Matt Kibble
@doctorkibble.bsky.social
Digital product boffin at Gale
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The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?
nomouse.org
nomouse.org
The #NoMouse Challenge
nomouse.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?
nomouse.org
nomouse.org
We call people 'guys' because of Guy Fawkes: originally it meant scruffy-looking men, like the straw effigies that were/are burnt on Bonfire Night, and it travelled from British to US English and then back again
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We call people 'guys' because of Guy Fawkes: originally it meant scruffy-looking men, like the straw effigies that were/are burnt on Bonfire Night, and it travelled from British to US English and then back again
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act
Wikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challenge
www.thenational.scot
August 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
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I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling
In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excellent piece by @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social about how AI scribes don't save time or provide useful summaries
Doctors, beware the AI scribe - www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Doctors, beware the AI scribe - www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Doctors, beware the AI scribe
The time I spend editing my computerised medical notes outweighs any productivity gains I get from not writing them.
www.newstatesman.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Excellent piece by @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social about how AI scribes don't save time or provide useful summaries
Doctors, beware the AI scribe - www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Doctors, beware the AI scribe - www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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📽️On this day, 104 years ago
July 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
📽️On this day, 104 years ago
Nice reference to Øresund as 'the eponymous strait' @secondmentions.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Denmark and Sweden’s Øresund bridge turns 25: have the benefits run in both directions?
While Copenhagen’s fortunes grow alongside rise in Swedish commuters over 16km bridge, benefits for Malmö are proving less obvious
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Nice reference to Øresund as 'the eponymous strait' @secondmentions.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Three Men and a Little Lady
Here’s a fun distraction what’s the worst movie you’ve watched on a date? Mine is a tie between “Hidden Colors” and “La La Land.”
June 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Three Men and a Little Lady
10 writers by whom I've read more than 5 books (finger on the pulse of contemporary literature, me):
Charles Dickens
Virginia Woolf
P.G. Wodehouse
Patrick Hamilton
Dorothy L. Sayers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ford Madox Ford
Samuel Beckett
Evelyn Waugh
George R.R. Martin
Charles Dickens
Virginia Woolf
P.G. Wodehouse
Patrick Hamilton
Dorothy L. Sayers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ford Madox Ford
Samuel Beckett
Evelyn Waugh
George R.R. Martin
Graham Greene
Terrance Dicks
Josephine Tey
P. G. Wodehouse
Martin Amis
Muriel Spark
Ian Rankin
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian McEwan
Terrance Dicks
Josephine Tey
P. G. Wodehouse
Martin Amis
Muriel Spark
Ian Rankin
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian McEwan
A fun one! Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books:
Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Austen
Louise Penny
Elena Ferrante
Elizabeth George
Stephen King
James Lee Burke
Anne Perry
Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Austen
Louise Penny
Elena Ferrante
Elizabeth George
Stephen King
James Lee Burke
Anne Perry
June 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
10 writers by whom I've read more than 5 books (finger on the pulse of contemporary literature, me):
Charles Dickens
Virginia Woolf
P.G. Wodehouse
Patrick Hamilton
Dorothy L. Sayers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ford Madox Ford
Samuel Beckett
Evelyn Waugh
George R.R. Martin
Charles Dickens
Virginia Woolf
P.G. Wodehouse
Patrick Hamilton
Dorothy L. Sayers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ford Madox Ford
Samuel Beckett
Evelyn Waugh
George R.R. Martin
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"beautiful even in its obscurity" Leonard Bernstein.
Bernstein's 1966 TV documentary on modern pop music shows Brian Wilson working on Surfs Up, hammering it out on the piano and singing. Stunning. Wilson's vocals are so touching and vulnerable. I first heard this ripped on napster.
Bernstein's 1966 TV documentary on modern pop music shows Brian Wilson working on Surfs Up, hammering it out on the piano and singing. Stunning. Wilson's vocals are so touching and vulnerable. I first heard this ripped on napster.
Surf's Up Brian Wilson Solo Performance 1966 (Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution)
YouTube video by MattValtezzy95
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June 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"beautiful even in its obscurity" Leonard Bernstein.
Bernstein's 1966 TV documentary on modern pop music shows Brian Wilson working on Surfs Up, hammering it out on the piano and singing. Stunning. Wilson's vocals are so touching and vulnerable. I first heard this ripped on napster.
Bernstein's 1966 TV documentary on modern pop music shows Brian Wilson working on Surfs Up, hammering it out on the piano and singing. Stunning. Wilson's vocals are so touching and vulnerable. I first heard this ripped on napster.
@pressfuturist.bsky.social vicar with a .22
Just tried this with a similar query and it quoted a 1995 article that doesn't mention Morrissey at all, but rather an unnamed Scots journalist, who definitely didn't write Frankly Mr Shankley, describing a day out on a range.
June 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
@pressfuturist.bsky.social vicar with a .22
Do I win a prize for correctly guessing what the word was?
June 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Do I win a prize for correctly guessing what the word was?
This is brilliant and extremely depressing
Why George Osborne still runs Britain:
Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.
🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social
Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.
🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social
Why George Osborne still runs Britain
Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.
www.newstatesman.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This is brilliant and extremely depressing
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Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
Me, having a fun day at the office
March 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Me, having a fun day at the office
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Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.
www.londoncentric.media
March 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
February 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
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While we’re banning apps, Microsoft Teams is right there.
January 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
While we’re banning apps, Microsoft Teams is right there.
An interesting history of the phrase 'of a certain age' as used by Gr*gg W*llace
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Women of a certain age
Recently, as everyone reading this in Britain will already know, the Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace became the latest in a long line of Men On TV (the industry term is “talent”, though in this …
debuk.wordpress.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
An interesting history of the phrase 'of a certain age' as used by Gr*gg W*llace
debuk.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/w...
debuk.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/w...
The comments in this thread about the AI-generated Comp Lit course at UCLA are all spot-on. The prof uploads her course notes to a commercial platform to produce a textbook (proof-read for free by a recent graduate) which the students have to pay for (and won't read) and which makes her redundant
UCLA is creating an entirely AI-generated course. Except apparently the grading won't be AI-generated. 🤔
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system
The textbook for Zrinka Stahuljak’s winter 2025 course is generated by the Kudu platform.
newsroom.ucla.edu
December 9, 2024 at 11:00 AM
The comments in this thread about the AI-generated Comp Lit course at UCLA are all spot-on. The prof uploads her course notes to a commercial platform to produce a textbook (proof-read for free by a recent graduate) which the students have to pay for (and won't read) and which makes her redundant