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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Roses are first, Violets come next. You miss half the fun If you skip the alt-text.

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As more people got access to degrees gradually they weren’t seen as worth as much… fast forward to today where we’re being told machines can & should do our thinking & our work. The oligarchs saying this are descendants (in some cases literally) of the people who tried to keep most of us uneducated.

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Seconding this recommendation. I use spoon theory a lot (I find it useful both for self-understanding and in my education/advocacy work), but didn't know anyone had formalised a neurodivergent-specific version of it 👍

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If I were Farage, I probably wouldn't remind everyone how much of a Russian asset I am.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Went to Cambridge Poetry Festival today, about thirty years since I arrived as a fresher at Kings, and noticed this is now opposite - an EVIL LOCUST CLOCK that EATS TIME! (bit on the nose)

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Sulfurous Trans-Face @oxmounter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This Is Just to Say I have trained the AI to read to our baby the one you were probably expecting me to interact with Calm down AI is awesome so sweet and so cold

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Many people - politicians, doctors, parents - see the neurodiversity movement & feel the threat it poses to their worldview. If some minds are different, if some of us are fucked by the school system as it stands - totally shamed & brutalised by its inadequacy - that requires radical change.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mark Fisher says weird things are 'hypernatural'. The monster ought not to be here, but it is here, therefore it is not the monster which is wrong, but our model of the world. That's profoundly destabilising. The monster & my old way of thinking cannot co-exist. This is the threat of the neuroweird.

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HeretikalDeb @heretikos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All of this. Excellent thread.

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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

10. Making it a private, medical, individualised problem by introducing shame (just like Mark Fisher framed the way we treat mental illness) deflects from a social critique of disabling structures like schools and institutions. it’s easier to say “fix yourself” than “the system is harming people.”

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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

8. Accepting ADHD means admitting the level playing field was never level, that success wasn’t pure merit, that the game was rigged toward a narrow frame of cognition. That’s threatening to people who believe they succeeded “on merit”

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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

7. Here's what makes certain people uneasy: To accept reality of ADHD is to accept the system itself is disabling, which means the structures must change, & that threatens those who benefit most from them. Easier to deny ADHD than to accept structural change

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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

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ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge

Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold

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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

3. ~5% of children and 2-3% of adults have ADHD. Far fewer are diagnosed or helped. The UK has lower recognition rates than comparable European countries. The “epidemic” is a myth; the reality is people still being missed

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ORCA @orca4el.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last night, activists painted a mural near the University of Cambridge Sidgwick Site, leaving a manifesto calling for Cambridge’s staff, students, and community members to organise themselves and take action against the far-right within the institution.

A screenshot of the thisisnotadrill.info website, with a picture of a blue wall with spray painted on it two khamsa and the text No Pasaran!

Under the picture is the text in the post.

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HeretikalDeb @heretikos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having now purchased a jar, this review is 100% correct.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can do “university isn’t just about employment” all day, but also, this is objectively not true. The graduate premium— the amount of “extra” thst graduates can be expected to earn iver people with L3 (A-level equivalent) quals has decreased, as the wage spread has go increasingly compressed, but>

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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 06/10/2026

this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...

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‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember being a little salty before I had read Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI that he had invited the Anthropic guy to be there. It made me nervous he had gotten snowed and would pull his punches. It feels so good to learn that actually Anthropic was livid and almost pulled out of the event

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Belle de jour @bowman120.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Tapestry is not complete without these newly found missing panels…

Labour’s response to the CPC26 Bayeux Tapestry featuring Liza Truss and Boris Johnson

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

THE TAPESTRY IS HERE #CPC26

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You may think you're cool, but you'll never be as cool as Lithuanian folk art St Francis doing stigmata kung fu (via limis.lt)

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Might be misremembering but pretty sure there is no evidence of this type of plague doctor mask in England, I think the images are all German. It does look cool though and this was an effective figure,

Wire plague doctor figure, in hat and the beaked mark, holding a knife in one hand and a long staff in the other.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026

"The University of Cambridge refused to sign plagiarism detection software Turnitin’s new licence agreement, which could have allowed students’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models."

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Uni opposes Turnitin AI training plans

The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU

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HeretikalDeb @heretikos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One the best food reviews I've read in a while. Magnificent all round.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Etymology of the day: the expression ‘you have another thing coming’ was originally ‘you have another think coming’: today’s version appeared within a year of the original, back in the 1800s. A short piece on the joyful messiness of linguistic evolution. susiedent.substack.com/p/another-th...

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Another think coming

How linguistic evolution is as messy as it is joyful

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone costs it. It turns out high quality work placements for young people are way more expensive than university. At that point it’s either shelved or downgraded further to an optional six-week teamwork and leadership programme with no work placements.

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NetworkOnAir @networkonair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#BOTD the multi-talented Anthony Newley. We know and love him for Gurney Slade, but he’s known to millions as the writer of Feeling Good, sung by Nina Simone, What Kind of Fool Am I, sung by Sammy Davis Jnr., and as co-composer of the score for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Greenhouse from recycled church stained glass windows, also known as "Sacré Blur" was made by horticultural installation artists Heywood and Condie from salvaged 18th and 19th century ecclesiastical stained glass. London

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/09/2026

Something I very sincerely love about bake off is how they throw this stuff in the chat with absolutely no preamble, no follow up, no nothing just boom “here’s himself and his partners” “here’s herself in a wheelchair we will not mention it otherwise but her counter is accessible”

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 21/09/2026

It’s back to school and for lots of parents it’s the first time you are not receiving updates on what your child is doing all day and you want to know, but when you ask your child they have amnesia and tell you they did “nothing” all day.

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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you or someone you know is starting Uni, share our student guide to the hidden curriculum with them. It’s a no nonsense guide to the things we might forget to explain, and it might just help them make sense of the first few weeks. What is a tutorial anyway? qaa.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#58000...

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Salesforce

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gemini: A Gemini is someone you can trust to help you hide a dead body, but you can’t trust them not to dress the body up in a clown costume and parade it around a bit.

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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.

A small digger trying its hardest to dig out the Ever Given ship that has run aground. It says, “Structural Problem” on the giant Ever Given and, “Making different personal choices” on the tiny digger.

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stephanie Cole's death reminded me of a fact that some fellow millennials may find distressing. When Waiting for God started, she was 48.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Long day, week, month etc, but damn if this isn’t a nice album. Rhiannon Giddens makes bluegrass songs with teeth. Beautiful, full-throated, both traditional and of-the-moment.

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Hope is the Thing with Feathers, by Rhiannon Giddens

10 track album

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents…

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UoY Digital Accessibility Unit @uoydigacc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you leave all physical accessibility considerations like ramps and lifts until a building is finished, the retrofit can be difficult (and costly). With both physical and digital infrastructure, it's much easier to build in accessibility from the start. If it isn't accessible, it isn't finished.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BBC launching an elaborate information campaign to show off everything they do with the licence fee and really all they needed to do was show Victoria Coren Mitchell forcing a bunch of nerds to sing ‘S Club Party’ against their will

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