Let's hope so! I've noticed a lot more of our students becoming vociferously anti-AI and calling out others for using it in recent months.

David Veevers@davidveevers.bsky.social · 17h ago

Made a heartfelt plea about AI at the start of my seminars this week. Students responded really well - even had a few emails afterwards from them. Let’s see what happens. I feel like we’re at a real tipping point with it all.

So, who's your money on? Gérard Depardieu? Javier Bardem? Personally, I suspect Jackie Woodburne (Susan off Neighbours).

CC @inksea.bsky.social I'm torn between genius and I'm sorry

Claudia Salowski@claudiasalowski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Frühstücksdöner, anyone?

Ich habe eine kleine interaktive Abfrage gebastelt, wo ihr euch die Stolpersteine in eurer Gegend anschauen könnt (Link). Beispiel: Magdeburg. Beim Klick auf den Kreis erhaltet ihr den Text auf dem Stein. Einfach die Karte zu eurem Ort verschieben und neu ausführen. overpass-turbo.eu/s/2xap

Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)

Such important information here! Please share and encourage your institution to adopt similar.

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️@canopyrobin.com · 6d ago

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Close to six hours on the Autobahn has not been the most scintillating Friday experience. Grateful for small giggles along the way.

George Monbiot was nominated for last year’s ThereForME Advent Calendar for using journalism to shine a light on failings faced by pwME. Today, he writes that too often people with ME are abandoned, while discredited treatments continue to be prescribed. He’s right.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d ago

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"To Boldly Split" - Evolution of Infinitive Tense Verbs from 2nd Millennium English Grammar to Modern Federation Standard

John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · last wk.

Right then, our turn What's your fake Star Trek academic paper

Excellent to know! (re the National Library of Scotland historical maps resource referred to in my previous posts)

Mihailiк ᵖᵒ⁶ᵒᵐᵃ@oyin.bo · last wk.

Scottish in identity, but not only Scottish in terms of coverage, they got best collection across the whole of Britain. We were buying a house in London and I tracked it from 1800s to today, and how neighbourhood changed.

Haven't used this Scottish resource but wanted to add that for those researching Wales, @rcahmwales.bsky.social have a fab resource for layering modern & historical maps, pinpointing sites of particular interest. It was a GOLDMINE on my recent Penmachno #familyhistory tour. www.historicwales.gov.uk

National Library of Scotland@natlibscot.bsky.social · last wk.

Ever wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.

This is a brilliant site

National Library of Scotland@natlibscot.bsky.social · last wk.

Ever wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.

We're excited to share something we've been working on for a while. ThereForME is now a registered charity! 🥳 1/4

THOSE THREE TERMS ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE!!! (Speaking as a Brit in America, I actually find myself having to explain this A LOT 🙃)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "You call it United Kingdom, Britain, they call it sometimes England. They go back to the old. It's got more names than any other place in the world."

Is it for people with no background in economics, defence, education, social and foreign policy, or law to be asking politicians questions about these very, very controversial, difficult, complicated issues every Sunday, Laura?

History and Heritage Yorkshire@handhyorkshire.bsky.social · last wk.

Laura Kuenssberg's question at the weekend "Is it for people who are singers, songwriters, artists to be taking public positions on very very controversial, difficult, complicated issues" was the most insulting, patronising, appalling question I have had the misfortune to have heard in years.

And flights passing through the regions! So any flight leaving the UK (and Europe) heading to North America or any flight inbound to Europe via the Atlantic. It’s painful. How do journalists think aircraft get to the other side of the Atlantic?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Air traffic control failure disrupts flights in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England – business live

I fear I may have broken part of my Ancestry tree by feeding it too many intermarriages. 😑

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

Kermit the Frog ys one thousande tymes more real than Tilly Norwood

Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk. It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...

Passport to Piddington

Last week an Oxfordshire village declared independence from the United Kingdom - ostensibly in protest at a local refugee centre. But is something darker going on?

noosphere.app

17/09/2026 – Secure ward 📷 – Not too long ago I’ve been sitting on this one until it was a little less ‘now’ #dementiasucks #dementia #alzheimers #family

How to save your sole: a step-by-step approach.

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2w ago

How to do with books, especially bibles, when you live in a material world? Well, William Hogarth of 18th century fame reminds us of the typical re-using (of bindings). In this case, the leather binding is re-used for a shoe sole. #bookhistory #booksky

Ed Sheeran, a man who surrounded himself by Irish musicians yet did not realise where their sympathies were likely to lie when it came to Palestinians, once again reminds us of how pig fucking ignorant Brits are when it comes to our own history.

GEFILTE PHISHING

David Schraub@schraubd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just got a phishing email from someone posing as my Rabbi, so that's a fun escalation.

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

I've just noticed that the letters needed to spell Ed Sheeran are contained in both Schadenfreude and Auf Wiedersehen

A week tomorrow, I’ll be heading to Wales and reading poems in Monmouth. Shows in Aberystwyth and Cardigan follow shortly after, and then I have a jaunt to Cardiff in November. Hope to see some of you there. Diolch.

Fame at last

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth