Vanessa Yardley
@msness.bsky.social
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genuine appeal to feminists who are haven't realised it yet: trans women are on your side. TERFS aren't
No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
genuine appeal to feminists who are haven't realised it yet: trans women are on your side. TERFS aren't
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🎶"... Someone to hear your prayers, he's filled with air."🎶
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🎶"... Someone to hear your prayers, he's filled with air."🎶
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ok i roll my comments back, yay for uncovering new ground for yourself and wandering into things you didn't know were huge. literally stumbling into deep fairy shit lmao bsky.app/profile/gavr...
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
ok i roll my comments back, yay for uncovering new ground for yourself and wandering into things you didn't know were huge. literally stumbling into deep fairy shit lmao bsky.app/profile/gavr...
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now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
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“Are the fae open source” is the kind of deranged sentence that keeps me addicted to microblogging. Beautiful poison Rappaccini flower.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
“Are the fae open source” is the kind of deranged sentence that keeps me addicted to microblogging. Beautiful poison Rappaccini flower.
I… I… this has truly taken me out 😵💫 gonna need some smelling salts and a lie down
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I… I… this has truly taken me out 😵💫 gonna need some smelling salts and a lie down
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Once a month I wake up to a story like "Half the world doesn't work because of the NetBastard outage" I didn't even know about net bastard
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Once a month I wake up to a story like "Half the world doesn't work because of the NetBastard outage" I didn't even know about net bastard
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No one needs a STARGATE series that's filmed on the Volume and costs 10 million an episode. We need it to be filmed in various forests in and around Vancouver, and that one quarry, aka "the desert."
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
No one needs a STARGATE series that's filmed on the Volume and costs 10 million an episode. We need it to be filmed in various forests in and around Vancouver, and that one quarry, aka "the desert."
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Amazon has officially greenlit a new Stargate series. https://bit.ly/4ij0L3Z
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Amazon has officially greenlit a new Stargate series. https://bit.ly/4ij0L3Z
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All those try hard supposedly Shakespeare-writing monkeys are FIRED. Get these fish on the job. I want King Lear on my desk by Monday.
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
All those try hard supposedly Shakespeare-writing monkeys are FIRED. Get these fish on the job. I want King Lear on my desk by Monday.
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first date idea: I eat a rotisserie chicken and you're in your home, eating your own rotisserie chicken
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
first date idea: I eat a rotisserie chicken and you're in your home, eating your own rotisserie chicken
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'Gherkinstocks' was right there!
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
'Gherkinstocks' was right there!
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props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
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This is why they've been jamming AI into everything - so that they can say they are too big to fail and can bleed governments dry. “Nice economy you’ve got there, be a shame if anything were to happen to it.” It’s 100% grift with these people.
🎶 The AI bust is coming / and everybody's jumping 🎶
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
The AI boom has been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This is why they've been jamming AI into everything - so that they can say they are too big to fail and can bleed governments dry. “Nice economy you’ve got there, be a shame if anything were to happen to it.” It’s 100% grift with these people.
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He is a very powerful wizard....
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
He is a very powerful wizard....
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I'm glad to see this, even if I don't agree with all of it. The BL is vitally important not only for academics, but for everyone who's ever been curious.
It must be protected, and from the ground up: paying the workers salaries they can live on is one place to start.
It must be protected, and from the ground up: paying the workers salaries they can live on is one place to start.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I'm glad to see this, even if I don't agree with all of it. The BL is vitally important not only for academics, but for everyone who's ever been curious.
It must be protected, and from the ground up: paying the workers salaries they can live on is one place to start.
It must be protected, and from the ground up: paying the workers salaries they can live on is one place to start.
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Do you rely on others for support?
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Do you rely on others for support?
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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To paraphrase: they know they shouldn’t have included AI answers at the top of search and that it is rapidly devaluing the whole brand, and that other AI tools are better at that job too, but they can’t just remove it because it would be an admission of failure?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, Google boss tells BBC
Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
To paraphrase: they know they shouldn’t have included AI answers at the top of search and that it is rapidly devaluing the whole brand, and that other AI tools are better at that job too, but they can’t just remove it because it would be an admission of failure?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sooz is a good egg, she's been brilliant on Digi-related things over the years, and doesn't deserve this news. We'll be at her show on January 30th. Please support her if you can.
Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Sooz is a good egg, she's been brilliant on Digi-related things over the years, and doesn't deserve this news. We'll be at her show on January 30th. Please support her if you can.
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Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye
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November 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye
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I love her. 13/10 excellent pigurine
Part 117 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A 3,000-year-old clay pig found in 2020 at the Lianhe Ruins in China.
A 3,000-year-old clay pig found in 2020 at the Lianhe Ruins in China.
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I love her. 13/10 excellent pigurine
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If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
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People used to run away and join the circus, but now, thanks to modern advancements, the circus is all around us all the damn time
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
People used to run away and join the circus, but now, thanks to modern advancements, the circus is all around us all the damn time