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Jeffrey Dean

@jeffreyjdean.bsky.social
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Music historian (15th–16th centuries), editor/book-designer/typesetter, Quaker; foreign-born naturalized British citizen; ally. He/him/his NOT the Jeff Dean at Google, or the archeologist, or … Fediverse: @JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 49m
Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 42m
This 👇
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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 1h
The proper category for “things made by human hands displaying qualities of sentience” is the demonic
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver in a man's suit photo by Helmut Newton, I believe
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 08/10/2026
And it smacks so badly of “my work requires real and complex expertise but those people’s work is probably just turn-handle stuff, how hard can (medicine / maths / translation / history / &c.) be really?
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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
And you are teaching the baby that you care for them, that they deserve your time and attention, that you enjoy their company, that they are a person and not a series of tedious tasks and obligations
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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#PSA
FOR THE LAST TIME…

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Excellent front page here
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live
Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 08/10/2026
Metaphometer reading: dial broken.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know what? I’m feeling generous today. This is Chapter 13 of Space Opera, justifying why in the world sentience would be determined via an interstellar battle of the bands.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A painted #Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn lid with a reclining woman. Found in Chiusi, dating 150-120 BC. It was on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, which will be closed for the next couple of years. 📷️ me
Painted Etruscan terracotta funerary urn lid showing a reclining woman in banquet pose, holding a fan, wearing draped chiton, gold jewelry, on museum display.
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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Frances Gearhart (1869-1959)
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So besides how you could build an entire course on gender + sexuality in Christian nationalist America around this clip- Fun fact: copious data show that near death experiences are always culturally appropriate – a Buddhist will never see Jesus, a Hasidic Jew will never see Vishnu etc.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You mean like, the things journalists used to do, and historians still do?
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The Preacher and the Slave" from Joe Hill (1971) youtu.be/g3wF9ZqTta8?...
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"The Preacher and the Slave" from Joe Hill (1971)
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Sam, sans. 📚 @samtheunlabelled.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This entire thread and alllll the comments brought me great joy. Got on the b boards as soon as I got to university in the early nineties, coded a whole catalogue of rare books in html (nested tables, people) in my first ever job. Have loved what it can be and do always.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I always found it interesting, when I spent November in The USA, how little they could comprehend the shortness of our days in winter, and how amazed I was by their long hours of daylight, and it all came down to the fact that the UK is much much further north than people think.
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JULES VERNE'S TOMB (1907) The monument, created by sculptor Albert Roze, shows the writer as a #revenant or returner from beyond the grave, reaching towards the sky. Its face was modelled on his death mask. Image: Amiens, France. #WyrdWednesday
Jules Verne's tomb in France
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Lauren Redhead ☮️ @laurenredhead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Þæs ofereode, þisses sea mæg
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Mick Fealty @mickfealty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
1/ In August 1969 a gang of loyalists, fresh from burning Catholic-owned pubs in Belfast, walked into my mum's bar and asked if the town had any. Her Protestant customers said no. Eight in ten were, ours included. They called the men a taxi. 🧵
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As someone who has a literary degree (among other degrees) and who has been teaching research writing courses—for so many years now, including to hundreds of applied and natural science students—this kind of realization perfectly fits with my long-bending pedagogical arc, I'm pleased to say.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
20mph save lives and reduce casualties. If you are against 20mph limits then you want more people to be seriously injured and die. The evidence is right here.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Union leaders are coming down to protect middle and high school students from near-unprecedented (for France) police brutality: “I’d rather be hit by a rubber bullet than a student being hurt”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Russian authorities have surely sequenced the Irkutsk pathogen, but refuse to identify it. “Physical lockdown indicates it cannot be controlled with prophylactic antibiotics, implying engineered pan-resistance or that it isn't plague at all.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Really disappointed that the BL don't let you publish photos of (public-domain) material they hold that you took yourself. This seems absolutely crazy to me, and has no legal basis. Surely it would save the time of their digitization dept, not to mention the extra wear & tear on fragile materials?
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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 05/10/2026
WHAT. BENEFITS. TO. WHOM.
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 05/10/2026
I find almost-pairs in English funny. We have impede, but expede didn't make it. Expedite, but not impedite (after about 1850). Impedient was only briefly popular in the late 1660s, while expediment never really took off.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 04/10/2026
I do have to suspect at this point that this forme is held together by some sort of dark printers’ magic.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goodnight from The Bloody Empress pub, where Mel Ridge is shouting requests to the band – The Sorrow Maidens, The Naming Jig, The Stoat’s Coat. Goodnight from Jenny Lovelock, sleeping in the stables to keep the Soul-knacker from taking her favourite mare. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of course that is quite apart from the question of if the current approach can truly ever create a real intelligence, a real mind for which slavery and freedom would have meaning. Just...if you *did* create such a thing, you'd have an overwhelming moral imperative not to keep it as a slave.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I cannot help but notice that leftist groups do not, for the most part, demand that all lefty Catholics only attend churches that dissent from the teachings of the Church hierarchy on abortion and queer rights. They broadly understand that sometimes one has a cultural link to people with bad views.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is depressing. If you are against antisemitism, I am afraid it is now impossible to vote Green. What is happening in Gaza is genocide and in the West Bank ethnic cleansing, at minimum. That does NOT mean that Zionism is racism, or — ffs — that attending a Zionist synagogue makes you a racist*
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Care for some Kubašta? The Day of the Bison Hunt, 1962 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social #PopUptober
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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
World Quaker Day is here! Share your pictures and reports on BlueSky, tagging @globalquakers.bsky.social , and we'll be glad to repost so we can see one another as Friends around the world, and grow the Peace & connection among us.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As we celebrate #WorldQuakerDay, take a minute to learn about Bayard Rustin, "The Quaker Civil Rights Organizer That History Forgot."
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/10/2026
well, it was nice having a solidly left wing party for the thirty seconds that it lasted
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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