Anna S
@amphianna.bsky.social
#cyclist, #bisexual, #Quaker, #birdwatcher, #ex-scientist, #London, #musictheory, #multilingual, #LanguageLearning, #ChoralSinging, #nature, wildlife, #AuDHD
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Just read this great piece by Thomas Johannsen, a perfect resource for exiting the problematic big tech monopolies (and inspiring you to do so). If you've already made the shift to Bluesky for ethical reasons, here are the next steps in your journey toward digital sainthood.
On Swarms, Davos and the Power of the Powerless
Let’s take a look today at the power of individuals against world leaders and what swarm improvisation principles suggest is best to do. This is a rather unusual post for this blog, but hey, …
geneticchoir.wordpress.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Just read this great piece by Thomas Johannsen, a perfect resource for exiting the problematic big tech monopolies (and inspiring you to do so). If you've already made the shift to Bluesky for ethical reasons, here are the next steps in your journey toward digital sainthood.
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A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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🗳️ How young men would vote in #GE2029:
🟢 Grn: 30% (+18)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-19)
🟠 Lib: 17% (+1)
🔵 Con: 12% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 12% (=)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)
🟢 Grn: 30% (+18)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-19)
🟠 Lib: 17% (+1)
🔵 Con: 12% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 12% (=)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)
February 8, 2026 at 10:43 AM
🗳️ How young men would vote in #GE2029:
🟢 Grn: 30% (+18)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-19)
🟠 Lib: 17% (+1)
🔵 Con: 12% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 12% (=)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)
🟢 Grn: 30% (+18)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-19)
🟠 Lib: 17% (+1)
🔵 Con: 12% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 12% (=)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)
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🗳️ How young women would vote in #GE2029:
🟢 Grn: 44% (+21)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-21)
🟠 Lib: 19% (+3)
🔵 Con: 8% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 5% (-1)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan
(+/- vs GE2024)
🟢 Grn: 44% (+21)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-21)
🟠 Lib: 19% (+3)
🔵 Con: 8% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 5% (-1)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan
(+/- vs GE2024)
February 8, 2026 at 10:44 AM
🗳️ How young women would vote in #GE2029:
🟢 Grn: 44% (+21)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-21)
🟠 Lib: 19% (+3)
🔵 Con: 8% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 5% (-1)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan
(+/- vs GE2024)
🟢 Grn: 44% (+21)
🔴 Lab: 21% (-21)
🟠 Lib: 19% (+3)
🔵 Con: 8% (+2)
➡️ Ref: 5% (-1)
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan
(+/- vs GE2024)
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What the Olympics needs is a mystery septathalon. Competitors show up and only then learn what seven events they're competing in. "Welcome contestants! Today you will be running, swimming, baking a soufflé, wrestling, comforting a traumatized child, playing poker, and throwing grenades!"
February 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
What the Olympics needs is a mystery septathalon. Competitors show up and only then learn what seven events they're competing in. "Welcome contestants! Today you will be running, swimming, baking a soufflé, wrestling, comforting a traumatized child, playing poker, and throwing grenades!"
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Fantastic
February 8, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Fantastic
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Another plus point in the ‘olivia colman is cool’ column
Olivia Colman: 'I've always felt sort of nonbinary'
The actress discussed her feelings about gender in an interview promoting her latest film, Jimpa.
www.out.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Another plus point in the ‘olivia colman is cool’ column
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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since people ask me about this a lot, here are my recommended starting points
(I also like The Wee Free Men for a YA-focused start and Going Postal is, while later in the series, one of the most purely fun books)
(I also like The Wee Free Men for a YA-focused start and Going Postal is, while later in the series, one of the most purely fun books)
DO YOU LIKE GOTH SHIT? Start with Mort, the first of the Death books.
DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books.
DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion.
From there, follow this guide to find your next book.
DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books.
DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion.
From there, follow this guide to find your next book.
February 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
since people ask me about this a lot, here are my recommended starting points
(I also like The Wee Free Men for a YA-focused start and Going Postal is, while later in the series, one of the most purely fun books)
(I also like The Wee Free Men for a YA-focused start and Going Postal is, while later in the series, one of the most purely fun books)
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always knew he was the best character actor of his generation but this really is a remarkable transformation
February 6, 2026 at 12:29 PM
always knew he was the best character actor of his generation but this really is a remarkable transformation
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Something visitors to Britain often find hard to grasp is that the term "tea" really is widely used for the evening meal, regardless of whether any tea is served as a drink. (and it's often not).
February 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Something visitors to Britain often find hard to grasp is that the term "tea" really is widely used for the evening meal, regardless of whether any tea is served as a drink. (and it's often not).
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if you need a lesson on cunning, look to Vetinari
if you need a lesson on goodness, look to Carrot
and if you need a lesson on how to get the most out of life, look to Nanny Ogg
if you need a lesson on goodness, look to Carrot
and if you need a lesson on how to get the most out of life, look to Nanny Ogg
February 1, 2026 at 7:09 PM
if you need a lesson on cunning, look to Vetinari
if you need a lesson on goodness, look to Carrot
and if you need a lesson on how to get the most out of life, look to Nanny Ogg
if you need a lesson on goodness, look to Carrot
and if you need a lesson on how to get the most out of life, look to Nanny Ogg
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Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
January 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
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We need drug policy based on evidence not hypocrisy & refusal to learn from history.
@lbc.co.uk covering Green Party drug policy - great contributions from callers explaining how legal regulation would work.
I wrote the policy in 2019 & work to address drug harms and change our harmful laws.
@lbc.co.uk covering Green Party drug policy - great contributions from callers explaining how legal regulation would work.
I wrote the policy in 2019 & work to address drug harms and change our harmful laws.
February 1, 2026 at 8:07 PM
We need drug policy based on evidence not hypocrisy & refusal to learn from history.
@lbc.co.uk covering Green Party drug policy - great contributions from callers explaining how legal regulation would work.
I wrote the policy in 2019 & work to address drug harms and change our harmful laws.
@lbc.co.uk covering Green Party drug policy - great contributions from callers explaining how legal regulation would work.
I wrote the policy in 2019 & work to address drug harms and change our harmful laws.
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Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc
like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
January 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc
like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
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the thing that makes Sam Vimes work as a character is that he spends all of his time standing at the very edge of the slippery slope, looking directly down into the abyss, and consciously choosing not to go down that slope even when it would be so much easier if he did
January 29, 2026 at 7:04 PM
the thing that makes Sam Vimes work as a character is that he spends all of his time standing at the very edge of the slippery slope, looking directly down into the abyss, and consciously choosing not to go down that slope even when it would be so much easier if he did
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for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence
hope that helps
hope that helps
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 9:47 PM
for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence
hope that helps
hope that helps
Text version at www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-... - this has to be read
January 26, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Text version at www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-... - this has to be read
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Closer to the Edge is a 100% reader-supported publication.
CLOSERTOTHEEDGE.NET
CLOSERTOTHEEDGE.NET
January 26, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Closer to the Edge is a 100% reader-supported publication.
CLOSERTOTHEEDGE.NET
CLOSERTOTHEEDGE.NET
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Advocate for your nations to boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. Do not travel here. Get your pension funds to sell their US treasury bonds. Boycott American products. USA big businesses needs to understand the cost of propping up this despotic regime.
January 25, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Advocate for your nations to boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. Do not travel here. Get your pension funds to sell their US treasury bonds. Boycott American products. USA big businesses needs to understand the cost of propping up this despotic regime.
Some useful tips in the replies today this
What can those of us outside the USA do right now? Is it protests outside the US embassy? Lobbying our own leaders to stand up against this regime?
Honestly and openly, how can we help?
Honestly and openly, how can we help?
January 25, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Some useful tips in the replies today this
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I'm always amazed, not only at the new versions @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social manage to put together, but the speed at which they get them out after events occur.
Possibly, very possibly, their best to date, certainly top 3.
youtu.be/F4nefIN4_LY?...
Possibly, very possibly, their best to date, certainly top 3.
youtu.be/F4nefIN4_LY?...
"Donald's Sewage Stream" - Marsh Family adapt "Islands in the Stream" by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
January 25, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I'm always amazed, not only at the new versions @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social manage to put together, but the speed at which they get them out after events occur.
Possibly, very possibly, their best to date, certainly top 3.
youtu.be/F4nefIN4_LY?...
Possibly, very possibly, their best to date, certainly top 3.
youtu.be/F4nefIN4_LY?...
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Smart glasses *need* to be banned. Struggling to think of any value they actually bring to day to day life that outweighs the sickeningly easy ways they can be used to violate privacy.
What a thing that a) people are just wandering round secretly filming women and putting their details on the internet and b) that we have devised a piece of equipment to make that sneakier www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online
So-called manfluencers wearing smart glasses approach women and then post videos to TikTok.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Smart glasses *need* to be banned. Struggling to think of any value they actually bring to day to day life that outweighs the sickeningly easy ways they can be used to violate privacy.