Fiona Zublin
@bearfoot.bsky.social
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Ros
9 days ago
During an idle online search, I've stumbled upon what might be the greatest job title of all time.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate in Learning to do Math with Vampires and Spiders:Oxford Road
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=45300
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for the love of god it’s a billion degrees and people won’t stop saying “lolly” as if it’s a real word
9 days ago
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Paris is covered in trash after the all night solstice rave, but there’s also a man scattering lavender buds on the street to perfume the heatwave
11 days ago
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Neon Genesis Ewangelion
16 days ago
This is utterly joyous please take a second to focus and enjoy
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a fun activity is to ask your friends in New York who are the Nixon Five
21 days ago
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if i had a nickel for every time a reality tv star whose last name is a mildly rude word to british people entered politics, i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot of nickels but it’s weird that it’s happened twice
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Devex
about 1 month ago
🚨 We have just launched a new podcast! 🚨 Introducing Theory of Change, a new series featuring long-form conversations with the people wrestling with the future of global development. Subscribe on your preferred podcasting platform:
www.devex.com/focus/theory...
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spencer pratt winning a lot of mayoral votes in LA is gonna awaken a horror in millennial women we didn’t even know was there
about 1 month ago
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Sara Jerving
about 1 month ago
The Bundibugyo species of the Ebola virus rapidly spreading around the DRC has no licensed vaccines or therapeutics. But the global health community is weighing its options of which candidates it could start in clinical trials. Here are the options:
www.devex.com/news/the-ebo...
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The Ebola species rapidly spreading has no vaccines. Here are the options
Vaccines licensed for the Zaire strain have been incredibly helpful in the management of Ebola but there is extremely limited evidence on its efficacy against the Bundibugyo strain — which is what’s c...
https://www.devex.com/news/the-ebola-species-rapidly-spreading-has-no-vaccines-here-are-the-options-112583
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piled into a bus full of journalists attending a Very Important Business Summit but being piled into a bus of any kind will never not feel like we’re on the way to summer camp
about 2 months ago
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National Trust
2 months ago
We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.
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Ashton Pittman
2 months ago
New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).
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Alissa Walker
2 months ago
My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children
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Cool streets
Paris's school streets are effectively sculpting out instant parks in the locations where they'll provide immense public health benefits to the city's most vulnerable populations
https://www.torched.la/cool-streets/
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may you live in interesting times, they said
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2 months ago
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Scott Lynch
3 months ago
moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
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Museum of Twitter
3 months ago
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
3 months ago
Best money I spend every month
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Emily is so smart
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3 months ago
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Museum of Twitter
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William Stone
4 months ago
It’s actually FEWER Misérables
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Joshua Raclaw
5 months ago
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
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what if french people in the 90s just thought marky mark was our way of referring to marcel marceau
6 months ago
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next time you think “not everything is better in french,” please consider you could have chatbots OR you could have
7 months ago
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years and years ago i interviewed Tom Stoppard and he told me writing is like playing table tennis with himself and i just loved that
7 months ago
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Devex
8 months ago
In Poço Dantas, a Canadian mining company’s lithium project has transformed daily life — just as COP30 debates how to make the energy transition “just.”
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As COP30 debates just energy transition, Brazil’s lithium towns suffer
As COP30 debates just energy transition, Brazil’s lithium towns suffer
https://www.devex.com/news/as-cop30-debates-just-energy-transition-brazil-s-lithium-towns-suffer-111243?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763418967
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the problem is i love The Traitors and i cannot stand the phrase “played a blinder” and these two things are in constant opposition
8 months ago
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Devex
10 months ago
Opinion: U.K. parliamentarian Noah Law argues that money going to debt servicing is keeping low-income countries from taking care of their citizens.
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Time for a rally in global debt reform
Time for a rally in global debt reform
https://www.devex.com/news/time-for-a-rally-in-global-debt-reform-110749?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1757429500
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blue prince is such a good game it’s ruining my life
10 months ago
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Sara Jerving
11 months ago
In light of international aid cuts and ideological reform, there are concerns that people at high risk of contracting HIV will be forced into overcrowded public health systems and may face stigma.
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Why ‘integration’ has become a ‘dirty word’ in HIV programming
In light of international aid cuts and ideological reform, there are concerns that people at high risk of contracting HIV will be forced into overcrowded public health systems and may face stigma.
https://www.devex.com/news/why-integration-has-become-a-dirty-word-in-hiv-programming-110540
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these scientists never hung out with old tom and it shows
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom...
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about 1 year ago
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NOT NOW BEES
about 1 year ago
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are you wearing the… the chanel boots? yeah, I am.
about 1 year ago
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Catherine Clarke
about 1 year ago
If M.R. James wrote safety signage
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why are they all saying “the new pontiff is from Chicago” when it could be: Pope. Six. Squish. Uh-uh.
about 1 year ago
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Colum Lynch
about 1 year ago
The annual election for the UN Gen Assembly presidency is generally a sleeper. But Palestine's bid for the top U.N. post in 2026-27 has set the stage for a clash with Washington that could risk US funding to wider UN. Now Cyprus is mounting a challenge. Scoop.
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Scoop: Cyprus takes on Palestine for UN General Assembly presidency
A Palestinian victory would risk roiling U.S. relations with the United Nations.
https://www.devex.com/news/scoop-cyprus-takes-on-palestine-for-un-general-assembly-presidency-109877
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you sea anemone; i sea a friend
over 1 year ago
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Devex
over 1 year ago
Europe is restructuring its development aid, shifting from traditional grants to investment-driven funding while cutting budgets and prioritizing defense, raising concerns about the future of global development.
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Europe is cutting development spending, and it's not because of Trump
Europe is cutting development spending, and it's not because of Trump
https://www.devex.com/news/europe-is-cutting-development-spending-and-it-s-not-because-of-trump-109668?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1742915676
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Devex
over 1 year ago
Over 5,300 USAID contracts were abruptly canceled this year. A Devex analysis reveals the 20 contractors that lost the most — with billions in planned funds left on the table. We take a look at how deeply the U.S. foreign aid freeze disrupted the global development industry.
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Who lost the most? The 20 USAID contractors hit hardest
https://www.devex.com/news/who-lost-the-most-the-20-usaid-contractors-hit-hardest-109734?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1743075707
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what is the portmanteau for when someone sends a performatively enigmatic text to make you respond? this is when I miss Olde Twitter; I know there was a “who called it ___ and not ____” tweet about this
over 1 year ago
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Marie Le Conte
over 1 year ago
a true foundational online text, brings me to the verge of a panic attack every time I read it
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Devex
over 1 year ago
💥SCOOP💥Remaining USAID staff members were instructed to help shred and destroy the agency’s classified and personnel documents at headquarters in Washington, D.C. However, there are concerns that this doesn’t follow protocol for disposal of sensitive documents.
#scoop
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Scoop: USAID staff instructed to shred and burn classified documents
https://www.devex.com/news/scoop-usaid-staff-instructed-to-shred-and-burn-classified-documents-109621?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1741710330
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the correct way to organize your books is with a new arcane system every six months at 2 am when you have a deadline to do something else
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over 1 year ago
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last night i went to the bakery for a last pain tradition of the day and was in line behind a little boy with a soft little pet rabbit in a cage. “Be careful,” he told me very solemnly, “She may attack.”
over 1 year ago
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Lincoln Michel
over 1 year ago
Don't let anyone tell you that you can't live your dreams
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Colum Lynch
over 1 year ago
If you thought that State Department waiver on emergency food delivery would enable the World Food Program to deliver food you were wrong: 500,00O metric tons of food produced in the U.S. are stranded in warehouses and ports.
www.devex.com/news/us-grow...
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US-grown food aid is stranded in ports worldwide despite waiver
It’s valued at nearly $500 million, and right now much of it is at risk of spoilage.
https://www.devex.com/news/us-grown-food-aid-is-stranded-in-ports-worldwide-despite-waiver-109304
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the latest this morning for global dev (spoiler: it’s bad)
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Exclusive: Up to 3,000 DC aid workers laid off by next week, CEO says
DT Global's CEO told staff members many other firms could furlough or retrench the vast majority of their staff.
https://www.devex.com/news/exclusive-up-to-3-000-dc-aid-workers-laid-off-by-next-week-ceo-says-109235
over 1 year ago
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If you want to understand what the aid freeze actually means, you gotta read
@elissamio.bsky.social
www.devex.com/news/i-don-t...
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‘I don’t think anyone can survive for 90 days’: Aid’s grim new reality
“It feels like being in a boxing ring with multiple opponents, trying to figure out where the next blow is going to come from,” the leader of one aid organization told Devex.
https://www.devex.com/news/i-don-t-think-anyone-can-survive-for-90-days-aid-s-grim-new-reality-109207
over 1 year ago
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Colum Lynch
over 1 year ago
Scoop: UN migration agency freezes support for U.S. resettlement program,potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk. Rubio's humanitarian waiver doesn't apply
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Devex: Login | Devex
https://www.devex.com/admin/news_lab/content/63573/edit
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okay but why is there no Muppets National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
over 1 year ago
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so much of the french libretto to Les Miserables is more interesting, nuanced, and political than the English version, but there’s something about the supertitles to One Day More reading “The big day!” that gave me the giggles
over 1 year ago
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