Clotworthy Skeffington
@lizbenbrooks.bsky.social
AuDHD. 99% reskeeting others to make myself look clever.
Reading recently about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer. Her father wanted her to marry a guy named Clotworthy Skeffington. Possibly the greatest name ever.
Reading recently about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer. Her father wanted her to marry a guy named Clotworthy Skeffington. Possibly the greatest name ever.
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Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
Reposting to save this awesome thread from Rah, once again giving us the real shit. Love it 😍.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
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he sees all
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
he sees all
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I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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Sometimes all you need is that one daisy in your life
#photography #daisy #autumn #fall #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnite #vienna #nature #NaturePhotography
#photography #daisy #autumn #fall #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnite #vienna #nature #NaturePhotography
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sometimes all you need is that one daisy in your life
#photography #daisy #autumn #fall #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnite #vienna #nature #NaturePhotography
#photography #daisy #autumn #fall #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnite #vienna #nature #NaturePhotography
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#ForestFriday walk through the woods. Always good for the soul. Have a good Friday everyone
#EastCoastKin #scape #treescape #Autumn #Nature #LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin #scape #treescape #Autumn #Nature #LandscapePhotography
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#ForestFriday walk through the woods. Always good for the soul. Have a good Friday everyone
#EastCoastKin #scape #treescape #Autumn #Nature #LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin #scape #treescape #Autumn #Nature #LandscapePhotography
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Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
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a bit of brightness and joy, for you
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artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #dahlia #flowers #oregonphotographer
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artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #dahlia #flowers #oregonphotographer
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
a bit of brightness and joy, for you
🤍🕊️
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artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #dahlia #flowers #oregonphotographer
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artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #photography #womensartbluesky #photographersonbluesky #dahlia #flowers #oregonphotographer
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Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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This is my drug.
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is my drug.
Grinch out for a stroll.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Grinch out for a stroll.
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Want to win this lightning boi and his familiar?
Doing a 750 follower giveaway, once we get there if you’ve repubbed and liked this I’ll do a random draw!
Any shares much appreciated, as always❤️
#warhammer #warhammercommunity #nerdlings #wargaming
Doing a 750 follower giveaway, once we get there if you’ve repubbed and liked this I’ll do a random draw!
Any shares much appreciated, as always❤️
#warhammer #warhammercommunity #nerdlings #wargaming
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Want to win this lightning boi and his familiar?
Doing a 750 follower giveaway, once we get there if you’ve repubbed and liked this I’ll do a random draw!
Any shares much appreciated, as always❤️
#warhammer #warhammercommunity #nerdlings #wargaming
Doing a 750 follower giveaway, once we get there if you’ve repubbed and liked this I’ll do a random draw!
Any shares much appreciated, as always❤️
#warhammer #warhammercommunity #nerdlings #wargaming
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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And as Elon Musk has seen fit to demonstrate, you can absolutely be at the same time the world’s richest man, as well as the world’s trashiest embarrassment.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
And as Elon Musk has seen fit to demonstrate, you can absolutely be at the same time the world’s richest man, as well as the world’s trashiest embarrassment.
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MTG is no less racist than she was two months ago, but the fact that she's beefing with trump will cause thousands of white liberals to flock to her nevertheless. sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just everybody's enemy.
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
MTG is no less racist than she was two months ago, but the fact that she's beefing with trump will cause thousands of white liberals to flock to her nevertheless. sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just everybody's enemy.
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It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
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Logged in today and didn't expect Alice to die. RIP Alice 😭😢
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Logged in today and didn't expect Alice to die. RIP Alice 😭😢
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Alice leaves behind a body of work that will continue to shape movements for decades. But more importantly, she leaves behind communities and relationships she helped build and nurture—relations that will carry her clarity, her defiance, and her tenderness forward.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice leaves behind a body of work that will continue to shape movements for decades. But more importantly, she leaves behind communities and relationships she helped build and nurture—relations that will carry her clarity, her defiance, and her tenderness forward.
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May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.
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“I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future.”
I’m crying. I didn’t know Alice Wong personally, but as a disabled person I felt her kinship & I’ll carry her as an ancestor for however long I have left on this earth 💔
bsky.app/profile/drsh...
I’m crying. I didn’t know Alice Wong personally, but as a disabled person I felt her kinship & I’ll carry her as an ancestor for however long I have left on this earth 💔
bsky.app/profile/drsh...
From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future.”
I’m crying. I didn’t know Alice Wong personally, but as a disabled person I felt her kinship & I’ll carry her as an ancestor for however long I have left on this earth 💔
bsky.app/profile/drsh...
I’m crying. I didn’t know Alice Wong personally, but as a disabled person I felt her kinship & I’ll carry her as an ancestor for however long I have left on this earth 💔
bsky.app/profile/drsh...
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When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.