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Does the Royal Society perhaps have the contact details of one of its Fellows who might know something about the source of these recent attacks on science?

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the tool you need to understand this and deal with it easily is this: there is no difference between "acting like a nazi" and "being a nazi". being a nazi is not an intrinsic thing about you like your hair colour or your age are; it is a thing you do. if you do the thing, that's as nazi as it gets.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Are you experiencing censorship of materials or programming related to Palestine in your library or archive? Librarians and Archivists with Palestine is gathering data and telling these stories. Report here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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oh is someone learning that conservatives definitionally do not contribute culturally

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

democratic process.

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Well what do you know. Reform UK's former leader in Wales has just been accused in court of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Well articulated by @siobhanh.bsky.social. Libraries can use this opportunity to support community-led no-fee open access models through initiatives like the @openbookcollective.bsky.social.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Fun couple of weeks lined up explaining to people exactly how much of the infrastructure in academia is owned by Clarivate. Bright spot: hopefully this means the BDS movement grabs ahold of them in a big way.

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Two years in a row now that delegates - largely the party's youth movements and its trade union delegations - have defeated an anti-trans motion from the CLPs section. This year's effort was supported by the SEC and came in the wake of the leadership's capitulation to anti-trans ideology. Shameful.

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This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

submitted 2 days ago • 155 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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What could be more efficient than this kind of tedious micromanagement administration?

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Reading Private Rites and Julia Armfield doesn't half like to write novels about wetness. Wet-lit. Bildampsroman. Soggyback fiction.

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its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

We went to the Sighthill Stone Circle which is a good lesson in how photos can disguise context since the photos in Wikipedia do not sufficiently get across that it's on a housing estate right next to the M8.

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

Everybody knows Bodger loves mashed potatoes.

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

Very enjoyable first session of my group's new TTRPG, Beam Saber. I really like the world, the crunchy and gritty vibe, and the streamlining and added viciousness of some of the old Blades in the Dark mechanics. Thanks as always to @danw3000.bsky.social, the best GM in the biz.

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imagine drake needing cpr and someone singing this to themself to do it and he comes back and it's the first thing he hears

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The University Of Cincinnati is replacing all of it's restroom signs with ones that designate use to only biological sex.

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Hi! Disability scholar here. IQ is a deeply racist and classist metric weaponized by eugenicists and used to claim the innate superiority of the white ruling class. Stop listening to ppl who crow about IQ. Intelligence means nothing without compassion, humbleness, and owning one’s mistakes.

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Given what has happened so far with Doge, this should be read as Labour and the Tories wanting to: - Completely erase LGBTQ people - Stop funding research into women's health or climate change - Dismantle any safety monitoring of water, food, etc - Illegally fire public workers en masse

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To clarify, UK politicians are looking at what's happening in Washington DC right now and saying "that is good, we should do that"

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

The Online Safety Act in the UK makes it easier for the government to censor work that it deems sexual which can include LGBTQ work or work on women's health.

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CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals. Read more👇 www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

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Typical of British politics that an organisation set up after the murder of a British MP by a right-wing extremist is now shouting at left-wingers for being too critical of right-wing extremists

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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I’d be interested to hear from libraries who have done this with their ILS systems. My unit does this for my state’s digital archives already, exactly as described in the latter part of the post: the consortium runs the servers out of our host institution & each inst has an instance stacked >

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