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Mikki Brock
about 7 hours ago
I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
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is this an omen
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾
2 days ago
If anyone in the I.T field in the UK has any corporate laptops being discarded because of Windows 11 requirements please either give me a shout or reach to
@freeitstafford.bsky.social
A UK non-profit volunteer team fighting e-waste and digital poverty by giving them back to the community.
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Colin Yeo
2 days ago
A rare Substack piece from me on the biggest problem with the earned settlement proposals. It's not the unfair treatment of those already here, as bad as that is. It's the forward-looking, permanent change for all future migrants.
open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...
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Alix Mortimer
2 days ago
This is dribbling xenophobic grandpa territory, which for some reason is a serious force in global politics.
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Simon Fisher
3 days ago
Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.
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Nothings Monstered
4 days ago
It's common to think of parades and marches and protests as silly and unimportant. There are few rights more basic than the right to take space in public. Not everyone gets that right. If you stop claiming your space, eventually you will lose it.
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James Ball
4 days ago
Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.
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Nothings Monstered
16 days ago
What Our Grandchildren Will Think of Us — Ethel Hayes, 1925
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JJ Rymr
5 days ago
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Jordan
6 days ago
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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Leo Murray
5 days ago
Past time to get off twitter, british parliamentarians
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CHONK PROTON I REPEAT, CHONK PROTON
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Scientists discover heavier version of proton with upgraded detector
Snappily named Xi-cc-plus, Cern physicists spotted the particle in shower of debris that lit up Large Hadron Collider
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/17/scientists-discover-heavier-proton-upgraded-detector
6 days ago
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Nikki Coates
6 days ago
Lisa Nandy, deep in thought: but how will I ever give off the vibe of kneejerk xenophobia like the cool kids in cabinet? how can I pull my own stunt that reinforces the notion that we are an unwelcoming country? ideally it will predictably backfire on UK interests too. wait…eureka
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Stephen Collins
7 days ago
from 2019
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Dan Davies
7 days ago
I 'splain, lord how I 'splain, that "net fiscal contribution" of immigration, or any other population subgroup, is a really misleading measure.
backofmind.substack.com/p/better-tha...
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better than the other guy would have been
notes on a useless quantity
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/better-than-the-other-guy-would-have
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Dan/iel Mudford
7 days ago
Today I shall be mostly imagining what the Soviet band Combo-Jazz, pictured here in 1989, sounds like.
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Today in CAT LOGIC: Just because you fed me EARLIER THAN USUAL does not mean I do not expect you to ALSO feed me at the USUAL TIME.
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Jacob T. Levy
9 days ago
A year later, I'll say: we will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's circles who have an hour of notice about the chaotic swings in stuff Trump just *says* about the war with Iran.
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I don’t know how come everyone in this thread is drinking this early on a Monday, but I kinda wish I could join them
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9 days ago
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This checks out and is highly worth reading as YET ANOTHER reminder that English-Christian-nationalist culture-warmongering rests on a foundation of utter bullshit.
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9 days ago
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Coach Finstock
10 days ago
Aesop: I TOLD YOU
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Doug Gordon
13 days ago
Anyway, "Kill someone with your car and you'll never drive again" is a message that would have immense benefit to society.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
13 days ago
"This is a country that has always tolerated minority faiths" says Kemi Badenoch, showing no understanding of the history that led to that principle in this society, after trying some of the alternatives
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13 days ago
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Michael Batey
13 days ago
I'm all for education, as long as it's backed up with bollards
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Clarefella
15 days ago
I can't stop laughing at this LinkedIn translator. Absolute gold!
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Walk Ride GM
14 days ago
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William Lane
13 days ago
Polanski is tapping into something real, a sense that our nation and economy is being drained by rentier economies and vested interests. But it's important that that very real critique doesn't end up in a rose-tinted attempt to resurrect the past, rather than enagage with the 21st century as it is.
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Young woman sitting next to me on the bus looks like she was drawn by Jamie Hewlett
13 days ago
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If there’s any justice Hetta Falzon is going to go a very long way indeed, and I will be able to say I was there at her Anthony Burgess Institute gig.
14 days ago
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Rachel Coldicutt
14 days ago
It really pains me that, after more than a decade of Bannon and Farage et al, there's not a more strategic approach to media on the left. Independent media is fantastic but not enough, and the sad truth now is that there's a straight line from posting to power. It's ridiculous but true.
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I’ve got a joke about deploying AWS infrastructure with Terraform but I’m not authorised to tell it to you because no resource-based policy allows it
14 days ago
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Well this isn’t going great is it
15 days ago
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Nat Guest
15 days ago
A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.
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Owler Nook
18 days ago
Do any council library staff in Greater Manchester follow me? I have a techy Spydus question.
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Phil McDuff
17 days ago
I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.
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Will Stancil
17 days ago
If you think about it, what has happened here is that the US shut down the Strait of Hormuz and is now using the shutdown to blackmail other countries to do its bidding
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Charlie Stross
17 days ago
"A
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Katie Martin
17 days ago
Just extraordinary that the antichrist just happens to manifest itself in tech regulation - a thing this one really rich guy doesn't like. What are the chances? Seems really specific but yeah wow what a coincidence.
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A beautiful piece of writing.
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18 days ago
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Alasdair Mackenzie
18 days ago
In the end there’s no getting away from the fact that the government has decided to go far further than any previous govt, Labour, Tory or coalition, has ever thought it decent or sensible to go, and that these changes will divide & exclude people, not help everyone become equal parts of society 4/
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Tom Hannen
18 days ago
Rob Hutton’s evisceration of DCMS was the funniest and angriest thing I’ve read in response to what has happened to UK broadcast media
thecritic.co.uk/bring-back-d...
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Verity Sharp implies the existence of Falsity Flat
19 days ago
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Mercurywoodrose (Antifa Science Officer, Division 23 Airborne)
19 days ago
If you could remember the exact circumstances when you created a new drink, you didn’t create a very good drink
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Effie Seiberg
20 days ago
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now.
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
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John Rylands Research Institute and Library
20 days ago
Want to know more about Manchester's textile history and the moral implications of business practices of the era? Free Cottonopolis tour led by exhibition curator Professor Edmond Smith with researcher Dr Haig Smith. 📆Thursday 19 March 1.30-2.00pm. Meet in the gallery on level 1.
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Stuart Maconie
20 days ago
So, we are taking Northern Soul Orchestrated to Newcastle City Hall tonight (12th March) and my question to you is...where were the places to go, dance, shop etc if you were a Geordie Northern soul fan back in the day?
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midgie
21 days ago
were you just looking? 👀 come back and take another look! leave me alone website i left because your wretched items are not worth wasting my eyes on
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