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Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies

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Someone made a Lego model of the famous medieval “egg horse” and lol this is the best type of reception (L'estoire de Merlin, France ca. 1316, @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add. 10292, fol. 213r) 🥚 🐴 #equova

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Apparently, alongside all the other joints we have, it’s been decided that our biggest one - English and History - is to be scrapped, despite it not requiring a single bespoke module and therefore saving £0. Vandalism. Again.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

LLMS will FAKE CITATIONS and they also FAKE QUOTES They do this basically EVERY TIME Just plz stop using them, they are really useless and also killing the planet and democracy

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

In 1939, the Miami Herald printed one undulant fever fact each day to prod the city into outlawing raw milk.

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I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 16 days ago • 541 comments

Allegory alert!

submitted 17 days ago • 221 comments

A #nuntastic document! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 16 days ago • 413 comments

It’s very likely Judd’s reporting here saved lives.

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PSA if you’ve been trying to force yourself to Make A Phone Call to contact your representatives for days and not quite getting there, you can email them. They receive written messages too. It’s okay to be imperfect rather than stuck in a guilt spiral that exhausts you and goes nowhere. democracy.io

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

submitted 40 days ago • 1416 comments

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

submitted 44 days ago • 787 comments

Very pleased to find on my doorstep this afternoon this wonderful volume in honor of Sharon Farmer's remarkable scholarship and influence. #medievalsky www.routledge.com/.../Dowlin.....

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Ok... I've already watched this on catch up. REALLY disappointed to see no mention of PAS, the rules for hoards and - most importantly - to call in the archs if you get any hint that an artefact might be in situ... Why? This is why - bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/09/11/d... #DiggingForBritain

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

submitted 47 days ago • 1425 comments

Another copyright law pro-tip this morning: What does "published" mean? If copies were made available outside of, like, your family, that's published. Printing out a fan zine and leaving it at the local comic shop? That's published, for purposes of copyright and privacy.

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We are deeply concerned to hear about proposed cuts and programme closures at the University of Northampton and the University of Sheffield. In solidarity with our colleagues, please join us and sign and share the two petitions below requesting URGENT action. 🚨 1/3

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

submitted 49 days ago • 113 comments

psst -- it's kind of a fun survey; you should do it. Everybody: academics in other fields, non-experts, movie goers, gamers... Dooo it! You know you want to.

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Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts Grow up

submitted 50 days ago • 61 comments

Editing a paper from UK to US and it's breaking my heart to put a sentence's commas and full stops INSIDE quotations 😭

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

Hello #MedievalSky I'm doing an online talk for the Ideology, Society and Medieval Religion seminar organised by @tswingard.bsky.social and Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow. It's on Monday 20 January at 6pm and is FREE. Sign up below! There'll be pretty pictures. www.ticketsource.co.uk/ideology-soc...

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔

submitted 53 days ago • 2725 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

submitted 53 days ago • 819 comments

#OpenAccess for the next 2 weeks: Stuart Pracy, Visions of Hierarchy and Inequality in Early Medieval England. #MedievalSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Might be a good time to point out a billionaire couple own and use more water than every home in LA combined

submitted 54 days ago • 224 comments

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

submitted 54 days ago • 491 comments

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

submitted 62 days ago • 208 comments

My latest free-to-read Substack is about reading Gillian Clarke's (fairly) new translation of Y Gododdin, the oldest British poem: drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/a-flood-of...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Mister Rogers never misses

submitted 59 days ago • 169 comments

Bishop Hamo de Hythe's mid C14 doorway (now) into the Cathedral Library at Rochester Cathedral. #AdoorableThursday.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad? a guy wanted to get richer What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer

submitted 60 days ago • 81 comments

I’ll be holding a Finds Day at y Gaer on 26 Jan from 10:00-15:00. If you’re in the Brecon area and have any finds that need identified, or any finds that are 300+ years old, I’d love to record them! Book a guaranteed 10-minute slot here: outlook.office365.com/book/PAS@nat...

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

something that tech people could do would be to make it so that when you download a chapter of an ebook you'd also get the relevant end notes to the chapter included in the PDF but there's no money in making existing things function so they probably won't

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

“In 2014, David Cameron’s barber was awarded an MBE in the new year honours list for ‘services to hairdressing’, and the raging Tory bird stayed silent.”

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“Academics from poorer backgrounds are both more likely to not publish and to have outstanding publication records. Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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