Terry Madeley
@terrymadeley.bsky.social
Works with student data and enjoys reading about art, data, education and technology
"Come on, you’re extravagantly romanticizing how bad you are—just as much as you were extravagantly romanticizing what the patient said. Your mother’s accusing voice has taken over."
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Come on, you’re extravagantly romanticizing how bad you are—just as much as you were extravagantly romanticizing what the patient said. Your mother’s accusing voice has taken over."
"The anti-vaccine turn on the American Right is many things. It is the culmination of anti-tech naturalism, anti-government skepticism, and look-at-me-I’m-so-clever contrarianism … a sickly inclination to identify a fatalistic element in all things, even those which are overwhelmingly good for us."
The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026
Modern trends and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, science, and the long story of progress. But first: an announcement!
www.derekthompson.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"The anti-vaccine turn on the American Right is many things. It is the culmination of anti-tech naturalism, anti-government skepticism, and look-at-me-I’m-so-clever contrarianism … a sickly inclination to identify a fatalistic element in all things, even those which are overwhelmingly good for us."
"Combined with a revival of Joseph Churchward’s typeface Churchward Roundsquare, the whole thing looks … alien."
The best movie posters of the year 2025
Daniel Benneworth-Gray picks his favourite movie posters of 2025, from Frankenstein to Pillion, Sentimental Value to Hard Truths
www.creativereview.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Combined with a revival of Joseph Churchward’s typeface Churchward Roundsquare, the whole thing looks … alien."
"Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do."
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…
lithub.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do."
"He'd be talking and all of a sudden the picture would come up. And the minute that picture came up, I lost control of every meeting."
A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"He'd be talking and all of a sudden the picture would come up. And the minute that picture came up, I lost control of every meeting."
"Overall, changing the way Attainment 8 is calculated will make little difference to the Progress 8 scores of the vast majority of schools."
What difference will the proposed changes to Attainment 8 and Progress 8 make? - FFT Education Datalab
The proposed new method of calculating Attainment 8 will not affect schools' Progress 8 scores greatly but will shift the incentives to enter particular subjects
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"Overall, changing the way Attainment 8 is calculated will make little difference to the Progress 8 scores of the vast majority of schools."
"Decisions on the immense cost of rebuilding Ukraine – $524bn, €506bn by the latest estimate – remain unclear."
What is the row about the EU using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine?
Complex plan would involve EU lending €90bn to Ukraine, which some fear could destabilise Eurozone. Putin says move is akin to ‘theft’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Decisions on the immense cost of rebuilding Ukraine – $524bn, €506bn by the latest estimate – remain unclear."
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'Hello, is that the year 2000? It's the Nokia Design Archive on line one.'
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February 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
'Hello, is that the year 2000? It's the Nokia Design Archive on line one.'
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"This is a still from Charles Chaplin’s 1940 film, THE GREAT DICTATOR. It occurs at approximately the 1:59:32 mark. If our home releases and prints are different, the most important context for this essay is that we discuss the split second before Charles Chaplin speaks the film’s final speech."
Even Though It's Breaking: On Barbarism and Barbers | The Great Dictator (1940)
To be bold, to dare to be stupid: this single frame in The Great Dictator is the most essential frame occurring in Charles Chaplin’s filmography.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"This is a still from Charles Chaplin’s 1940 film, THE GREAT DICTATOR. It occurs at approximately the 1:59:32 mark. If our home releases and prints are different, the most important context for this essay is that we discuss the split second before Charles Chaplin speaks the film’s final speech."
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Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
Some filmmakers start in commercials, honing their chops in anticipation of making personal projects later. A select few go in the other direction, realizing their distinctive vision before fielding o...
www.openculture.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
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Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation
Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation
MTV stands for Music Television, and when the network launched in 1981, its almost entirely music video-based programming was true to its name.
www.openculture.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation
More books to judge by their covers.
The 30 Best Art Books of 2024
This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s “Suffrage Song.”
hyperallergic.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:04 PM
More books to judge by their covers.
"In any case, the resolution is more important than the result."
The Lamp Magazine | The One Hundred Pages Strategy
On how to read one hundred pages every day.
thelampmagazine.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:01 PM
"In any case, the resolution is more important than the result."
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Dear children's author, I want to talk to you about kerning.
December 14, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Dear children's author, I want to talk to you about kerning.
You should always judge a book by its cover
100 of the Best Book Covers of 2024 – PRINT Magazine
Here’s to all the striking book covers in 2024! There has truly never been a better time to get lost in a book—or a book cover.
www.printmag.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:53 AM
You should always judge a book by its cover
@curiobot.bsky.social Well, I might be unlikely to reply to *you*
December 14, 2024 at 4:31 PM
@curiobot.bsky.social Well, I might be unlikely to reply to *you*
More proof, if proof be need be, that things were better in the old days
HAND DRAWN CGI: Animating the Terrahawks Title Sequence (Kevin Davies & Gerry Anderson Documentary)
YouTube video by Century 21 Films
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 2:07 PM
More proof, if proof be need be, that things were better in the old days
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Neat idea for an algorithm: "One feed even specifically promotes “quiet posters” – users who post infrequently, and whose views would otherwise be drowned out by those who share every opinion with their followers."
www.newscientist.com/article/2456...
www.newscientist.com/article/2456...
Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
More than 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and who you interact with. I think it is the future of social media, says Chris ...
www.newscientist.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Neat idea for an algorithm: "One feed even specifically promotes “quiet posters” – users who post infrequently, and whose views would otherwise be drowned out by those who share every opinion with their followers."
www.newscientist.com/article/2456...
www.newscientist.com/article/2456...
Festive Goya
The holiday season is upon us, so it's time to start sharing weird AF Victorian Christmas cards!
First up... whatever this is 😂
There's a whiff of Star Wars to this one!
First up... whatever this is 😂
There's a whiff of Star Wars to this one!
November 22, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Festive Goya
So, Bluesky then. Are things like swearsky.bagpuss.org enough to keep me engaged?
SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
swearsky.bagpuss.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:32 PM
So, Bluesky then. Are things like swearsky.bagpuss.org enough to keep me engaged?
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Did you notice that suddenly the headlines look exactly the way old movies thought 2024 headlines would look
August 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Did you notice that suddenly the headlines look exactly the way old movies thought 2024 headlines would look
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An erotic short story in three acts
August 14, 2024 at 11:50 AM
An erotic short story in three acts
Dear me I'd forgotten all about this Bluesky account.
March 26, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Dear me I'd forgotten all about this Bluesky account.
Hello World and all that
February 8, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Hello World and all that