kids should know how to type, yes. but i am telling you as a teacher, this is BROADLY not the reason kids are using ChatGPT. They use it for the same reason adults do: because it's a shortcut and they don't see the value of the work they are being asked to do or the skill underlying it.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

I am shocked, SHOCKED, I say!

Casablanca Humphrey Bogart

Alt: From Casablanca: 1940s club owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) argues with Casablanca police chief Renault (Claude Rains) about closing his club because the Nazis demanded it. Renault claims it is because he is “shocked, SHOCKED, that gambling is going on here.” They are interrupted by the croupier giving Renault his winnings.

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@sdr-fla.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

The first time I tried chèvre from Rocamadour, my brain short-circuited. But then I remember the first time I had buffalo mozzarella in Parma…or my first poutine at La Banquise…I just really love cheese.

Wallace and Gromit's Love for Cheese

Alt: An old white English man (Wallace) declares how much he loves cheese.

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Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

To be clear, I'm sorry for everyone who travelled and didn't get to see it, but the fact that safety issues with pyrotechnics caused the Royal #Shakespeare Company #MadKing show to be delayed is far too thematically apt for a play about King Aerys II Targaryen. ...also it sounds like a great show.

if you're a presenter it takes 15 minutes to look up names you're not sure how to pronounce. A great way is to look up interviews or videos- people often introduce themselves in videos, and research is a miniscule effort you can do to honor their work and achievements

Jamie McKelvie@mckelvie.bsky.social · 2w ago

Awards ceremonies should not be mispronouncing nominee names in 2026, imo

Extra-long recap (with extra pictures) of #S03E04 and #S03E05 of #HouseoftheDragon, in which Ryan Condal adapts the bestselling novels A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/h...

House of the Dragon 3.04 and 3.05

First of all, apologies for the missed week. I was out of town and dealing with medical things, so I ran late. Mea culpa. Extra long entry with extra screencaps this week as recompense. (Not sure i…

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Free healthcare would solve so many problems for people in this country. So many.

There is an entire academic discipline that has zero issues speaking ill of the dead. It's named history

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

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These cuts are appalling. Let’s make clear they will not be tolerated!

Pascale Aebischer (she/her)@pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Who's not signed this petition yet? Please help us out! The official line is that this is not targeting Arts and Humanities. So why are 85% of cuts in these subjects? #DefendExeterUni c.org/DTcBbvqxn6

Finished my recap of @houseofthedragon.bsky.social 3.03 'Rhaenyra Triumphant', aka 'Rhaenyra shall sleep no more', aka a one-queen production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a dash of Perkin Warbeck for spice. kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/h...

House of the Dragon 3.03 ‘Rhaenyra Triumphant’

Previously: Rhaenyra takes King’s Landing! Yay! Fine, it’s not nearly that simple. The episode opens, once more, right where the prior one left off, underwater in the Gullet as the battle rages abo…

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Still working on my recap of #HouseoftheDragon S03E03, but here's a taste: It's a fantastic exercise in low-key domestic horror. There are rats skittering along the edges of so many shots, their claws constant in the background, even before they become the main course.

NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:

Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders

The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present.

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British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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My recap for #HouseoftheDragon S3E02 'Queen's Landing', for the night is dark and full of feelings. Also burnination.

House of the Dragon 3.02 ‘Queen’s Landing’

Previously: We began more or less where the Season 2 finale ended, with Alicent arriving at the Red Keep after brokering her clandestine deal with Rhaenyra, only to find…Aemond? On the Iron T…

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"how can we incentivize public transport usage" make it free "but who will pay for it" the taxpayer "but won't that make people have less money" not if they use public transport "but doesn't that punish motorists" that is the incentive yeah

Mel Brooks is an icon for so many reasons. Nothing but respect for this brilliant man.

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳

Mel Brooks, legende. Trickster genius. Mel Brooks doth deserve all the lyfe, fame, and love he hath receivid, and more, and more. To make anothir person laugh ys to helpe them bear thys lyfe. We love you Mel Brooks.

“Our societies are not built to withstand what’s coming, and by any rational thinking, all countries should be uniting in a last ditch battle to save the world.”

London’s Burning

Extreme heat hits Europe — the US is next

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Colleagues, even if you're outside the UK, please sign in support of our fellows at the University of Exeter, whose departments are being decimated right now. This is such an appallingly destructive move on the part of uni administration.

Dr Susan Greaney@suegreaney.bsky.social · last mo.

Petition against the job losses here: c.org/ddjtYXzdQQ

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

My initial thoughts on the #HouseoftheDragon Season 3 premiere (plus more on that Elizabeth I quotation): kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/h...

House of the Dragon 3.01 ‘Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood’

Previously: After losing her second son Lucerys (and his dragon Vermax) to her half-brother Aemond and his dragon Vhagar, Queen Rhaenyra vows revenge. What she wants is Aemond. What she gets is a w…

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Rhaenyra quoting Queen Elizabeth I's Tilbury speech in #HouseoftheDragon, not on my bingo card, but I'm here for it.

the problem with modern society is that everyone wants to run their country like a business and their business like a country but nobody wants to run their country like a country and their business like a business

Hot take: All popular history books should have notes and bibliography. You still need to show your work when writing for a general audience. It may even be more important in this case, because most people do not understand how research works.

Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I understand that trade presses take different approaches in acknowledging the research that goes into history books, but I picked up a new book that contains no footnotes or endnotes, no bibliography or further reading, and no index. The publisher is asking me to engage in an act of faith. No thnx.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 2mo ago

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Question for #academicsky: What is the best way to donate/recycle old hard copy academic journals? I really, truly do not have space for them and cannot justify keeping more than a few sentimental issues. I'm in New England, for context, so I doubt any nearby universities need them.

There is no one unilateral masculinity. There are *masculinities* Toxic masculinity is a reactionary, violent masculinity that derives its power by subduing, insulting, dominating, and abusing anything that's conceivably Not Man. It is zero-sum, chauvinist, and preoccupied with male power.