L. J.
@northernjourney.bsky.social
Australian, living on Kaurna land, intertested in language, education, genetic and cultural evolution, inequality
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A Lecture About the History of the Scots Language … in Scots: How Much Can You Comprehend?
A Lecture About the History of the Scots Language … in Scots: How Much Can You Comprehend?
Dauvit Horsbroch has served as the Language and Information Officer of the Scots Language Centre since 2007, and has spent considerable time living in North East Scotland. Above, watch him give a 19-m...
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January 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
A Lecture About the History of the Scots Language … in Scots: How Much Can You Comprehend?
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Sōichirō Tomioka, Trees, 1961
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Sōichirō Tomioka, Trees, 1961
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Unhinged racism. Explicitly tying Randa to a terrorist attack by two Indian Muslims, essentially accusing her of incitement, which is a real crime. Once again: ISIS is opposed to Palestinian statehood, has murdered Palestinian refugees, and burned Palestinian flags. They do not care about Palestine.
I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific
January 13, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Unhinged racism. Explicitly tying Randa to a terrorist attack by two Indian Muslims, essentially accusing her of incitement, which is a real crime. Once again: ISIS is opposed to Palestinian statehood, has murdered Palestinian refugees, and burned Palestinian flags. They do not care about Palestine.
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The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks.
The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks.
The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
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Daron Parton in today’s NZ Herald -
January 5, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Daron Parton in today’s NZ Herald -
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Unbelievable. I told the Sky News guy to fuck off with his questions and now *that* is the story.
This hungry beast is insatiable.
How’s that Royal Commission into Murdoch media going?
This hungry beast is insatiable.
How’s that Royal Commission into Murdoch media going?
January 12, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Unbelievable. I told the Sky News guy to fuck off with his questions and now *that* is the story.
This hungry beast is insatiable.
How’s that Royal Commission into Murdoch media going?
This hungry beast is insatiable.
How’s that Royal Commission into Murdoch media going?
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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: ‘The science world is ending’ www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: ‘The science world is ending’ www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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When my cartoon gets real life demonstration in the replies.
October 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
When my cartoon gets real life demonstration in the replies.
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#NoKings on Discover feed. Yessss
Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#NoKings on Discover feed. Yessss
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Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...
October 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...
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Listening-as-modelling summed up clearly by Gianfranco. gianfrancoconti.com/2025/10/08/h...
How to make listening actually drive acquisition: Ten staples of Listening as Modelling
Introduction Listening is not a passive skill. It is the most cognitively demanding of all receptive modes and, paradoxically, the least explicitly taught.In the Extensive Processing Instruction (E…
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October 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Listening-as-modelling summed up clearly by Gianfranco. gianfrancoconti.com/2025/10/08/h...
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As with almost every article written about reading in the past few years, this one has inspired a few suggestions that the focus on phonics has caused problems.
I'd like to explain why I disagree.
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I'd like to explain why I disagree.
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An expert shares five reading fluency strategies to support children to become better readers
Reading fluency: why it matters and how to teach it
A focus on reading fluency can help to bridge the gap between decoding and comprehension, says Penny Slater, who shares strategies for supporting children to become fluent readers
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September 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
As with almost every article written about reading in the past few years, this one has inspired a few suggestions that the focus on phonics has caused problems.
I'd like to explain why I disagree.
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I'd like to explain why I disagree.
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$1.5 million of 🇦🇺 taxpayer💰per head but asylum seekers still going without food.
Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
$1.5 million of 🇦🇺 taxpayer💰per head but asylum seekers still going without food.
Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The idea that reading comprehension is a set of generic “find the main idea” skills has been so damaging. Excellent stuff from @suchmo83.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The idea that reading comprehension is a set of generic “find the main idea” skills has been so damaging. Excellent stuff from @suchmo83.bsky.social
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I was reading, & thinking, yeah yeah 😒🙄 And then towards the end, it lets rip!
A farm-owning CEO promotes UBI, capital gains tax and wealth tax #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...
A farm-owning CEO promotes UBI, capital gains tax and wealth tax #nzpol
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The cost of being: A farm-owning CEO aiming to live as self-sufficiently as possible
'No one should have to struggle with the basic necessities of life in a country as rich in resources as ours.'
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September 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I was reading, & thinking, yeah yeah 😒🙄 And then towards the end, it lets rip!
A farm-owning CEO promotes UBI, capital gains tax and wealth tax #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...
A farm-owning CEO promotes UBI, capital gains tax and wealth tax #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...
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✅ Yes, the U.S. Department of Justice removed a study from its website that showed domestic terrorism is right-wing: www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...
DOJ removed study from website showing most domestic terrorism is right-wing
The study was still on the website as of Sept. 11, 2025, but was removed by the following day, two days after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
www.snopes.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
✅ Yes, the U.S. Department of Justice removed a study from its website that showed domestic terrorism is right-wing: www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...
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Painted Buttonquail!!!
I'd never seen one of these tiny (20cm) birds until today, and it was *IN MY BACKYARD!*
Fun fact: Buttonquails aren't quails, and aren't even galliformes. They're more closely related to shorebirds like plovers and curlews.
I'd never seen one of these tiny (20cm) birds until today, and it was *IN MY BACKYARD!*
Fun fact: Buttonquails aren't quails, and aren't even galliformes. They're more closely related to shorebirds like plovers and curlews.
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Painted Buttonquail!!!
I'd never seen one of these tiny (20cm) birds until today, and it was *IN MY BACKYARD!*
Fun fact: Buttonquails aren't quails, and aren't even galliformes. They're more closely related to shorebirds like plovers and curlews.
I'd never seen one of these tiny (20cm) birds until today, and it was *IN MY BACKYARD!*
Fun fact: Buttonquails aren't quails, and aren't even galliformes. They're more closely related to shorebirds like plovers and curlews.
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September 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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South Korean President vows support to Koreans arrested in US immigration raid reut.rs/3HWa503
South Korean President vows support to Koreans arrested in US immigration raid
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung ordered all-out efforts on Saturday to swiftly respond to the arrests of hundreds of the nation's citizens in a U.S. immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor car battery factory.
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September 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
South Korean President vows support to Koreans arrested in US immigration raid reut.rs/3HWa503
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August 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM