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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take alert! Submitting this kind of ChatGPT paper for peer review is wildly disrespectful to your colleagues and should result in being banned from submitting to journals.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026

We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵

We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“We reject the false choice between protecting women and treating trans people with dignity, and believe women’s rights are best advanced when we stand in solidarity with our trans siblings.” Despite what some claim, many women’s organisations fight for trans inclusion as central to women’s rights.

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Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC updated Code of Practice - Not in our name

NION Women is proud to stand alongside a coalition of UK women's organisations in expressing concern about the EHRC's updated Code of Practice

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

is it a fair read to say that both public and politicians are obsessed by the idea of more money for vocational training, while there is essentially no set of employers/industry that actually needs this now while no one cares about universities which employ huge numbers and employers need and want

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

About as grim as it gets.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 25/09/2026

Whenever I think about AI anthropomorphism I come back to Murderbot and the AI in Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, for both of whom I have shed tears. Because a human made them up *really well*.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wes Streeting is a truly, truly awful person. The damage he's done to trans people, to neurodivergent people, to people with mental health issues... all because of his "reckons".

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

It's more like, if someone says "The gun went off, and a person was shot," necessary facts are being left out of the narrative. You can and should regulate dangerous tools, and if someone provides dangerous tools, knowing of the danger, you should make them jointly responsible.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

While they are conducting their research, I know some great people who could take an additional $10 million and figure out how to design some really wonderful writing assignments for students to complete without AI so that we can compare. Let us know if you know of any funders!

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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Great job looking after Pepys Library, Old Library and Special Collections. But the usual woeful salary for such expertise

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They keep saying that wealth taxation is about “punishing success.” But the reality is it’s about punishing failure. Over the past decade tech elites enshittified the internet and pledged to kill your job. They don’t think they’re part of society. They brought this on themselves.

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Dr Sasha Garwood @sashagoblin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's a year since this came out and I'm three chapters into the book, so, yes.

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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Important thread about more than AI - about knowing, knowledge and ethics. There is no liberation for anyone if there is not a collective struggle for knowledge as part of justice and freedom

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Coureur de Fembois [Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐔 @droctorock.northsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've been saying this! Writing is thinking, I develop my ideas by doing the process of writing about them, weather it's the fiction I write for fun or the stuff I write for my job. Farming that out to machines would harm me even if they did a great job reliably

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

it really makes you think

A clearly photoshopped screenshot of a Threads post. It reads 'All the people who are anti The Museum of English Rural Life, I have one question: if MERL disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without half a building comprised entirely of heritage wagons? Imagine MERL was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up.'

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/08/2026

THIS is public journalism right here.

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I need your help! If you have been better than me at saving/bookmarking good threads, blogs, articles etc. explaining how LLMs function scientifically or critiquing/assessing their use in a complex way (ie not just calling them “plagiarism machines,” tho I do agree), can you share your links here?

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/08/2026

"corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith."

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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

still mad at this IT'S BOTH YOU DICHOTOMOUS FREAKS I have a harder time doing repetitive chores than others despite being able to perform at the 99th percentile and above on complex reasoning tasks because my brain is different the moral value assigned to "not doing chores" is a social construct

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/07/2026

One thing i think we need to be clear on is that the “nine years” is almost entirely getting Drs to take us seriously. These tests need to be cheap and easily available enough that Drs are incentivised to use them very widely, or else the actual issue will continue.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If we're using the mental illness model for "AI psychosis" - which is looking increasingly accurate - people need to grapple with what that means, including how to effectively intervene with someone experiencing it.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

No, it's not okay to use genAI for research- or writing-adjacent activities. Those actions are also part of writing and thinking and research! Don't fall for the con of genAI boosters. Hang onto your humanity. 2/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

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The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.

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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️‍🔥 @amandamakepeace.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

People making excuses for Charles de Lint using AI…When we don’t hold people accountable for their actions, especially destructive actions, we are complicit.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/07/2026

And I do not in any way want to be a jerk to copy editors, whose hard and thankless job is more invisible the better they do, but I do think it is worth reiterating the founding principle of "First, do no harm."

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Why is this technology that no one wants, is losing vast oceans of money, using even vaster oceans of water, using enough electricity to cause power cuts and is putting people out of work, even a thing?

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Stunt Lover 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 @stuntlover.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"TheR'eS A REAsoN SpoRts ArE SEGreGateD BY sEx" Yeah, because men couldn't bear to lose to a woman.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is well worth your time to read.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/07/2026

An entire thread on how a presumably bewildered world is translating Count Binface

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Crucible Of Words @crucibleofwords.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Turns out every single left wing shitposter was 100% right about Starmer whilst every centrist commentator and poll prof was wrong. Funny how this keeps happening.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Who would like a Horace Nicholls photo? A member of the Women's Forestry Corps uses an axe to mark felled tree trunks for sawing c1917-18. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Black and white photo of a young woman standing among felled trees holding an axe.

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Dr Sasha Garwood @sashagoblin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So proud of this - E.F. Benson a loving and complicated man who deserves to have his full complexity recognised (and George Wolfe Plank is an unsung genius).

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English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📖✒️ In “‘Heart’s Need’ and ‘Physical Hunger’: The Influence of Sexuality on the Life and Work of E.F. Benson,” @sashagoblin.bsky.social examines Benson's writing as a vital mode of self-fashioning to interweave desire with love, underscoring his relationship with George Wolfe Plank. Read the piece👇:

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“Heart’s Need” and “Physical Hunger”: The Influence of Sexuality on the Life and Work of E.F. Benson

Whilst novelist E.F. Benson’s attraction to men is widely recognised, his reticence about his private romantic life and his professed distaste for “promiscuous immorality” have led scholars to be e...

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