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Digital Education Lead @ UCL Arts & Humanities #SCMALT Vintage bookshop owner: prudenceandthecrow.com @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social Caffeinated bodybuilder. Highly talkative. Enthusiastic gig-goer, long-term internetter. Chaotic dropspinner. Any/any.

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Mx Ghoulie M Awesome @juliemawesome.bsky.social · 18h

The Portland frogs are multiplying. I’m watching the livestream at katu.com/watch

Three green froggies and a skeleton frog! These are inflatable costumes and some of the frogs have little capes. They’re protesting on the other side of the street from ICE.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 4h

(I think the title really made for radically different expectations, something much more like Miley Cyrus' latest - also interesting to compare the two of them when thinking about the extent to which growing up in public makes/breaks artistry)

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 4h

I find her fascinating, I think I've always found her work...varied in terms of what I enjoy, but the way everything turns its spotlight on everything she does is particularly fascinating: frankly I don't think anything holds up if you look at it through every lens at once XD

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 6h

...but I think like a lot of Nashville-esque artists it isn't always specific influence, so much as a culture of writing music as a way of life, expressing yourself in songs. Her early country style feels a lot more normal in that sense, stylistically, it's just less common in pop music.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 6h

She's definitely talked a lot about songwriting and writing music, and she absolutely cowrites a lot of her music, particularly melodies - there's usually a lot of footage of her coming up with it that comes with her new music. She's a very collaborative artist with her producers...

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 14h

This makes no sense, surely there's no way this is faster than recording a quick clip of yourself.

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised I arrived for lunch with my parents wearing a Suede t-shirt, socks, belt and carrying a Suede tote bag, I possibly need to reach further into my wardrobe when dressing...

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

This is the role of the choir at least, surely, propping up the bar!

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

Never say never!

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

Very much item one on the list of comparisons between TW and TS!

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

If I had time, energy and an overly high value of my own pastiche, I'd really enjoy reviewing, say, the new Ash album in the style of every major news outlet's Taylor Swift reviews.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

5am is such a good bit of the day as well! There's certainly no denying sleep is a treacherous and complicated thing, for sure XD

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

It does at least feel like it's a bit more fashionable to prioritise at least trying to get a decent night's sleep than it's ever been in my lifetime, I think this is probably the only cultural "health" move of which I am an unequivocal fan.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

How are pubs doing with their current opening hours? Are people really clamouring to come more often and stay longer and buy enough things to fund enough staff to cover these hours?

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Just not sure this is the answer to low UK productivity

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

I learnt a LOT about myself during my MA this time around, I forced myself to get everything done early and it was horrible XD I still think there's nothing like waiting until the last moment to get things done fast and well, sometimes, though...

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

I say this with zero pride and a continuing fury that I didn't learn, at BA, how to do anything *but* start my coursework at 2am the day it was due: I still got a robust 2:1 so the last minuteism is not what's going to do for academic integrity, it's students believing GenAI is better than them.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

Oo the metaphor does keep giving! Same, personally, though I have to do a lot of, lets call it reasonable representation of institutional guidance...

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

a thought I quite often have about Norway XD

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

Reading some "How can we use AI well?" articles, it feels a lot like "How can we use cocaine well?" There's definitely ways you could improve functional use, but a) seriously do you really want to b) do people who want to use it really want to c) long term, is this something you want to have said?

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

Two glorious Ash gigs in two hours, a wonderful evening in the pub with my oldest friend, and now in bed watching Gogglebox with M&S Christmas Chocolate and Cinnamon Tortilla Rolls what an utterly perfect night.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 2d

And a free little extra gig at that?! Wild...

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 2d

This is the worst yet

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 2d

high on the list of things I want to tell little us will happen in life

youtube.com/shorts/ruYmL...

Ash - Girl From Mars (acoustic) Banquet Records in-store short

YouTube video by Abbi

youtube.com

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 2d

Doesn't get better than that!

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 2d

Made an uncountable number of friends, founded PatC, built community, hugely developed my professional community and networks, facilitated my MA research, created and shared an archive of 600+ gig videos, released the pressure of needing to shout into the void...yeah, so many great things.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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