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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 1d

I have a new TV remote control. To stop a programme you press the back button. To delete a recording you press the record button. The old remote control had stop and delete buttons. I had to search online to find this out. I think this is called enshittification.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3d

The title is Trieste. Well worth reading.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3d

Those who choose not to see. She is writing about the Holocaust.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3d

are the majority.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3d

because they do nothing but stand and watch what is going on around them as if they don’t see a thing, as if nothing is happening, as if there is nothing going on. They live according to the dictates of everyone’s laws, and when the wars end this serves them well. There are many bystanders. They

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3d

Home from my holiday in Trieste and Istria, but only half way through Daša Drndic’s Trieste. A tough but necessary read. It seems to be essentially about being a bystander in terrible times. She says this: For those on the sidelines there is no telling what they are thinking, whose side they are on,

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 4d

Heading home from Trieste and Rovinj. Trieste is in Italy but feels Central European; Rovinj looks and speaks Italian, but is in Croatia. My holiday reading for the history, when I can bear it, is Trieste by Daša Drndić. A necessary and brilliant counter to all the tourist sites and gelato.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 5d

Just a random, anonymous, woman, apparently.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · 6d

'Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy': 'On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy' www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy

Colleen Shogan made history when she became the first woman to serve as Archivist of the United States in 2023. In February, President Trump fired her with no reason given. On Constitution Day,…

www.pbs.org

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 8d

Currently following in the footsteps of James Joyce. Did he like his sweets?

A shop sign for the Candy Bar Joyce, listing marshmallows, chocolates, giant and big candy, gummy and lollipops.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 8d

The map on my phone has gone rogue. I am looking for the nearest bus station. According to my phone, it is in Nuneaton. I am not in Nuneaton. In fact I have never been to Nuneaton. I am here. Is there an amphitheater in Nuneaton?

An ancient, and well preserved, Roman amphitheater.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10d

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly.

Democracy won 🙌🏼

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 10d

This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England

Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech

www.theguardian.com

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 10d

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England www.theguardian.com/politics/202... good to hear more on this, will it include access to a librarian though? #LAB25

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England

Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech

www.theguardian.com

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe the most important political event today. If you aren’t sure why, look at a map. And cross all your fingers for a good result.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10d

Lots of shenanigans going on. The Russia-dominated breakaway state Transnistria is flooding voters into Moldova - they get a vote under the constitution.

And the Romanian Far Right are trying to sway the election in revenge for Moldova opposing them last year.

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 10d

Oh good luck, Moldova.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10d

Lots of shenanigans going on. The Russia-dominated breakaway state Transnistria is flooding voters into Moldova - they get a vote under the constitution.

And the Romanian Far Right are trying to sway the election in revenge for Moldova opposing them last year.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 12d

Judging by today’s Wordle and yesterday’s Wordiply, we are finally running out of words for these games, and my streaks are history. Had to happen sometime. Kaffeeklatsch?

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 12d

We don't need any of this book-banning crap being imported from Trump's America.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Dorset school urged to reinstate banned book about race to reading list

Budmouth Academy in Weymouth removed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas after complaint from parent

www.theguardian.com

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 16d

Really, do you laugh or cry? I am more qualified to be president than he is.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18d

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other

According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 17d

3 weeks from testing positive and almost 2 weeks from testing negative I think I am finally better, apart from a slight cough. Touching wood, as it was two steps forward and one back for a while. Covid is definitely out there, and to be avoided if at all possible. Really unpleasant.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Rachel F @bibli0rach.bsky.social · 18d

Are there more examples, library land? #publib 📚

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 18d

Sad to report that left-wing cancel culture has come to my fair city.

Photo of the Rowan County News newspaper with the A1 banner headline "Public library employee no longer employed after Facebook posts in wake of Charlie Kirk death."

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 18d

I would also like to know who big Penne is and why they have a chokehold on being the only GF pasta shape available on restaurants ever

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 18d

@theguardian.com please sort this once and for all.

Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 18d

For anyone reading today’s Guardian Feast, orzo might look like rice but it is definitely not gluten free. Someone really needs to fix the allergen labelling as this keeps happening. @timlusher.bsky.social