"The social media platform Bluesky is working on a new AI tool designed to help users create personalised content feeds." www.techcentral.ie/bluesky-help...

"Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, although the agency has not yet provided a public explanation." therecord.media/russia-crack...

A video drop from @thecarryingstream.bsky.social by @paulmalgrati.bsky.social. The full episode (and other conversations with Paul's brilliant guests) available at: pod.link/1865430519

Chatting to @paulmalgrati.bsky.social is a pleasure always, this time a special treat to do so for his podcast for Scottish words & ideas, @thecarryingstream.bsky.social. The episode features a new Gaelic poem of mine, 'Na Crainn', which took shape between Daoulaz in Brittany, Aberdeen, and Prague.

Some of you will know I've written a novel, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves, based on the life of my black sheep grandmother, Rene Hargreaves and her partner Elsie Boston. I was sent this recently by a relative of Elsie's. Elsie far right, elusive as ever, garden theatricals.

Anne Boleyn: vilified for generations by (male) historians, and the subject of many a series, feature film, novel or play. Prof. Susan Bordo's feminist biography-cum-cultural history on the enigmatic Tudor queen is groundbreaking and "unputdownable": bordocrossings.com/book/the-cre...

One of the best novels ever written. rachelmalik.com/blog/re-read...

One of the best novels ever written. rachelmalik.com/blog/re-read...

The trend is still in Bluesky's favour. X is still larger but very regularly Bluesky easily eclipses it in terms of research being shared. Linda Yaccarino claimed X had 600m users in April. Bluesky has 36m accounts created in total.

"After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue." www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Added to my reading list! 😂

"Bluesky has become one of the rare social media startups to grow large enough to compete with the likes of Meta and X, garnering some 40 million users in just two years. Many of them are Twitter refugees who skew left, but that’s not all the app has to offer." www.semafor.com/article/04/1...

L.L. Zamenhof and the Shadow People newrepublic.com/article/7211... via @newrepublic.com

i have translated "Homaranismo" by L.L. Zamenhof from Esperanto to English, and it's freely available on my website. check it out! cogandstar.neocities.org/homaranismo

Frontier Grit tells inspiring stories of twelve very different women, entrepreneurs, social activists, writers and others—who went beyond the expectations of women in their era. Author Marianne Monson talks with me about writing & researching this fascinating book and about some of her other works.

Winifred Holtby - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky