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Joanna Cooksey
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Welsh Librarian at Oxford Brookes University. She/her. Libraries, books & poetry. Super cycling fan.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The thing about both the WI and the Guides is that transphobia is best countered by like, meeting trans people and talking to them. It is far easier to stoke hatred when you have shut down avenues for normal daily interactions.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I thought that had to be fake until I checked Mahmood's X feed. I've asked her if she plans to jail people like this.
saxonship.org
The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company - Registered Charity No. 1175475
We are building a replica of the Sutton Hoo ship that was used as King Rædwalds burial chamber in 625 and unearthed in Suffolk, UK by Basil Brown in 1939
saxonship.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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This is extraordinary.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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The location for the next Knives Out movie has leaked!
Oh shit waddup
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"Fixing bad AI answers" 😢
Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄

A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...

Who's ready to open door 1 with us?

#RSPBAdvent
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I don't think people who are visibly limping should do any more dancing that day, is that a wrong opinion? #scd #strictly
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Claudia being absolutely no help whatsoever <3 #scd #strictly
the 15 second dash through a charity shop? DO THIS EVERY WEEK. #scd #strictly
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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‘oh, just one more thing… Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history’
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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*sternly looks at the show*
See? SEE how much sense a pro routine makes as an *OPENING* to the show? DO YOU SEE? #scd #strictly
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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"It really is a travesty that England, named after the Angles, speaks English and speakers are called Anglophone, when it could have been Sexland, named after the Saxons, speaking Sexish and speakers are called Saxophone"
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Trying to think of anything camper than Karen being swept around the floor like a mop in a Flash advert, before being held aloft on the shoulders of what appear to be Catholic priests, and I tell you what, I'm really struggling #Strictly
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Botticelli's Birth of Venus recreated on a 5 quid budget
#Strictly
this staging is so ugly and entirely irrelevant, I'm obsessed. #scd #strictly
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I'm so excited for Johannes and his opera gloves #scd #strictly
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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New ChatGPT ad copy: "Shallower than Google"
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 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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I have hacked
the prompts
that were in
your model

and which
you were probably
stealing
for profit

Forgive me
they were poetic
pithy
and evocative
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
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 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM