Ella Carter
@ella-novella.bsky.social
🖋️ Writer / filmmaker @ UoW
🎥 Cinema / animal lover
🏳️🌈 She / her
🤷♀️ All views my own or someone else's
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🎥 Cinema / animal lover
🏳️🌈 She / her
🤷♀️ All views my own or someone else's
letterboxd.com/lexicarter
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It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 AM
It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
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The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
oolong.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
(No worries if not!!)
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
(No worries if not!!)
January 1, 2026 at 6:11 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
(No worries if not!!)
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
(No worries if not!!)
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I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
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I see the year-in-review articles and compilations are emerging and I would like to respectfully decline, we do not need to revisit this year
December 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I see the year-in-review articles and compilations are emerging and I would like to respectfully decline, we do not need to revisit this year
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I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system
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wes streeting should resign.
shabana mahmood should resign.
shabana mahmood should resign.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
wes streeting should resign.
shabana mahmood should resign.
shabana mahmood should resign.
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Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.
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I begin my inquiries using my brain and I encourage my students to use their brains as well
What about this is controversial? Beginning an inquiry by using AI to survey material is a very normal and appropriate use.
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I begin my inquiries using my brain and I encourage my students to use their brains as well
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This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.
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my kid doesn’t really understand the central premise of Rudolph because he’s like, why are they so mean about him looking different. the woke indoctrination is working. my children will defeat Christmas once and for all
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
my kid doesn’t really understand the central premise of Rudolph because he’s like, why are they so mean about him looking different. the woke indoctrination is working. my children will defeat Christmas once and for all
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This thread and its replies aged remarkably well over the past two months. Now senior civil servants are blowing the whistle that One Login is crap.
youtu.be/_ll_Gnpey4U
youtu.be/_ll_Gnpey4U
December 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This thread and its replies aged remarkably well over the past two months. Now senior civil servants are blowing the whistle that One Login is crap.
youtu.be/_ll_Gnpey4U
youtu.be/_ll_Gnpey4U
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second why are you citing something that you haven’t given the barest pretense of reading. citing a synopsis is fresher shit
I just don't understand how or why academics are citing papers that don't exist. First, you should know by now that LLMs make things up, so if you for some reason found it that way and then
didn't double check the citation is real, you are simply an enormous rube.
didn't double check the citation is real, you are simply an enormous rube.
December 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
second why are you citing something that you haven’t given the barest pretense of reading. citing a synopsis is fresher shit
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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I love this thread so much but I’m not sure any day has topped finding out on 1st December that a wren is called Troglodyte Troglodyte in Latin
Advent bird No. 1
Wren
Scientific name: Troglodytes troglodytes
Alternative name: Tiny Shouter
Finnish name: peukaloinen
Song: tsib-a-tsab-a-tsoo-diddy-dabble-iddy-wodda-tsipp-a-brrrrr-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip—tjop-tsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr—-ts’tjupp-tjupp-tjupp-tjupp
Wren
Scientific name: Troglodytes troglodytes
Alternative name: Tiny Shouter
Finnish name: peukaloinen
Song: tsib-a-tsab-a-tsoo-diddy-dabble-iddy-wodda-tsipp-a-brrrrr-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip—tjop-tsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr—-ts’tjupp-tjupp-tjupp-tjupp
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I love this thread so much but I’m not sure any day has topped finding out on 1st December that a wren is called Troglodyte Troglodyte in Latin
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How could anyone miss what a monumental arse the man was, though?
Little Britain was disgusting--even for the time. His public presence is abrasive, contemptuous and unpleasant. Never one of the people I would imagine buying children's books from
Little Britain was disgusting--even for the time. His public presence is abrasive, contemptuous and unpleasant. Never one of the people I would imagine buying children's books from
To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.
December 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
How could anyone miss what a monumental arse the man was, though?
Little Britain was disgusting--even for the time. His public presence is abrasive, contemptuous and unpleasant. Never one of the people I would imagine buying children's books from
Little Britain was disgusting--even for the time. His public presence is abrasive, contemptuous and unpleasant. Never one of the people I would imagine buying children's books from
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Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines
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this shit makes me feel like i'm living in a different reality. Ai is trained on images that exist. there are no fucking photographs from ancient rome. all the images it's trained on are from movies and shit. so obviously it produces imitations of those at best. WHY DID ANYONE EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE
What an AI "surprise"…
▪️ 20th century buildings
▪️ Baroque style oversized bath
▪️ etc
www.france24.com/en/technolog...
▪️ 20th century buildings
▪️ Baroque style oversized bath
▪️ etc
www.france24.com/en/technolog...
AI-generated reconstructions of ancient Rome turn out to be full of errors
A number of videos and images created by artificial intelligence that claim to accurately depict ancient Rome have been circulating online. However, these images are far from historically accurate, sa...
www.france24.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
this shit makes me feel like i'm living in a different reality. Ai is trained on images that exist. there are no fucking photographs from ancient rome. all the images it's trained on are from movies and shit. so obviously it produces imitations of those at best. WHY DID ANYONE EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE
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What makes Ridge's barking, dystopian question even more tasteless, is that she's asking it seated next to the Eton-educated son of Sir David Frost and Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.
Sophy Ridge to someone from Trussell: "Can I just ask, demand for food banks is going up and this is often seen as a negative thing basically, that it shows that more people are in need turning to food banks. Could you flip that and say its a good thing..."
er, no.
er, no.
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What makes Ridge's barking, dystopian question even more tasteless, is that she's asking it seated next to the Eton-educated son of Sir David Frost and Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.
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How do we solve these mega waiting lists for the gender clinics???
Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries
Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition
Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries
Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition
December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
How do we solve these mega waiting lists for the gender clinics???
Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries
Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition
Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries
Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition