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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sherry Turkle: social media came for our attention, AI came for our attachment. Incredible how quickly we get sucked in #elizaeffect www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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Black Box: The Chatbots | The Line | Ep 5 – podcast
Five stories that feel like five answers to one important question: in a world where AI chatbots can help us through a breakup, listen like a friend, be a life coach, draft a difficult text message an...
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RT this with your home river Ely Not navigable by my home but loved spending time there, e.g. standing in it watching bats fly around me catching flies. One winter flood our chickens went floating down it on logs.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 02/09/2026
Sheffield UCU members have had enough. Repeated restructures, job cuts and relentless change facing staff at the University of Sheffield. 84% of voting staff and PhD students recently said they have no confidence in university management. Please watch and share.
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Bravo @lukejerram.bsky.social 🌞 #helios #heulio #caerdydd #cardiff #amgueddfacymru #cymru
Model enfawr o'r haul gan Luke Jerram yn hongian yn atriwm amgueddfa genedlaethol Cymru - Huge model of the sun , by Luke Jerram,hanging in the atrium of the national museum of Wales
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#clacton be like #montypython youtu.be/mdvD-SCGYlQ?...
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Monty Python - "Especial noche de elecciones" ("Election Night Special")
YouTube video by sotitowalrus
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/science/2026... Economist shadow-boxing consciousness 🤷‍♀️
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Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?
Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"I'm not Nigel" sure to get a few votes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOm...
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Count Binface: I'll take on Farage in by-election | BBC Radio 4 Today
YouTube video by BBC Politics
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
niggled again by verifying I am not a robot while being forced to help the bots identify cars, traffic lights, busses, etc. #digitalturk
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
YT features hyped videos - all 6 of the were far-right bile - thank you reform and restore, have you not got anything better to spend your money on 😒
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
today realised that jeff's wayne and lynne are very much not the same human - although both do impressive music stuff I have liked for a long time
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
museum.wales/cardiff/what... 21 July - 31 August 2026 #helios
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Helios | Museum Wales
Meet Helios. An amazing seven‑metre‑wide artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram that brings th...
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trump promised to end Russia’s war on Ukraine “within 24 hours” if he won a second term. Today is the 501st day since he was sworn in.
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
📆 9th June office.eu 👀
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Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite
Welcome to Office EU, the open-source productivity platform for all who value a free, transparent and sovereign working environment.
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
social media is not infrastructure (especially that ex-social media platform) #hmrc
annoying remnant from when twitter was good, saying 'you can use X to ask HMRC questions', - screenshot of current UK HMRC tax contact web page still doting on the richest man in the world :(
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
annoying how polulism is so popular
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.
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Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
diolch yn fawr pob nyrsys!! Stepping up to do what you all do in these times is extraordinary - let's reinvest stupid money going into data centres and hike nurses pay (and save the planet!)
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
thanks for being a nurse! 🙏🌞
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 14/04/2026
📅 International Nurses’ Day is back on 12 May! This year, we’re celebrating the contribution of nursing staff, in the UK and across the world. 🌍 Learn more and get involved: bit.ly/3Ozh5mN #InternationalNursesDay
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International Nurses' Day 2026: celebrating nursing as a global profession | News | Royal College of Nursing
We’re celebrating the remarkable contribution of nursing staff in the UK and across the world. Get ready to celebrate with us on 12 May
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
a free (via Springer) book on non-affirmative theory of #education and #Bildung? dont mind if I do... 😍 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Non-affirmative Theory of Education and Bildung
This Open Access book advances research on Didaktik, curriculum, leadership and teaching via critical, 'Bildung'-centred, non-affirmative education theory.
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Arrive back in the UK feeling like I want to confront many people who also walking the streets of London to ask them did you really vote reform? You know, that nasty racist party?
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/05/2026
Reform poses an existential threat to the Welsh language; its policy (I use the word policy in the loosest sense of the word) amounts to opposing the use of Welsh in schools, local and national government and the public sector ✍️Richard Morgan
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How to lose a language while trying to save it
Richard Morgan The Welsh Language is in trouble. It has been for years. At the heart of the problem is something seldom acknowledged, at least by those who most need to wake up and smell the Daffodils...
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
dislike even naming things that are a scourge... for what it's worth, I will be referring to magalomaniac LLM projects as 'answering machines', to strip them of some of the typical rhetorical humanitising nonsense - machines don't learn/have intelligence or sentience, humans do
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
aha #NLC2026
banner flag showing I am on track for the conference
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Laws are being weakened that ought to protect our drinking water, nature, and health. It's affecting all 450 million of us in Europe. Please sign. #HandsOffNature europe.oceana.org/hands-off-na...
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#Handsoffnature
We have 10 days to speak up before it’s too late.  Tell them to keep their hands off nature. Across Europe, the blue lung of our planet is...
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
thanks @theguardian.com highlighting #iran executions www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Iran’s wartime executions - podcast
Over the last six weeks, the Iranian regime has carried out a spate of executions of political prisoners. The Guardian journalist Daniel Boffey reports
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
nothing may be as sacred as good clean fun, and little may be as profane as inserting the sacred into good clean fun
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
a segment of George Orwell's final interview, describing how 1984 could become a reality "Don't let it happen. It depends on you" #GeorgeOrwell #1984 #fightfascism
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
wishing #ArtemisII crew a safe return - grabbing my own #moon encounter at the #Cardiff Museum (free entry lots less stress than re-entry)
selfie of a middle aged man within Cardiff's big museum entrance hall, where a big moon replica is hanging to the rear of a wooly mammoth skeleton
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
illich "Most tools today cannot be used in a convivial fashion" (1973/2009, p. 21) #networkedLearning #nlc2026
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Lovely spring in the #Roath Park Pleasure Gardens
Sunlit tree Blossom in the foreground against a green grass tennis court and blue sky background in Roath Cardiff
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Shah's brutal repression torture, secret police, 26 years of autocracy radicalized the very clerics the CIA had empowered. In 1979 Khomeini's revolution swept them all away. The hostage crisis followed. Then sanctions. Then maximum pressure. Then this war. We handed them the match in 1953.
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
cracking concert this Saturday in #Llandaff Cathedral #Cardiff www.llandaffcathedralchoralsociety.org/dbpage.php?p... #Gounod and Saint-Saën's Organ Symphony
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Spring concert - with City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra: Gounod St Cecilia Mass / Saint-Saën’s Organ symphony
Join us for a joyous concert of French music. The simplicity and grandeur of Gounod's St Cecilia Mass will be followed by Saint-Saën’s "Organ symphony" (3rd Symphony in C Minor) .....
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🇵🇹 Viana do Castelo 🇵🇹 @viana-do-castelo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🐂🎉 The City Hall celebrates Easter Oxen! 70 decorated oxen, ancient carts, 10 folklore groups & the election of the Harvest Queen 👑🌸 A living and spectacular tradition! #Portugal #Folk #Festival #Tradition #Culture #ArcosDeValdevez #video
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/03/2026
Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating
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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating
Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts The world’s worst mega-leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane in 2025 have been revealed by an analysis of satellite data. The super-polluting plumes from oil and gas facilities have a colossal heating impact on the climate but often result from poor maintenance and can be simple to fix. The assessment found dozens of mega-leaks, each having the same global heating impact as a coal-fired power station. Continue reading...
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I am very happy because I realized that walking a dog can be more relaxing if the scavenger that is liable to even eat cannabis now has a beautifully fitted muzzle which allows him to do all the sniffing around without incuring the vet bills
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
www.justgiving.com/page/janna-r... #charity #scotland #childrenshospice #CHAS #justgiving Kathryn and Janna are stepping over the edge of the 137 feet tall Edinburgh distillery 🫣 on 9th of may 🙌 for Children Hospices Across Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Stepping over the edge for children and families who need it most.
Help Janna Rowe raise money to support Children's Hospices Across Scotland, (CHAS)
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a tuxedo is sitting in an auditorium
Alt: a man in a tuxedo is sitting in an auditorium clapping President Zalenski forever
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
a librarian and a library in every school should not be just a good idea www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2... get your brick now getbrick.app
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Will we ever read books again? – podcast
Author and academic Katherine Rundell explores the precipitous decline in reading books for pleasure, and what can be done to reverse it
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
apparently uses the words #phenomenology and #phenomenologist without making much effort to talk to one...? Enjoyed poke at Hurlburt's trenchant empiricism tho www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness?
The long read: Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19/02/2026
Reform’s by-election candidate Matt Goodwin received a salary of up to €10,000 a month from a far-right pressure group based in Hungary 👀 goodlaw.social/pif5
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Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@evernote.bsky.social - please ditch the automatic AI lookup 'writing a quick answer...' delay garbage and just give me a faster accurate result on the search for the note I made with the help of Large Language Models. Also, release a non-AI version of Evernote at a discount to the new price
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
happy that my ISP isnt showing Xecrable in its socials badges @utilitywarehouse.bsky.social
a row of social media badges from a website that sells utilities, such as internet. We have facebook and instagram, linkedin and youtube. Still a little shop of horrors but xcluding xecrable x is laudable.
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
next time you see a guy cycle through red it could be an asylum seeker distracted by the confronting reality of our racist hostile environment and water torture asylum processes
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
agree Erin - I so hope Bluesky stays rigidly off the AI train. I come here for the wondrous humans (like you, and you if you're reading this).
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
reeling from reading the latest update from UCU Cardiff - darkening days - gutted for the great people enduring it
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: British citizen & Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 yrs in prison. Lai was charged with “collusion with a foreign country or external elements” under the Beijing's National Security Law. In reality, his case is an attack on press freedom & freedom of expression.
A photo of Jimmy Lai looking towards camera and writing that says "Hong Kong court sentences Jimmy Lai to 20 years"
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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum). 🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February 📍London 🎟️Free: bit.ly/3MefKR1 #ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a a suited man saying "The student nurse! Workhorse of the N.H.S. strong, reliable -- cheap to run..."Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. A hand holding a pointing stick reaches into this panel and directs the attention at a poster. The hand belongs to the suited man from the previous panel. He says "She is the solution to our over-manning + under-funding problems". The poster depicts a nurse with disposable had, disposable uniform, disposable arm, disposable legs, disposable shoes all labelled. A thermometer labelled compassion scale indicates over 90% compassion.Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a nurse above flames with steam or smoke emanating from her person as her eyes form spirals. The suited man's voice reaches into this frame and says "After 3 years training - working very hard for almost no money - she spontaneously combusts..."Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a the man rubbing his hands in glee. He says "Thus requiring no further employment."
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... brave lady #iran
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Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to seven more years in prison
Women’s and human rights activist, arrested at a demonstration in December, is said to be on hunger strike
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MJ @mikejohnson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
horrible crisis in higher education depicted by reps from Scottish Uni's www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
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Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
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