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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Aug 13

We need a Star Trek episode about how the invention of the universal translator caused people to stop valuing actually learning languages, while they fatally overestimated the UT's accuracy and the resulting misunderstandings led to a massive war that tore the quadrant apart

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Aug 14

Det är släckt nu, men jag kan hälsa att det luktar mindre gott.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Aug 14

Om någon i Göteborg undrar varför det är en rökpelare nära Götaplatsen så är det bygget bredvid min svärfars lägenhet som råkat sätta eld på gummimattorna (?) under en sprängning.

En byggarbetsplats fotograferad genom ett fönster på femte våningen. Det brinner i en av stenhögarna och svart rök bolmar upp.

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Game Changer @gamechangershow.bsky.social · May 21

Here's how to REALLY offend a paleontologist 🦴🦕

#GameChanger / @GianmarcoSoresi.bsky.social

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · Mar 27

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector

openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist

it’s not an accident

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Mar 16

Hashtag väntar på sjukersättning från FK.

Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Mar 16

Resultatet är bland annat att vi nog inte kommer kunna bojkotta helt och hållet, eftersom vi redan har ätit upp det mesta vi hade i frys och skafferi.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Mar 16

Jag uppskattar bojkotten mot de stora kedjorna men tycker också det är lite roligt att jag och min sambo av ren pengabrist har fått ha vår egna lilla bojkott den här månaden.

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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · Mar 16

En sak jag hoppas ändå kommer med den amerikanska apokalypsen är att folk i Europa ser och förstår vad radikalhögern faktiskt vill. För ingen tror väl att det skulle bli annorlunda om SD, AfD eller Nationell samling fick total politisk majoritet (med vissa lokala detaljer olika)?

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Mar 13

Och tågen skulle gå i tid

Morgan Finnsiö ⤦⤦⤦ @morganfinnsio.bsky.social · Mar 13

Obetalbart.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Mar 10

Me: "I wouldn't want to go to the US, I can't support that country"
My (trans) partner: "I mean, I straight up can't go"

Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · Mar 9

Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.

Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · Mar 9

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · Mar 9

Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.

Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · Mar 9

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · Mar 10

Really can not exaggerate how dire it is that the US flat-out disappeared a foreign student

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Mar 10

Some fun PhD student positions now available in Visby, both in archaeology and cultural heritage. www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Lediga jobb - Uppsala universitet

www.uu.se

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Mar 8

Breaking my hiatus just to say that Sweden will finally be sending something really goofy to Eurovision. About time!

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Jan 20

I've considered it! And the bestiary bot. Unfortunately, I don't have them saved, so I'll have to make them from scratch.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · Jan 9

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Jan 9

Man skriver, inte vet jag, "förortsspråkbruk" och får förslaget "förorts språkbruk".

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Jan 9

Det går förstås åt båda hållen vad stavnings- och grammatikkontroll gör för språket, men det finns till exempel anledning att tro att särskrivningar vunnit mark för att stavningskontrollen inte förstår hur svenskan kan skapa nya sammansättningar.

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · Jan 7

More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same.
(See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)

A sample of the automated index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns:

APPENDIX: A COMPUTER-GENERATED INDEX
acquaintance, familiar, 148
acrostic form, 30
Acrosticks, 147
acrostics, 30
alphabetic, 29
Active indexes, 254
activity, 12, 58
extra-curricular, 97
Addison, 156–57, 186
hauling, 156
skewering, 157
Addison’s Book, 156
Addison’s Grand Tours, 159
Addison’s words, 156
ad hoc verbal guidepost, 255
Adjective Relative, 156
adjustment, small, 105
Adler, 203
Irene, 203
administrative apparatus, 22
admired Christopher Eccleston, 138
affectations, 30
afoot, 144, 217
Africa, 92
After-Burden, 167
afterthought, 96
Againe, 27
Agatha Christie, 39
age, 2–3, 6–7, 9, 137–38, 169–70, 186, 205, 208, 229, 232–33, 251, 254, 256
industrious, 228
old, 12
twenty-first-century, 233
age finding, 6
agent, 213
estate, 76
age of search, 51, 230, 251
age sticking, 185
aggressive coachmen, 162
Agoa, 243
Agrigento, 142
aid, 28, 30, 62, 67, 117, 191
visual, 66

A sample of the first page of the human indexer's index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns.

Index
Note to the gentle Reader: Page numbers in italic indicate figures. Page numbers in the form 273n1 indicate endnotes. Entries are sorted in letter-by-letter order, except where noted. This index was created by Paula Clarke Bain, who is a professional indexer and a human being. [PCB]

A, a, a 77,78,79
abbreviations 38, 40, 72, 78, 79, 242
ABC Murders, The (Christie) 39
abecedaria 28, 29, 35
Abish, Walter, Alphabetical Africa 39
abstracting 4, 245, 248
accuracy 15, 64, 98, 100, 178, 252
acrostics 29, 30, 147, 311
active indexes 254
Addison, Joseph 30, 156–7, 159, 174, 186
loathes acrostics 30
portrait 154
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 156–7
Spectator indexes 173–7
addresses to reader see introductory notes
‘Adventures of a Quire of Paper’ 171–2, 174
advertisements 42, 101, 176, 183, 186, 214, 249
Aeneid (Virgil) 39, 242, 243
Aesop's Fables 144, 146
agencies, indexing 260, 296–7n22
Age of Distraction 9, 251
Age of Enlightenment 170
Age of Industry 205-6
Age of Search 51, 233, 251 see also search
Agoa, Helen S. 243
AI (Artificial Intelligence) 2, 254
aide-mémoire 66, 126
Aitken, Jonathan, goes to jail 137
Akraiphia stones 36
Aldus Manutius, Dictionarium graecum 110
Alexander of Ashby, De artificioso modo predicandi 49
Alexander the Great 30, 93
Alexandria see Library of Alexandria
algorithms 100, 233, 251, 258
Alice stories (Carroll) 177–8, 180, 181
alphabet
Cyrillic 45–6
Greek 29, 36, 71, 89
Hebrew 29
history of alphabets 28–30
Latin 29

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Jan 8

It took me a couple of episodes before I figured out what was bothering me about The 100, which everyone around me loved. It was that everyone was the exact same flavour.

Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jan 8

Part of why I no longer know current celebrity names is because folks cast the same faces and I simply cannot tell them apart

Diversify so we know who tf your characters are I am BEGGING YOU 😂

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Jan 7

I want characters with interesting faces, proportions and imperfections.

Why on earth would we want everyone look like airbrushed mannequins?

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Jan 8

Jag har blivit purken på Europeanas hantering av metadata.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Jan 7

Jag är också nyfiken!

Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · Jan 7

I loved it! I was raised on a lot of British humour, and I was telling a British friend of mine the other day that I've seen northern English stuff referenced enough to get most of the jokes. :D

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