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TELedvisors Network @teledvisors.bsky.social · 10h

Everybody understands the challenges involved in working in the tertiary education third space but what can we do to make this better? Our expert panel explores some possible options in our most recent TELedvisors Network webinar - making the third space a great space youtu.be/uUUwo2s5MAU

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

shame, just as they record an enormous bonce in the polls

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Andy Conway Morris @andymoz78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...

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The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.

We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning. ☕️

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never signed a release

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is wild. Cyber leopards ate my face though?

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Dr. Gustavo Espinoza-Ramos @tavoer8.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A6 Sometimes we underestimate the importance of role models in the local HE institution. There should be a lessons learned journal that can be shared when working in a similar context, maybe sharing these in different formats like podcasts, videos, blogs, etc #LTHEChat

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Kermit the Frog: Dear Diary...

ALT: Kermit the Frog: Dear Diary...

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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s Christopher Walken, isn’t it?

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I interviewed my air fryer and asked if he ever got tired of chicken wings

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Late to the party but this really is the Raygun of documentaries

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

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Rewriting the Mechanic

Rewriting the Mechanic examines how written descriptions, circulating across genres in eighteenth-century Britain, transformed certain mechanical arts by imagining them as newly innovative, authoritat...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If they will "today unveil plan" they haven't revealed anything yet @news.abc.net.au

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: New Hors D’oeuvre

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The response to these questions about trans kids playing sports is very simple: “Stop bullying literal children, you freaks.”

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

how is this real

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.

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Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Learning is not just knowledge acquisition, but also learning about learning & yourself. The portfolio makes that learning visible & encourages you to document & reflect on it. @profcathyelliott.bsky.social has that baked into her classes & assessment criteria. podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We spent thousands of years trying to produce enough food, shelter and energy for everyone. We finally became capable of doing it. Then we invented shareholders.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 02/09/2026

If Sook Nation catches on we could really sweep the leg on this whole malarkey

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Andrew Eisen @andreweisen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"No reasonable consumer thinks they own a digital game when they go to the PlayStation STORE, select BUY GAMES, put one in a SHOPPING CART, press PURCHASE and get an email that confirms the TRANSACTION with a RECEIPT listing the GAME," disingenuously argued Sony, pretending it's monumentally stupid.

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Liam Pomfret @liampomfret.com · 01/09/2026

The new “Slip, Slop, Slap” for 2026. If you try to SLIP me some AI SLOP, then I’m going to SLAP you upside the head. (Now all we need are some catchy accompanying lyrics and a seagull-themed mascot.)

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Being part of a footy tipping contest has me invested in games I would never previously have given a care about. Trying to find a way to transfer this energy to student engagement. Thoughts?

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Tim Moss @tdmoss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google. You are a bunch of pathetic fucks.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's important for Ben to retain that vital cooker vote who absolutely would vote for Labor but for this statue.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited to kick off a new blog for and about education third space practitioners. Weekly ed.advisors must-read posts and more edadvisors.beehiiv.com This week: Am I third space staff and do I want to be & Webinar/Research into ways that academic developers practice leadership

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I had someone else in mind for #3. I did like her art though and that's a good innings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Enjoying a nice talk and celebrating nothing at all in particular with a work friend

Screen in theatre says Cory Doctorow Enshittification

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I brought a gun to the gun fight on account of being a stickler for the rules.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Deakin "road to career success" tram just passed me again going the other way. Probably not an omen

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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 24/08/2026

A+ no notes

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Messenger by Jimmy Little is such a magical and underrated album. Def one of my top 3 gigs also. Velvety covers of oz classics

Screenshot of messenger album in music playlist. Text includes songs Down below, under the milky way, randwick bells and into temptation

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It may be a small thing but uni leadership releasing a staff survey asking what we think should be prioritised in terms of qualities and values in hiring the new VC gives me good vibes.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/08/2026

'Resistance to data centers is chatbot eugenics' holy christ some people are cooked

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m begging left critics of established (academic) institutions to learn that scarcity is not something the established institutions invented to protect themselves, but that there really are things called budgets. The ACLS is not being outspent because the ACLS prefers not to spend

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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big tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Nobody should watch the HBO Harry Potter shit. We should make it tha most expensive loss with turning every bit of news about it just into negative PR so they won’t even want to advertise it. You act in this shit? Damn that’s tough, you’re lost to us for life hope the money was worth it.

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