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Mag Nachtergael @nachtergael.bsky.social · 1h

Un feu de poubelle c’est de la violence visible. Des jeunes sans prof, des gens qui ont faim, il n’y a rien à regarder qu’une chaise ou une assiette vide. Cette violence sans image n’intéresse personne.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 3h

Staff at Cambridge University Botanic Garden said: "Due to this summer's drought, the apple harvests have been so low that we have been unable to source enough quantities of heritage apples to make the event viable." www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Drought halts Cambridge University apple day

Cambridge University Botanic Garden says not enough heritage apples are available for the event.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 5h

THIS FRIDAY! Our firstst session of the #LowCountries seminar with a paper by @bobpi.bsky.social on Water, Space, & Environmental Inequality in #EarlyModern Amsterdam FRI 23 Oct, 17:30 in person @ihr.bsky.social or on Zoom -free & all welcome but register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 5h

Ça c’est le gros mystère de mon immeuble et de mes voisins : leur usage très fréquent de la perceuse ou du marteau. Bonus quand j’ai une réunion en télétravail. Qui sont ces gens ? Pourquoi ont-ils besoin de reconstruire leur appartement en permanence ?

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ludi 🍉 @ludi.eurosky.social · 8h

[pédagogie] J'ai des ateliers (sur les inégalités f/h) à mener sur 6 séances en collège. La q° de la non mixité se pose pour 2 des 6 séances. Quels sont vos façon de fr ? Quels sont les facteurs pris en compte ? (si t'es pas formateurice/enseignant·e, et/ou spé genre, garde ton avis stp. merci)

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 8h

Oui à la non mixité pour créer un espace safe pour discuter de sujets qui peuvent ensuite être discutés collectivement. Je donne actuellement cours à un groupe de 25 étudiants, 4 étudiants, 21 étudiantes. Il n'y a que les étudiants qui interviennent et c'est : un problème. (1/2)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

just asked my tailor if he disavows the muslin brotherhood

Someone holding a piece of muslin fabric.

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chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social · 23h

finally got this gem home. made by the inimitable @sarahduyer.bsky.social

a decorative plate inscribed with the words ‘anyway here’s wonderwall’

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Dre Sakon de l'Ours 🏳️‍⚧️ @foursaig.bsky.social · 11h

Liste non exhaustive, mais puisqu'il faut condamner... _ Je condamne la violence avec la quelle la fin des dinosaures a eu lieu les réduisant à l'existence de simples poulets

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 23h

Same problem here (about disappearing letters).

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

I did some shopping this weekend and have no regrets.

Four books stacked on top of one another. They are from bottom to top:
End Times Fascism
The Internet We Could Have Had
Seeing Like a Supply Chain
Exit Party

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Je précise que mon rêve c’est un jardin commun, avec des poules collectives comme à Bruxelles. Je vote pour des fleurs collectives.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

On s’offre des fleurs entre amies. Et surtout dans le dur de l’hiver, je m’auto-achète des fleurs. Je classe la gentillesse des fleuristes quand ils sont sympas même si je n’achète que un ou deux gerbera. (J’approuve le système pyramidal des fleurs pour les colocs.)

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations to Dr Sean Richards who graduated in September with a PhD in Physics from the University of Auckland. Richards described graduating in astrophysics as continuing a path set by "our ancestors" who used the stars to navigate the Pacific Ocean. #WorldSpaceWeek #Aussiecon5

rnz.co.nz

First Samoan astrophysicist encourages Pasifika students to reach for the stars

The first Samoan person to graduate with a PhD in physics at the University of Auckland has encouraged Pasifika students to remember that they belong and can succeed in academia.

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Guillaume feat. Poly @guillaume-mvcdlm.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Je sais pas si l'info circule convenablement vu que je vois souvent les photos passer, mais les images de la panthère rose qui se fait arroser par des keufs, sont des fausses photos générées par I.A. à partir de photos de manifs en Arménie datant de 2015.

Photo d'une manif en Arménie en 2015. La police arrose la foule qui s'abaisse. Seul un homme en t-shirt reste debout en adressant deux doigts d'honneur en direction des flics.

Exactement la même photo mais à la place de l'homme en t-shirt, on voit quelqu'un déguisé en panthère rose, qui fait aussi des doigts d'honneur.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Je pense à toi 💜 Et je te souhaite de retrouver rapidement les tiens, Lebo et Doug, avec des nouvelles rassurantes.

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Télérama @telerama.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Installé au pied de la statue de la liberté sur la place parisienne, l’Orchestre du Nouveau Monde dirigé par le chef Etienne Jarrier a dû évacuer rapidement après avoir été pris pour cible par les forces de l’ordre. Plus de 400 musiciens étaient venus jouer pacifiquement en solidarité avec les ...

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L’Orchestre du Nouveau Monde : “En cinq ans, c’est la première fois qu’on se fait gazer en manifestation”

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•18h
'Goodbye' is an alteration of "God be with you."

Sean Kress• @SKress7514 • 16h
Do you have evidence to back this up? If so can you explain what "good night" , "good
morning" and "good evening" are alterations of?

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•15h
what

Sean Kress & @SKress7514 • 14h
I was genuinely asking the question because the only thing I find on the internet is that it is basically a slur from the original.... I assumed there was a better explanation for it than that as it seems a little unlikely given the good night, good morning etc haven't been slurred into something else too. Sorry if you saw that as offensive.

Merriam-Webster @ @Merriam...•14h S
It is not related to 'good night/ day/morning.'
The 'good' in those do not come from 'God.'

Sean Kress @ @SKress7514 • 14h
So the internet suggestion this it is just a slur is what you are basing that on too then?

Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Merriam-Webster's etymology follows established linguistic scholarship, not unverified internet suggestions of a "slur."
"Goodbye" is an alteration of "God be with you"; "good" in greetings like "good morning" has separate origins unrelated to "God."
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goo…
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye blog.oup.com/2022/02/if-god..
etymonline.com/word/good%20m
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Merriam-Webster & @MerriamWebster
We are the dictionary.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’m thrilled to announce three new professorships in compressed air thruster ethics, compressed air thruster policy, and social impact of compressed air thrusters. we are also headhunting a Vice Provost of Thrust

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

A big hug for now and what you need beyond 🫂❤️

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

J’ai écrit une gueulante au ministère de la santé. C’est pas possible de rendre l’accès aux vaccins aussi difficile. J’enseigne, je suis dans une marmite de virus, juste pas envie d’être malade, zut.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

J’ai appris aujourd’hui que les pharmacies ne faisaient plus le vaccin Covid, je dois donc aller chez ma généraliste qui trouve que je ne dois en faire aucun (grippe/covid) et pas les deux en même temps. Bref, je dois donc trouver une solution (en Belgique ?) et changer de généraliste. Youpi.

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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Some possible #AoIR2027 paper titles: "The Bot That Launched a Hundred Reply-Alls: The Velvet Vale Affair" "The Uncanny Vale: An Ethnography of Absolutely Fucking Not" "Who’s Afraid of Velvet Vale? Consent, Provocation, and the Reply-All" #AoIR2026

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

C’est ça les conversations importantes qu’on veut un vendredi après-midi 🩷

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Les vins qui goûtent le caillou sont mes préférés, je sais que je dois dire minéral mais ça ne fonctionne pas à tous les coups. Ici aussi, il va falloir recommander des merveilles de chez @sandg.bsky.social.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Oui, pour moi, si qqun me demande de communiquer les coordonnées de qqun, je demande en amont. Et comme d'autres personnes l'ont dit, si ton mail pro est accessible, c'est l'entrée officielle dans ce contexte.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My article "Illness as Policy: Eugenics, Trauma, and Political Funerals" is now up at QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. This was part of a series on Trump's first 90 days that took awhile to come out (lol, academic publishing). Anyway, I think it still holds up.

THE FIRST NINETY DAYS
Illness as Policy: Eugenics, Trauma, and
Political Funerals
Lisa Diedrich
Abstract
This article considers examples of illness as policy where illness is both a means and an outcome of policies. Illness as policy is a psychosomatic project— meaning it operates on the bodyminds of individuals and populations in both physically and psychologically harmful ways. The article explores illness as policy in action both in the Trump administration’s explicitly eugenics ideology, especially as articulated
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “make America healthy again” (MAHA) movement, as well as in the operational tactics of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), designed to produce nervous conditions among those perceived to be standing in the way of a technofascist takeover of government resources. The article closes with an alternative to illness as policy by drawing on a legacy of illness
politics by and for sick and disabled people to suggest the political effectiveness of collective demonstrations of both mourning and militancy, in an homage to earlier and ongoing forms of AIDS activism.

In my recent work Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, I explore illness as a site of political struggle in the United States, demonstrating how illness politics intersects with, and sometimes stands in for, racial, sexual, and class politics. I became interested in how illness politics operated on social media beginning with the 2016 presidential election campaign. I analyzed the coining and circulation

Lisa Diedrich, “Illness as Policy: Eugenics, Trauma, and Political Funerals,” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ
Worldmaking 12, no. 2 (2025): 105–114. DOI: 10.14321/qed.12.2.0105. ISSN 2327-1574. Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s). All rights reserved.

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Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Join us for a webinar discussing Michael Burawoy’s work and what it offers scholars today. 📆26 Nov, 17:00 - 18:15 GMT 📍Online Register for free bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #SocologySky #SociologyOfEmployment #LabourProcess #Employment #LaborStudies

RETHINKING MICHAEL BURAWOY'S LEGACY

26 NOVEMBER 2026,
17:00 - 18:15 GMT

ZOOM WEBINAR

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Je te souhaite ce dont tu as besoin maintenant, pour tenir bon, tu es importante ici 💖

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

As sentient as a psychopath with no accountability, reflexivity or subjectivity (it was a paper from @abeba.blacksky.app who made me realise that).

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 16/10/2026

As Internet scholars, we frequently concern ourselves with the circulation/extraction of data, and/as capital, as it crosses borders freely. How do we think about these phenomena in the face of state violence on people and their criminalization for simply daring to do the same thing? #AOIR2026

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to connect to wifi using eduroam

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And many women described a second harm: reporting devaluation and having their institutions ignore it or make it worse.

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Je vais enfin imprimer mon déguisement d'Halloween, les aquarelles de Jessie Kanelos Weiner. jessiekanelosweiner.net

Aquarelles de Jessie Kanelos Weiner représentant les bijoux volés du Louvre, aquarelles qu'on peut découper et utiliser pour un déguisement.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the worst news I have heard in a very long time - what a tragic loss. @helenbranswell.bsky.social was, unquestionably, _the_ best in the field and just a wonderful person. Condolences to her family and colleagues - she'll be sorely missed. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 09/11/2025

Pretty amazing light in Edinburgh just after sunrise this morning.

The drizzle-haze over the city, especially towards the hills, glows with the warm yellow light of the just-risen sun. The glow extends into the clouds above.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I need to sort out my (Belgian) PayPal account, as I’ve been living in Luxembourg for quite some time now (ahem). La flemme.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Do we still need an "African Literature" shelf? Is there any literature that works best in that shelf rather than the writing genre to which it belongs? E.g., fantasy? Romance? Crime? Satire? Historical fiction? Etc? Thoughts?

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

A yarn shop near you? It lasts for a very long time.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

I use Eucalan, which is a no-rinse soap for wool… and delicate fabrics. I think you can find it on your side of the Atlantic too.

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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

@paulineharmange.fr Le bonheur de ta newsletter le dimanche matin 😌 Connais-tu la newsletter de @swordsjew.bsky.social sur les sandwichs ?

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