Reposted by Frances LievensMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty. Let us seek to end this inhumane and immoral practice around the world, especially here in America. It is so deplorable that in the 21st century this is going on in a modern democracy. 7322102
Reposted by Frances LievensTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Fungal Misadventure: a short short story I wrote, which I've decided to tell here in the form a thread, using eleven photos I've taken of excellent fungi on my walks, and one I took of quite a fancy chicken... 112024
Reposted by Frances LievensThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today: 441113982500
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So many mammograms in the last year, and I hated every one of them (and also feared it, for whatever extra lump might show up). One point of light were all the techs knowing exactly what kind of ordeal it was & helping me through it. 110
Reposted by Frances LievensJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10895132984
Reposted by Frances LievensSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 03/10/2026I think people are amazing 733056
Reposted by Frances LievensMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17572671995
Reposted by Frances LievensDemocrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So cool… Stick with it. #Caturday 10805125
Reposted by Frances LievensLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Your blunt m’lord” Vintage Reuge musical dispenser IG: @estatesaleedit 1011465246
Reposted by Frances LievensChaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 21/09/2026“Life in the Shower” - a fun little series I started a while back and just updated! When you’re in your own shower… 16924
Reposted by Frances LievensAsk a Manager @askamanager.org · 23/09/2026askamanager.orgmy momMy mom, Barbara Green, died two years ago this week. I wrote this for her. It is not about work. My mother scheduled her death for 10 a.m. on a Wednesday. Two years earlier, she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — metastatic, we learned one horrible afternoon at Johns Hopkins, which meant surgery wasn’t […] The post my mom appeared first on Ask a Manager. 9668
Reposted by Frances LievensAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems. 5743293
Reposted by Frances LievensAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 14/09/202625 degrees in mid-september is not right and is scary. 2152
Reposted by Frances LievensAbdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Thanks @lottelambrecht.bsky.social for the interview in the Belgian @standaard.be. We discuss the complex relationship between DNA, behavior, and society, racist pseudoscience from people like Nathan Cofnas & Emil Kirkegaard, and polygenic embryo selection. English: drive.google.com/file/d/1jSpH... 14213
Reposted by Frances LievensSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.anyhumanever.comAny Human EverOne life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived. 54547189
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 25/08/2026youtu.be/mYwbSf_TBAY?...youtu.beDolly Parton - Here You Come Again & Two Doors Down LIVE (Carson Tonight 1977)YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD 010
Reposted by Frances LievensFun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week. 363012765
Reposted by Frances LievensSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/08/2026Quite a lot of hand-wringing could be saved if we all understood that for some people “the Establishment” means “the People who reinforce the cultural norm that racism is shameful” 311735
Reposted by Frances LievensKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on. 7166841358
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I loved that film! Like Matthew says: it was Heartstopper for my generation. 020
Reposted by Frances LievensAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions. 7855081452
Reposted by Frances LievensTheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing. 1373288889
Reposted by Frances LievensArjan @koparjan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Could bluesky be the better twitter? This man had been found in Amsterdam and he’s probably been in NL for a few decades. He might be Canadian. Share and solve? 564109
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It’s not just raining this morning, it’s pouring & for once it does not induce a solemn state in me. 000
Reposted by Frances LievensLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This was such an incredible moment 25411
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I read this book, partly because of the rave reviews on this app here, partly because I love that title and book cover (yes, I judge books by their cover) and will now urge the boyfriend to read it. It was deeply moving and I’ll probably read it again to fully grasp & appreciate the language. 1182
Reposted by Frances LievensChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026As far as woke 1 & woke 2, that is all utter bullshit because woke is Black people's word from our community that they stole & appropriated to do all kinds of outlandish things with, & neither woke 1 nor woke 2 have anything to do with what woke has always meant & continues to mean to Black folks. 12555148
Reposted by Frances LievensDoug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026With the solar eclipse coming up on Wednesday evening it’s good to draw people’s attention to this useful and timeless* explainer of different astronomical phenomena. * since 2014 in its original Twitter form 6377117
Reposted by Frances LievensNicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Ray Bradbury’s 1950 story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, starts with a household AI reminding its owners of their appointments. But nobody is listening; they have all been killed in a nuclear war. 4324128
Reposted by Frances LievensAaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury 231545898
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Coming up on the train to London at the start of July Kent looked like I was taking the train to the South of France. 010
Reposted by Frances LievensTodd Tyrtle @gooutsidetoday.com · 03/08/2026Reading got me through a difficult childhood with alcoholic parents, dramatic teenage years and a pandemic. It's getting me through whatever this thing that is happening now is, and I highly recommend it. 1214
Reposted by Frances Lievensthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close. 86211346646
Reposted by Frances LievensSistaRay @sista-ray.bildung.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026Nachdem @EvaLie letztens Horrorschnitzel vorgefunden hat, bringe ich Blumenkohl-Blobs und Käse und Huhn mit Pünktchen. Die tatsächliche Präsentation war deutlich ansprechender! #AISlop #AISlopMenu 001
Reposted by Frances LievensNicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A story that doesn't yet seem to have hit the English-speaking media: Belgian power-lifter Sonita Muluh lost out on a world championship title because of a mis-step by one of her spotters. He then bragged that "I'm racist and I did it on purpose". rmcsport.bfmtv.com/societe/je-s...rmcsport.bfmtv.com"Je suis raciste et je l’ai fait exprès": incroyable histoire de sabotage au championnats du monde de powerliftingPromise au titre dans la catégorie féminine des super-lourds (+84 kg) des Championnats du monde de powerlifting, en juin dernier, Sonita Muluh a été victime d'un sabotage de la part d'un de ses propre... 74443
Reposted by Frances LievensBouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner. 8437107
Reposted by Frances LievensSteph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Just asked to fill out a survey for Tumblr about their Premium services. So, here's my answer for their final open answer question, "Is there anything else you want to tell us?" *cracks knuckles* 216233
Reposted by Frances LievensNicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The looting of science fiction, by Ali Rıza Taşkale Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future Not the first piece I have seen like this, but one of the best. aeon.co/essays/silic... 12719
Reposted by Frances LievensLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This. Is. Cinema. (cheers @awesomerobots.bsky.social for alerting me) www.reddit.com/r/TheRandome...reddit.comFrom the TheRandomest community on Reddit: FirestarterExplore this post and more from the TheRandomest community 3125
Reposted by Frances LievensMatt Separa @mattsepara.bsky.social · 21/07/2026So today I learned there are little doors in the gates to the Colosseum in Rome because the city cats go there at night to sleep. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social 552894536
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Same in the old building I teach in in Brussels: old windows, poor ventilation. During the heat wave late June we had our pupils go home at noon because there was nowhere else to go. When it’s nearing 30 degrees we can go outside and play in the park. When it’s 37 degrees there’s only our basement. 010
Reposted by Frances LievensLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 21/07/2026picnic hazard: heist from musée royal d'art & d'histoire, escaping on motorcycles, pursued by police 152
Reposted by Frances LievensSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Wonderful #map shows the name for the #Smurfs across Europe. The map also wins my award for best legend of the year! Source: buff.ly/2DkpbGw 59231
Reposted by Frances LievensOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 21/07/20261) This is more epic than any running shoe ad has ever been. 2) We need to know who this extraordinary woman is and where she got her indestructible ankles. 1821172
Frances Lievens @franceslievens.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Cory #Doctorow on AI-bubbles and how we can fight them. youtu.be/tOnvR2fs8CAyoutu.beWaarom jij straks het hulpje van AI bent (en niet andersom) | Cory DoctorowYouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht 000
