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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 13h

Yikes!

Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 13h

Isn't this the setup for Casino Royale?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 13h

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 17h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 17h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

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#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no! Could you do a consultation remotely?

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 2d

Leicester Square

Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 2d

This is a sign you need to bin your Dr!

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 2d

I've seen this one before - someone suggested they're a bot. Which is not inconceivable.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 2d

Retired font is a happy font (little worried about the impact of the weather on it though).

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 2d

Stealing the horned sun-disk of Hathor is inadvisable unless one has a large quantity of red-dyed beer.

Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 3d

...You see it too, right?

(Ht: Keith Edwards)

The light behind Trump makes it look like he has a pair of horns.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha haha.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 2d

Your 'hauled over the coals in peer review' statement was brilliant. How many times have I read something (often by someone senior) and thought something along a similar line!

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 3d

I remember somewhere someone discussing the Trolley problem and an engineer said 'I' sorry but if that's your problem then a whole bunch of people f*cked up' - the engineers who designed it, the safety people who allowed it to happen, whoever approved the plans, the government oversight. Everyone.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 11d

I'm not sure I would have decorated the top of that pylon in quite that format myself.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 11d

I snorked because this does make it sound like a literally 🍆🍆 measuring contest.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 11d

Ah bless you Lorna, lots of love.

Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

High praise indeed.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

"Tulip bulbs can be a primary driver of prosperity".

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12d

Might be wise to do a wee bit of reading up on the actual history of technology.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 12d

AI can be ‘primary driver of prosperity’, says Dsit minister.

Labour 2025: Kanishka Narayan calls achieving UK “transformation” through tech “the central political question”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

Page @merriam-webster.com because surely this is the very definition of understatement?

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes you just have to await the next generation wanting to sell things off.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

And equally fictional.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

The chapel would have been pretty cheap then too.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

It's just cause we don't know. The occasion razor answe is I guess his family is something in shipping and it's family money and he has enough of it he didn't care if it made a loss but now maybe he has other priorities.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

And if it was written by Conan Doyle he would turn out to be a reincarnationist secretly in love with the dead founder buried under the entrance.

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Dr Hannah Pethen @hannahpethen.bsky.social · 12d

It's the setup to a Bond film or OG Mission Impossible. [Narrator] "Mr Phelps, this is [Name] owner of loss making bar Freud's, in Oxford. We suspect that he's using this loss-making enterprise to facilitate smuggling [insert substance] in league with [insert pref villain]."

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