Irish politician @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social speaks for all of us. #resist

When it's naptime but the kid is recalcitrant

This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.”

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Keep in mind ➡️ Cycling 🚲 is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities(!)👇👇

theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...

All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here:

1) Representations of the Intellectual

2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay

3) Intellectual Exiles

4) Professionals and Amateurs

5) Speaking Truth To Power

6) Gods That Always Fail

not sure why the extinction of this little bird in particular hits me so hard

maybe because they were still whirling across the sky when I was born?

regardless, I thought I'd give it a go to (badly) illustrate the slender-billed curlew as it would have been in life on the Kazakh steppe.

Everybody has something they can do. And every one of us needs to do it. A little bit, every day.
#solarpunk #socialchange

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.

I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.

Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

Check your settings, yikes!

Butterfly #98 waiting for the bus.

Eighty-eight Butterfly (Diaethria sp.) found along a roadside in Mindo, Ecuador.

For the newbies, one of the great features on here is that when someone has tried to quote-post dunk on you, hit the … and select “detach quote” and nobody will see the post or who wrote it and they will look like an asshole. (Blocking works like this too.)

If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website

BlueSky search tips

BlueSky has a variety of advanced search capabilities. For example:

Search for content from a specific account:

from:cybdetective.bsky.social bluesky

Search for mentions of a specific domain:

domain:nytimes.com

And much more:

bsky.social/about/blog/0...

#osint #socmint

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk

as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media

here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

YES. See also the RHS report (come to think of it, @smidbob.bsky.social, might the RHS join us on here?)

College/uni recruiters and university managers are working with a completely unrealistic picture of the world. files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

I've published a new video from a class covering how to generate stronger story ideas.

tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :)

(sorry I forgot to include the link before)