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The two major parties have decided this election won’t be fought on climate change. Let’s decide otherwise. Vote for Climate 200 candidates. Vote Greens. #VoteForClimate #AusPol

submitted 57 days ago • 65 comments

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

submitted 186 days ago • 20 comments

theconversation.com/how-we-devel... How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate terms via @theconversation.bsky.social #signlanguage #language #langsky #climate

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

“Society, Smith writes, is ‘the looking-glass by which we can, in some measure, with the eyes of other people, scrutinize the propriety of our own conduct’” —Dr Allyson Stack considers writing “Adam Smith’s Guide to Parenting” www.imaginedspaces.org/new-writing/...

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

The deadline is when?

submitted 209 days ago • 17 comments

The passive voice in English is often used “when we prefer not to mention who or what does the action (for example, it's not known, it's obvious or we don't want to say)”, e.g, a person killed five people with a gun in Fall City on Monday. In the passive voice it sounds like this:

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Morning everyone who loves second-hand books and bookshops: I'm researching an essay about strange/fascinating/moving artefacts found in second hand books such as old love letters/newspaper cuttings etc that have a bearing on your experience of the book. A reply/ repost hugely appreciated!!

submitted 299 days ago • 154 comments

Having spent a week using the public transport system in Southern Italy - I definitely think this is way to travel! A Cherub/Cupid/Eros on a Crab from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii. Note he has sensibly reigned the crab by their claws... #Pompeii #EntomologistOnHoliday

submitted 230 days ago • 2 comments