Ian
@eazybreezymac.bsky.social
Well I’d best go over there and do whatever that thing over there I was gonna do was
Mostly posting when I do artsy and music-y and write-y things. Other interests: sports, languages, SLT/SLP (adult acquired, neuro, cog-comm, stroke), film/TV. he/him
Mostly posting when I do artsy and music-y and write-y things. Other interests: sports, languages, SLT/SLP (adult acquired, neuro, cog-comm, stroke), film/TV. he/him
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This is just lovely. A good reminder that gratitude is never something to be stingy with. Thanks, Laura for writing such a thought-provoking post.
Sorry to get all earnest for a minute, but here are some ideas about how to say thank you more often and more meaningfully. lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/24/h...
The Last Word On Nothing | How to Say Thank You
lastwordonnothing.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is just lovely. A good reminder that gratitude is never something to be stingy with. Thanks, Laura for writing such a thought-provoking post.
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If y’all write emails like Epstein, LLMs are in trouble.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If y’all write emails like Epstein, LLMs are in trouble.
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Proud lecturer moment… One of our first cohort of Speech and Language Therapy graduates from @wrexhamuni.bsky.social Catrin Khalili, talking about Welsh Language Aphasia Assessment.
#NWSLE
#NWSLE
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Proud lecturer moment… One of our first cohort of Speech and Language Therapy graduates from @wrexhamuni.bsky.social Catrin Khalili, talking about Welsh Language Aphasia Assessment.
#NWSLE
#NWSLE
Just watched Scotland qualify for the World Cup in the most incredible fashion. 🏴🏴🏴
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Just watched Scotland qualify for the World Cup in the most incredible fashion. 🏴🏴🏴
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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
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The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
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"The current system is underfunded, overstretched and unprepared for the future."
Sureena Brackenridge MP speaking at the #InvestInSLT speech and language therapy debate on 27 January 2025.
Sureena Brackenridge MP speaking at the #InvestInSLT speech and language therapy debate on 27 January 2025.
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"The current system is underfunded, overstretched and unprepared for the future."
Sureena Brackenridge MP speaking at the #InvestInSLT speech and language therapy debate on 27 January 2025.
Sureena Brackenridge MP speaking at the #InvestInSLT speech and language therapy debate on 27 January 2025.
Hey there #SLPeeps, looking for some good articles on #myastheniagraves and #dysphagia. And #voice as well I suppose! Not something I’ve seen a lot, but randomly have seen a few folks come through with it in the last couple months.
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Hey there #SLPeeps, looking for some good articles on #myastheniagraves and #dysphagia. And #voice as well I suppose! Not something I’ve seen a lot, but randomly have seen a few folks come through with it in the last couple months.
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Hot on the heels of #DLDday, Monday is the first international aphasia awareness day.
Why not join in?:
- Find information about aphasia via the hashtag #aphasia.
- Watch our account for updates from the Dara project.
- Follow @sayaphasia.bsky.social
- Visit www.aphasia-international.com
Why not join in?:
- Find information about aphasia via the hashtag #aphasia.
- Watch our account for updates from the Dara project.
- Follow @sayaphasia.bsky.social
- Visit www.aphasia-international.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hot on the heels of #DLDday, Monday is the first international aphasia awareness day.
Why not join in?:
- Find information about aphasia via the hashtag #aphasia.
- Watch our account for updates from the Dara project.
- Follow @sayaphasia.bsky.social
- Visit www.aphasia-international.com
Why not join in?:
- Find information about aphasia via the hashtag #aphasia.
- Watch our account for updates from the Dara project.
- Follow @sayaphasia.bsky.social
- Visit www.aphasia-international.com
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Today is the first ever 🟪International Aphasia Awareness🟪 day!
Please share and tell someone new about aphasia!
Please share and tell someone new about aphasia!
Hot on the heels of #DLDday, Monday is the first international aphasia awareness day.
Why not join in?:
- Find information about aphasia via the hashtag #aphasia.
- Watch our account for updates from the Dara project.
- Follow @sayaphasia.bsky.social
- Visit www.aphasia-international.com
Why not join in?:
- Find information about aphasia via the hashtag #aphasia.
- Watch our account for updates from the Dara project.
- Follow @sayaphasia.bsky.social
- Visit www.aphasia-international.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Today is the first ever 🟪International Aphasia Awareness🟪 day!
Please share and tell someone new about aphasia!
Please share and tell someone new about aphasia!
Would also be interested in any analog/workbook resources if anyone on #langsky has any they like.
It has taken me a while (longer than I care to admit) but I finally ditched Duolingo and am on the hunt for a better, non-AI-using replacement to primarily continue Spanish, but previously dabbled in Welsh, French, Scots Gaelic, and Japanese.
Hit me with your iOS app recs. #langsky #linguists
Hit me with your iOS app recs. #langsky #linguists
October 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Would also be interested in any analog/workbook resources if anyone on #langsky has any they like.
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If you can donate to these 49 villages struck by the left over typhoon- on the west coast of alaska (only accessible by plane r boat!)- please do.
Thank you. I just did, it was quick.
Thank you. I just did, it was quick.
Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.
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alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you can donate to these 49 villages struck by the left over typhoon- on the west coast of alaska (only accessible by plane r boat!)- please do.
Thank you. I just did, it was quick.
Thank you. I just did, it was quick.
It has taken me a while (longer than I care to admit) but I finally ditched Duolingo and am on the hunt for a better, non-AI-using replacement to primarily continue Spanish, but previously dabbled in Welsh, French, Scots Gaelic, and Japanese.
Hit me with your iOS app recs. #langsky #linguists
Hit me with your iOS app recs. #langsky #linguists
October 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It has taken me a while (longer than I care to admit) but I finally ditched Duolingo and am on the hunt for a better, non-AI-using replacement to primarily continue Spanish, but previously dabbled in Welsh, French, Scots Gaelic, and Japanese.
Hit me with your iOS app recs. #langsky #linguists
Hit me with your iOS app recs. #langsky #linguists
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
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A new gene therapy trial slowed Huntington’s Disease by an average of 75% in patients.
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
September 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A new gene therapy trial slowed Huntington’s Disease by an average of 75% in patients.
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
It involves delivery of a modified but safe virus that produces microRNA in the brain to counteract mutations in the huntingtin gene.
We can achieve amazing things when we fund science!
In the “soccer vs football” debate, the real question is why on earth we called American Football, well, any kind of “foot” ball at all (given its evolution from rugby which obviously uses hands mostly, and the limited use of feet to do anything with the ball at all).
September 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In the “soccer vs football” debate, the real question is why on earth we called American Football, well, any kind of “foot” ball at all (given its evolution from rugby which obviously uses hands mostly, and the limited use of feet to do anything with the ball at all).
There’s also this like, Celtic/Trad vibe to the soundtrack even though it’s a film about hip-hop/rap in New York City? What is happening?
Watching “Highest 2 Lowest” because I’ll watching anything with Denzel Washington, but I can’t get over the absolutely wild incongruousness between the upbeat piano-heavy soundtrack and the seriousness of a kidnapping/heist narrative.
September 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There’s also this like, Celtic/Trad vibe to the soundtrack even though it’s a film about hip-hop/rap in New York City? What is happening?
Watching “Highest 2 Lowest” because I’ll watching anything with Denzel Washington, but I can’t get over the absolutely wild incongruousness between the upbeat piano-heavy soundtrack and the seriousness of a kidnapping/heist narrative.
September 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Watching “Highest 2 Lowest” because I’ll watching anything with Denzel Washington, but I can’t get over the absolutely wild incongruousness between the upbeat piano-heavy soundtrack and the seriousness of a kidnapping/heist narrative.
Do better @stlcitysc.com. Who opposes childhood cancer awareness, raising donations for the same, and also a banner decorated by literal kids in hospital?!
Please see our attached statement regarding last weekends CITY match.
September 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Do better @stlcitysc.com. Who opposes childhood cancer awareness, raising donations for the same, and also a banner decorated by literal kids in hospital?!
First day back from holiday to find half the ward are Covid positive thanks to family members bringing it in. And the JCVI recommending against a Covid vaccine shot for patient-facing healthcare workers (but still offering it to older, at-risk populations, and providing the flu vaccine). Sigh.
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
First day back from holiday to find half the ward are Covid positive thanks to family members bringing it in. And the JCVI recommending against a Covid vaccine shot for patient-facing healthcare workers (but still offering it to older, at-risk populations, and providing the flu vaccine). Sigh.
MLS continues being a deeply unserious league.
BREAKING: MLS announce additional suspensions following Leagues Cup final melee:
- Luis Suarez: 3 MLS games
- Steven Lenhart: MLS credential revoked for rest of 2025
Sergio Busquets doesn't receive additional sanction.
www.givemesport.com/luis-suarez-...
- Luis Suarez: 3 MLS games
- Steven Lenhart: MLS credential revoked for rest of 2025
Sergio Busquets doesn't receive additional sanction.
www.givemesport.com/luis-suarez-...
Luis Suarez, Steven Lenhart receive additional suspension from MLS for Leagues Cup melee
MLS handed out additional suspensions to Luis Suarez and Steven Lenhart for their roles in an altercation following the Leagues Cup final.
www.givemesport.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
MLS continues being a deeply unserious league.
Woof those numbers are, uh, not great.
Even including their 2023 expansion season, where they won the Western Conference with 56 points, St. Louis have the fifth-fewest points per game of any MLS club going back through the 2013 season.
This was a long time coming.
This was a long time coming.
St. Louis City have parted ways with sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel.
Pfannenstiel was club's first-ever sporting director. Led STL to historic expansion season in 2023, first place in the West.
Club missed playoffs in 2024, sit 14th in the West with 7 games left.
Pfannenstiel was club's first-ever sporting director. Led STL to historic expansion season in 2023, first place in the West.
Club missed playoffs in 2024, sit 14th in the West with 7 games left.
August 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Woof those numbers are, uh, not great.