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I will one day write my magnum opus 'Lanyard: the modern yoke'
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Lekta - language puzzle by pandateam
A language puzzle game
pandateam.itch.io
Should anyone have time to try something new, I made this language puzzle game:
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Sort of based on puzzles in the Oxford university MLAT, but with fire and bears)
#gamedev #gamemaker
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Sort of based on puzzles in the Oxford university MLAT, but with fire and bears)
#gamedev #gamemaker
I find this mentality so entitled & strange:
December 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I find this mentality so entitled & strange:
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you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
In class this week looked at a text on use of the word 'clanker' as a kind of new slur, which is peculiar and interesting in terms of language change
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In class this week looked at a text on use of the word 'clanker' as a kind of new slur, which is peculiar and interesting in terms of language change
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
People make light of flibbertigibbets but when you think of how many flibberts met their end that way it's a sobering thought 🤔
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
People make light of flibbertigibbets but when you think of how many flibberts met their end that way it's a sobering thought 🤔
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Remembered with a start when I was following an auction online, shifted in my seat, steadied my laptop as it was beginning to slide, inadvertently clicked on the trackpad, and for a few brief but seemingly interminable moments, was the highest bidder — at £15,000 — on a Jack Vettriano print.
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Remembered with a start when I was following an auction online, shifted in my seat, steadied my laptop as it was beginning to slide, inadvertently clicked on the trackpad, and for a few brief but seemingly interminable moments, was the highest bidder — at £15,000 — on a Jack Vettriano print.
One of my students this wk said she had a private tutor who wd provide very detailed notes on things that'd only just come up in their conversation - & then she realised tutor was just using chtgpt :/
Outrageous behaviour!
Outrageous behaviour!
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One of my students this wk said she had a private tutor who wd provide very detailed notes on things that'd only just come up in their conversation - & then she realised tutor was just using chtgpt :/
Outrageous behaviour!
Outrageous behaviour!
Given the Oliver Sacks (& Gino & Rosenhan & the Stanford p experiment & Ariely......) news I don't know how ppl teach psychology without embarrassment
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Given the Oliver Sacks (& Gino & Rosenhan & the Stanford p experiment & Ariely......) news I don't know how ppl teach psychology without embarrassment
About a month ago a Gamemaker update made running literally anything in test environment crash my computer (I tried a room with one single button and mouseovering it crashed my computer)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
About a month ago a Gamemaker update made running literally anything in test environment crash my computer (I tried a room with one single button and mouseovering it crashed my computer)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
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SCOOP
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
SCOOP
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
I think recent fetishisation of men (especially) reading physical books is a bad sign - suggests reading is marked as a novel/remarkable/character-revealing thing for some people now rather than something everyone does all the time
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I think recent fetishisation of men (especially) reading physical books is a bad sign - suggests reading is marked as a novel/remarkable/character-revealing thing for some people now rather than something everyone does all the time
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This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?
Comments are like wow great journalism, TikTok influencer, whose “rabbit hole” consisted of screenshotting someone else’s article
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
The Rory Stwart/ Zack Planski interview clash is really interesting
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Rory Stwart/ Zack Planski interview clash is really interesting
Atm, expect Liv to look (a bit) better while Afcon's on, & Slh to go (assuming Saudi clubs will cover his biiiig wages)
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Atm, expect Liv to look (a bit) better while Afcon's on, & Slh to go (assuming Saudi clubs will cover his biiiig wages)
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
The Owen Jns /Zrh Sultana video is amazing
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Owen Jns /Zrh Sultana video is amazing
I'm running a linguistics lunchtime enrichment thing this year & generally the ppl who've signed up are extremely academically strong (1 person w all 9s at GCSE)
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm running a linguistics lunchtime enrichment thing this year & generally the ppl who've signed up are extremely academically strong (1 person w all 9s at GCSE)
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/
I feel as though some linguist must have written on this as it's so obvious, but at the moment I'm noticing loads of features that are slightly maladroitly aspiring to a grander style than the speaker can control, and I want to call it 'swank register'
The odd yourself/myself thing is one example..
The odd yourself/myself thing is one example..
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I feel as though some linguist must have written on this as it's so obvious, but at the moment I'm noticing loads of features that are slightly maladroitly aspiring to a grander style than the speaker can control, and I want to call it 'swank register'
The odd yourself/myself thing is one example..
The odd yourself/myself thing is one example..
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Got out of jail
(part 1)
(part 1)
March 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Got out of jail
(part 1)
(part 1)
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Got to keep up with the Joneses over here on Bluesky
November 13, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Got to keep up with the Joneses over here on Bluesky
Sad that writers' retreats are so rarely followed by writers' advances
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Sad that writers' retreats are so rarely followed by writers' advances
@pixeladay.bsky.social I just watched your video on Blue prince, it's perceptive and good (& you had more patience with it than me!)
I would like to think you might enjoy my language puzzle game if you had time to try it ever:
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Don't worry if it doesn't interest you)
I would like to think you might enjoy my language puzzle game if you had time to try it ever:
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Don't worry if it doesn't interest you)
Lekta - language puzzle by pandateam
A language puzzle game
pandateam.itch.io
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
@pixeladay.bsky.social I just watched your video on Blue prince, it's perceptive and good (& you had more patience with it than me!)
I would like to think you might enjoy my language puzzle game if you had time to try it ever:
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Don't worry if it doesn't interest you)
I would like to think you might enjoy my language puzzle game if you had time to try it ever:
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Don't worry if it doesn't interest you)
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.