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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

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‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts

Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Is there a cool phonetic/phonological story to be told about the interchangeability of Hamnet/Hamlet?

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Jeff Holliday @jeffholliday.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In Korean, the expression I know (목청껏) refers to vocal cords. It uses a particle that means like "to the extent possible", and so it's roughly "pushing my vocal cords to the brink".

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bergamot @berg-a-mot.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

in Russian we have "yelling with all my throat"

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I’m doing a live thing in two weeks, come hang out

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Overheard someone talking about “mentopause” earlier today and what kind of process is this????? Hunter/hunner gone wild.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

New eggcorn out now

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Max Reuvers @maxreuvers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Dutch has 'uit volle borst zingen' (singing out of full chest), meaning singing loudly/enthusiastically, which seems similar if a little more restricted in application (I don't think I know it to be used for shouting, just singing)

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In English we say “at the top of my lungs” to mean “as loud as I can”. Do other languages have similar phrases? Do they refer to lungs or some other body part? Or use a different metaphor entirely?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Taking one of these apology shaped objects as meaningful is *just as much a huge red flag* as thinking any of its other output is meaningful. It's a sign you've got the exact same brainrot as the guys calling it their girlfriend.

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Thomas Wier @trwier.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Weekly Georgian Etymology: მეკვლეობა Meḳvleoba 'First-foot (tradition)', from Middle Georgian მეკვლე meḳvle hunter, tracker from Old Georgian ႩႳႠႪႨ ḳuali trace, step, from Georgian-Zan *ḳwal- step. It draws its name from superstitions surrounding the New Year's first visitor.

The skyline of Batumi during New Year's celebrations

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Edinburgh at night

The curved colourful Victoria Street lit by streetlights and Christmas lights.

The Royal Mile and St Giles cathedral lit up at night

Courtyard outside the Writer’s
Museum lit by a single famous lamppost

The town centre of Edinburgh lit up with blue, gold, and red Christmas lights

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Oh, you're adding 1 to a number at midnight? Great fun, is it? I add 1 to numbers all the time but you don't see me making a big deal out of it, but have fun I guess with your math holiday

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I am 100% in favour of renationalising passenger rail services, but PLEASE can we stop the stupid cycle of building good things, dismantling them, then rebuilding them again??

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

AI and algorithms have driven me off the internet. Miss you, but can’t stand the robots anymore.

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Brian Thom @b-thom.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Rare permanent position alert! UVic Anthropology is looking for a Senior Lab Instructor (MA/PhD) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. We need someone passionate about experiential learning & adept at multimodal methods (sound, visual, maps) uvic.mua.hrdepartment.com/hr/ats/Posti... #anthro #academicjobs

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Some private equity firm is going do the most evil possible thing with this data and that was always how this was going to end.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The promise of AI in education is it will save educators time. That's rubbish. It's sapping all our time already in working groups, committees, workshops, and marking anxiety. It's the most time-sapping, exhausting and frankly boring thing I've ever encountered in HE - and it's in my research area.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 23/03/2025

Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I wish NPR would run fewer science stories like "how our brains work, part 43" or "the nature of time itself" and more on, say, climate change and ecosystems, fire, or extreme floods. And slip in a mention of how many fired fed employees or grant $ pulled focused on "exactly what we're discussing."

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/03/2025

"Would you kill Hitler as a baby?" No, you sadist; I would do everything I could to make sure he avoided his father's wrath and got into art school

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’m embarrassed that it has come to this but after 5 1/2 months of unemployment and underemployment I am struggling to pay my bills that will come due in April. If you are able and so inclined, I’d really appreciate any support you can send my way. ko-fi.com/rebekkap

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

People say academia doesn't need print books or journals any more - but the printed material may be all that survives the next 50 years, let alone the next 500.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

i don’t mind if a human being pirates my book in order to read it. i do mind if mark zuckerberg pirates my book to make meta AI more profitable

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In case you wanted to know some of my thoughts on how student loans would be affected by all this nonsense...here you go! Gift link. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

screenshot of the top of the article from the wall street journal. Title reads: What to know about student loans after trump's move to dismantle the education department. Subhead reads: The federal agency manages roughly $1.7 trillion in student loans to nearly 45 million people. By Oyin Adedoyin and Dalvin Brown. Updated March 20, 2025 at 6:06pm eastern.

screenshot of the article that reads: Trump has suggested moving the student-loan portfolio to another agency, such as the Treasury Department or Small Business Administration.

That could mean changes to the contracts between loan servicers and the government, said Dominique Baker, associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware.

With servicing changes, there can be headaches and delays. Last year, the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, or Mohela, a student loan servicer, transitioned record-keeping for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to the Education Department. While the transition was happening, processing of forms and other information was paused, frustrating borrowers.

“The number one thing I would expect from that type of move is chaos,” Baker said. She said she could see a scenario where people are making payments but nobody is tracking how many they have made.

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Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We were meme'ing over on other platforms at @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social and it's too good not to share here! #archaeology Happy big C's day to those who celebrate!

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Fun fact! My retired mother is exploring an ADHD diagnosis after both my brother and I started getting treated as adults. As she says, why struggle with something that you don't have to, just because you're not working?

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

At the post dept meeting trip to the pub this afternoon, my colleagues and I had a fascinating discussion about handwriting (one of us broke her dominant wrist recently...) The question: Is it easier for you to write normal script in your non-dominant hand, or mirror script in your dominant hand?

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Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Interested in #Edinburgh women's history? A statue is being proposed to the memory of Elsie Inglis on the High St. This lacks artistic merit, excludes female artists, misrepresents Dr Inglis' legacy & disregards the context of the site. We need your help so pls read this 🧵 👇

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Please help a foreigner out: what does a “smart” or “smart casual” dress code mean? #lifeInTheUK

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

More #buyastrangerabook magic! @fussycoder.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20! Any book! Not just what's on my website. ANY BOOK (as long as I can get it). So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch. UK only

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

As an American I fully support this suggestion.

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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Reminder Kids, Neurodiversity is not just ADHD. We have a ton of ND cousins under the umbrella as well.

UMBRELLA*
ADHD
BIPOLAR
DID & OSDD
ASPD
BPD
NPD
CPTSD
DYSLEXIA
DYSPRAXIA
HSP
SENSORY PROCESSING
DYSCALCULIA
PTSD
DYSGRAPHIA
"NON-EYHAUSTIVE ST
AUTISM
EPILEPSY
GAD
OCD
ABI/TBI
TIC DISORDERS
SCHIZOPHRENIA
MISOPHONIA
HPD
DOWN SYNDROME
FASD
SYNESTHESIA

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Please help a foreigner out: what does a “smart” or “smart casual” dress code mean? #lifeInTheUK

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My wife was shocked when she learned that we don't get paid to write papers or paid royalties when those papers get published. (If you're an academic in the UK, register with @alcs.co.uk and you can get payment for certain uses of your publications.)

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rebekka @pewterbaw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’m performing in a play! A new writing work in progress about two estranged siblings locked in an escape room together. Script in hand performances tomorrow and Friday. Get your tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/play-on-a-...

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Play On - A Read Through Rehearsal

Two estranged siblings stuck in an escape room looking for their mother's will. A dark comedy with a Shakespearian twist. By Erin Boulter.

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A guy falls off a 40 story building. As he passes by the 20th floor, a friend sticks his head out the window and goes "good news, so far you're all right"

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Just thinking about my home country for some reason

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back. The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

this is all to say, I see people say “When will university presidents see that they have to join together in opposition to these attacks on higher education?” The answer is never. They wobt ever. Any personal or collective decision making should be premised on that fact

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bekka @rebekka.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Oh no! Is Tasty Noodle gone??? :( #edinburgh

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"The UK is neither a high wage nor high welfare country: the consequence of weak wage growth and cuts in welfare spending have meant that by comparison to other countries the two main sources of living standards in the UK is limited." niesr.ac.uk/publications...

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UK Living Standards Review 2025 - NIESR

While some enjoy living standards comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest in the UK are now poorer than Slovenia and Malta.

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