Bloggy p was a great neologism!
McDonald’s has been Maccy Ds for the last 15 + years, and the earlier form (dinkie di (WWI), trakkie daks (1980s)) made ‘cozzie livs’ fit right in. All of these are very common things for normal
people to say, too 😂
The back and forth between slangs is fascinating!
This was great! Though rather than Aussies being on board, I rather think we’ve driven quite a bit of it. All of those constructions were familiar (and slightly old hat) to me as a middle aged lady on the internet!
Best use of a long weekend?
Unsubscribing from email lists.
So satisfying. Should do it more often.
(Also laundry, yoga, heavy weights, Haydn concerts, and getting enough sleep)
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Pretty sure this is the Anthropic decision to step away from defence contracts (??) reverberating down to being The Good AI. 🤷♀️
this is how I access bluesky
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
A horse with an elephant head used in warfare, transporting two soldiers and a fortified tower. This detail is from a 1471 printed book (Speculum humanae salvationis).
Tell me you have never seen an elephant before without telling me ... #skystorians
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
I am paper prospectuses sent airmail years old—but 40 year olds whose kids are now at school are already millennials so the ‘who can even choose?’ ads probably land.
Personally, it feels like a refreshing change from a decade of generic rewordings of aim high/excellence/global slogans.
I'm not so sure about its greatness, but yes, I should have provided alt text, so here it is again. Thanks for the reminder!
I hate to do the maths, but people at the right age to be making ‘going to uni’ decisions are now a third of our age. We crumble into dust.
Thank you for sharing! @patthomson.bsky.social is always useful, but sometimes it’s next level!
Such a good article ✨📚
Fantastic blogpost by @patthomson.bsky.social on productive discomfort 👏 ‘Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself.’ patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...
We are entering the Staggering of Timezones, which takes a month each equinox.
North America springs forward tonight. Europe goes into summer time at the end of March. Australia (some of it) falls back to Standard time on 5 April.
Good luck everyone with international meetings! ✨📚🌏
The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!
This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.
Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start
Length: 5.6 cm
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺
You should read this article too—it adds to that history, multiple guys from
various regions of India leaving inscriptions on the pyramids.
Er, read the article. He wrote higher up the walls than anyone else and inside a locked tomb. (The whole article is literally making your point)
We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.
This article is fascinating. Building up endurance is more a brain thing than a body thing? Wild. (Study in 🐁, limitations apply etc etc)
File under the running-thinking-writing project ✨📚
archive.md/2026.02.12-2...
I talk a lot about how lifting heavy has made me more assertive, stronger and all that jazz. It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek.
More seriously, the small improvements are the ones that have changed my life the most.
I can now do heel raises without support.
I don’t trip and fall as much.
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Oh gosh that’s a big one! Post-conference blues are also pretty common, so plan for some self care and recharge time.
Grammarly is now an enemy of education
"Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating."
Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education
wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
It’s the dip after the high. Ride the wave, the next high is coming.
Also—congratulations on a major milestone!
This is basically the plot of a feel good sports movie and I want to watch it.
I love the detail about the guy from South India who wrote in places he shouldn’t have been able to reach—but the whole story is great!
I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪
The move followed Wednesday's sinking of another Iranian warship by a U.S. submarine. Australia confirmed three Australians were on that submarine. n.pr/4uftmww
This is relevant to academic writers too—after a big successful writing sprint, it’s common to feel a bit flat. Nothing to worry about, it’s just part of a natural cycle. ✨📚
Kleenex golden retriever cuddles kitten going ‘mehp, ugh’
Golden retriever snuggles kitten who goes ‘merp? eeh’ 🫤
Golden retriever sits looking sorry behind a small grey cat who has seen stuff 👻
What’s up with the Kleenex Puppy/Kitten?
It’s giving: no, ugh, and wut??
