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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PONIES was cancelled so there’s no good tv left I guess

Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feel like I need to take a break from socials for a few days just to stop seeing endless things about misogyny and sexual violence for a minute. Comes at a time when the book I’m currently reading has also had no new words so far, but I’ll pop in if that changes. Stay safe out there

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading about meta glasses cases… is there a name for a maxim like “if a technology can be used to harass women, it will be”

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m going to start a list of words I’m learning from reading here’s the first one. Sorry I'm not logged in to the OED on my phone so this is what we’re working with

A screenshot of the dictionary definition of picayune which is first definition: a Spanish half real piece formerly current in the south OR something trivial. Second definition: of little value, paltry, petty or small-minded

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

Btw this is also why the “humanities are cheap” argument for funding never works. It has never worked. We need to stop using it. Nobody you’re trying to convince cares.

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The most interesting thing for Natalie Portman to do would be to release a book that’s a thinly veiled portrait of Rachel Cusk. I think that would be good, on balance, for literature.

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Kind of thank god the Vuelta has started so I can be absolved of making choices about my entertainment for the next three weeks

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Exactly this. You need more people. And you need to teach writing (and by extension reading) through your research topics. But this is precisely the labour fight we're losing (or maybe have lost already).

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 13/06/2025

Acceptable names for a dog: Biff Speedy Jennifer Acceptable names for a cat: Mork Potato Arturo Perez-Reverte Acceptable names for a horse: Pulchritude The Securities and Exchange Commission A Single Man in Possession of a Good Fortune

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Does anyone know if it’s good to pull your lower back getting a box from room to room the week you are supposed to move without movers. And yes I did lift with my knees

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There are three options really. 1) Make sure they aren't being used illicitly by making the data stream constantly accessible by law enforcement/private companies. 2) Stop children going out in public. 3) (With the obvious exception of people with visual impairment) make smartglasses illegal.

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was reading about contactless payments on Paris public transport and multiple sources framed it as for tourists. But easier l is easier for everyone. And if you already have a card You aren’t getting another plastic card that’s transport specific which surely is good for the environment

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/07/2026

"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The forgetting to eat breakfast because I got sucked into work to wanting to eat lunch way too early pipeline

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I will have to move in the next few months because my flatmate is leaving and I have to say, I do feel weird and sad.

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Not sure if I like the Mobius Book yet (too early to tell) but Granta’s cover design does indeed rock

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It seems like instead of getting mad at Americans (something ac something) people in the UK could get mad at their government and also city councils to pressure legitimate changes that will provide long-run support during heat waves. May even also be able to do this online

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I have started reporting overflowing trash and recycling bins and fly tipping on my city’s website when I’m out and see something overflowing. and then I give people I know socially the list of of what I’ve reported and when it’s been picked up.

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is giving Theranos

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Hello to the teens who live above me. Have you heard of an inside voice and what type of baked goods can I bribe you with to use it?

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It strikes me that some people seem to be equating social media and phone use. How will young people talk to their friends if they’re not on social media? Presumably in a group text like everyone else, etc.

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martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I think anyone engaging in Europe / US food discourse should roll themselves down a hill. Not only does everyone come out looking worse for wear, it’s the most unbelievably boring shit.

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I haven’t read whatever equivalences have been thrown around so not a direct Rebuttal but web scraping and the exploitation of labor + the violence of creating a ‘permanent underclass’ (their words not mine) are two sides of the same coin

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Van Cliburn Fritz Reiner emperor concerto. nothing at all to do with what music “is” everything to do with how much I can pump into an accompanying monologue

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 31/05/2026

when you understand Tilly Norwood as tech demo first, you have to ask, what is being demonstrated? what is its real purpose and value in the marketplace? the idea that this would be "the next movie star" is a con. a marketing tool to raise capital interest in the potential of the underlying tech.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's because you won't let them have credit cards, in a cashless society what's a wolf supposed to do

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Feeling a lot of pain watching Ruud rn

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My GP not allowing you to discuss more than one thing per appointment and also not allowing you to book appointments more in advance than the morning of sucks actually

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think some of the reason why price caps are able to float rhetorically right now is that consumers know they’ve been gouged not just by market circumstances beyond eg a manufacturer‘s control but also by companies going for record profit because they know they can gouge

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Today I will be bringing two leftover Detroit-style slices to the airport for lunch. Wish me luck.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

AI Booster Graduation Speaker: lame, uninspiring, zero juice, students hate it Muppet Graduation Speaker: life-changing, memorable, solution to most world problems

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Millard Fillmore gets me Moby-Dick (1851). Any other art during his term is a nice bonus.

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 09/05/2026

no offense but this might be my finest work

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Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For a normal business, something like this should be unsurvivable. But AI companies get away with it by promising infinite magic unicorns in an unspecified future and telling us that future must happen.

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Nice sunny day you have there… it would be a shame if a stiff breeze lowered the feels like temperature significantly…

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I just felt a shiver run through me and sensed that perhaps a type of sloppy, sentimental overwriting that plagued the 2010s is finally over

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Personal bugbear but I wish people would stop calling them “hallucinations”. It’s propaganda to humanise AI and suggest it has sentience. These are errors we wouldn’t accept in any other tech product. Imagine saying your SatNav “hallucinated” a road through someone’s house.

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Actually shed some tears over Wout‘s PR win. Hell of a rider, so so sweet to see this victory after the adversity of the last couple years

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I have the weekend totally to myself which I haven’t had in ages and Paris-Roubaix is tomorrow and it’s sunny and still crisp outside AND I’m about to finish on the calculation of volume III so I’m totally in the clear to buy another book today. Can’t be beat

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Lauren @anti-corporate.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There is a fine line between feeling like I’m raising my landlords property value at my own cost and feeling like I’m actually making my own life in my apartment better by doing things the agency/my landlord will not fix or spring for

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

you ever notice how media uses this weird framing when talking about men and boys? it's always, "hmm, women are doing better according to this specific metric. how do we help men get back on top?"

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