally commit crimes? The idea that appearance doesn't always match character can be found more melodically in Fela Kuti's 1973 album "Gentleman." If you are already interacting with someone on a meaningful basis, you've hopefully already gotten enough information about them to form a judgement and thus can ignore dress. If you haven't interacted with them in meaningful ways, you can simply withhold judgement. I will end with an excerpt from Stuart Hall, a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist. In an essay about pluralism, he made a distinction between "common culture" and "common society," encouraging us to embrace differences. "It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. Since cultural diversity is, increasi…
September 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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thelatestkate.bsky.social
A drawing of a hedgehog sitting next to a tree and knitting a long scarf. The caption reads, "doing what i can to reduce overwhelm today"
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM