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Bronwyn Clarke @bronwync.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's Frocktober! I'm wearing a frock every day for the Australian Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation's campaign to raise awarenes of Ovarian cancer, and research funds. It's the most deadly of gynaecological cancers, and there's no early detection test. www.frocktober.org.au/fundraise/br...

A smiling middle-aged woman with shoulder-length grey hair is wearing a black calf-length dress, a rust-coloured hand knit cardigan, with a rust and black scarf. She stands in front of a bookshelf, and there's a tan and white dog looking at her.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More gas is used to convert gas to LNG exports than is used by the entire manufacturing industry. We don't need more gas. #NoNewGas #TAXtheGAS

Charts showing gas use/size by PJ:

LNG exports: 4,425PJ
LNG conversion plant use: 437PJ
Manufacturing: 370PJ

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Typical leftie 🇵🇸 @mir-cat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't understand where they think we're going to get the additional 4,000 GPs to replace those retiring in the next 5 years without migration. Are any doctors going to want to move to Australia without their families? What's the plan for hospitality & farm workers without backpackers? #auspol

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wish all the crafters would start writing blogs (not Substack) again. Let's pretend IG doesn't exist and instead share longer form writing, or just pictures, again. Let's reclaim the blog community we used to have... #Blogging

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A scientific paper already has a carefully thought out abstract & conclusions I can look at if I want an overview. A book is supposed to be a joy to read, an intellectual and emotional experience to relish. This is not something that advanced statistics can either add to or improve on.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're wondering what has been going on in this domain, please do read this.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

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Bronwyn Clarke @bronwync.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A lovely few days back in Armidale, and I presented at the Folk Museum on my re-creation of an 1884 wedding dress - the 1st time the dresses have been together. Alas, I did not get proper photos, only this quick snap. I’m kicking myself I didn’t take better photos and hope someone did.

An older lady in a purple sweater and scarf stands beside a mannequin with a beige close-fitting 1880s dress with draped fabric over the hips and two rows of pleated fabric and silk satin decorations on the lower skirt. Another mannequin stands beside it, in the original extant dress, which is a yellow-cream in tone.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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Filigree 'Cranky Science Witch' @filigreemchana.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So wonderful to hear!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We never write history just once. Any person or group who thinks they can get to a “best version” of history and then be done does not understand anything about history, historiography, archives, or data.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A reminder that AI, even the supposedly more advanced and dependable AI systems that your institution/university pushes you and your students to use will make stuff up (aka lie to you). Don't depend on it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

13.Before we judge we are shaped by everything that brought this moment to us. After we respond, someone else will be shaped by what we bring into it. Sensitivity sees we participate in unfolding reality, not reacting to isolated events. Every moment is both an inheritance & an offering (cont)

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Publication day today for The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens! See this 🧵 for a chapter breakdown. Discount code & links in my bio.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'the Humanities and Social Sciences....disciplines ask not just “what works?” but “for whom?”, “at what cost?”, “under what assumptions?” and “towards what kind of society?” They are central to good policy, democratic accountability and social mobility.' Essential reading. Read it. 3/3

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14/07/2026

Counterpoint: Since A.I. is built on intellectual property theft and the irreversible destruction of our natural resources, the wealth it generates must be seized for reparations, and the people enabling it thrown in jail.

His rationale is simple and compelling. “Since A.I. is built on the collective knowledge of humanity,” Senator Sanders writes, “the wealth it generates must benefit humanity.”

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Under no circumstances are ‘the people of Clacton’ a substitute for the rule of law.

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Amy Wilson @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Congratulations #KateBashford who won this year’s @costumesociety.org.uk Patterns of Fashion Awards with this stunning replica of a 1730s riding habit from the collection at Snowshill Manor. She even cast the pewter buttons! #fashionhistory #18thCentury #patternsoffashion

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"As a teenager,I walked through concentration camps in Poland, where the Nazis industrialised the murder of European Jewry.That history has shaped not only my Jewish identity,but a commitment to political struggle." Read Sarah's powerful Guardian Australia op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Diane de Vignemont writes in clear language about the Society of Saint Pius X, which is hankering for the good ol' days of Vichy France and a Judenrein Paris. "In France, our history won’t let us call it merely traditionalist. We know exactly what to call it."

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The Dark History Behind This Week’s Schism in the Catholic Church

By framing the Society of Saint Pius X as quaint "traditionalists," U.S. media coverage is whitewashing the group's record of fascist sympathies and antisemitism.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 02/07/2026

I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

For sure. The left and the right are not morally interchangeable, but humans are responding to the same underlying conditions of alienation and anxiety and loss of control. The difference is whether suffering produces empathy and solidarity or a desire to find someone even weaker to punish.

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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

History will record that those who allowed trump to destroy the US and did nothing are judged in the same light as trump himself. The same will apply to those who allowed Hanson to spruik nonsense and didn’t hold her to account. THE STANDARD YOU WALK PAST IS THE STANDARD YOU ACCEPT.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/06/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent

Elsewhere, someone might have said, “It’s just books! Books aren’t dangerous!” But even ordinary books are dangerous, and not only the ones like Make Gelignite the Professional Way. A man sits in some museum somewhere and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven’t even read it are dying because the ones who did haven’t got the joke. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 25/06/2026

Also not the biggest concern, but the situation Josh is accurately describing is a compound nightmare because the lack of employers means young creatives aren't learning anything about the craft from veterans of their industries. It's all atomized. And knowledge loss is thus massive :(

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

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Bronwyn Clarke @bronwync.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A series of adverts in The Argus 29 July 1854 by Mrs Tuckett, a milliner in Melbourne Australia includes an intriguing reference to a "Point Lace Berthe, worn in the reign of Louis XVI". Importing bundles of 2nd-hand clothing was common in this time - did she find a treasure? #fashionhistory

A series of newspaper advertisements that read:
Mrs Tuckett has just opened a superb lot of dresses direct from Paris.
Mrs Tuckette has a magnificent Point Lace Berthe, worn in the reign of Louis XI.
Mrs Tuckett, 57 Bourke-street, has just receied a case of elegant French Bonnets.
Mrs Tuckett has for inspection a splendid assortment of Coiffures, in Feathers, Flowers and Velvets.
Mrs Tuckett begs to call attention to her stock of Braided Pelisses and Children's Evening Dresses

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/06/2026

Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is bombshell stuff.

Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.

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