tony
@tonyreads.bsky.social
a Texan in Norway, stereotypical coffee-drinking book nerd, works in tech for the Norwegian Refugee Council
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People still seem to be battling with understanding this in 21st century
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People still seem to be battling with understanding this in 21st century
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This is Horus. He got a lot of attention on a recent flight in Mexico. Clearly the other passengers have never flown with someone so handsome. 14/10 we're told he was very well behaved (TT: denniabuendagalvn, paulinagtza_, cheetahbash, cristianjbetancourt)
August 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is Horus. He got a lot of attention on a recent flight in Mexico. Clearly the other passengers have never flown with someone so handsome. 14/10 we're told he was very well behaved (TT: denniabuendagalvn, paulinagtza_, cheetahbash, cristianjbetancourt)
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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I'm a firm believer that when two people who value the Oxford comma find one another, it's an undeniable sign that their relationship will be fulfilling, beautiful, and everlasting.
June 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I'm a firm believer that when two people who value the Oxford comma find one another, it's an undeniable sign that their relationship will be fulfilling, beautiful, and everlasting.
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This #RefugeeWeek we are offering 50% off these important titles with code RW2025:
"A Handbook of Integration with Refugees"
"Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families"
"Hospitable Linguistics"
"Cultures of Sustainable Peace"
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"A Handbook of Integration with Refugees"
"Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families"
"Hospitable Linguistics"
"Cultures of Sustainable Peace"
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June 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This #RefugeeWeek we are offering 50% off these important titles with code RW2025:
"A Handbook of Integration with Refugees"
"Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families"
"Hospitable Linguistics"
"Cultures of Sustainable Peace"
buff.ly/o9i7jgE
"A Handbook of Integration with Refugees"
"Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families"
"Hospitable Linguistics"
"Cultures of Sustainable Peace"
buff.ly/o9i7jgE
This is a hell of a thing to read.
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
Accurate
In this witty and catchy music video, British artist Joshua Idehen takes us on a tour of the world’s ‘isms’ using the relatable analogy of domestic chores. From liberalism to communism, each concept is humorously unpacked, highlighting how societies often overlook the domestic labor of mothers
A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry | Aeon Videos
The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing
buff.ly
May 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Accurate
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
The dog is walked, lemon polenta cake is cooling in the window, mug of coffee in hand, surreal kafkaesque book in my ears.
Sunday morning as it should be.
Sunday morning as it should be.
May 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The dog is walked, lemon polenta cake is cooling in the window, mug of coffee in hand, surreal kafkaesque book in my ears.
Sunday morning as it should be.
Sunday morning as it should be.
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When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.
May 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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Forgot to mention that today is International Workers Memorial Day when we remember everyone who has died and/or suffered injury and illness from their work.
"Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living."
#Solidarity #JoinYourUnion ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
"Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living."
#Solidarity #JoinYourUnion ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
April 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Forgot to mention that today is International Workers Memorial Day when we remember everyone who has died and/or suffered injury and illness from their work.
"Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living."
#Solidarity #JoinYourUnion ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
"Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living."
#Solidarity #JoinYourUnion ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
Just finished Careless People: a young idealist joins Facebook only to have the scales fall from her eyes as she comes to discover the executives are the sociopaths we all know them to be.
Like a B horror movie, I kept yelling for her to "get out".
Salacious in the details but no real surprises.
Like a B horror movie, I kept yelling for her to "get out".
Salacious in the details but no real surprises.
April 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just finished Careless People: a young idealist joins Facebook only to have the scales fall from her eyes as she comes to discover the executives are the sociopaths we all know them to be.
Like a B horror movie, I kept yelling for her to "get out".
Salacious in the details but no real surprises.
Like a B horror movie, I kept yelling for her to "get out".
Salacious in the details but no real surprises.
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Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
Really enjoyed Clair Keegan's So Late in the Day and appreciate @faberbooks.bsky.social putting out single short story books. I'm a sucker for beautiful tiny book perfect for the tram or that small gap between work and making dinner.
Next tiny book is Eastbound from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Next tiny book is Eastbound from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Really enjoyed Clair Keegan's So Late in the Day and appreciate @faberbooks.bsky.social putting out single short story books. I'm a sucker for beautiful tiny book perfect for the tram or that small gap between work and making dinner.
Next tiny book is Eastbound from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Next tiny book is Eastbound from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Remember when the Tay chatbot turned Nazi after briefly being on Twitter in 2016?
#xAI buying X is less about buying distribution for AI & more about buying training data for Grok ... and that training data is increasingly toxic.
#Musk #Grok #X #GarbageInGarbageOut
#xAI buying X is less about buying distribution for AI & more about buying training data for Grok ... and that training data is increasingly toxic.
#Musk #Grok #X #GarbageInGarbageOut
two cartoon characters standing next to each other with the words " a distinct aftertaste of toxic waste "
ALT: two cartoon characters standing next to each other with the words " a distinct aftertaste of toxic waste "
media.tenor.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Remember when the Tay chatbot turned Nazi after briefly being on Twitter in 2016?
#xAI buying X is less about buying distribution for AI & more about buying training data for Grok ... and that training data is increasingly toxic.
#Musk #Grok #X #GarbageInGarbageOut
#xAI buying X is less about buying distribution for AI & more about buying training data for Grok ... and that training data is increasingly toxic.
#Musk #Grok #X #GarbageInGarbageOut
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NYU canceled a talk by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she intended to mention the high number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza, and Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID. “Antisemitic” and “anti-governmental” to say this ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...
Une conférence de la Dre Joanne Liu annulée par NYU
L'université de New York allègue que son contenu peut être perçu comme antisémite, mais Joanne Liu croit que NYU craint en fait de déplaire à Donald Trump.
ici.radio-canada.ca
March 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
NYU canceled a talk by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she intended to mention the high number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza, and Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID. “Antisemitic” and “anti-governmental” to say this ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...
Working from home under close supervision.
March 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Working from home under close supervision.
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
March 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
Tell me where you're from without telling me where you're from
March 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Tell me where you're from without telling me where you're from
Heard a NYTimes piece about the completed 9-hour Prince biography that was permanently shelved after the estate changed hands.
Inspired to start the day with Ƭ̵̬̊ - purple glitter songs stirred into my coffee.
#Prince
Inspired to start the day with Ƭ̵̬̊ - purple glitter songs stirred into my coffee.
#Prince
March 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Heard a NYTimes piece about the completed 9-hour Prince biography that was permanently shelved after the estate changed hands.
Inspired to start the day with Ƭ̵̬̊ - purple glitter songs stirred into my coffee.
#Prince
Inspired to start the day with Ƭ̵̬̊ - purple glitter songs stirred into my coffee.
#Prince