BigDaftDad
@bigdaftdad.bsky.social
Cumbria, but not anymore. Migrated further up the map.
Ex NHS lead apron model, now sit behind a cavity magnetron. Ish. Explains my radiant personality, I suppose.
3 months younger than Bagpuss.
☎️01 811 8055
#IC276
Ex NHS lead apron model, now sit behind a cavity magnetron. Ish. Explains my radiant personality, I suppose.
3 months younger than Bagpuss.
☎️01 811 8055
#IC276
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🧵Teaching Students NOT to use AI
So...I've tried to explain to my students why they aren't allowed to use genAI in MY class (even though the university seems to be encouraging them to)
I've written this document to try to explain WHY it's a bad idea rather than just forbidden fruit.
#AI
#genAI
So...I've tried to explain to my students why they aren't allowed to use genAI in MY class (even though the university seems to be encouraging them to)
I've written this document to try to explain WHY it's a bad idea rather than just forbidden fruit.
#AI
#genAI
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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If you’d like to know a little bit more about me and my forthcoming book, The Undefeated, www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk/team/bill-ro...
Bill Robertson | Barnthorn Publishing
www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If you’d like to know a little bit more about me and my forthcoming book, The Undefeated, www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk/team/bill-ro...
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AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
What skill did you master that you will never ever use again?
Lateral knees.
Lateral knees.
what skill did you master that you will never ever use again?
the ear piercing gun at claire’s
the ear piercing gun at claire’s
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What skill did you master that you will never ever use again?
Lateral knees.
Lateral knees.
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So many men online are clueless about romance so here's a tip on how to conduct yourself on a date, guys
If a lady offers to pay for your meal on the 1st date, BE A GENTLEMAN by politely declining and insisting that your parents, whom you've brought along as chaperones, will pay for all four of you
If a lady offers to pay for your meal on the 1st date, BE A GENTLEMAN by politely declining and insisting that your parents, whom you've brought along as chaperones, will pay for all four of you
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So many men online are clueless about romance so here's a tip on how to conduct yourself on a date, guys
If a lady offers to pay for your meal on the 1st date, BE A GENTLEMAN by politely declining and insisting that your parents, whom you've brought along as chaperones, will pay for all four of you
If a lady offers to pay for your meal on the 1st date, BE A GENTLEMAN by politely declining and insisting that your parents, whom you've brought along as chaperones, will pay for all four of you
I have proved susceptible to badgering.
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I have proved susceptible to badgering.
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A poo that simply will not disappear after multiple flushings & keeps returning to its owner is called a Greyfriar’s Jobby
December 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A poo that simply will not disappear after multiple flushings & keeps returning to its owner is called a Greyfriar’s Jobby
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Lots of extra UK dates have been added to Greg Davies' Full Fat Legend tour & many are in 'new to this tour' venues. Presale 10am on Wednesday 10th December
gregdavies.co.uk
@gregdaviescomedian.bsky.social
#gregdavies
gregdavies.co.uk
@gregdaviescomedian.bsky.social
#gregdavies
Greg Davies
Welcome to the website of the award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and peerless raconteur, Greg Davies
gregdavies.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Lots of extra UK dates have been added to Greg Davies' Full Fat Legend tour & many are in 'new to this tour' venues. Presale 10am on Wednesday 10th December
gregdavies.co.uk
@gregdaviescomedian.bsky.social
#gregdavies
gregdavies.co.uk
@gregdaviescomedian.bsky.social
#gregdavies
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There's something extra tragic about him putting it on himself
December 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There's something extra tragic about him putting it on himself
Day 7 of my Spar garage advent calendar.
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Day 7 of my Spar garage advent calendar.
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The good people at @barnthorn have been kind enough to let me share this image of the proposed cover of my first book - The Undefeated - a fresh look at the experiences of US and DUKE POWs in Europe which should be coming to your shelves in January 26! #historybookposts
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The good people at @barnthorn have been kind enough to let me share this image of the proposed cover of my first book - The Undefeated - a fresh look at the experiences of US and DUKE POWs in Europe which should be coming to your shelves in January 26! #historybookposts
Fill them in, just do it wrong, joke names, the address of your old nemesis at school, nonsense bank numbers. They'll have to record and input it all
Send them the weeks other junk mail as well, they pay by weight on the return postage.
Let's burn through that £9m donation for them eh?
Send them the weeks other junk mail as well, they pay by weight on the return postage.
Let's burn through that £9m donation for them eh?
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fill them in, just do it wrong, joke names, the address of your old nemesis at school, nonsense bank numbers. They'll have to record and input it all
Send them the weeks other junk mail as well, they pay by weight on the return postage.
Let's burn through that £9m donation for them eh?
Send them the weeks other junk mail as well, they pay by weight on the return postage.
Let's burn through that £9m donation for them eh?
If you like that sort of thing, the Alan Davies Channel5 Play For Today is excellent.
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you like that sort of thing, the Alan Davies Channel5 Play For Today is excellent.
@flups.bsky.social How is 'operation ensnare a bemused Scotsman' going?
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
@flups.bsky.social How is 'operation ensnare a bemused Scotsman' going?
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Ah, somebody just randomly went and liked this, so I may as well give my Penguin covers thread a bump for new followers. 🧵👇🏻
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ah, somebody just randomly went and liked this, so I may as well give my Penguin covers thread a bump for new followers. 🧵👇🏻
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Found some time to write a post at last. It's been too long, so don't all rush at once, you'll crash the site*
(*you won't)
therestlessforge.ghost.io/on-being-a-d...
(*you won't)
therestlessforge.ghost.io/on-being-a-d...
On being a Drafts Man
It's a pun, not a typo; you can put the knives away.
I'm quite embarrassed really, looking at all the drafts in my unpublished folder. It's once again been too long, and I'm astonished to see how man...
therestlessforge.ghost.io
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Found some time to write a post at last. It's been too long, so don't all rush at once, you'll crash the site*
(*you won't)
therestlessforge.ghost.io/on-being-a-d...
(*you won't)
therestlessforge.ghost.io/on-being-a-d...
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Would you like a luftwaffer in that?
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Would you like a luftwaffer in that?
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16 today, and could probably look the commander square in the eye. He's MASSIVE now.
Happy Birthday Ben.
Happy Birthday Ben.
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
16 today, and could probably look the commander square in the eye. He's MASSIVE now.
Happy Birthday Ben.
Happy Birthday Ben.
My Spar garage beer advent calendar keeps on coming up with the goods.
Bloody love a black IPA
Eyes say glass of stout. Taste and smells trust of the veracity of sight takes another knock.
Bloody love a black IPA
Eyes say glass of stout. Taste and smells trust of the veracity of sight takes another knock.
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
My Spar garage beer advent calendar keeps on coming up with the goods.
Bloody love a black IPA
Eyes say glass of stout. Taste and smells trust of the veracity of sight takes another knock.
Bloody love a black IPA
Eyes say glass of stout. Taste and smells trust of the veracity of sight takes another knock.
Oh great. An audible creak from somewhere behind my right eye.
I do so love it when my sinuses decide to be twats.
I do so love it when my sinuses decide to be twats.
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Oh great. An audible creak from somewhere behind my right eye.
I do so love it when my sinuses decide to be twats.
I do so love it when my sinuses decide to be twats.
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Ban this sick filth. By which I mean immerse yourself in a throughly funny thread of silly and not as rude as you think they are images and videos.
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Ban this sick filth. By which I mean immerse yourself in a throughly funny thread of silly and not as rude as you think they are images and videos.
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I’d like to make a Wikipedia of skills, so they aren’t lost; map reading, crochet, dry stone walling etc.
What skill could you contribute?
What skill could you contribute?
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’d like to make a Wikipedia of skills, so they aren’t lost; map reading, crochet, dry stone walling etc.
What skill could you contribute?
What skill could you contribute?