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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 12d

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 14d

Graffiti, Firenze #vivagaza

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 14d

My current office, in one of the spaces for visiting fellows at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 14d

So terrifying that this not made up.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15d

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 14d

The cafe/bar of my one of my favourite public libraries in the world, the Biblioteca Delle Oblate in Firenze.

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 16d

Not sure that argument is going to deter Netanyahu much.

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 16d

Waiting for the storm, Firenze (on a day of a national general strike).

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 27d

Not only dreaming spires, but tagging ‘SPIRE’ #oxford

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Library life:

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · Sep 7

I love me a nice library

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · Sep 6

In Oxford, far right nationalists on one side of the road, and anti-racism protesters on the other…Cops in the middle of the road.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Aug 12

“You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

The Subway Is Not Scary

Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · Jul 2

Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.

BREAKING
Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at 2026
Venice Biennale
By Hannah Story

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · Jun 28

All too recognisable.

Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · Jun 28

Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol

SMH article on the decline of Australian universities

2nd half of article on the decline of Australian universities

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · Jun 28

Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · Jun 26

"In an announcement (...) San Francisco bookstore The Booksmith said that it would no longer carry books by J.K. Rowling because of her ongoing support of anti-trans policies. Accompanying the post was a list of fantasy books that 'might fit the Harry Potter brief for you and yours.'"

This San Francisco Bookstore Has Stopped Selling the ‘Harry Potter’ Series

The announcement came with a curated list of alternatives to J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series.

www.them.us

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · Jun 27

I feel your pain! Hang in there 💪🏼

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Jun 12

Whenever people ask me what I mean when I talk about the “neoliberal university”, I tell them about the giant Woodside Building on campus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Monash staff say Woodside-backed climate conference highlights concerns about energy giant partnership

Senior lecturer says staff and students have struggled to get answers from university leadership about arrangement

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · Jun 11

Read this. #freepalestine #ceasefire #sanctionsnow

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksay2.substack.com · Jun 9

No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · May 30

New ink

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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · May 27

🚨 Important database of cases where lawyers were found to have used AI-hallucinated materials. Covers multiple jurisdictions, mostly anglophone systems.🚨

Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · May 24

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin

Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

www.damiencharlotin.com

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · May 27

I'm going to try to write a thread to entice people to read this piece I published last night.

A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about.

You should be. 🧵

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · May 27

Here we go.

I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · May 20

Broke my finger high-fiving my kid 🤣

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