Bex Sentance
@rainbowbex.bsky.social
Journalist and general internetty person. I write for Econsultancy about things like search, digital transformation, ecommerce, and why we should be more cynical about generative AI
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Apparently November 26th is National Linguistics Day in the UK because it's de Saussure's birthday??
Just found this out from @adamcschembri.bsky.social at #LingComm25 and the chat immediately goes wild
World Linguistics Day, anyone???
#linguistics
Just found this out from @adamcschembri.bsky.social at #LingComm25 and the chat immediately goes wild
World Linguistics Day, anyone???
#linguistics
April 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Apparently November 26th is National Linguistics Day in the UK because it's de Saussure's birthday??
Just found this out from @adamcschembri.bsky.social at #LingComm25 and the chat immediately goes wild
World Linguistics Day, anyone???
#linguistics
Just found this out from @adamcschembri.bsky.social at #LingComm25 and the chat immediately goes wild
World Linguistics Day, anyone???
#linguistics
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Holy moly, when I checked on this yesterday it was at 80,000 signatures. Now it's at 170,911 signatures and growing as I type this. I think people are a wee bit unhappy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
petition.parliament.uk
July 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Holy moly, when I checked on this yesterday it was at 80,000 signatures. Now it's at 170,911 signatures and growing as I type this. I think people are a wee bit unhappy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:
You can read more about this decision here:
buff.ly
June 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:
You can read more about this decision here:
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"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves."
— bell hooks
— bell hooks
May 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves."
— bell hooks
— bell hooks
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If you like science and fun and nice things, check out my newsletter! In the latest one, discover:
🐶 how looking at cute things could make us better surgeons (maybe)
🤩 a shiny surprise in the sky for early risers
🪲 what flesh-eating beetles and making breakfast have in common.
🐶 how looking at cute things could make us better surgeons (maybe)
🤩 a shiny surprise in the sky for early risers
🪲 what flesh-eating beetles and making breakfast have in common.
May 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you like science and fun and nice things, check out my newsletter! In the latest one, discover:
🐶 how looking at cute things could make us better surgeons (maybe)
🤩 a shiny surprise in the sky for early risers
🪲 what flesh-eating beetles and making breakfast have in common.
🐶 how looking at cute things could make us better surgeons (maybe)
🤩 a shiny surprise in the sky for early risers
🪲 what flesh-eating beetles and making breakfast have in common.
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EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:
You can read more about this decision here:
buff.ly
May 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:
You can read more about this decision here:
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I got the privilege to talk @jarmustard.bsky.social about her new @play.date game, Fulcrum Defender. Jay has been living with long Covid for the past few years, and she made this game to prove she could still do what she loves. Please send her all your love and well wishes.
Subset Games co-founder Jay Ma went through hell to make Fulcrum Defender
For the past few years, Subset Games co-founder Jay Ma has been sick with long Covid. She made her latest game, Fulcrum Defender, to prove she could still do what she loves.
www.engadget.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I got the privilege to talk @jarmustard.bsky.social about her new @play.date game, Fulcrum Defender. Jay has been living with long Covid for the past few years, and she made this game to prove she could still do what she loves. Please send her all your love and well wishes.
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I wish jrr tolkien could do just a little bit of haunting just to fuck up those tech guys who keep naming their shitty companies after his lore
April 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I wish jrr tolkien could do just a little bit of haunting just to fuck up those tech guys who keep naming their shitty companies after his lore
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NEW | On NDAs...
THE NEWSROOM'S VANISHING WOMEN: ITN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF NDAs
How can it have taken years for the truth about Channel 4 News and gagging clauses over harassment cases to come out?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-newsro...
THE NEWSROOM'S VANISHING WOMEN: ITN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF NDAs
How can it have taken years for the truth about Channel 4 News and gagging clauses over harassment cases to come out?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-newsro...
The newsroom's vanishing women: ITN, Channel 4 News and the long shadow of NDAs
How can it have taken years for the truth about Channel 4 News and gagging clauses over harassment cases to come out?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
NEW | On NDAs...
THE NEWSROOM'S VANISHING WOMEN: ITN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF NDAs
How can it have taken years for the truth about Channel 4 News and gagging clauses over harassment cases to come out?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-newsro...
THE NEWSROOM'S VANISHING WOMEN: ITN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF NDAs
How can it have taken years for the truth about Channel 4 News and gagging clauses over harassment cases to come out?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-newsro...
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Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
January 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
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This is an AI ripoff of Black artists Navi Robins, I wish people would post the original artwork
January 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is an AI ripoff of Black artists Navi Robins, I wish people would post the original artwork
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to all my ASEXUAL AND AROMANTIC buds asking the answer is YES 'bury your gays' is the upcoming book i have been talkin on with ace lead that proves love and early readers have thought this too. so excited for buds to meet one of my favorite characters ever tornightfire.com/catalog/bury...
February 16, 2024 at 3:37 PM
to all my ASEXUAL AND AROMANTIC buds asking the answer is YES 'bury your gays' is the upcoming book i have been talkin on with ace lead that proves love and early readers have thought this too. so excited for buds to meet one of my favorite characters ever tornightfire.com/catalog/bury...
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Magic the Gathering and Pokemon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of people sitting in the corner of the cafeteria
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
People on Bluesky and Mastodon are fighting over how to bridge the two decentralized social networks, and whether there should even be a bridge at all. Behind the snarky GitHub comments, these coding conflicts aren’t frivolous – in fact, they could shape…
tcrn.ch
February 15, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Magic the Gathering and Pokemon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of people sitting in the corner of the cafeteria
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There are like three simultaneous panics about AI art happening online right now. Here's why it is important to not assume generative-AI tools are better or more prevalent than they are.
www.garbageday.email/p/pokmon-gun...
www.garbageday.email/p/pokmon-gun...
January 22, 2024 at 6:44 PM
There are like three simultaneous panics about AI art happening online right now. Here's why it is important to not assume generative-AI tools are better or more prevalent than they are.
www.garbageday.email/p/pokmon-gun...
www.garbageday.email/p/pokmon-gun...
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NEW | I read the obits of and op-eds on Henry Kissinger so you don't have to...
HELL'S DIPLOMAT
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/hells-dipl...
HELL'S DIPLOMAT
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/hells-dipl...
Hell's Diplomat.
Henry Kissinger is dead but the newspapers' habit of making excuses for him lives on. Here's my review of the op-eds and obits.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 2, 2023 at 8:49 PM
NEW | I read the obits of and op-eds on Henry Kissinger so you don't have to...
HELL'S DIPLOMAT
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/hells-dipl...
HELL'S DIPLOMAT
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/hells-dipl...
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At the end of the year I like to gather Fancake's themes together and think about all the fanworks we recced. Here's 2023. See something you like? Head to the comm for links to each theme. fancake.dreamwidth.org/2240783.html
December 2, 2023 at 8:37 PM
At the end of the year I like to gather Fancake's themes together and think about all the fanworks we recced. Here's 2023. See something you like? Head to the comm for links to each theme. fancake.dreamwidth.org/2240783.html
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one star and five star reviews are the same weight, its all valid. theyre both right. just because im the one who made something doesnt make me the expert on it. that said, if you ask ME id say everything a make is heckin incredible and im the worlds greatest author. you are too
October 30, 2023 at 3:12 AM
one star and five star reviews are the same weight, its all valid. theyre both right. just because im the one who made something doesnt make me the expert on it. that said, if you ask ME id say everything a make is heckin incredible and im the worlds greatest author. you are too
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please god I wanna go back so bad
September 29, 2023 at 3:04 PM
please god I wanna go back so bad
At a Google event and don't know anyone but everything is very Instagrammable
September 26, 2023 at 9:05 PM
At a Google event and don't know anyone but everything is very Instagrammable
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new tingler THIS PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE GETS ME OFF IN A FUN AND SINCERE WAY BECAUSE IT’S OKAY FOR PEOPLE TO ENJOY POPULAR THINGS WITHOUT BEING SHAMED FOR THE PERCEIVED “BASICNESS” OF THEIR BEVERAGE CHOICES out now on amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3N4KBR or patreon www.patreon.com/posts/this-p...
September 1, 2023 at 3:37 PM
new tingler THIS PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE GETS ME OFF IN A FUN AND SINCERE WAY BECAUSE IT’S OKAY FOR PEOPLE TO ENJOY POPULAR THINGS WITHOUT BEING SHAMED FOR THE PERCEIVED “BASICNESS” OF THEIR BEVERAGE CHOICES out now on amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3N4KBR or patreon www.patreon.com/posts/this-p...
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Vidding: A History is an engaging history of a fascinating art form & fan subculture. The book emphasizes that "vidding"--the practice of creating short video montages remixed from movie and TV footage and edited to popular songs--has a surprisingly long history . . . www.amazon.com/Vidding-Hist...
September 17, 2023 at 9:54 PM
Vidding: A History is an engaging history of a fascinating art form & fan subculture. The book emphasizes that "vidding"--the practice of creating short video montages remixed from movie and TV footage and edited to popular songs--has a surprisingly long history . . . www.amazon.com/Vidding-Hist...
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Museum of the Moving Image. "Spectacle: The Music Video" exhibition. April 3 - June 13, 2013.
September 15, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Museum of the Moving Image. "Spectacle: The Music Video" exhibition. April 3 - June 13, 2013.
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Well, I think Steve Huffman said he was inspired by what Musk had done at twitter. So congrats on tanking your site even harder I guess.
(From @garbageday.email)
open.substack.com/pub/garbaged...
(From @garbageday.email)
open.substack.com/pub/garbaged...
September 13, 2023 at 8:03 PM
Well, I think Steve Huffman said he was inspired by what Musk had done at twitter. So congrats on tanking your site even harder I guess.
(From @garbageday.email)
open.substack.com/pub/garbaged...
(From @garbageday.email)
open.substack.com/pub/garbaged...
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The Celtic rainforests of Britain and Ireland are rapidly assuming an iconic status, conjuring up a vivid image of mist, moss and convoluted trees Professor ✍️John Healey, Bangor University
How to recognise a Celtic rainforest when you see one
John Healey, Professor of Forest Sciences, Bangor University The term “temperate rainforest”, or “Celtic rainforest”, has rapidly gained public attention in the UK recently. In February 2023, ...
nation.cymru
July 25, 2023 at 9:37 AM
The Celtic rainforests of Britain and Ireland are rapidly assuming an iconic status, conjuring up a vivid image of mist, moss and convoluted trees Professor ✍️John Healey, Bangor University