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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1m

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 · 4h

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

abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 8m

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

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 10m

a thought I quite often have about Norway XD

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 11m

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 · 8h

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 · 11h

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

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 11h

This is the worst yet

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 13h

Doesn't get better than that!

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 1d

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

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 1d

pigwitch
by Rupkatha

"the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight.
She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god."

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

POETRY

by Rupkatha
pigwitch

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"the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight.
She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god."

6 October 2025
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 17h

This is also how I feel, and I think that translating theory to employability is also a bit of an independent skill in itself (after all, very few of us actually study specifics that we will use at work, past a baseline knowledge: so much of it is about self-teaching, resilience and communication).

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 18h

There will always be students who can afford to study whatever, for whatever reason, and we cannot let the pursuit of a discipline for the love of it become any more pay barriered than it already is.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 18h

I absolutely understand the need to ensure degrees' outcomes that support students into jobs, I do, but increasingly having to state that in Arts & Humanities it is not just okay, but wonderful, when students simply want to take a course to further cultural knowledge and thought *for its own sake*.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 22h

And EVERYONE has a variation of 47 different versions of their album now. If you're a fan (and not just paying attention for the one famous album) you've long since drawn your collector boundaries and found your ways to access "exclusives".

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 22h

I think I've read every possible take on the Taylor album, which is quite the feat for just one album. Most interested in the takes that dislike everything about it which, to me, make it feel like an accurate depiction of place and time. I maintain if you're prolific it's fine to have a mid period.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 22h

Listening to a podcast about an ultra-fancy bespoke car manufacturer who boasts no robotics in their factory and the "unrivalled attention to detail of the human eye in every aspect of our work", amazing how you can already flog robots as the future but humans as the diamond standard.

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Katie @vimtotime.bsky.social · 22h

SITTIN IN MIME BREMFAST

A little hamham sitting in a pink spotty hamster dish

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 23h

Whoever is writing Pip and Stella in The Archers is doing such an excellent job, love it.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

GOAT. ROLLERCOASTER.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

a
foot
high
sculpted
tart

#bakeoff WHAT are you on

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 1d

Devastating: this truly is one of the best museums, so very much part of the fabric of the place.

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

Update - this is terrible. Clearly meticulously planned.

#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Thieves in four-minute raid on museum gold

Two thieves stole 'irreplaceable' gold artefacts in a targeted attack on St Fagans Museum in Cardiff.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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