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Dear #KeirStarmer, being tough and brave means standing up to the rich and powerful and making them pay their fair share, not taking away free school meals from kids in poverty. #Coward

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I just sent a letter demanding AI companies remove my works from their training data. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

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The dark side of the green cities movement @desfitzgerald.bsky.social, Professor of Medical Humanities at UCC Radical Humanities Laboratory, explores the history and politics of green urbanism on Late Night Live with David Marr.

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Disabled people already pay a penalty to live day-to-day. Why cause more harm? I spoke to LBC News ahead of proposed changes to welfare that could impact some of the most vulnerable people in the UK. Thanks @neonuk.bsky.social for making the clip and the support x

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Dear #Labour, Stop kicking the poor and #TaxTheRich

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Let's just keep cutting research funding and teaching funding till all universities are is a single management team, a perfectly balanced spreadsheet, and an AI churning out journal articles no one reads.

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“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

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Etymology of the day: ‘prevaricate’, meaning to act in an ambiguous or evasive way to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself, is from the Latin ‘praevaricari’, meaning to ‘walk crookedly’.

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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Bye bye Airbnb.

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Launch party! @waterstones Leamington Spa. 10th April 7pm I would LOVE to see you there. www.waterstones.com/events/the-b...

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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

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I feel a deep sense of revulsion at this. I am serious when I say that this should be illegal: the idea that a corporation can take a core part of your identity and just turn it into a series of assets you have no control over should be incredibly fucking alarming.

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Alexandra Elene MacLean (Sandy) Denny Born this date 6 January 1947. She would have been 78 this year. She did five albums with Fairport Convention and five solo albums before her untimely death in 1978. youtu.be/OkOB57UcYk8?...

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Retweeting this very late, so obviously way after Christmas now, but just seen that the open access version is now up :) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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Wheelie bin snowman ⛄️

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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.

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You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive. You do not need a degree to visit an archive. There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors. If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you. It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.

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Most celebrated use cases for AI (personalized learning, medical care, etc.) only make sense in scenarios of absolutely bloodthirsty austerity, in which public investment in the common good is completely decimated. When you notice that, you realize that these interests are intertwined.

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Waiting for Laurie Anderson’s ARK: UNITED STATES V

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Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! Celebrating by recording in the studio ❤️🎼 You can watch Caroline Catz film on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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A shameless plug for all the season one episodes of my podcast, Ill Effects. All retweets appreciated as I was building this in a year when I wasn't on Twitter! If you're unsure where to start the Beatles episode is my fave!

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Post you from a different era? Looking very serious, Wrexham, 1984

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This is such a good (and TIMELY) article by Greg Hollin on attempts to unionize pro wrestlers, and what organisation and activism look like in a space when narratives are always openly constructed, contingent an "zany." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...