Kasia
@scullingmonkey.bsky.social
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Kasia
@scullingmonkey.bsky.social
· Jun 4
Story idea:
we are x years in the future and there’s an ageing generation of those who still know the old art of “thinking” independently of computers
In a race against the machines (😉), a few remaining humans try to rescue those skills against the rise of LLM, human mortality & dementia
we are x years in the future and there’s an ageing generation of those who still know the old art of “thinking” independently of computers
In a race against the machines (😉), a few remaining humans try to rescue those skills against the rise of LLM, human mortality & dementia
came across a poster of someone i know on linked in and their face is so AI-d that they are basically unrecognisable. why do people do that
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
came across a poster of someone i know on linked in and their face is so AI-d that they are basically unrecognisable. why do people do that
Reposted by Kasia
Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
It’s cold up north #hull #vsasm2025
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It’s cold up north #hull #vsasm2025
Hey #bsky #vascular surgeons, who’s coming to sunny #hull this week? #vsasm
Currently in the middle of “what do I need to pack” meltdown as driving up tomorrow for #vascularSociety council meeting pre conference. And have Tuesday off so sightseeing tips welcome
Currently in the middle of “what do I need to pack” meltdown as driving up tomorrow for #vascularSociety council meeting pre conference. And have Tuesday off so sightseeing tips welcome
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hey #bsky #vascular surgeons, who’s coming to sunny #hull this week? #vsasm
Currently in the middle of “what do I need to pack” meltdown as driving up tomorrow for #vascularSociety council meeting pre conference. And have Tuesday off so sightseeing tips welcome
Currently in the middle of “what do I need to pack” meltdown as driving up tomorrow for #vascularSociety council meeting pre conference. And have Tuesday off so sightseeing tips welcome
2020 and early 2021 were years I don’t want to think back to. We were completely abandoned. From all sides. I remember not being allowed to wear masks initially, smuggling goggles into the hospital which my neighbours donated, a self imposed decontamination before entering my home, no ppe for …
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
2020 and early 2021 were years I don’t want to think back to. We were completely abandoned. From all sides. I remember not being allowed to wear masks initially, smuggling goggles into the hospital which my neighbours donated, a self imposed decontamination before entering my home, no ppe for …
so seems that both remaining places with decent (non chain) food in headington have now closed
craft burger and bhoomi kitchen will be missed.
sad that headington now does not really offer anywhere to go out for a meal
craft burger and bhoomi kitchen will be missed.
sad that headington now does not really offer anywhere to go out for a meal
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
so seems that both remaining places with decent (non chain) food in headington have now closed
craft burger and bhoomi kitchen will be missed.
sad that headington now does not really offer anywhere to go out for a meal
craft burger and bhoomi kitchen will be missed.
sad that headington now does not really offer anywhere to go out for a meal
endlessly fighting that medicine is the destiny/curse and eventually giving up
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
endlessly fighting that medicine is the destiny/curse and eventually giving up
watching videos of german public transport architecture and mostly impressed
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
watching videos of german public transport architecture and mostly impressed
Ok friends what’s your gmail alternative
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ok friends what’s your gmail alternative
@goldstone-tony.bsky.social can you share your response to the pension article here too? I’ve been sent a link but can’t read as no longer on twitter
Thank you
Thank you
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@goldstone-tony.bsky.social can you share your response to the pension article here too? I’ve been sent a link but can’t read as no longer on twitter
Thank you
Thank you
Labour are as bad or worse than tories
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Labour are as bad or worse than tories
Reposted by Kasia
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
I keep saying that I don’t get how people are willingly giving up thinking and critically appraising (or learning to do so) to cut a short term corner
It’s baffling
It’s baffling
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I keep saying that I don’t get how people are willingly giving up thinking and critically appraising (or learning to do so) to cut a short term corner
It’s baffling
It’s baffling
Labour defines “contribution to country” as “cash you bring”
The message coming through is unmistakeable - immigrants should not expect to be treated equally in this country, and especially so if you arrived after 2021, despite the fact that the migrants in question moved here dying the biggest crisis (so far) this century.
Legal migrants who arrived in UK from 2021 face long wait for settled status under tough new proposals
Shabana Mahmood says she fears "Greater Britain" could give way to "Littler England" without changing the immigration system.
news.sky.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Labour defines “contribution to country” as “cash you bring”
The other day
Someone “we got ChatGPT to plan our holiday”
Me “but isn’t the planning, thinking, preparing part of the fun”
We’re doomed
Someone “we got ChatGPT to plan our holiday”
Me “but isn’t the planning, thinking, preparing part of the fun”
We’re doomed
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The other day
Someone “we got ChatGPT to plan our holiday”
Me “but isn’t the planning, thinking, preparing part of the fun”
We’re doomed
Someone “we got ChatGPT to plan our holiday”
Me “but isn’t the planning, thinking, preparing part of the fun”
We’re doomed
What’s the deal in Poland?
Immunisation rates were far below target levels in the last flu season, new data shows.
Where are Europeans most and least likely to get the flu vaccine?
Immunisation rates were far below target levels in the last flu season, new data shows.
l.euronews.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
What’s the deal in Poland?
fresh Brezen.
oh this is heaven
<redacted> back from travels and now im homesick.
even though home is here, there is nothing like the taste of fresh german brezen to make me nostalgic
oh this is heaven
<redacted> back from travels and now im homesick.
even though home is here, there is nothing like the taste of fresh german brezen to make me nostalgic
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
fresh Brezen.
oh this is heaven
<redacted> back from travels and now im homesick.
even though home is here, there is nothing like the taste of fresh german brezen to make me nostalgic
oh this is heaven
<redacted> back from travels and now im homesick.
even though home is here, there is nothing like the taste of fresh german brezen to make me nostalgic
Wow the conference effects to bring home the message of global warming are looking really authentic
A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning.
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
COP30 Is on Fire
Flames have erupted in the “Blue Zone” at the United Nations Climate Conference in Brazil.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Wow the conference effects to bring home the message of global warming are looking really authentic
Great episode
Here’s this Better Offline. I’m joined by @gerritd.bsky.social of The Washington Post to discuss what an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations can tell us about how people use the service - and how eager it is to fuel any conversation.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
What People Actually Use ChatGPT For With Gerrit De Vynck
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 11/20/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Great episode
Reposted by Kasia
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Migrants bring net benefits to the UK
You’ll feel the loss when no one wants to come here anymore
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You’ll feel the loss when no one wants to come here anymore
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some migrants to face 20-year wait for settled status
Shabana Mahmood says becoming part of the UK is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Migrants bring net benefits to the UK
You’ll feel the loss when no one wants to come here anymore
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You’ll feel the loss when no one wants to come here anymore
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Someone : I want to make sourdough bread, how?
Me: I can give you some of our starter
S: ah thanks, how old is it
Me (proudly): since way pre pandemic, and several years before then from a friend
S: I feel nervous about using old starter. It could be infected
🤷♀️
Me: I can give you some of our starter
S: ah thanks, how old is it
Me (proudly): since way pre pandemic, and several years before then from a friend
S: I feel nervous about using old starter. It could be infected
🤷♀️
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Someone : I want to make sourdough bread, how?
Me: I can give you some of our starter
S: ah thanks, how old is it
Me (proudly): since way pre pandemic, and several years before then from a friend
S: I feel nervous about using old starter. It could be infected
🤷♀️
Me: I can give you some of our starter
S: ah thanks, how old is it
Me (proudly): since way pre pandemic, and several years before then from a friend
S: I feel nervous about using old starter. It could be infected
🤷♀️