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Pete Smith

@reddite.bsky.social

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Research support librarian. PhD in public engagement in universities. TTRPGs, boardgames, SFF, paper and ink making.

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Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · May 26

Details of my book, including link to first chapter.

Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · May 24

NEW | The Public Understanding of Law: The University and Public Engagement

Peter Smith @reddite.bsky.social Sheffield Hallam University, UK

More information ➡️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

The Introduction is free to read on Elgaronline ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 10h

Got a Dragon stout, top mid week beer

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ShinyFluff @shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social · 10h

Hello! I am in Slovakia and found these boletes. Not sure of the id? Anyone knows? Mixed beech and pine forest mostly. Thanks!

A mushroom cap

Side of mushroom

Pores of mushroom

Stem of mushroom

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 11h

"They knew.. that time was tight"

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 13h

Oh, look, a cover!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-l...

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Locati...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, my condolences, Abby

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 13h

I remember the canned files of my childhood

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 13h

Emptied by real binmen

haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 13h

antiwoke guy who wants to change the recycle bin on his computer back to the trash can

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 13h

Indeed it was

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 13h

it really was

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 13h

It contributed in no small part to my getting to visit Chicago, where I met up with @sglassmeyer.bsky.social @barrywynn.bsky.social @hedgielib.bsky.social and others... oh and visited some law school libraries

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 14h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 14h

very pleased that this book chapter is finally out, my work with @lawriephipps.co.uk and @peterbryanthe.bsky.social on leadership, crisis, and what we should be doing to help each other deal with the borderlands we find ourselves in: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Beyond the Borderlands: Reimagining the Competencies of Postdigital Educational Leadership in an Era of Coalescing Geopolitical Crisis

In our time of intersecting global crises, traditional leadership structures in higher education face profound challenges. In this chapter we explore the concept of postdigital educational leadership as a model for higher education leaders to navigate the...

link.springer.com

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 15h

Grew Up By A Canal Basin Gregor is an outlier and should be ignored

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 15h

Grinded Organ Cylinder on stage now- banger after banger.

I regret nothing

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 18h

Alt text "Likely French," my poster in Christ, that is famously the Red Army

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 18h

to the tune of Detachable Penis

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 19h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 20h

I have one skill. Sadly it's this :D

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 20h

Sex Bonbonbonbon
Sex Bonbonbonbon
You're my Sex Bonbonbonbon
And you can give BANANA
When I need to get it on

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 20h

Least I can do for a non problematic fave

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 20h

Perhaps Katabasis?

Also Library of the Unwritten?

Maybe @scriblit.bsky.social's Cursed... series

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 21h

To show how you are Adult and Can Transcend Party you need a party to transcend and still work with. But they can't be Bad.

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 21h

The Human Resources Centipede

OnlyFangs @onlycans.bsky.social · 22h

Prince 2 of Darkness

Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 22h

IT Follows

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 22h

One man enters, looks confused, leaves.

Welcome to the Thunder Cul-de-Sac

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 22h

Ah, ok.

So- key elements would be (After) The War, Magic, Families of All Sorts