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We witnessed history. This juvenile display by a sitting head of state is a turning point in international relations. It is important that other world leaders now speak up against this charade to prevent normalising it. Fascism grows before a weak opposition. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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We’re halfway through January and there have been some excellent submissions to the #IndieWeb carnival. Have you written yet? With broad interpretations, this month’s theme is ‘on the importance of friction’. Find out more: vhbelvadi.com/indieweb-car... #IndieWebCarnival

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Wisdom from his many years.

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Have you participated in the IndieWeb carnival? If not, start your new year with a great new activity. The host for January is yours truly. Find out more: vhbelvadi.com/indieweb-car... @indieweb.org.web.brid.gy

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Writes David J. Morris, “…if you care about the health of our society — especially in the age of Donald Trump and the distorted conceptions of masculinity he helps to foster — the decline and fall of literary men should worry you.” This is an important essay. ——— www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

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@markhamillofficial.bsky.social is on BlueSky‽

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Fantastic recommendations from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on how the UK government can curb foreign influence in domestic politics. Labour must act now or go down in history as the party that could’ve made a difference but chose not to. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...

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Looks like this case will have a pretty noticeable impact on things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Great primer on the assisted dying bill that MPs will be voting on in the UK next week ~ www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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British universities’ style of research-led teaching means they face the prospect of “going broke” unless more is done to protect the research time of academics, the vice-chancellor of King’s College London has said. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Such a succinct way of putting it. Culling by research costs also reminds me of the recent shuttering of chemistry departments at Reading and elsewhere. If the research goes south so does the teaching at this point.

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Who did that to the Jaguar logo? And who greenlit it?

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Terrific. Reminds me of Koyaanisqatsi and lots of other pieces by Philip Glass.

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Glad to be a BlueSky elder thanks to @ishtaarth.bsky.social — still don’t know what to make of anything.

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Has anyone actually figured out a frictionless workflow for POSSE-ing their website’s contents to the Fediverse?

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When I was briefly in film studies the joke all the other students made was "why would you need a class to learn how to watch a movie" and, well

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Brilliant.

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Thinking about Zuckerberg last year being like “people are gonna live in VR in the Metaverse and it’s going to be amazing!” and now he’s sadly in meetings about how they are gonna make an all text app of bad instagram comments

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So Bluesky feeds is what Twitter Lists should have been?

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Since by decree everyone’s first Bluesky post must be a blue sky… (More here: https://vhbelvadi.com/photography/cloudscapes)

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