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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 17h

Will we be able to collect Britannia Shield Stamps to save up for our own local missile defence set-up?

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

You could call it eclectic; you could call it cultural cluelessness…

A display of nine album covers: Ultravox, Vienna; Bonnie Tyler, Faster Than The Speed Of Night; Dire Straits, Alchemy Live; Genesis, Genesis; Kate Bush, Hounds of Love; Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers; Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine; Pink Floyd, The Final Cut; ABBA, The Visitors

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Disabling AI and installing Safari content blockers is indistinguishable from creating a pure, monocultural society through discrimination and algorithmic violence!

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

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Sven Giegold @sven-giegold.de · 04/10/2026

Heute hat die Grüne Partei von England und Wales einen Beschluss mit dem Titel „Zionism is Racism“ gefasst. Dieser Beschluss widerspricht den Grundsätzen der Europäischen Grünen Partei (EGP), die sich für eine Zwei-Staaten-Lösung und ein friedliches Zusammenleben in Israel und Palästina engagiert.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Strange (not really) that pumpkin spice takes over the world at this time of year when Lebkuchengewürze is a much better flavour combination.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah, the agonised groans and laments of a washing machine that senses the presence of the grim reaper…

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The turn against Turnitin in UK HE is gaining momentum, with Cambridge U the latest to cancel its contract over its proposal to use student essays to train AI. I imagine more unis will now follow. TII will surely be going into crisis management now. Good piece on it here wonkhe.com/blogs/a-supp...

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A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays

Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 26/02/2026

Have I told you the one about the Muscovite who went to buy a toilet in the early 90s?

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

“And I am happy if necessary to create that volatility myself.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the great things about Volker Weidermann’s Das Buch der verbrannten Bücher, about all the different authors whose books were burned on the Opernplatz in Berlin in May 1933, is precisely this: you get your Erich Kästners and Erich Maria Remarques and Stefan Zweigs and Bertolt Brechts…

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The Fairford incident is dominating the news cycle - and the right-wing. Over the past 48 hours we’ve seen speculation, insinuation and implication attempt turn a serious story about security into one about immigration. This is a long one. Make some tea.

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A Dissection: The Fairford Fannywobble

How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Thucydides on GenAI: “Most people do not make the effort to enquire into the truth…but readily accept what comes to hand”. It’s not stupidity, it’s laziness - but the result is the same. thesphinxblog.com/2026/09/29/t...

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Take It Easy

An academic friend on Facebook posted a link to a news story this morning and commented, “I’m feeling extremely low, as if everything noble and good I’ve devoted my life to is meaningle…

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On the eve of Black History Month, my #newblogpost reflects on the limits of institutional "celebration" in UK higher education. What would it mean to move towards genuine belonging, community, & transformation? What would it mean to refuse the current format of BHM? folukeafrica.com/apathetic-ce...

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Apathetic Celebrations Can Never Repair: Refusing Black History Month in UK HE

If the University Refuses Us to Allow us to Belong, Remember We Belong to Each Other

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point the offering is barely distinguishable from “give us lots more money and Roko’s basilisk may not convert you into data and torture you for eternity”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document

Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Choose made-for-Netflix movies and Spotify playlists. Choose matching towel sets and easy answers from the magic autocomplete machine. Choose letting your brain rot away in endless scrolling. I chose something else. Who needs reasons when you’ve got Thucydides? thesphinxblog.com/2026/09/29/t...

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Take It Easy

An academic friend on Facebook posted a link to a news story this morning and commented, “I’m feeling extremely low, as if everything noble and good I’ve devoted my life to is meaningle…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m not going to claim that Käsekuchen made with homemade Quark is superior. But Käsekuchen made with Quark is definitely superior, and since the only way of obtaining Quark round here is to make it myself…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

And so many BtVS episodes revolve around the idea that this isn’t entirely true…

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/09/2026

I cannot get over that a man who thinks sticking a smiley face on a reviled product will make everyone love it is somehow a billionaire. On the other hand, the whole Metaverse thing is becoming more explicable.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

When Boarish Volksmusikanten run out of words they just jodel for a bit. This is basically cheating.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem with making half quantities of Christmas Pudding - three very small puddings rather than two large ones - is that I have half a bottle of my imperial stout left over. The advantage…

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

It is an established fact that carers, builders, drivers, nurses, cleaners and shop-workers never go to music festivals.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Badger in the orchard - the first I’ve actually seen in many years. It can’t get at the parsnips, so that’s okay; I just wish it would still to eating windfall apples, rather than digging holes everywhere.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

The bad news is that the second attempt at making the fermented pepper sauce failed - the fermentation was okay, after I switched to my familiar method, but it refused to purée. The good news is that the liquid drained off the bits makes a decent Tabasco. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

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Courgette kraut and fermented pepper sauce: Šárka Otevřel Camrdová’s Czech pickle recipes

In an extract from her new book, the Prague-born food writer shares two ways to preserve summer vegetables so they can be savoured year-round

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

City of stars Playing football sublime City of stars Were you cheating all that time? Who know? Because your lawyers blocked the documents…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

It is in fact false advertising to have an episode of Berghütten set in Franken. Hügelhütten, maybe.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

A sufficiently advanced cat could seize the means of production and turn us all into Sheba with meaty chunks in gravy, so we devote all our resources to growing catnip.

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/Forget AI existential threat. This is far scarier. Jensen Huang lays out a dystopian future of computer outsourcing, human deskilling, and firm recklessness shrouded in the notion that these firms are unleashing an ayn randian paradise. Take a listen. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having just started teaching new undergraduates at uni, I think we're missing a key issue in the debate about AI: these kids do not know how *not* to use AI, full stop. We assume they are 'digital natives' but they are not and a Google Scholar search is as alien to them as an archival card-index.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had a great time speaking with @will-davies.bsky.social this week, as we tried to answer the question: what’s the point of intellectuals? What’s their - our? - relationship to politics? And why do so many political thinkers find intellectuals a bit… worrying? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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On Politics: What happened to the intellectual?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 23 September · 1hr 7min

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*bangs head against wall forever* Apparently the way Burnham thinks we get parity of esteem is by saying vocational quals are for non-academic kids.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Arild Andersen, Charles Mingus, Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Anders Jormin, Mats Eilertsen, Michael Formanek, Steve Swallow…

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know it’s poor form to repost an outrage artist like Ulf, but his message that we shouldn’t fear a repeat of the Nazis but rather an imminent return of the GDR (but this time with “Arab Islamofascist” characteristics) does sum up the current terror of the large swathes of the Mitte.

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