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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

@ifbookspod.bsky.social I saw these three together in the returned books shelf at work and immediately got suspicious of the book Humankind.

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Om någon i Göteborg undrar varför det är en rökpelare nära Götaplatsen så är det bygget bredvid min svärfars lägenhet som råkat sätta eld på gummimattorna (?) under en sprängning.

En byggarbetsplats fotograferad genom ett fönster på femte våningen. Det brinner i en av stenhögarna och svart rök bolmar upp.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 21/05/2025

Here's how to REALLY offend a paleontologist 🦴🦕 #GameChanger / @GianmarcoSoresi.bsky.social

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist it’s not an accident

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Jag uppskattar bojkotten mot de stora kedjorna men tycker också det är lite roligt att jag och min sambo av ren pengabrist har fått ha vår egna lilla bojkott den här månaden.

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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

En sak jag hoppas ändå kommer med den amerikanska apokalypsen är att folk i Europa ser och förstår vad radikalhögern faktiskt vill. För ingen tror väl att det skulle bli annorlunda om SD, AfD eller Nationell samling fick total politisk majoritet (med vissa lokala detaljer olika)?

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Me: "I wouldn't want to go to the US, I can't support that country" My (trans) partner: "I mean, I straight up can't go"

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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Really can not exaggerate how dire it is that the US flat-out disappeared a foreign student

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Some fun PhD student positions now available in Visby, both in archaeology and cultural heritage. www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

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Lediga jobb - Uppsala universitet

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Breaking my hiatus just to say that Sweden will finally be sending something really goofy to Eurovision. About time!

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 07/01/2025

More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same. (See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)

A sample of the automated index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns:

APPENDIX: A COMPUTER-GENERATED INDEX
acquaintance, familiar, 148
acrostic form, 30
Acrosticks, 147
acrostics, 30
alphabetic, 29
Active indexes, 254
activity, 12, 58
extra-curricular, 97
Addison, 156–57, 186
hauling, 156
skewering, 157
Addison’s Book, 156
Addison’s Grand Tours, 159
Addison’s words, 156
ad hoc verbal guidepost, 255
Adjective Relative, 156
adjustment, small, 105
Adler, 203
Irene, 203
administrative apparatus, 22
admired Christopher Eccleston, 138
affectations, 30
afoot, 144, 217
Africa, 92
After-Burden, 167
afterthought, 96
Againe, 27
Agatha Christie, 39
age, 2–3, 6–7, 9, 137–38, 169–70, 186, 205, 208, 229, 232–33, 251, 254, 256
industrious, 228
old, 12
twenty-first-century, 233
age finding, 6
agent, 213
estate, 76
age of search, 51, 230, 251
age sticking, 185
aggressive coachmen, 162
Agoa, 243
Agrigento, 142
aid, 28, 30, 62, 67, 117, 191
visual, 66

A sample of the first page of the human indexer's index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns.

Index
Note to the gentle Reader: Page numbers in italic indicate figures. Page numbers in the form 273n1 indicate endnotes. Entries are sorted in letter-by-letter order, except where noted. This index was created by Paula Clarke Bain, who is a professional indexer and a human being. [PCB]

A, a, a 77,78,79
abbreviations 38, 40, 72, 78, 79, 242
ABC Murders, The (Christie) 39
abecedaria 28, 29, 35
Abish, Walter, Alphabetical Africa 39
abstracting 4, 245, 248
accuracy 15, 64, 98, 100, 178, 252
acrostics 29, 30, 147, 311
active indexes 254
Addison, Joseph 30, 156–7, 159, 174, 186
loathes acrostics 30
portrait 154
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 156–7
Spectator indexes 173–7
addresses to reader see introductory notes
‘Adventures of a Quire of Paper’ 171–2, 174
advertisements 42, 101, 176, 183, 186, 214, 249
Aeneid (Virgil) 39, 242, 243
Aesop's Fables 144, 146
agencies, indexing 260, 296–7n22
Age of Distraction 9, 251
Age of Enlightenment 170
Age of Industry 205-6
Age of Search 51, 233, 251 see also search
Agoa, Helen S. 243
AI (Artificial Intelligence) 2, 254
aide-mémoire 66, 126
Aitken, Jonathan, goes to jail 137
Akraiphia stones 36
Aldus Manutius, Dictionarium graecum 110
Alexander of Ashby, De artificioso modo predicandi 49
Alexander the Great 30, 93
Alexandria see Library of Alexandria
algorithms 100, 233, 251, 258
Alice stories (Carroll) 177–8, 180, 181
alphabet
Cyrillic 45–6
Greek 29, 36, 71, 89
Hebrew 29
history of alphabets 28–30
Latin 29

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It took me a couple of episodes before I figured out what was bothering me about The 100, which everyone around me loved. It was that everyone was the exact same flavour.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Happy Christmas to everyone celebrating old calendar Christmas today!

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Gamers: adding a difficulty slider compromises the artistic vision of the game devs Also gamers, apparently: I need an AI filter over every face in my game

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/01/2025

some things on the internet get old and cringy but I do not think I will ever get tired of watching Tom Holland's Umbrella performance for the rest of my life instant smile on my face, every single time

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

folks, when you ask a chatbot about how it's programmed, it doesn't actually give you accurate answers - it gives you a series of predictive guesses drawn from a corpus of what other people have said about AI and the way you asked it. Meta's 'AI' personalities are not spilling secrets to you.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

So very tired of an acquaintance of mine who keeps posting "funny" memes about gaining weight ("The more you weigh, the harder you are too kidnap" etc). As you might have guessed, she's your average person who weighs 5-10 kg more than she did at 20 and now has to be self deprecating about it.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My old PhD advisor, Henrik Williams, wrote a short article about this passage. Litr means "colour" and is a pretty unusual dwarf name. Henrik argues that this is what's left from a story about how fire got so many colours.

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Qichin | Bard Vtuber @qichin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Notch is a racist. Notch is a misogynist. Notch is a homophobe and transphobe. Do not give Notch your support. Do not give Notch your money.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I'm so sorry, but I can't afford to donate to more than a few people every month. I wish I could.

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Ali Esbati @aliesbati.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Självklart är det fullt möjligt att få ned utbetalningarna till sjuklön om man ändrar reglerna så att det är svårare att få tillgång. Men det finns alltså absolut inget som tyder på att fler då börjar jobba. Det som händer är att fler sjuka blir fattigare. Då får man vara tydlig med att det är målet

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I've now finished Thank Goodness You're Here and am probably joining everyone else in hoping @secretsleepoversociety.com will play it.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Det här med utökad semester sätter fingret på något som stör mig när folk pratar om hur de minsann tog tåget till Rom i somras: det är jättebra, OM MAN HAR TID. En extra veckas semester är inte görbart för väldigt många.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

TIME TO CREATE BUCKAROOS. yes there will be little pieces that you keep seeing and thinking 'this is broken this is wrong' but honestly most of these things fall into two categories 1 they give you flavor and power or 2 nobody even notices. NOW GET OUT THERE AND PROVE LOVE BUILD SOMETHING AMAZING

jurassic park meme of two buds sitting first one points and says ‘HEY EVERYBODY THIS GUY IS WORRIED THAT PEOPLE ARE FOCUSED ON THE PART OF HIS ART THAT HE’S INSECURE ABOUT. second panel is him saying ‘SEE NOBODY CARES’

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 04/01/2025

Boss made a dollar, Grandad made a dime. But that was a poem From a simpler time. Boss made a thousand, Gave my Dad a cent. But that coin paid the mortgage, Or at least it paid the rent. Now bosses make a billion, And give us workers jack. Then smugly blame society, For the labor that they lack.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Here’s a whole thread on this absolutely unbelievable admission of guilt on a national scale.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Min pappa gillar inte riktigt jul. Min farmor fick ofta tvärnog mitt i julstöket och bara drog från köttbullarna på spisen och försvann i timtal. Sund hantering av att bli överväldigad.

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Våldspornografiskt knallraffel och bullfest @shadilly.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

"Förr fanns minsann inga npf-diagnoser" Jag, gräver i arkiv och hittar saker som: ➡️Löjtnant ger ut en tidning i 5 år för att han inte fick skriva om angorakaniner i kaninföreningens medlemsblad. ➡️"Om ljus m.m." en essä på 5 A4 av en kemist som blev avbruten på kemistårsmötet. 🫡

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I have a very silly little song that I sing whenever I can't find my partner in the supermarket (or any other place for that matter). He's an easily distracted short king, he disappears a lot.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Really looking forward to this.

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We're playing Alas for the Awful Sea and are naming our ship. Turns out looking in your board game collection is really helpful. The Wingspan. The Azul. The Alhambra. The Cartographer.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/01/2025

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/01/2025

If it's an 'authoritarian drive' in China to remove trans people from public view, what's it called in the UK and US?

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

In tonight's board game, a rampaging Ankylosaurus, genetically enhanced to be a carnivore, killed one park employee and a tour guide.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

I have adopted the following policy on the use of generative Al systems, which is adapted from one originally written by Prof. Susannah Paletz.

There are two primary goals of this doctoral seminar. The first is to familiarize you with Science and Technology Studies as a literature, through its intellectual history and breadth of critical considerations. The second goal is to train you in the scholarly practices of reading large amounts of textual material quickly and effectively, synthesizing and discussing that material accurately and in detail, and then using the insights, methods, theories, and approaches of those texts in your own intellectual work. My expectation is that you will not use any generative artificial intelligence systems (like ChatGPT, Claude, etc) to complete your work in this class. Any use of Al-generated work to brainstorm, outline, write, edit, etc, your work will be considered an academic integrity violation. These systems are often inaccurate, are bad at summarizing complex materials, and relying on them will make your work worse and less interesting. The use of these programs does not serve your development as a thinker, writer, and scholar.

To quote Professor Andrew Perfors, "As a teacher, what I want to teach, and what I want people to practice doing, is the process of creation itself. I don't give a single goddamn flying fuck what ChatGPT thinks about the essay prompt. The purpose of having students write an essay is not to fill the world with yet more words on the topic of the essay: the point is to find out what my students think about the topic. Actually, the point is even deeper - it is to make them go through the process of figuring out for themselves what they think, and to wrestle with putting those thoughts into words so that they can clarify things to themselves and improve their ability to share those thoughts clearly. This process cannot be short-circuited by outsourcing it to Al; to do so removes the entire fucking point."
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🔻Grundbulten @grundbult.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

För att vara ett äkta folkmord måste det utföras i de vita folkmordsregionerna i Europa. Annars är det bara mousserande massmord

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none

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Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Getting really into Old Swedish. Unable to believe that anyone would find me attractive, to the point of shutting down whenever someone actually flirted with me.

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