JGrassom
@jgrassom.bsky.social
I like to know things just to know them and perhaps help others.
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Probably the best thing I’ve written tbh
America as Prussia in 1806
Decaying Institutions, Social Nihilism, Elite Complicity, and a Slow March Toward Disaster
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Probably the best thing I’ve written tbh
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LEEDS PEEPS!
Have you ever wanted to volunteer at Christmas? Or are you booked up at Christmas but have great ideas for gifts, food and decorations? Or are you great at organising?
Leeds Care Leavers Christmas Dinner is looking for people to help on the big day and help organise the big day. 1/3
Have you ever wanted to volunteer at Christmas? Or are you booked up at Christmas but have great ideas for gifts, food and decorations? Or are you great at organising?
Leeds Care Leavers Christmas Dinner is looking for people to help on the big day and help organise the big day. 1/3
The Christmas Dinner — The Gold From The Stone Foundation
www.goldfromthestone.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
LEEDS PEEPS!
Have you ever wanted to volunteer at Christmas? Or are you booked up at Christmas but have great ideas for gifts, food and decorations? Or are you great at organising?
Leeds Care Leavers Christmas Dinner is looking for people to help on the big day and help organise the big day. 1/3
Have you ever wanted to volunteer at Christmas? Or are you booked up at Christmas but have great ideas for gifts, food and decorations? Or are you great at organising?
Leeds Care Leavers Christmas Dinner is looking for people to help on the big day and help organise the big day. 1/3
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Always worth your time, but I think the weregild calculator in this one is likely to be particularly pleasing to you lot. (It has footnotes, disclaimers and sources, and it's still quite funny.)
I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things:
– Maelzel’s Chess Automaton
– RIP Tom Lehrer
– Mindblowing birdsong video
– Light pollution map
– Work out your Weregild
– Excellent daily Clues game
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
– Maelzel’s Chess Automaton
– RIP Tom Lehrer
– Mindblowing birdsong video
– Light pollution map
– Work out your Weregild
– Excellent daily Clues game
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
Six Things, Volume 122
Chess Automaton | Tom Lehrer | Birdsong | Light Pollution | Weregild | Clues
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Always worth your time, but I think the weregild calculator in this one is likely to be particularly pleasing to you lot. (It has footnotes, disclaimers and sources, and it's still quite funny.)
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The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.
July 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.
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Join Dementia Research volunteers with AD and MCI engaged in home-based attentional bias modification with webcam eye-tracking. Symptoms and/or rumination reduced for completers. @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social @unirdg-phd.bsky.social @unirdg-psych.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Home-Based Attentional Bias Modification with Webcam-Based Eye Tracking with Persons with Cognitive Impairment: A Feasibility Study
Remotely delivered attentional bias modification (ABM) studies involving persons with cognitive impairment are lacking. Thus, the feasibility of an adapted ABM paradigm with webcam-based eye tracki...
www.tandfonline.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Join Dementia Research volunteers with AD and MCI engaged in home-based attentional bias modification with webcam eye-tracking. Symptoms and/or rumination reduced for completers. @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social @unirdg-phd.bsky.social @unirdg-psych.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy birthday to the legendary labour agitator and organiser Tom Mann - 1856-1941 @sslh.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @jirjournal.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Happy birthday to the legendary labour agitator and organiser Tom Mann - 1856-1941 @sslh.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @jirjournal.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social
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No Precious Truth – a wartime thriller in the heart of Leeds
Leeds takes centre stage in Chris Nickson’s WWII thriller No Precious Truth, where espionage, sabotage, and war collide in 1941
By John Heywood for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Leeds takes centre stage in Chris Nickson’s WWII thriller No Precious Truth, where espionage, sabotage, and war collide in 1941
By John Heywood for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
No Precious Truth – a wartime thriller in the heart of Leeds
Leeds takes centre stage in Chris Nickson’s WWII thriller No Precious Truth, where espionage, sabotage, and war collide in 1941
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
No Precious Truth – a wartime thriller in the heart of Leeds
Leeds takes centre stage in Chris Nickson’s WWII thriller No Precious Truth, where espionage, sabotage, and war collide in 1941
By John Heywood for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Leeds takes centre stage in Chris Nickson’s WWII thriller No Precious Truth, where espionage, sabotage, and war collide in 1941
By John Heywood for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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This is probably the closest a proper dress will ever get to a Tunnock's Teacake, right?
When I'm feeling like a #frockingfabulous grande dame, I'll wear this all the time. This dress was owned by Mary Hahl in 1910, via The Museum Centre of Turku. #fashionhistory
April 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is probably the closest a proper dress will ever get to a Tunnock's Teacake, right?
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I wrote about how the rising costs of tooling in design and content work are fueling inequities. For a lot of the world, our peers included, 16 bucks is not nothing.
Tools should not be borders — Character
On Monday, Figma sent out an email reminding all customers that the price of a basic seat is going up again, to $16 a month. As a small business owner, I can’t avoid these recurring costs, and I’m cur...
www.characterworks.co
March 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I wrote about how the rising costs of tooling in design and content work are fueling inequities. For a lot of the world, our peers included, 16 bucks is not nothing.
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Have you seen the UKRIO academic wheel of privilege? ukrio.org/ukrio-resour... I quite like this as a reference (more than the general wheel of power and privilege as it includes some UK details like class) as I feel it starts discussions about intersectionality more than a list
Academic wheel of privilege - UK Research Integrity Office
The wheel shows 20 identity types in 7 categories: closer to the centre = more privilege. CC-BY, Elsharif et al. (2022), MetaArXiv https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/k7a9p
ukrio.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Have you seen the UKRIO academic wheel of privilege? ukrio.org/ukrio-resour... I quite like this as a reference (more than the general wheel of power and privilege as it includes some UK details like class) as I feel it starts discussions about intersectionality more than a list
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Here is a link to a YouTube video of a talk given by @writerlytone.bsky.social about #LeedsOtherPaper in Nov 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDjr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDjr...
November 27, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Here is a link to a YouTube video of a talk given by @writerlytone.bsky.social about #LeedsOtherPaper in Nov 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDjr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDjr...
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Ooh I knew the order of adjectives thing but not the vowel order thing! Amazing how we just absorb these things as native speakers, I'm sure we don't get taught them formally
September 11, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Ooh I knew the order of adjectives thing but not the vowel order thing! Amazing how we just absorb these things as native speakers, I'm sure we don't get taught them formally
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A massive thank you to @jenitennison.com, Duncan, Jess and Matthew - and a great audience - for a brilliant @instituteforgov.bsky.social event on AI earlier
Watch the whole thing back here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/how-sh...
Watch the whole thing back here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/how-sh...
How should government use AI? | Institute for Government
How can AI support civil service effectiveness and decision making?
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
September 11, 2024 at 7:25 PM
A massive thank you to @jenitennison.com, Duncan, Jess and Matthew - and a great audience - for a brilliant @instituteforgov.bsky.social event on AI earlier
Watch the whole thing back here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/how-sh...
Watch the whole thing back here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/how-sh...
So my first message on here is about Platformland by @richardpope.org which looks really interesting.
September 11, 2024 at 8:00 PM
So my first message on here is about Platformland by @richardpope.org which looks really interesting.
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Oh now this is very cool - your name spelt out in landscape images, from NASA! landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
August 31, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Oh now this is very cool - your name spelt out in landscape images, from NASA! landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO AGILE
1. Every project is broken up into five phases: Disco, Alpaca, Beatings, Live, Regret
2. Every project has a Delivery Manager (DM) and a Product Manager (PM) who fuel the project through their mutual hatred and constant bickering
1. Every project is broken up into five phases: Disco, Alpaca, Beatings, Live, Regret
2. Every project has a Delivery Manager (DM) and a Product Manager (PM) who fuel the project through their mutual hatred and constant bickering
September 1, 2024 at 6:39 AM
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO AGILE
1. Every project is broken up into five phases: Disco, Alpaca, Beatings, Live, Regret
2. Every project has a Delivery Manager (DM) and a Product Manager (PM) who fuel the project through their mutual hatred and constant bickering
1. Every project is broken up into five phases: Disco, Alpaca, Beatings, Live, Regret
2. Every project has a Delivery Manager (DM) and a Product Manager (PM) who fuel the project through their mutual hatred and constant bickering