I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry. Or sociology. It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

Mine too 🤣🤣🤣

The St. John Cathedral Oak, Lafayette, Louisiana A Southern Live Oak of epic proportions Photo: The St. John Cathedral

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

This petition gained a million signatures yesterday. If we can keep up that growth it will terrify people at the Labour conference. #PapersPlease petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." -- W.B. Yeats

Albert Finney by Cecil Beaton (1961).

We celebrate the late Barbara Walters, who was #BOTD in 1929. The trailblazing TV journalist will be remembered for her firsts: first female co-host of TODAY & first female co-host of an evening news program. She paved the way & shaped the future for women broadcasters.

Andrew Wyeth, Trodden Weed

Just published: my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing). 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s on the streets of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day. #up2509

More news on current administration's plans to dismantle radically alter our national forests.

Producer, director and co-founder of the Actors Studio Cheryl Crawford (1902-86) #BOTD with Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams. #legends #herstory

Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon in Sicily, 1963. 💔

Just what a burning planet needs: 100,000 more flights on a new runway. Yet again, so very glad I left the Labour Party. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Please be prepared for this to become my entire personality (yes, it always has been, but now I will have stats to back up my tenacity) #historyteacher #EndSexismInSchools #women observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Brown hare backlit by early morning sun anxiously watching signatures on the petition heading for 30,000. I'm sure you've signed the petition to protect hares from shooting in the breeding season, but any more family and friends to sign? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #UKwildlife #mammals

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Main Cinema, Minneapolis

Great Moments in Free Speech: In 1962, Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying "schmuck” on stage.

Just another day in UK higher ed…🙄

Just another day in Down Under. #WildOz

New Absolute Units drops tomorrow! This time we're bringing on the brilliant @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to explore the radical history of the commons: the shared resources that communities depended on, and the historical processes that governed their access. Live from 12pm UK time. Ish.

The evenings are getting a little darker, but it's still warm! Wildlife that will hibernate in colder weather is still out and about, and more at risk on our roads. If you are driving on these darker evenings, please be vigilant and protect your local wildlife 🦔🦡🐸 📸Toad © Peter Brooks

#AlainDelon 🖤

An excellent interview w/ J.E. Smyth, in *Americana,* about her book, MARY MCCALL JR: THE RISE & FALL OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST POWERFUL SCREENWRITER and restoring women into the history of Hollywood. bit.ly/4ps7yvn @jesmyth.co.uk @columbiaup.bsky.social

See below. No, this is not a joke. When Billy Crudup thinks he can fill Gary Cooper’s shoes and punters pay for it, you know that western civilization is finished. #HighNoon #ThisIsTheEnd #enshittification #FredZinnemann

Charlotte Rampling © Richard Melloul, 1992.

I will miss the adorable, jug-eared mini grass. Ruhe in Frieden, letzter Mann. #TheThirdMan

Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...

Absolutely appalled by the two pieces on AI at university. Multiple experts recommending it without a single mention of the obscene energy and water consumption; another one recommending students upload our lecture materials to AI. Copyright, @theguardian.com?

The seasons have turned. Winter is coming. Time for a break. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 🖤 #TheShining #Jack #Kubrick #WinterIsComing m.youtube.com/watch?v=-fN-...

Herbert Lom #BOTD 1917 & Peter Sellers (along with Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker & Danny Green) have Katie Johnson surrounded in this cast photo from The Ladykillers (dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1955). 🎬 📷by Hal Hanscombe National Portrait Gallery, London

We need the free press.

It is with heavy heart (and, unfortunately, deep affection) that I must reshare a snippet from the 1980s masterpiece “Yes, Prime Minister”, in relation to Russia’s drone attack on a NATO ally.

Finally Netflix has something worth watching… #AManForAllSeasons #FredZinnemann #PaulScofield www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/fil...

"After the National Archives at Kew and probably the British Library, the BBC Written Archive Centre is the most significant repository of documents about British history over the last century” Important interview with Prof John Wyver @illuminations.bsky.social 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

The screenwriter, music editor, costume designer, 2 stuntwomen, one assistant AD, and makeup artist were women and worked with Foster on Freaky Friday (1976). Also Marcia Lucas edited one of her early films. Maybe these women were invisible to little girls who only paid attention to directors. 🤷‍♀️

Well...if you say so....... 🤩😻😽 #happybirthdayidris #Bookskly

⚠️ #LOST #WelshTerrier #dog called Pippin Went #missing in Tamworth B79 9HB Staffordshire UK🐕 Please retweet pals😟❤️ #DogsOfBluesky #terriers www.petsreunited.com/tamworth/sta...

Having a bad day?? Here's a pick me up... 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals

I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.

Ok people you know what to do:

There is only one. 🖤 #Olivier #Heathcliff #WutheringHeights

Great interview w/ Leslie Kreiner Wilson about Hollywood screenwriter #MaryCMcCallJr in the latest #Americana. 🙏 We discussed the origin of the pipe & 🍺 📖 cover photo 👇, her writing style, regrets, and why being Irish helped her career! 🎥 #skystorians americanpopularculture.com/journal/arti...

Sarah Orne Jewett - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

The brothers in summertime. John, David and Richard 🎂 Attenborough.