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Ernesto Priego
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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
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Frequency of shabby, adj., 1750–2010
Screenshot. Frequency of shabby, adj., 1750–2010 * Occurrences per million words in written English Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010. The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations. For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies. Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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but hey, just carry on
Nature vol. 6413 November 2025 page 299. Covid is spreading again- limited Covid-19 surveilance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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OneDrive, I hate you
screenshot of Battery Settings. Using Significant Energy: OneDrive
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Otro detalle de otro año, 2023.
detalle de ofrenda de muertos, sugar skulls, papel picado, etc
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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2024, detalle. Con audio.
October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Aquí un ejemplo que tengo a la mano de la del 2021.
mini day of the dead altar
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Teaching prep
A book titled 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Kostas Stasinopoulos, published by Penguin, lies on top of another book with a grey cover titled The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. The cover of the top book features a photograph of a crumpled piece of lined paper with the handwritten words “Remember Nature.” Both books are resting on a wooden surface.
September 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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"If we can tune in to the idea of making things and sharing them without being attached to the outcome, the work is more likely to arrive in its truest form."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being (2023)
My hand holds a hardcover book open. "If we can tune in to the idea of making things and sharing them without being attached to the outcome, the work is more likely to arrive in its truest form." -Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being (2023)
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Find a photograph of two trees
My hand holds an open paperback. 35 Es Devlin Find a photograph of two trees Find an X-ray image of the two bronchial trees within a pair of human lungs Trace over both. Contemplate the visual connection: the structures inside us that allow us to breathe: the structures outside us that make the air breathable As you breathe in, visualize the six hundred million alveolai, like leaves on the branches of the bronchial trees within your lungs. As you breathe out, visualize the stomata on the leaves of the three trillion trees which make your breathing possible. If you have eight dollars go to institutoterra.org and plant a tree. Think of it growing as you breathe.
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central. Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window. Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot. Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform. Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.
September 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Excited for having recieved @comicsgrid.com HQ a review copy of Comic Fascism. Ideology, Catholicism, and Americanism in Italian Children's Periodicals by Zane Elward (2025). Thank you @ohiostatepress.bsky.social! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... #ComicsStudies
My hand holds a copy of the academic monograph titled Comic Fascism. deology, Catholicism, and Americanism in Italian Children's Periodicals, by Zane Elward. Paperback.
August 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Wonder if there's data (LOL) about how many private Covid vaccionation appointments are actually booked and by which demographics- surely the barriers of access are significant- way to deprioritise public health in the face of a virus which remains a threat.
COVID-19 Vaccination Service Protect yourself from COVID-19 with our private vaccination service. It’s suitable for adults and children aged 12 years and over and is available in selected Boots pharmacies across the UK*. Price per dose:£98.95 *Subject to availability. Eligibility criteria and exclusions apply. Please note this is not an NHS service. Boots pharmacy (UK) screenshot.
August 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Art & Design tumbles from 7th to 10th place in A-level popularity in England by 2025. History also falls sharply, while Literature dips after 2020 and Geography stays near the bottom. Maths? Still number one (!!!).
Guardian line chart of the top 12 A-level subjects in England, 2017–2025. Art & Design is highlighted in pink, starting at 7th place in 2017, going up one place in 2019 and 2020, then slipping to 8th in 2024 and falling to 10th in 2025. Other faint lines show Maths consistently at 1st, Psychology 2nd, History dropping from 5th in 2024 to 9th in 2025, Literature declining after 2020 to stay near the lower end in place 11, and Geography (having held place 8 in 2017) remaining among the least popular subjects throughout the period.
August 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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10. Which of the following can you try if you feel under stress at work? a. Talk to a friend or a loved one b. Stay at work until everything is done c. Ignore your feelings
July 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Nothing helps academic staff more than the late afternoon, midsummer requirement to do this kind of compulsory online training
Stress and Resilience Awareness Training Choose your path Welcome to the Stress and Resilience Awareness Training Please select the view of the module that best suits your needs. You should select the first option (Stress and Resilience Awareness with Animation) to view the full module including interactive content and animations. If you have any accessibility requirements or are using assistive technology you should select the Stress and Resilience Awareness Accessible Version.
July 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Great to have the opportunity to listen to the great @dompates.bsky.social on 'Batlling monsters for credit'- setting interdisciplinary higher education in historical and sociopolitical context hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/dom... #HCID2025
Dom Pates presenting in university room, screen with his title slides, Battling Monsters For Credit: Introducing interdisciplinary education for climate and sustainability, sitting members of the audience visible too.
June 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Hard not to get excited when a design thinker engages with Mark Fisher! ✊🏼 #HCID2025
Christoph Hassler speaking in lecture theatre. Screens behind him show the book cover of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism on a red background
June 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Hey, kids! #DesignJustice Zines! #HCID2025
Professor Steph Wilson with slides showing student zines collection on Figshare in lecture theatre, opening session of the conference
June 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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...but it's been a thing...
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June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Present from my parents, 6 January 1984. Adapted by Carlos Fernández Liria; illustrations by Fernando Aznar. In second photo note I highlighted a word I did not understand in this translated edition for young readers.
A Spanish-language edition of Moby Dick by Herman Melville with a bright yellow cover. The title "Moby Dick" is in bold blue letters, and a comic-style illustration shows a man with long dark hair and a red face looking at a sailing ship. A speech bubble says, “¡Buen viaje y viento en popa!” (“Have a good trip and fair winds!”). Below the image is the logo for “Colección Historias BRUGUERA” and “Biblioteca Verde.” The book shows signs of wear at the corners. pages 16 and 17 of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The left page ends in a paragraph and includes a small black-and-white illustration of two men sitting by a fireplace, one smoking a pipe and the other speaking. A speech bubble in the illustration reads: “Mañana tomaremos el paqueteboat para Nantucket y allí buscaremos un buque ballenero donde embarcarnos.” The right page starts Chapter 3, titled “El viaje a Nantucket.” A reader's fingers are holding the book open at the bottom center. The background is a textured blue fabric. Back cover of a Spanish-language illustrated edition of Moby Dick by Herman Melville, published by Bruguera as part of the "Colección Historias – Biblioteca Verde." The background is yellow, with a black-and-white illustration in the center showing a group of sailors on a whaleboat attacking a whale. One sailor is shouting: “¡Ya está muerta! ¡Su corazón ha reventado!” Above the illustration is the following text: > Presentamos una nueva manera de leer. Las ilustraciones y el texto forman una misma cosa, un todo, un libro, este libro. Este libro se lee así… A passage of narrative text below the heading describes Stubb striking the whale with a harpoon, searching its body, and finding its heart destroyed. At the bottom, the price is listed as “250 PTAS.” and “IMPRESO EN ESPAÑA, PRINTED IN SPAIN.”
June 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Seriously considering it.
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June 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Happy Summer Solstice
Cat sleeping on the carpet, stretched out towards the wall, looking upside down from my pov. I envy the cat.
June 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This just in.
Thanks for your Online Request. Please can you re-submit the Online form under 'Medical Request' with an update of your symptoms so the Duty Doctor can triage this appropriately
June 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The President deploys his skills
Screenshot of headline in the Guardian online: Los Angeles protests: Donald Trump deploys more National Guard troops and marines as disorder goes into fourth day – live California says deployment of National Guard to LA over protests against immigration authorities is illegal
June 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Increasingly irked by the usage of "deploy" to refer to skills learned at university.
A screenshot from Google Books Ngram Viewer, showing the frequency of the word "deploy" (and its various capitalizations) in English-language books from 1800 to 2019 showing dominance of lowercase "deploy". The lowercase "deploy" (red line) is by far the most commonly used form. Its usage remained relatively low and steady until around the 1950s, after which it began rising sharply, peaking around 2010. The sharp increase in "deploy" usage from the 1950s onward coincides with the Cold War era, military expansion, and later, technological contexts (e.g., software deployment).
June 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM