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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21h

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sound up - the narration is spot-on.🤣

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This brought me a touch of joy today...

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Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brilliant, #ESAJuice got itself an XKCD! #planetsci

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎶 Well isn’t it ioniq? Don’t you think? A little TOO ioniq, than you’re willing to think?🎶

Close up photo of the grill of an SUV, with the word: Ioniq 5 on it

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ya know… I mean… Sometimes, I just ‘can’t even’ and I don’t think that’s weird.

Scary picture of a warning sign with a caption overlay stating Health officials seek woman handling a rabid bat on the street.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Got out with the camera today. It was a lovely Saturday.

Brighton beach,with pebbles in the foreground, the sea being slightly frothy... And a quite cloudy sky which takes up 2/3rds of the top of the image. It was all about the clouds over the sea today.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remember where you were on 9-11, 2021? I was teaching high school photography and was in the darkroom with half my class when the other half shouted from the classroom: "Mr. Mac, come see this!" And our lives haven't really recovered much since. Wow. Here's to those who died that day!

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ferdinand was one of my favourite 'go to' books when I was a child. I had no idea my mother was preparing me for being a commie-pinko in my adult life...

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘Personal, social, and economic value’. Receipts and evidence for that? Unsurprisingly, none. God save us from these people.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've had the exact same experience! THEM: "Of course we value the humanities! Where would we be without them?" ME: "That's great, so anyway I'm a historian of technology and—" THEM: [eyes narrowing so quickly it makes an audible sound]

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/08/2026

i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Absolutely Stunned" Really? Metaphor: The eagle eating Prometheus' liver every day stopped. And Prometheus was suddenly in much better health. The gods were shocked. Tres tres bizarre.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Okay... I'm tired of the ongoing "Be an environmentalist at home" sort of media bullsh*t? By all means, conserve! But... For the love of all the world: Corporations use ONE-MILLION-PERCENT more resources than an average household. Make them stop! www.theguardian.com/lets-save-wa...

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How on earth do we use so much water? Let’s start with flushing and washing …

With water supplies across England facing increasing pressure, a new campaign is getting us all to think about how we can conserve this precious resource

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modal-fair.bsky.social @modal-fair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Talking positively about bikes/bike infrastructure always seems to bring out a certain subset of the population that I can only assume have rabies

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Made it out to the Marina this past weekend. Even 'busy' there are some quiet bits.

Black and White photo of a woman leaning on a railing, overlooking a boat marina with sailboats all docked and feeling a bit 'lonely'.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The sky today has been glorious.

Landscape photograph of brown grass, rolling hills and a stunning cloudscape lit by a strong sun

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here's a blinking-ly GOOD metaphor...

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sometimes it's not necessarily a 'bad thing' to be in a conservation area in a city. None of the tiny front-gardens on our road are allowed to be paved/covered/changed from plants.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm 'back at it' after two weeks off. Didn't do anything special except read a bunch and hide from the 'angry sky ball™' But... Now that I'm back on the computer, doing the inbox triage, answering questions... I have a headache and don't want to be here AT all... Annual Leave is a pain.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just a heads-up for any of my Brighton-peeps... Our next Learning Futures meetup is on Tuesday, 21st of July at 6:30pm. Three lightning talks from edtech senior leaders... Free. Interesting. Networky... #EdTech #DigitalLearning #Brighton luma.com/ydx3qyav

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Learning Futures - 21 July 2026 · Luma

Empowering Learners in the Digital Age This month, we’re coming together to focus on the future of skills and education right here in Sussex. We’re returning…

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A very clear and easy to understand framing of the data protection issues around Smart Glasses. I've chimed in on a few conversations around these devices this week and even opined that I could see bylaws around their use in public spaces. This all adds to that and goes further. Well worth a read!

Al compounds these risks. Seeming anodyne information can be converted into special category data through automated processing alone. A video of a room may become a scene analysis. A face may become an dentity. A conversation may become a transcript. A location may reveal health, religion or politics. A seemingly ordinary clip may be used to infer disability, emotion ethnicity, age, relationships or financial status. The legal risk, therefore, lies not only in capturing the information, but also its processing in context - a process that may be largely opaque event to the wearer.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I just watched a TikTok where a youngin’ captioned it with: “War Protest Songs From History.” And proceeded to play clips from Greenday, Nena, and Rage Against the Machine. Gods, I feel ancient.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wow. Cancellations of 'even acquired citizenships' so... Even me? Or am I not 'brown' enough to be 'cancelled?' If it looks like a Nazi, and walks like a Nazi, and QUACKS like a Nazi...

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

All 'Centrist' political parties in the West are beholden to their corporate oligarchical masters, and believing otherwise is possible proof of mental illness.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

WTF??? Wow. That's awful. Ann was a controversial persona, but... But this sort of thing has to be against our common society.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So...We have an adorable plush toy in the back garden today. As both flats that have access to the back garden are currently on holiday... I'm going to guess we had a 'fox visitor' last night.

A plush toy about 50cm long, that appears to perhaps be a 'badger' or something. Lying in the leafy detritus of the back garden with no obvious origin.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Look, I rather 'love' the idea. But all of the bans that governments keep legislating are completely unenforceable. So, this isn't the answer, folks.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You too can have an accessible conference! Accessibility makes things better for everyone! Open access guidelines, compiled by Alexandra R. A. Lee & me, here 👉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #MedievalSky #IMC2026 🗃️

Alexandra R.A. Lee and Alicia Spencer-Hall

Making Conferences More Accessible

Introduction

Many who work in academic settings live with impairments and/or chronic con-ditions, which mean that attending conferences can be a difficult issue. This can be the case for students, early-career researchers, independent scholars, tenured academics, and support staff. All require their needs to be taken into account so that their conference experience is as good as it possibly can be. After the first meetup of Medievalists with Disabilities in 2017, we crowdsourced ideas of how to make conferences more accessible. The ideas presented here came from this meetup, Twitter discussions with the community, and from the Medievalists with Disabilities Slack channel, an online communication platform. This document is the result of that collaborative work, which we have edited together into a more cohesive format. We have revisited and updated the original document, particu-larly bearing in mind the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nature of con-ference attendance.

These guidelines aim to make conference attendance easier and indeed just simply possible for disabled people and people with chronic conditions by imple-menting certain strategies. If these guidelines are followed, it should mean less work for disabled and chronically ill people. Also, if they became standard, it would significantly improve accessibility. Many of the suggestions do not require many changes or much effort or expense but would make a huge difference to those they would support. You will notice that we have taken guidance from around the world, and a multitude of different contexts: while we are medieval-ists, after the first section, the guidance we offer is not disciplinary-specific and is universally applicable for academic events.2

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

HAHAHA... Okay, this has made my Friday.

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Rewind back to an interview between Zack Polanski & the Day Time TV presenter known as "Ed Balls" who took exception to Polanski calling him a “Labour politician” and accusing him of bias. "I lost my seat in 2015 & I’ve not been a Labour politician for 10 years" lamented soon to be Labour Lord Ed.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This seems like the biggest self-own. I thought it was pretend, but I've seen it now a few times. Did they REALLY do this? 'Cause... ???

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/06/2026

Worse than Priti Patel was quite a goal but you have to hand it to Mahmood, she did it!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you work at a university or in any of the many adjacent sectors of the economy, you are not important to the Labour Party.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/06/2026

Accurate.

Screenshot of a social media post by Angus McIntyre (@angusm@mastodon.social). The post humorously claims that the UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs could become one of the largest IT education projects ever. It jokes that experts support the scheme because peer education and incentives will help it succeed, and includes a mock quote saying that, with the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN literacy is more important than ever and that the project comes at the right time. The humour derives from the implication that government internet restrictions would encourage widespread VPN use among young people.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/06/2026

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A victorious Andy Burnham MP (24,937 votes), as the result of the Makerfield by-election is announced, flanked by defeated candidates Count Binface (a bloke in a vaguely sci-fi costume with a large bin for a helmet; 95 votes) and Robert Pownall (who is in a full body fox costume, holding a sign reading "Protect British Wildlife"; 18 votes). There are some other candidates there just out of shot but that's not important right now.

Photo: Jon Super/AP

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Oh... For the love of....... 🤦‍♂️

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Wow. This is actually a fabulous and cutting take on the state of UK politics.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 15/06/2026

"This verdict will have a gigantic chilling effect on our wider rights to protest." Siân Berry MP on the Court of Appeal upholding the proscription of Palestine Action

Quote Graphic from Sian Berry that reads:
“This verdict will have a gigantic chilling effect on our wider rights to protest. I voted against the proscription because I believed it was disproportionate and inappropriate, and today leaves this government as the most draconian I can think of in my lifetime.

“With the rise of authoritarian administrations around the world, and a terrifying increase in far-right activity in this country, Labour ministers are taking a horrible risk with freedom in this country. Alongside, mass live facial recognition, digital ID, restriction of jury trials, and taking away trans people’s rights, they are building a toolkit for tyrants.”

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is delightful. Nice doom-scroll break.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 15/06/2026

Social services mandated to go to the door of every teenager using Bluesky to check if they’re ok.

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Kristen @ansibledialectics.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Phone ban, social media ban & curfew, trans bathroom ban, trans youth healthcare ban, repeated protest ban, arrests of peaceful protestors for Palestine. All this government seems able to do is ban, ban, ban. No positive vision of the future, just kneejerk authoritarian crackdowns.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I was ‘kettled’ by horse officers for my first ever time. The police and horses were actually quite nice considering. #brighton #antifascists

A horse and rider (police) literally close enough to touch me.

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Tucker MacNeill @tmacneill.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is exactly what I thought of when I read the original article about community and caring.

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