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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glasgow Subway has some of the nicest staff anywhere. Shoutout to the lady at Cessnock who saved me from myself this morning!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I fear you may be right. It has a vague whiff of the early 2000s, when I felt ok about making fun of silliness because I believed things might get better.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm probably a dinosaur, but I wish students were allowed more time just to be students: to study, to read, to think, to talk to each other, to have big ideas - maybe even to have fun now & then. I'm not convinced turning unis into training centres is going to fix bigger problems in the jobs market

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Difficult day. Am watching Criminal Minds, a show which makes way more sense when you assume the profilers are all psychics.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That's such a good idea - why don't I do that?

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There is not one part of life in the UK not touched by the legacies of the slave trade. Both my parents benefitted from the Dick Bequest as they studied to be teachers in NE Scotland, and thought of it as a 'nice' thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D...

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just learned about a new mammal! How often does that happen in your late 40s? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desman

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Desman - Wikipedia

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When my cat keeps her claws sheathed as she jumps down from my bare knee, her soft paws feel like love.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I slow blinked at my cat. She gazed at me in judgement then looked away, with the distinct air of a lady rejecting an importune advance.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Stars & Stripes was operated as an independent newspaper from 1861 until it encountered Pete Hegseth...

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If anyone can help me more directly find a home for this poor little cat do get in touch! She is currently in my bathroom and I'm calling shelters, but so far not getting anywhere much.

A small tabby and white cat, curled up and asleep on a doorstep

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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nanopticon

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's kind of weird that in the writing about Arday's accuser he was generally referred to as 'academic' or 'staff member' and no one seemed to mention he was, specifically, a post-doc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's a very good book, and the chapter on care work honoured the dignity of carer and cared for very movingly.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Always happy when I see this post - it reminds me I should go do it!

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I think I may have taken "The Bronze Age remains the cable went close to were mentioned in Pembrokeshire council planning documents, external about the power link." and made it into a bigger thing than it actually was. I do maintain though that real world celebration of fiction should be harmless.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I think you're right - it's fine in principle. The problem starts when preserving the memorial to popular fiction carries other costs, such as jeopardising a real grave site. It seems unbalanced that the (potentially brief) passion for Dobby should imperil a real person's actual grave.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Similar pattern with Jacqueline Wilson (children) and Jodi Picoult (adults) - if that was the voice you liked, that was the voice you liked and you would accept no substitute. As an educator, I could never quite work out what to do about it.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Greek supermarkets sell grapes off the stems. Whole container, full of just grapes, like they were blueberries or something!

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sometimes my cat will pounce on me with her claws carefully kept in, and it has the exact tactile sensation of friendship.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Post-panic attack cat snuggles. My knee is her chin rest.

Vaguely grumpy black and white cat resting her head on a woman's knee.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And us old folks who got this via Roger Lancelyn Green!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

UK food retail industry leadership went from: "nobody could possibly track and mitigate all allergens in a restaurant it's too complex" to: "allergies? here is a complete list of all allergens and our mitigation strategy" in WEEKS after the first boss got jailed for manslaughter.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 17/07/2026

If I were a nominally progressive political party and my policies on LGBT rights were being condemned by *establishment Christian organisations* as cruel, inhumane and regressive, I would probably ask myself what the hell I was doing @andyburnham.bsky.social

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I agree that disabled students will suffer. I am a little cautious about the framing that business creates and distributes harmful Ed tech and all the responsibility for dealing with the fallout descends on educators.

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Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

expending so much energy being angry at people simply existing outside their wee bubble. Nigel please sit down, have a nice mug of Horlicks, and watch some Columbo. you'll feel much better 💜

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My iTunes loves to download tracks twice and, when it is feeling especially whimsical, will delete both of them when I try to get rid of the spare.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'"A lot of people, like teachers or readers, don't really care if AI was used in the writing process, but do care if the human is the one behind the heart of it,” Russell said. “A teacher wants to know if their student understood the lesson,' As a teacher I could never separate medium and message.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Terrifyingly naive article about Gen AI and financial regulation.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'An air of exchanging Oxford wisdom while few academics outside Oxbridge can count their jobs as safe. An air of fiddling while Exeter burns.' 2/2

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Is this house basically the garage? If so, took me til pic 10 because I'm slow.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Need them in govt - schools are required to use edtech and told we are failing when we don't (or don't want to).

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Labour really demonstrating how they are the cruelest, most anti-asylum, government in decades. That isn't to say Conservatives weren't hideous, but Labour are significantly worse on every measure. This is a policy rooted purely in cruelty over anything else. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Refugees will be told to repay £10,000 under new asylum rules

Ministers will be given powers to recover costs from adults who have received asylum support under new laws.

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abby (sports) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I thought you were joking. It really is retract and resubmit! 🤯

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Vamos al Noah Noah @sophicthunder.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I have two engineering degrees, and can confirm - absolutely surrounded by people who are convinced that 1) STEM is the most difficult 2) Your silly expertise would be so easy They would not understand the difference between watching a movie and reading the synopsis on Wikipedia.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

3/6 for me today - which is good for me!

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My little cat is snoring musically in her electric bed. "Hmmm....hmmm....hmmmm"

Black and white cat curled up in round plush bed. Snores not pictured.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Shamefully, the bits of my stats course I really enjoy are the computer-marked exams where I didn't study enough and have to wing it.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

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Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

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catlaughing.bsky.social @catlaughing.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I wonder what quality of reviews this will elicit.

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