Jeffrey Dean
@jeffreyjdean.bsky.social
Music historian (15th–16th centuries), editor/book-designer/typesetter, Quaker; foreign-born naturalized British citizen; ally. He/him/his
NOT the Jeff Dean at Google, or the archeologist, or …
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NOT the Jeff Dean at Google, or the archeologist, or …
Fediverse: @[email protected]
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Politicians are debating the lawfulness of secondary strikes, but all strikes are illegal.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
Tell Congress: Stop illegal military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific
Since Sept. 2, the U.S. has bombed multiple boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, killing at least 83 people. The Trump administration claims this is part of a new “armed conflict” with “narco-traff...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Politicians are debating the lawfulness of secondary strikes, but all strikes are illegal.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
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The Onme Bonum image is zombie knowledge. Coined by a knowledge institution, debunked, but still in circulation. Like myths about spiral staircases in castles, some things persist because they are interesting.
Problem solved, right? Well, that's what it seemed like for quite a while. But errors can have long lives. And today, like clockwork, when a new study came out on the Black Death, somebody resurrected the leprosy image: www.newscientist.com/article/2507...
Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe
Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium
www.newscientist.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Onme Bonum image is zombie knowledge. Coined by a knowledge institution, debunked, but still in circulation. Like myths about spiral staircases in castles, some things persist because they are interesting.
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Not visual art, but, Django Reinhardt had two working fingers on his left hand; the drummer from Def Leppard had ONE FUCKIN’ ARM. There are no excuses. “Gen” A.I. is anti-art.
If one more able bodied person attempts to tell me, a disabled artist, that genAI is an accessibility tool, I'm gonna start smashing their hands with hammers. You wanna speak about disability issues, fine, you get to become one of us.
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Not visual art, but, Django Reinhardt had two working fingers on his left hand; the drummer from Def Leppard had ONE FUCKIN’ ARM. There are no excuses. “Gen” A.I. is anti-art.
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Some people saying they’d now never send a kid to Dartmouth. I’m dismayed by the local news, but AI in higher ed is horrifically pervasive. It’s a universal problem demanding broad action, not one that can be solved via careless brand curation.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Some people saying they’d now never send a kid to Dartmouth. I’m dismayed by the local news, but AI in higher ed is horrifically pervasive. It’s a universal problem demanding broad action, not one that can be solved via careless brand curation.
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I think that's why he seems, for the first time in ages, genuinely rattled by this stuff. Because it shows him doing the less socially permissible form of racism, and reminds everyone that this skill had to be learned
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I think that's why he seems, for the first time in ages, genuinely rattled by this stuff. Because it shows him doing the less socially permissible form of racism, and reminds everyone that this skill had to be learned
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👏New: @durbin.senate.gov and Sen. Murkowski re-introduced the bipartisan Dream Act to provide pathways to citizenship for people who have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives.
#DACA recipients contribute to our country every day. They deserve to build their futures without fear. #HomeIsHere
#DACA recipients contribute to our country every day. They deserve to build their futures without fear. #HomeIsHere
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
👏New: @durbin.senate.gov and Sen. Murkowski re-introduced the bipartisan Dream Act to provide pathways to citizenship for people who have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives.
#DACA recipients contribute to our country every day. They deserve to build their futures without fear. #HomeIsHere
#DACA recipients contribute to our country every day. They deserve to build their futures without fear. #HomeIsHere
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Nobody nailed it harder than Marshall McLuhan.
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Nobody nailed it harder than Marshall McLuhan.
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
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Esmarch bandages with DIY first-aid instruction diagrams printed on them are amazing and little known! I'll feature one made in Chicago in my Printing on Fabric exhibition at #NewberryLibrary (opens Dec. 2026), but they started as wartime aides in late 19th c. Germany, and were printed 2 at a time!
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Esmarch bandages with DIY first-aid instruction diagrams printed on them are amazing and little known! I'll feature one made in Chicago in my Printing on Fabric exhibition at #NewberryLibrary (opens Dec. 2026), but they started as wartime aides in late 19th c. Germany, and were printed 2 at a time!
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Apparently the decision of the WI to rescind trans inclusion was prompted in part by an internal faction. If I were a cis member of the WI, I would want those bigots named,shamed and shunned.
Aggressively promoting transphobia should have social sanctions applied to it.
Aggressively promoting transphobia should have social sanctions applied to it.
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Apparently the decision of the WI to rescind trans inclusion was prompted in part by an internal faction. If I were a cis member of the WI, I would want those bigots named,shamed and shunned.
Aggressively promoting transphobia should have social sanctions applied to it.
Aggressively promoting transphobia should have social sanctions applied to it.
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You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
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I'm old enough to remember having a reasonable expectation that a Labour government would be better than a Tory one.
A Health Secretary who repeatedly implies that chronically under-diagnosed things like ADHD are somehow over-diagnosed, bans trans healthcare & promotes NHS privatisation is not it.
A Health Secretary who repeatedly implies that chronically under-diagnosed things like ADHD are somehow over-diagnosed, bans trans healthcare & promotes NHS privatisation is not it.
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm old enough to remember having a reasonable expectation that a Labour government would be better than a Tory one.
A Health Secretary who repeatedly implies that chronically under-diagnosed things like ADHD are somehow over-diagnosed, bans trans healthcare & promotes NHS privatisation is not it.
A Health Secretary who repeatedly implies that chronically under-diagnosed things like ADHD are somehow over-diagnosed, bans trans healthcare & promotes NHS privatisation is not it.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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Ashley James, celebrity star of Good Morning has resigned from Girl Guides in response to their exclusion of trans girls.
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Ashley James, celebrity star of Good Morning has resigned from Girl Guides in response to their exclusion of trans girls.
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it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
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Duh.
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Duh.
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Jeepers.
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Jeepers.
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Looks like I'm getting blocked by transphobes and AI fans, so the rubbish is taking itself out.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Looks like I'm getting blocked by transphobes and AI fans, so the rubbish is taking itself out.
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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Your seasonal reminder that Quality Street chocolates are a cash-in on a hit play by J M Barrie, and used to feature the characters on the box. So a bit like people in 2100 buying 2.22 A Ghost Story chocolates every Christmas with Lily Allen on the tin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
Quality Street (play) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Your seasonal reminder that Quality Street chocolates are a cash-in on a hit play by J M Barrie, and used to feature the characters on the box. So a bit like people in 2100 buying 2.22 A Ghost Story chocolates every Christmas with Lily Allen on the tin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
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This.
It’s currently the 16 Days of Action. An international campaign to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The main VAWG perpetrators in the UK are partners, ex-parters, family members or acquaintances.
Women and girls are at most risk in their homes, not Hampstead’s Bathing Pools.
It’s currently the 16 Days of Action. An international campaign to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The main VAWG perpetrators in the UK are partners, ex-parters, family members or acquaintances.
Women and girls are at most risk in their homes, not Hampstead’s Bathing Pools.
“I question the energy that is being dedicated to harming vulnerable people and children rather than tackling the much bigger and very real risks facing women and girls.”
A Brownie parent tackles Girlguiding banning trans girls: “It is an attack on children.”
www.independent.co.uk/voices/girlg...
A Brownie parent tackles Girlguiding banning trans girls: “It is an attack on children.”
www.independent.co.uk/voices/girlg...
Those who back banning trans girls from Girlguiding need to look at Brownie Law
...which clearly states: ‘A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself’ – something that seems to have been forgotten in making the decision to ban trans girls from Girlguiding. There are many risk...
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This.
It’s currently the 16 Days of Action. An international campaign to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The main VAWG perpetrators in the UK are partners, ex-parters, family members or acquaintances.
Women and girls are at most risk in their homes, not Hampstead’s Bathing Pools.
It’s currently the 16 Days of Action. An international campaign to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The main VAWG perpetrators in the UK are partners, ex-parters, family members or acquaintances.
Women and girls are at most risk in their homes, not Hampstead’s Bathing Pools.
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Self-ID for left handed to be ended.
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Self-ID for left handed to be ended.
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
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Tell that to the heartbroken daughter of a friend who’s quit guides because of this shameful move, Joanne. She can’t bear to see trans girls excluded.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
But what if the "thing of their own" is a friendship with a girl in Guides who happens to be trans?
I honestly think Rowling has lost touch with how real people's lives actually work.
And, also, Rowling's movement is gearing up to get girls kicked out of Scouts, so this "answer" is horseshit.
I honestly think Rowling has lost touch with how real people's lives actually work.
And, also, Rowling's movement is gearing up to get girls kicked out of Scouts, so this "answer" is horseshit.
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Tell that to the heartbroken daughter of a friend who’s quit guides because of this shameful move, Joanne. She can’t bear to see trans girls excluded.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.
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The Girl Guide survey from this year is devastating. And funnily enough girls aren’t reporting fear of trans kids. Its as if girl’s views on the things that really badly impact their lives are of no importance www.girlguiding.org.uk/about-us/pre...
Girls stand together in solidarity as two thirds change their everyday behaviour to avoid sexual harassment
New research from Girlguiding reveals how the persistent threat of sexism, misogyny and harassment is impacting girls’ everyday lives and affecting their confidence, mental health and wellbeing.
www.girlguiding.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Girl Guide survey from this year is devastating. And funnily enough girls aren’t reporting fear of trans kids. Its as if girl’s views on the things that really badly impact their lives are of no importance www.girlguiding.org.uk/about-us/pre...
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Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar: It's always hard to find the perfect tree-topper, but I think I've done it! #wildlife
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar: It's always hard to find the perfect tree-topper, but I think I've done it! #wildlife