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“Y’all Come Eat” I say with a comforting reassurance. ❤️👍🏾

submitted 206 days ago • 8 comments

If you spend your whole campaign disavowing something, you can’t claim afterwards the voters gave you a mandate to do it.

submitted 209 days ago • 110 comments

Homan: Do not harbor and conceal an illegal alien.. because it is a crime. Don't impede us because it's a crime. Don’t obstruct because it's a crime…

submitted 209 days ago • 443 comments

Play more indie games if you think gaming is stale Play more indie games if you think gaming is stale Play more indie games if you think gaming is stale Play more indie games if you think gaming is stale Broaden your horizons… you won't regret it.

submitted 209 days ago • 501 comments

My other popular opinion is that in-app purchases fucked mobile gaming. Yes, there are exceptions; I know them. But the whole “our game gets unplayable after a point unless you buy coins” thing just means that games are no longer fun and developers aren’t trying to balance playability any longer.

submitted 209 days ago • 444 comments

On #FindsFriday grateful to the #mudlarkjng hivemind for the ID of this pottery sherd find from the Thames Foreshore a few years ago. Thank you to fellow Mudlark and pottery expert Richard Hemery for some great detective work. This blue on white anchor is a tin-glazed ointment pot from the 1700s 1/

submitted 210 days ago • 1 comment

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

submitted 210 days ago • 1294 comments

Dear fellow historians: I recently asked my undergraduate students what sparked their interest in studying history. Two of them mentioned the film Titanic! Now I'm curious (and will let them know): What sparked your interest in studying #history?

submitted 220 days ago • 378 comments

The oldest science society in the world, The Royal Society, has a motto which is “Take No-one’s Word for it”. A guiding principle in science? Yes. But also perhaps an attack on the idea that those in power were to be believed regardless.

submitted 217 days ago • 2 comments

✨ NEW ARTICLE ✨ I asked sixteen major cultural institutions in the UK about their copyright policies for digital surrogates of public domain works. To find out what they said, read on... douglasmccarthy.com/2024/11/anar... #museums #copyright #openaccess #publicdomain #licensing #UK #law #digital

submitted 219 days ago • 4 comments

The book is extremely good

submitted 217 days ago • 1 comment

Are you a social media manager running an account for an organization or high-profile individual? Or do you own a website and want a simpler username? On Bluesky, you can verify your account by setting your website as your username. We just refreshed our how-to guide:

submitted 217 days ago • 668 comments

Online exhibition from the University of Edinburgh, Dreams of Darien, on the University's connections to the Darien scheme and the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

submitted 217 days ago • 1 comment

It's a mess. FWIW, @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social is in the process of slowly moving to an open access approach.

submitted 217 days ago • 1 comment

Back in frosty Stavanger after a week in Japan.

submitted 218 days ago • 1 comment

If I started wrapping up books like presents in my Little Free Library next month for the kids who frequent it, I wonder if they’d get it and take them?

submitted 218 days ago • 42 comments

Glasgow v London 😆🤣

submitted 223 days ago • 4 comments

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

submitted 224 days ago • 2341 comments

💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky! This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br. Here's our guide for how to do this:

submitted 223 days ago • 1509 comments

The discussion about Bluesky on Newsnight is just a bit weird for those of us who have been here a while. It's clearly changing but it's not exactly new. As is not checking the other site!

submitted 223 days ago • 1 comment

These sneaky SOB's lol #FFXIV #Spoilers

submitted 226 days ago • 3 comments

Time for a cat pic?

submitted 227 days ago • 5 comments

This is how it starts.

submitted 229 days ago • 33 comments

Tag yourself: gloomy, gloomier or berserk

submitted 230 days ago • 1 comment

News Analysis: Despite Donald Trump's campaign proposals, it's still unclear how his administration will handle policy decisions that are crucial to the global economy's path including on trade, technology, climate, industrial policy and more.

submitted 232 days ago • 30 comments

i don’t enjoy the world in which capitalist assholes realize they can profoundly influence federal elections by simply raising prices

submitted 232 days ago • 11 comments

I bought an expensive fidget controller for work

submitted 237 days ago • 9 comments

Visiting the Royal Scottish Museum as a woman in 1912 must have been... interesting. That year the Sufragette bombing and arson campaign had begun in earnest. Six months later the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, was damaged in a bomb attack by suffragettes.

submitted 239 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you ⁦@LawLibCongress⁩ for this account of legal responses to Health emergencies in 25 countries. It will help legislators across the world. Thanks also ⁦@HLLibResearch⁩ for pointing me to it. https://www.loc.gov/law/help/health-emergencies/index.php

submitted 1925 days ago • 0 comments

“A recent YouGov poll found, 59% of Britons would opt for the lighter evenings of year round BST, while only 22% would be in favour of continual GMT.“ My piece about the clocks changing from the Guardian last year. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/28/eu-daylight-saving-british-sum…

submitted 243 days ago • 3 comments

Inspiring stuff! So far away from the hard-as-concrete turnip carving of my youth. I love them all, but especially 2018

submitted 244 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky now has 13M+ users, the @atproto.com developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped features like DMs and video! We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15M Series A to continue growing the community, investing in Trust and Safety, and supporting the dev ecosystem.

submitted 246 days ago • 822 comments

Edinburgh Futures Institute tonight (aka the va-va-voomed Royal Infirmary Edinburgh) This is also where I was born (or, at least, its now demolished Simpson Memorial Maternity Wing)

submitted 245 days ago • 2 comments