Robin Marwick
@electricland.bsky.social
Freelance medical editor, alto, digital packrat, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. The pup is Bunty, an Airedale terrier (🎂2023-05-29). 🇨🇦 She/her. Yay for alt text. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick
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Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
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It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!
Volunteer — Stand With Minnesota
www.standwithminnesota.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!
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"Everyone learned how to press buttons, and no one remembered how to dive for pearls" - beautiful Terry Pratchett line (from 1981's Strata) that I'm going to start deploying whenever someone posts shit AI Discworld art.
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
"Everyone learned how to press buttons, and no one remembered how to dive for pearls" - beautiful Terry Pratchett line (from 1981's Strata) that I'm going to start deploying whenever someone posts shit AI Discworld art.
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Today’s moment of calm.
For all you lovers out there on Valentine’s Day
For all you lovers out there on Valentine’s Day
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Today’s moment of calm.
For all you lovers out there on Valentine’s Day
For all you lovers out there on Valentine’s Day
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Boooo rockstar hates creativity and fun
January 16, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Boooo rockstar hates creativity and fun
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Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.
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no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
The predominent anti-AI position on bsky is that AI is useless, fake, shit and basically the same as NFTs, destined to collapse in months once everyone sees how poor it is. So anyone who suggests that it could improve or be useful to any boss in any situation in the future must be evil.
February 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
Great thread about learning and discomfort and uncertainty and patience and kindness. 🧵
I have done a lot of thinking about “the reading crisis”. And I mean a lot. Both as a student kind of stunned by what younger classmates don’t know or care to do, and as someone REALLY INVESTED IN EARLY LITERACY.
I almost pitched a proposal for a dissertation on this exact topic.
I almost pitched a proposal for a dissertation on this exact topic.
February 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Great thread about learning and discomfort and uncertainty and patience and kindness. 🧵
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a foundational component of conservatism is "money is more important than people," but at its root it's "money is more important than everything."
so power centres actually spending money on things that aren't rewarding friends or indulging base desires? that sounds like communism, can't have that!
so power centres actually spending money on things that aren't rewarding friends or indulging base desires? that sounds like communism, can't have that!
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
a foundational component of conservatism is "money is more important than people," but at its root it's "money is more important than everything."
so power centres actually spending money on things that aren't rewarding friends or indulging base desires? that sounds like communism, can't have that!
so power centres actually spending money on things that aren't rewarding friends or indulging base desires? that sounds like communism, can't have that!
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what's fucked about so much of the modern world: the absolute indolence of "it's too expensive."
if Iceland had been completely undiscovered by anyone until today, no one would settle it.
if there were no Antarctic stations already, no one would build them.
except China, probably.
if Iceland had been completely undiscovered by anyone until today, no one would settle it.
if there were no Antarctic stations already, no one would build them.
except China, probably.
February 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
what's fucked about so much of the modern world: the absolute indolence of "it's too expensive."
if Iceland had been completely undiscovered by anyone until today, no one would settle it.
if there were no Antarctic stations already, no one would build them.
except China, probably.
if Iceland had been completely undiscovered by anyone until today, no one would settle it.
if there were no Antarctic stations already, no one would build them.
except China, probably.
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Sharing a couple of past #sciencevalentines (some of the best puns are thanks to collab w @carrotslittle.bsky.social )
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Sharing a couple of past #sciencevalentines (some of the best puns are thanks to collab w @carrotslittle.bsky.social )
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A tiny blackbird drawing. One of a collection of miniatures available in my shop for just £15. All one of a kind originals.
folksy.com/find/item/86...
#Blackbird #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm
folksy.com/find/item/86...
#Blackbird #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
A tiny blackbird drawing. One of a collection of miniatures available in my shop for just £15. All one of a kind originals.
folksy.com/find/item/86...
#Blackbird #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm
folksy.com/find/item/86...
#Blackbird #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm
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There are many ways to be embarrassed in public but being confronted in a parking lo by a 7 foot man built like a silverback gorilla who gets paid tens of millions a year to shout at people because he's so good at it is probably one of the least fun
February 14, 2026 at 12:49 PM
There are many ways to be embarrassed in public but being confronted in a parking lo by a 7 foot man built like a silverback gorilla who gets paid tens of millions a year to shout at people because he's so good at it is probably one of the least fun
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This is the sort of busybody we need more of. The most relatable thing about the Patriots head coach is that he apparently chases down people in grocery store lots who leave their carts all over the place and makes them stack them in the designated area so employees don't have to go running around
may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]
February 14, 2026 at 12:48 PM
This is the sort of busybody we need more of. The most relatable thing about the Patriots head coach is that he apparently chases down people in grocery store lots who leave their carts all over the place and makes them stack them in the designated area so employees don't have to go running around
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This is a great article about the 80 pairs of sandals 🩴 buried with King Tut (afterlife shoes!), but it’s disappointing that they don’t mention the 4 pairs of socks (from the Greek σύκχος) 🧦 discovered. Note: the socks worn with the sandals are just as interesting!
www.zmescience.com/science/arch...
www.zmescience.com/science/arch...
February 14, 2026 at 12:36 PM
This is a great article about the 80 pairs of sandals 🩴 buried with King Tut (afterlife shoes!), but it’s disappointing that they don’t mention the 4 pairs of socks (from the Greek σύκχος) 🧦 discovered. Note: the socks worn with the sandals are just as interesting!
www.zmescience.com/science/arch...
www.zmescience.com/science/arch...
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Roses are red
Blue denim is cotton
.gov advises
"Put these in your bottom"
Blue denim is cotton
.gov advises
"Put these in your bottom"
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Roses are red
Blue denim is cotton
.gov advises
"Put these in your bottom"
Blue denim is cotton
.gov advises
"Put these in your bottom"
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Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
![Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreicscf6waklhijry6fblsvr4psk7yku2jauu5hqsn4n765i4gkl2pe@jpeg)
![In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent
"grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreifou66ng5baxhiicmm6d3zntcqosn7pqwzafclwf2qs7xtq7wvqku@jpeg)
![In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27]
The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in
2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreift4wajp6nsrzdrumb2cnyv7s5nvswakab7h62jnjqua4i7tf2qeq@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
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branson wrote my all-time favorite review bsky.app/profile/lowm...
February 14, 2026 at 5:15 AM
branson wrote my all-time favorite review bsky.app/profile/lowm...
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GotDAMN
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
GotDAMN
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I keep trying to find research on this topic and coming up empty. There has to be something on governments creating quasi-independent arms of the university to control the curriculum.
Ohio State University faculty fought the creation of the conservative Chase Center because an ideologically-biased center is antithetical to the purpose of a university. They also fought when the center was granted autonomy by the state legislature. The OSU faculty were right on both counts.
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I keep trying to find research on this topic and coming up empty. There has to be something on governments creating quasi-independent arms of the university to control the curriculum.
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February 14, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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announcing that my 50,000th follower will get a signed (by him) 8x10 glossy of waffles and a bottle of my favorite local hot sauce
February 14, 2026 at 12:47 PM
announcing that my 50,000th follower will get a signed (by him) 8x10 glossy of waffles and a bottle of my favorite local hot sauce
Let’s see this detail in the next Hallmark holiday movie about a woman who goes abroad for Christmas and has a different coat in every scene, please!
Tara Lipinski brought 11 suitcases to Italy, for wardrobe changes
Legend
Legend
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Let’s see this detail in the next Hallmark holiday movie about a woman who goes abroad for Christmas and has a different coat in every scene, please!
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One more: have the Emily Bronte fans who are upset that the film of Wuthering Heights is not "accurate to the book" considered that a film accurate to the book would be 12 hours of grim shakycam footage of moors, narrated by some random who stole the story from a cranky housekeeper?
February 14, 2026 at 12:36 PM
One more: have the Emily Bronte fans who are upset that the film of Wuthering Heights is not "accurate to the book" considered that a film accurate to the book would be 12 hours of grim shakycam footage of moors, narrated by some random who stole the story from a cranky housekeeper?