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Jeremy Noel-Tod
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Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
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I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
substack.com
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I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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For #SmallPoemSunday, here's "Daily Riffs", collected in *Becoming Altar*, available from asterismbooks.com

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm pretty sure it is her voice and, yes, it's quite arresting!
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Today marks 100 years since the first publication of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
"I Stop Being Human"
Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🎛️🥳 Happy Delia Derbyshire 🥳🎛️ lots of stuff on our website! deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-...
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
deliaderbyshireday.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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People know exactly what‘s going on.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Imagine hearing this, 500 or a thousand years ago?
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.

Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social

👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ah, thanks
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
'Those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War' (Peter Cook)
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
9 years ago I got retweeted by everyone with a drama degree
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This basically vindicates Wordsworth in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads when he wrote of 'the tendency of metre to divest language, in a certain degree, of its reality, and thus to throw a sort of half-consciousness of unsubstantial existence over the whole composition'
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“Adversarial poetry.”

Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tagging @jwikeley.bsky.social here, as someone interested in doing such things
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
'Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator' huh
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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but i think the work by Oswell and Max is the best in here. here’s a couple more
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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W. S. Merwin (1954)
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM