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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 4h

Wonderful! For this alone, I’ll be buying it.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And look at the Clyde here.

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amazing. The sky and the lamplight, and all that rigging! Brilliant

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here he is - painter of moons and moonlight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_At...

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John Atkinson Grimshaw - Wikipedia

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Stunning. Is this where Atkinson Grimshaw learned about painting moonlight?

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“a professor wrote” NO THEY DIDN’T. This is exactly the problem. They claimed authorship of 200 papers, they certainly did not write them.

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2023

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

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Mike Rhone @mikerhone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Marco Rubio’s parents came here from Cuba and lived here for 19 years before becoming citizens. Some of his relatives were admitted to the US as refugees. And now his boss is doing this, and he sits in silent approval.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 31/08/2026

[To Sheila Lanyon, on the Flyleaf of a Book] W.S. Graham Inscribed on a copy of THE WHITE THRESHOLD belonging to Sheila Lanyon. Dated June 18 1966, the “second summer” is the second since her husband’s death, after a gliding accident, on August 31 1964 #poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

[To Sheila Lanyon, on the Flyleaf of a Book]
BY W. S. Graham

Sheila, we speak here on the fly
Leaf of a book which was myself
A good few graves ago.
Now I am maintained by other
Words for better or for worse
To whisper my hello.

The seasons turn. Threshold on thresh
Hold forms continually and falls
Under grief’s lonely hammer.
What did you say? I thought between
These fly leaf words I heard you speak
Out of your Second Summer.

The summer chimes and turns its blue
Dragon-flying eyes to see
We two are not afraid.
Hello, Sheila, I can hear
Your breath on the other side of the word
And see you turn your head.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 31/08/2026

Bookings are officially open for Rutherglen’s first-ever Book Festival, 29 Oct–21 Nov The festival includes author talks, readings, conversations, storytelling & creative workshops. All events are FREE, but places are limited – book your favourites now! rutherglen900.com/event/ruther...

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Rutherglen Book Festival - Rutherglen 900

Rutherglen 900 and South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Libraries Launch the first ever Rutherglen Book Festival Your Library. Your Stories. Your Festival. Rutherglen 900 and South Lanarkshire Leisur...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Texas! Check your voter registration

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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think this is generally correct. The approach has not been "here's a tool you might like to use, if you want," so much as "you're going to use it whether you want to or not, and if you say no, we're going to keep asking (really, telling) you" to use it

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

13 MILLION adults in England are locked out of an NHS dentist, and preventable tooth decay is the #1 reason kids end up in hospital. No more dental deserts. No more DIY dentistry. Sign the petition now to tell our new PM to fix NHS dentistry for good: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi...

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Fix and fund NHS Dentistry NOW!

Thirteen MILLION of us are still locked out of dental care. After two years of ministers promising to finally fix NHS dentistry, shocking new data just revealed that almost nothing has changed. That ...

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A beautifully written tribute that does her justice.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/08/2026

Oh, the sorrow. Farewell to Dolly Parton. With gratitude for everything she gave us. ❤️

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Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“She could live inside her Christianity without turning it into a weapon, … defend gay people without treating rural conservatives like the enemy, talk about racial justice without becoming a pundit about it, get stupidly wealthy without acting like poor people had failed some character test.”

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The Last American Everybody Loved

These days, pretty much nobody famous gets to die without us picking a side first.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you haven't heard this series, you should listen to it, and you'll like Dolly even more. (My fave episode is the one where Jad talks to his dad about how "Tennessee Mountain Home" spoke to him as an immigrant far from home.)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21/08/2026

Like tweed like pearls like fire like wood like loss like Listen with Mother with me… —Andrew Sclater, “The Scotswoman Who Married Into the Home Counties” from SONGS OF OTHER PLACES: New Writing Scotland 32 (ASL, 2014) #poem #poetry

Andrew Sclater
The Scotswoman Who Married Into the Home Counties

Like tweed like pearls
like fire like wood
like loss like Listen with Mother with me

Like prayer like water
like a Scots laird’s daughter
like your three darling war-dead before me

Like heather that shrivels in Hampshire
like silver birch going sick on the chalk
like your loch all clogged up beyond the border

Like grin and bear it
like you limp to the shop
like bravery how I wanted to shake you

Like you meant the marriage
like you could not
stop him being like he was

in his unlikeness
like a moor set down in a wheat farm
like your composure stiffening

Like your bad hip
like the smell of you ageing
like you knowing of the coming

of your death all the time he poured beer
that last evening in Broughton
like you never were like yourself down here.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026

Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fuck my *office* not being ready for this - I don’t care about my office. I care about my *everywhere*. “Your privacy only matters if spying might hurt your company” is a bullshit message.

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Apple's Next AirPods May Have Cameras. Your Office Isn't Ready for the Privacy Implications

A new video suggests AirPods with cameras in them are coming soon. Could they open the door for IP theft?

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A glorious and important film

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/08/2026

Let us now give thanks for these salt-blown wind-burned pastures where oatgrass and timothy shrink from the harrow of the sea… —John Glenday, “A Westray Prayer” from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2020) #poem #poetry www.panmacmillan.com/authors/john...

John Glenday
A Westray Prayer

in memoriam Mike and Barbara Heasman

Let us now give thanks
for these salt-blown

wind-burned pastures
where oatgrass and timothy
shrink from the harrow of the sea

where Scotland at long last
wearies of muttering its own name
where we may begin

to believe we have always known
what someone in his wisdom
must have meant

when he gave us everything
and told us nothing.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Climate change recognized in 1912

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some good news. The world's first Alzheimer's vaccine is making progress. Researchers in Bhaskar’s lab and a spinout company are developing an experimental vaccine that trains the immune system to generate antibodies against toxic tau proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s. 🔄

sciencedaily.com

Scientists discover a protein that protects the brain from Alzheimer’s damage

A protein called SORLA may act as a powerful defense against the toxic tau tangles involved in Alzheimer’s disease. Mice with extra SORLA had less tau accumulation, less brain atrophy, and healthier c...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/08/2026

Nae wind comes owre sae free Upon the yirden rose As hill-blawn winds that gae Whaur the white bloom grows… —William Soutar, “Summer Song” from WILLIAM SOUTAR: Collected Works, @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social 2024 #poem #poetry tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/will...

Summer Song
by William Soutar

Nae wind comes owre sae free
Upon the yirden rose
As hill-blawn winds that gae
Whaur the white bloom grows.

There is nae biggit bower
Sae gledsome for the sicht
As the sma', wilder'd fleur
Flanterin' wi' licht.

And herts will tine their fear
Whan love sae freely blaws,
Open to joy and care
As the sma', white rose.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/08/2026

In case anyone still wonders how he went bankrupt six times.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026

"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I tend to finish. My personal rule is that if I don’t, I relinquish the right to express an opinion - all I can say is that I didn’t finish. The writer finished their work, however imperfectly; if I choose not to finish mine as a reader, I can shut tf up.

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Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lovely story. Don’t divulge the trick, the magic’s better. I’ve just rewatched It’s Complicated and ok not exactly a layered film but he’s touching and convincing as the introspective, apparently beta-male. Ok it’s a terrible movie, I still like it.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Died (alas!) on this day in 1494, in Bruges, Hans Memling. Painter of much gentle beauty, as in this Annunciation from the 1480s.

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