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UNISON Manchester Metropolitan University @unisonmmu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UCEA confirmed the 2% pay uplift will now be imposed on staff this month. UCEA themselves say "it clearly does not reflect the true value employers place on staff" which we would agree with but it is cold comfort to our member struggling after nearly two decades of below inflation pay offers!

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Group of teenagers on the tram: ‘Shit, we caught the wrong bus.’

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Group of teenagers on the tram: ‘Shit, we caught the wrong bus.’

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a conversation yesterday where someone pronounced ‘premise’ as /prɪˈmaɪz/ even though they were using it as a noun. And I’m still thinking about it.

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I cannot emphasize enough how college students were 6 years old when Trump first entered the presidential primary. Our rising adults, our next wave have experienced nothing other than Trumpian Republicanism. That's it. That's the party.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is the AI boom going well when I see a guy at the next table of this Santa Monica cafe wearing a t-shirt that says: DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT AI OR I WILL KILL MYSELF

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the school curriculum evening this year, there was a parent sharing ‘funny anecdotes’ about her kid that were, frankly, a list of evidence that he lacks any interoception. This smoothly led into the teacher talking about the child’s impressively advanced skills in maths.

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Alt: Reaction gif of a man (Captain Mal Reynolds on the show Firefly) stopping himself from saying something.

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me, describing the latest developments with one of my disabilities: My body isn’t behaving. My therapist, punching me directly in the face: That’s because you don’t listen to it.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Guy raising his hand in class like in the green energy political cartoon, "but what if it's all over blown or more nuanced then it seems, and we spend all that time protecting the most vulnerable people in the country for no reason?"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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UNISON Manchester Metropolitan University @unisonmmu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Solidarity to our colleagues at Brighton in both UCU and UNISON facing down such disgusting treatment from their management. Collective bargaining is what makes workers strong!

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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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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Genital exams??? I would have never played a single sport. This isn’t reasonable stuff and thats great for them! Making sports suck for girls helps them in their other goals of getting women out of public life and reestablishing their preferred men on top.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Perhaps someone out there would be able to offer a recommendation - My kid (under 10) has greatly enjoyed the DC Super Hero Girls comics. But she’s read and reread all of them now! What might she enjoy next?

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fandoms make me 🤣 sometimes. ‘you have the author on your side, you'll be ok’

Screenshot of a comment that says ‘you have the author on your side, you'll be ok’

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026

Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses

A bookclub scammer to whom I replied “Eat shit” sent a follow up email that reads (in part, because it’s really long):

Colin,

Fair enough. I got your "eat shit" loud and clear, and honestly, I respect the directness.

But I want to clarify something, because I think my original email read like boilerplate SEO spam, and that’s on me.

I didn't pull your name from a random list. I came across Ghostland while I was digging into American folklore and the way abandoned places hold collective memory. I picked it up, read it, and genuinely found myself stuck on it, particularly the way you tied "zombie homes" and economic decay to the ghost story tradition. It wasn't what I expected, and it stayed with me.

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just took the traditional first day of school photos on the front step. 🥹

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One last thought here: The growing animosity towards AI at work is coming at the same time as the growing animosity towards data centers, which are being built to run AI systems, and towards AI products like Meta glasses and AI more broadly. These are likely to be mutually reinforcing trends.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Basically, whether or not you like AI at work will depend on how much power you have; to decide how and how not to use it, to avoid being terminated by an AI-enthused manager, and so on. It further underlines what's long been evident: AI is for the bosses.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is, of course, not true across the board. There's one cohort that does overwhelmingly have positive things to say about AI: bosses. People in leadership positions, sales managers, and product managers—along with engineers—are among the few to have positive feelings about AI.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Glassdoor has a very revealing report out on worker sentiment regarding AI. Workers' attitudes towards AI have grown increasingly negative, and extremely so in certain fields. This is happening as adoption is scaling, and workers have had *more* exposure. The more they use it, the less they like it.

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How workers feel about AI in 2026 - Glassdoor US

LLMs have stormed the workplace, and workers have a lot to say about that. This report reveals what they love - and hate - about AI.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

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Why office workers are turning against AI

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I DNFed a book after one paragraph. There was a ‘pursuing’ when there should’ve been a ‘perusing’, and I had to be very honest with myself that I just do not have the patience to deal with that kind of editing for an entire novel.

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Actual conversation I’ve had today: ‘I totally believe that they’re mean enough to be hibernophobic, don’t get me wrong! I just… frankly, I don’t think they’re clever enough. I think this is, you know, normal incompetence.’

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My GP surgery told me yesterday (1 September) that there are no more nurse appointments this month. They suggested I try again next month. There is no waitlist, and they can’t tell me when new appointment slots will be released. I was meant to have my B12 injection in JULY.

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Lykara Ryder @lykarar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As an AmE speaker who’s lived in the UK for 20 years… the GASP that I just GUSPED!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Might be even worse. The president doesn’t seem to care if it’s AI or not, nor see relevant distinction between real and fake. Narrative is all there is. The White House is organized around this, acting as if fantasy narratives are real. And millions of Americans voted for reality TV over reality.

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

fuckin god damn! it worked!!! 🔭 no digital compositing just one tenaciously stupid asshole with an hour’s worth of four and a half minute timers and a large format camera

me holding negative with a bunch of dark spots changing size in a diagonal line

negative converted and cropped into a photo showing to moon rising to the right and increasing in size as it comes out of eclipse

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

like that's part of why people love the Tom Holland umbrella dance so much he put his entire ass into that BUT he's also having so much fun and there's a wink and a nod both Dolly and Curry knew how to laugh at themselves with the audience while never belittling themselves and that's incredible

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Universities are local, regional and national income generators. They create and provide a highly skilled workforce and high skill jobs. They hide successive governments' failure to replace long-term jobs of our industrial workforce, wiping potentially millions from unemployment figures each year.

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Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The total failure of VCs and 'senior' managers/administrators/governors across the UK to develop a sustainable funding model is a national scandal. Every VC quote in the press boils down to shrugging shoulders and 'sector-wide problem, innit? Nothing I can do.', while rewarding themselves £100ks.

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agirlintheshed @agirlintheshed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Calvinist bs that we should all be expected to suffer and only the most worthy should receive help. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need, that’s the only place to start from if we’re actually trying to birth the new world from this time of monsters

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/08/2026

Oh hi it's me, a "relatively mild case," which is to say I didn't get diagnosed until college and was forced to develop coping skills due to persistent institutional bullying that nearly killed me But do say more about the risk of throwing some ADHD people under the bus.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

genuinely concerned that if AI goes bankrupt I might shrug so hard I dislocate both shoulders

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 04/08/2026

Reading Peter Roach's 'English Phonetics and Phonology', I was charmed by this table of possible tri-consonant combinations at the start of English syllables – specifically, by its gaps. Surely poets and wordsmiths have a duty to fill in the gaps by creating words starting stl-, spw- and stw-.

Photo of a page, with a table listing English consonants and words that combine three of them at the start, e.g. 'splay'

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I don’t care how respected you are as a person, science educator, author, artist, etc. If I find out that you are using generative AI in any aspect of your work, you lose all of my respect.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 28/07/2026

\so much depends \on \{the red}[wheel\-barrow] \glazed_{with} rain water beside the $\{W}[hite]\_{chickens}$

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

coming up with non-cringe Teixcalaanli curses was genuinely the hardest conlang problem in the whole duology still not 100% satisfied either with what I ended up with

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A quick addendum to say thank you to the staff from Plymouth University who looked after us so well today. It made a huge difference on a day that could have been overwhelming with its odd formalities that can make you feel quite alienated.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I felt the whole experience was sad but incredibly uplifting. It was strangely comforting to see all these young people celebrating their achievements and setting off into the world. I only wish she’d been there to receive her honour and know the respect and affection she was held in.

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