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Andy Leask

@andyleask.bsky.social

Writer, educator, gamer, nerd. Head of English - lover of literature, games and coffee, with a penchant for dabbling in edtech. https://www.rookerypublications.com/

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Mark T. Sneed@marktsneed.bsky.social · last wk.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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Goodnews@goodnews.computer · 4w ago

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
Andy Diggle@andydiggle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This research paper in The Lancet - the UK’s oldest and most respected medical journal - estimates that Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID will cause over 14,000,000 avoidable deaths by 2030. Fourteen. Million. Deaths.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer@cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Emily Greymoore@emilygreymoore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've decided I want to MC a panel at GenCon next year. The title? Don't Starve: How to break into (and survive) in the art industry. If you are/know an illustrator, artist, graphics designer, concept artist... anything that involves a visual art, and want to be on a panel next year. Let me know!

Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A little friendly disagreement. Thatcher left office 36 years ago. Thatcherism didn't. Those are different things. Politicians leave. Political settlements can last for generations. I think we're still living inside the one she created.

Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward.com · 3mo ago

There are suggestions that Burnham may be planning to blame Thatcher for Britain's problems. Given that she was last in power 36 years ago and that you'd have to be in your mid-50s to have ever voted for her, this feels like a stretch and a half.