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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 11/10/2026
Adding to the pile of books to read…
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Angela Duckworth @angeladuckworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I wrote my most recent guest essay for @nytopinion because, both personally and as a researcher, I’ve learned that grit alone is not enough: successful people need support. 📰 Read the full article using this gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common. (Gift Article)
Being a successful self-starter doesn’t mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"This is a document about the importance of art as a way to comment on the world, the artist’s resilience in the face of the controversies their work might inspire, and the determination not to let violence be the answer to everything." -- @petersob13.bsky.social www.rogerebert.com/reviews/knif...
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Knife review: Salman Rushdie doc is a potent reminder of art's power amid persecution
A simple but strong document about the importance of art as a way to comment on the world.
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Dr. Kira Jones, Halloween edition 🎃🦇👻 @flaviansophist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is probably my favorite chapter in Villager. It is exactly what any group message board inevitably morphed into back in the day.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Writer Tove Jansson’s name has been on everyone’s lips. Last year saw the 80th birthday of her much-adored creation, the Moomins Now a film adaptation is on general release here of her novel The Summer Book, thanks to Scottish indie distribution company Conic
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This Scottish-produced movie is one to take your time with – even just for 90 minutes
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/05/2026
Travis McGee on Enshittifcation
There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase the market penetration. Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units of something and make a profit of thirty cents a unit, when you can increase the advertising, sell five million units, and make a nickel profit a unit. Thus the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes. And gin.There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase the market penetration. Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units of something and make a profit of thirty cents a unit, when you can increase the advertising, sell five million units, and make a nickel profit a unit. Thus the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes. And gin.
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k. radke @kradke.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
There are said to be 118 islands in the Venetian lagoon, 30 of which are inhabited, I was told over an espresso in the morning in a bar in Canareggio, #Venice. „Murano, Burano and Lido are definitely worth a visit, Klaus.“ I decided in favour of Burano and packed my camera. …
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The Houses of Burano
About a small fishing island in the Venetian Lagoon
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If you want a funded public service, don’t exclude the upper middle classes. Rather, make them the target consumer. I’m serious. Notice how the TSA got paid
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Needless to say, also, the romantic image of the academic as solitary hero toiling away in the stacks is a very gendered one, and made possible only by all the similarly gendered and invisible labor that image leaves out. LLMs reproduce all of that as well.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
As my partner puts it, AI is a technology that is reproducing the pre-existing knowledge economy, while also pulling the rug out from under that knowledge economy by changing how labor is understood as well as the exchange value of labor in the workplace, in academia as well as more broadly.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
What's fascinating, too, is how AI, trained on a Western corpus and operating "alone," is now being presented as the future, at a time when the social sciences and the humanities were moving toward a global perspective operating in interdisciplinary and collective knowledge production.
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Love Leabhar Gaeilge @loveleabhargaeilge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Bígí linn do #SnaG26 📚💖 Léamh & plé le Darach Ó Scolaí ar an úrscéal 'Bódléar', imeacht leabhar álainn atá á reachtáil ag Aonad Léann na Cumarsáide, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge.📍 Seomra 116, Áras na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, 4 Márta, 1pm. #LoveLeabharGaeilge #Gaeilge
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
One of the defining features of Keir Starmer's time in office was his chronic inability to instill any sense of hope
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/01/2026
Here’s part 2 of this week’s Better Offline special about why the AI bubble is worse than the dot com bubble. I explain the mythology used to convince the world to run millions of miles of fiber cable - and how different that is to GPUs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 01/28/2026 · 20m
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Having ranted about camera-obsessives & the need to have a good eye being more important than the camera, I can only offer one suggestion. Buy a book of 18-19th C Japanese prints & start drawing them [in planes & squiggles]. Japanese art has a magnificent understanding of how the eye works.
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Katsushika Hokusai: The Woodblock Virtuoso Who Enthralled the World
Known as the creator of the world-famous Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai constantly innovated and improved his craft through a long lifetime in Edo’s art world.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/12/2025
“AI is simply surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand with some new methodologies, but still based on theft.”
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Shoshana Zuboff, philosopher: ‘AI is surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand’
The author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ applauds the EU’s initiatives to curb big tech and calls on the bloc not to bow to pressure from Trump
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I am impressed that Your Party have somehow managed to communicate via national mainstream media the feeling of being in an interminably feuding local political organizers WhatsApp with so many daily notifications that it's impossible to keep track of the feuds
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
❗️REPOST if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"In time, US citizens may find themselves trapped in a diminished, nightmare America—like a post-Musk Twitter at scale—where everything works badly, everything can be turned against you, and everyone else has fled." @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/enshit...
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The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
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Unlearning Economics @unlearnecon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
My interview with ASIA www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceP3...
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Why We’re Getting Poorer |A Realist’s Guide to Fixing the Economy| Dr. Cahal Moran | ASIA SenseMaker
YouTube video by DeCypher ASIA
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 09/06/2025
This is actually the fault of the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which unconstitutionally capped the size of the House at the 435 seats determined by the 1910 census. We have a legislature based on the year California had 2.3M people. Both chambers have shifted power from people to land.
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Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Rule 1: Troika always wins Rule 2: Never fight a comms war against Zelensky
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Alissa Morgan @yogagoddess.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Now that I have made this Bluesky we all share my only social media home, I thought it would be a lovely idea to create a starter pack for Buddhism/Meditation/Yoga. Please feel free to suggest more accounts for this starter pack. go.bsky.app/Tmrt5io #buddhism #meditation #yoga #zen #mindfulness
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Wonderful film, not to be missed if you are in Italy. Beautifully shot, brilliantly acted. You will be entertained and learn some fundamental Italian history.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“It is for this reason that so many people in finance, after achieving their fortune, become obsessed with wanting to be the thing they know themselves to be: a philosopher king.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Lanchester · For Every Winner a Loser: What is finance for?
In our society the classic three ways of making a fortune still apply: inherit it, marry it, or steal it. But for an...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
As the old saying goes, England conquered Wales one village at a time. Because nobody would run ahead to warn the bastards in the next one.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
HAPPY ZARDOZ DAY EVERYONE!
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen
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Andrew Duff @andrewduffeu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Reversing Brexit: why, how and when
Reversing Brexit: why, how and when
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
"But the majority coalition that elected Trump is not a fully unified one. In fact, there are at least four clear cleavages within that coalition that will have an impact on the second Trump administration’s Latin America policy." @bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social on navigating Trump 2. Gift link.
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Latin America Can Leverage the Trump Coalition’s Internal Divisions
To prepare for the second Trump administration, Latin American leaders need to find allies within the divided Republican coalition.
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Alison C @archaeoali.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Windows in one of the surviving watchtowers of the Maximian Roman Walls than once surrounded the city of Milan (Mediolanum). These walls date to the late C3rd AD and now form part of the Archaeological Museum of Milan. #WindowsOnWednesday AncientBlueSky 🏺
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Duolingo Brasil 🇧🇷 @handle.invalid · 06/10/2024
ninguém falou que na festa da democracia tinha tanta gente feia
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Rhetoric vs reality in immigration policy: Meloni's government has considerably liberalised work visa rules over the last few years. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Italy to offer more migrant work visas to caregivers for old people
Italy will offer an extra 10,000 migrant work visas next year for people who look after old people and the disabled, the government said on Wednesday, as it adopted a new package of migration rules.
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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building in Moscow. 18 years ago today. The newspaper and the independent reporting it represented are gone in Russia now, too. Also today, Putin turns 72.
photo of Politkovskaya in Chechnya
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krncrty.bsky.social @krncrty.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,908,307!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,908,307, krncrty.bsky.social ‪@krncrty.bsky.social‬, joined on Jan 6, 2024"
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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
It seems pretty clear to me that the wind in the EU is behind the eastern economies at the moment, and that will have ripple effects out into the EU's political landscape that traditionally dominant players may find disorienting.
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 18/09/2024
DO THIS IN LONDON
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