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Vanessa Bentley (she/her)

@piratev.bsky.social
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Philosopher of science (neuroscience). Experiment, science & values, neuroethics, and feminist philosophy of science. University of Central Oklahoma

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026
Arguably, the lovingly nagging labor performed by wives for husbands' benefit is a big part of why married men live longer and have better health than other men. And also why so many men are terrified that women are increasingly inclined to avoid marriage. www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/...
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Marriage and Men's Health - Harvard Health Publishing - Harvard Health
Statistics on marriage and health show that married men are healthier than unmarried or divorced men, and are also more likely to live longer. However, marital stress has a negative effect on physi...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
UCO grad and Oklahoma gubernatorial candidate @cyndimunsonok.bsky.social ucentralmedia.com/cyndi-munson...
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Cyndi Munson's Top Priorities as Oklahoma Governor - UCentral Media
Gubernatorial Candidate Cyndi Munson spoke with The Vista regarding her top priorities as Governor and what sets her apart from Mike Mazzei.
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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 03/10/2026
Psychology people: If you haven't seen them yet, check out these upcoming special issues at Psychological Science. Submissions invited.
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Upcoming <i>Psychological Science</i> Special Issues
Psychological Science is seeking submissions for the following special issues:Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language ModelsFrom Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real WorldCenter...
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Cam Hostinar, Ph.D. @camhostinar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am pleased to announce the launch of our new diamond open access journal Psychology Across Development (accepting submissions starting today!). We are a lifespan developmental journal. (1/3) escholarship.org/uc/psycdev
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m looking to add some art to my timeline. Anyone have any art accounts you like?
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“… AI may not be the impartial shopping buddy users think it is: Rather, some of the most popular AI models …recommend more expensive products to users they think are wealthy based on personal data, even if those users specifically ask for the cheapest option.” apple.news/ARjnQS5BbQ_C...
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AI chatbots are ignoring this prompt from wealthy users, in a phenomenon called ‘adversarial delegation’ — Fast Company
Even personal AI shopping agents can contribute to surveillance pricing, a new study suggests. [Source photos: Adobe Stock] AI chatbots are already a trusted source of shopping advice. Roughly 70% of ...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Dwayne Godwin, PhD @dwaynegodwin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to the developers of optogenetics. Did you know that optogenetics is based on a discovery made in green algae? Well, now you do! Here’s a comic explainer we did back when it was still new. @phdcomics.com 🧠 #neuroskyence #neuroscience
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)
A poof of bright pink belly feathers that looks like one of those fuzzy pencil-toppers is surmounted by a dark grey head in which is a wary dark eye.  It's gripping a pink flowering branch that changes from nearly vertical to actually vertical, requiring a sort of death grip by the legs.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.
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rainypoesia.bsky.social @rainypoesia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Important film and accessible— And it’s also available on YouTube.
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My god, that’s almost one per day during the academic year.
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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reminder for October: Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu and I are co-editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice! Essays of up to 9k words due Jan. 4 2027 for peer review. Details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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We are irrevocably implicated in the systems of oppression we seek to dismantle, and the effects of those systems live with us and within us. Accountability—understood as taking responsibility for our contributions to and complicity in systemic harms—offers a framework for practicing feminist solidarity, building community, and supporting both individual and collective healing. This special issue explores feminist accountability as a practice that moves beyond punishment and retribution toward transformative justice as an ethical and political project. We are especially interested in work that engages the tensions, limits, and possibilities of accountability: not only as an ethical ideal, but as a lived, contested, and situated practice across interpersonal, institutional, and structural contexts. We invite submissions that examine how accountability is practiced today and how it intersects with broader frameworks of transformative justice. What does it mean to take responsibility for harm within feminist communities? How might accountability reshape our understandings of power, complicity, and solidarity? What challenges arise when transformative justice frameworks—often developed in grassroots and activist contexts—are brought into academic spaces? In keeping with Feminist Philosophy Quarterly’s commitment to inclusive, intersectional, and community-engaged feminist philosophy, we especially encourage submissions that engage and build upon the work of scholars from historically marginalized communities and those most affected by the forms of harm under discussion. Submissions may address, but are not limited to:-Feminist accountability as a practice: its limits, tensions, and conditions of possibility
-Accountability beyond carceral logics: abolitionist and transformative approaches to harm
-Transformative justice as ethical and political praxis
-Responsibility, complicity, and refusal in conditions of structural injustice
-Practices of repair, restitution, and non-reconciliation
-Community-based responses to harm: care, conflict, and collective healing
-Navigating accountability in a context of backlash and reaction
-The misuse of accountability practices and procedures
-Accountability within feminist movements: power, exclusion, and internal critique
-Pedagogies of accountability: teaching, learning, and institutional responsibility
-The politics of “calling in,” “calling out,” and other modes of response
-Citation as accountability: feminist lineage-building and epistemic responsibility
-Coalition-building and solidarity across asymmetries of power
-Mutual aid, abolition feminism, disability justice, and transformative justice
-Intersections of restorative and transformative justice frameworks
-Feminist responses to interpersonal, gendered, and sexual violence
-Feminist responses to state violence, war, and genocide
-The ethics and politics of care within transformative justice practices

 
Submission Details:
Deadline: January 4, 2027
Length: Up to 9,000 words (including notes, excluding references)
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This right here. The whole 🧵
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
YES! What a find!
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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 29/09/2026
Calling all early-career professionals interested in scholarly publishing! We are now accepting applications for an Acquisitions Fellow. This 12-month entry-level role offers hands-on experience evaluating, developing, and acquiring manuscripts. Apply by October 15, 2026: bit.ly/uwapressfellowship
Applications are now open for the Acquisitions Fellowship at the University of Washington Press. Applications due October 15, 2026. Learn more and apply at bit.ly/uwapressfellowship
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been saying...
Texas A&M Football forum

Why not fire our coaches and use AI?
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
less hot takes, more animals squashing gourds
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/09/2026
It is the duty of the extremely online to send this to your friends, relatives, or colleagues who own portable generators.
Three geese flying with carbon monoxide alarms on their backs. The geese are flying through an intense blizzard over the US. The geese are wearing wool hats with pom poms on top. They are not afraid. The text reads: Carbon monoxide safety geese brigade. Ever loud! Every lifesaving! Ever bird! Make sure your carbon monoxide alarms are working. Keep your portable generator outdoors and 20 feet away from your home!
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KFOR @kfor4.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association says the beef industry is struggling with a slew of disruptions, they say are caused by ICE operations. “These ICE opera…
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Ranchers claim ICE operations are disrupting the cattle industry
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association says the beef industry is struggling with a slew of disruptions, they say are caused by ICE operations. “These ICE opera…
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ada Lovelace Day is coming up soon, on Tuesday 13 October, so if you're celebrating in any way, please add your event to our calendar. If it's a private/internal event, you can set it to 'private'. Add your event: findingada.com/worldwide-ev... What's on: findingada.com/worldwide-ev...
The Ada Lovelace Day Indie Event roundel.
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This post brought to you by today’s reading for AI Ethics: link.springer.com/article/10.1... by @hikemix.bsky.social , @oldmangarth.bsky.social , and @drjoeslater.bsky.social
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ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why, oh why, didn’t the world listen when Harry Frankfurt warned us about the worrisome, rapid proliferation of bullshit (in Western culture)?
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A brief glimpse into a professor’s life: Sunday: Gah, I hate my work. Grading is awful. Why do I do this to myself? Monday: I had such great classes today! Students were really into the material! Teaching is exhausting but fun! Today: (prepping) I love that I get to learn this! This is so cool!
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Women denied abortions for fatal fetal diagnoses sue Oklahoma kfor.com/news/instagr...
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Oklahoma mothers sue over state abortion rights
Two mothers and their doctors are suing top state officials and health advisors after their unborn babies were diagnosed with fetal abnormalities and they were denied abortions.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dave Barry: still goated 🐐
Michelle has been a sportswriter for four decades. For most of her career, she has written more than 400 stories a year. So we’re talking thousands of stories, containing tens of thousands of names and statistics, and I’m guessing that in all that time she got maybe a dozen facts wrong. She had to be accurate, because she was — in fact still is — a woman, which means that every time she writes a story, she has to prove that she knows what she’s talking about. Men do not have to prove this, because men have penises, which give men a natural ability, from birth, to speak authoritatively about all sports, all the time. This is why a casual male sports fan can watch three minutes of a football game between two teams he has never seen before and declare, with complete confidence, that the coaches — who have been coaching for years, and whose jobs depend on their teams’ performance, and who have been up late night after night preparing for this game — have NO IDEA what they’re doing. The casual male sports fan can tell this at a glance, thanks to his penis.
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‼️Mentorship program APPLICATIONS OPEN‼️ Developing a Community of Neuroscientists (DCNS) •5-year mentorship program 👥 •for neuroscience grad students, postdocs & assistant profs 👩🏾‍🏫 •in-person sessions 3x/year ✈️ •professional development, mentoring, & research enhancement 🔬 •peer support network 💞
A cream flyer with yellow callout bubbles. The flyer header reads Developing a Community of Neuroscientists (DCNS) A Longitudinal Mentorship Program to Maximize Scientific Impact. There is a group photo of a diverse cohort 1 underneath the header. The left yellow bubble reads What is DCNS? Developing a Community of Neuroscientists is a five year longitudinal mentorship program designed to retain early-career researchers in the field. We aim to provide sustained mentoring and professional development for the next generation of neuroscience leaders. We seek to support people who have faced barriers along their journeys in pursuing academic research careers.

Who is eligible?
• Mid-to-late stage graduate students (who have advanced to PhD candidacy)
• Postdoctoral fellows (intending to apply for faculty positions)
• Assistant professors (with less than 2 years of experience)
DCNS is hosted by the University of Minnesota and supported by an NINDS R25 grant, but open to applicants nationwide.

The right yellow bubble reads Program Benefits:
• Annual $2000 stipend
• All travel & expenses to attend three in-person cohort meetings each year
• A supportive community as you navigate career transitions
• Expanding your mentoring network
• Unique professional development opportunities to grow your personal and career skills

There is another group photo underneath that bubble.

Then the bottom on the page has a timeline: August applications open, October 30 applications due, December interviews, and January program start. Questions? Please email DCNS@umn.edu
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce origin...
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Love this commitment to thinking and writing
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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m looking to add some art to my timeline. Anyone have any art accounts you like?
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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧵 Short thread: I give a seminar to 1st-year biomed PhD students in my program about how to critically read a paper, how to extract VAST amounts of information from the title, and why reading AI summaries instead of struggling with papers is *particularly* bad for trainees. 🧪
A comparative analysis of two paper titles, focusing what exactly we can expect to see in each paper. The verb choice alone shows that one is primarily a techniques paper.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/09/2026
First lady Melania Trump announces a partnership with Nvidia to bring more AI to schools as part of her Be Best initiative.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026
This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Now that’s a lotta trees!”
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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great news in history of women in philosophy--new book by Alison Stone on Julia Wedgwood, whose "law of imperfect antithesis" is a fascinating alternative to mainstream ethical theory. Watch Alison's terrific video summmary here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #philsky #womeninphilosophy
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.
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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cash transfers to low income mums may slow biological aging in children “1000 low-income mothers were randomly assigned to receive $333 or $20 per month; by age 4, children in the higher-transfer group showed epigenetic markers linked to a slower pace of biological aging” #DOHaD
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Cash transfers to mothers with low income may slow biological aging in children
A study published in Nature Human Behaviour reports that providing cash transfers to mothers with low income during the first four years of their children's lives changed the children's biological agi...
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How to Make Medieval Soap: A 14th-Century Recipe You Can Try www.medievalists.net/2026/09/medi...
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How to Make Medieval Soap: A 14th-Century Recipe You Can Try - Medievalists.net
Explore a 14th-century English recipe for medieval soap, made with sheep tallow, oak ashes and other ingredients, and discover how the process worked.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I confess, it used to be when I would hear it said that this is the best time to be alive I would feel skeptical, but these days when I hear it said that this is the best time to be alive I feel like they’re saying that the future will be even worse than this.
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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 10/09/2026
It's Thursday again, teahearts! You know what that means... Every Thursday, everything at fridaytea.com is 10% off with code "ThirstyThursday" as our gift to you for being such sweet-tea pies! 🍵❤️
Photo of Friday pouring tea with a gongfu set. Text overlay reads "Happy Thursday! 10% off everything at fridaytea.com with code "thirstythursday"
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Leads agreed to pay the Department of Corrections $10 per inmate hour worked. Prisoners employed at the call centers earn $2 per hour, plus possible bonuses for generating leads or completing surveys.
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Oklahoma prison inmates operated political, insurance calls centers behind bars • Oklahoma Voice
Contracts obtained via an open records request confirm that a company called HBW Leads and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections have established several call centers since January.
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