Jane
@jfrthomas.bsky.social
Europhile lover of food, fresh air and fripperies. Mother of adults, geographer, planner. Consider every day a school day.
Sounds good to me
My New Year’s resolution is to read more books, eat more scones, and use more Oxford commas.
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Sounds good to me
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
Driving home for Christmas THE best Christmas song imo. Will take no questions. As this article/list says, not necessarily Chris Rea's best song but up there.
One of Neil McCormick’s top 5
Chris Rea winced when I mentioned his hits. He shouldn’t have www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f6e5bb5...
Chris Rea winced when I mentioned his hits. He shouldn’t have www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f6e5bb5...
Chris Rea winced when I mentioned his hits. He shouldn’t have
Any musician would feel proud to have penned songs half as gorgeous and touching as his
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Driving home for Christmas THE best Christmas song imo. Will take no questions. As this article/list says, not necessarily Chris Rea's best song but up there.
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On this day in 1843, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens was published. It’s a cautionary tale, and if only Scrooge had kept his nerve Christmas would be a lot cheaper for all of us.
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On this day in 1843, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens was published. It’s a cautionary tale, and if only Scrooge had kept his nerve Christmas would be a lot cheaper for all of us.
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In what sense is Tommy Robinson a genuine Christian? None that I can see | Ravi Holy
In what sense is Tommy Robinson a genuine Christian? None that I can see | Ravi Holy
The extremist, who is said to have converted in prison, is now planning a mass carol service. But look at his words and deeds: hardly Saint Tommy, is it, says vicar and stand-up comedian Ravi Holy
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
In what sense is Tommy Robinson a genuine Christian? None that I can see | Ravi Holy
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Geigraphy really does explain everything
An old cartoon which we've recently put back up on our website because it *feels* like the right time to do so i don't know why
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Geigraphy really does explain everything
The second half of the 1980s called and want their bows back. As they say, if you wore it first time around . . .
Untie me! Why big bows are everywhere – feminine, ironic and strangely subversive
Untie me! Why big bows are everywhere – feminine, ironic and strangely subversive
They can be garish and ostentatious, or a sign you are softer than you might first appear. From the catwalk to the high street to the big screen to the rugby pitch, you just can’t miss them right now
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The second half of the 1980s called and want their bows back. As they say, if you wore it first time around . . .
'By design, LLMs also tend to reproduce and reinforce the most statistically prevalent ideas, creating a feedback loop that narrows the scope of accessible human knowledge'.
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
'By design, LLMs also tend to reproduce and reinforce the most statistically prevalent ideas, creating a feedback loop that narrows the scope of accessible human knowledge'.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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“The promise of a world-changing technology that isn’t here…companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing computer power at it, draining our aquifers of water, our national grids of electricity and all we have is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up.”
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“The promise of a world-changing technology that isn’t here…companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing computer power at it, draining our aquifers of water, our national grids of electricity and all we have is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up.”
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Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
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Ken Clarke, "Politically you can't rejoin the European Union at the moment it would cause its own nightmare, divisions and crisis"
"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"
"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"
"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Ken Clarke, "Politically you can't rejoin the European Union at the moment it would cause its own nightmare, divisions and crisis"
"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"
"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"
"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
This is still a fine, fine country (and really, really is still quite empty/undeveloped)
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is still a fine, fine country (and really, really is still quite empty/undeveloped)
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Way to feel VERY old
NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS (1979-82)
This seminal British comedy sketch show debuted on BBC2 46yrs ago today.
This seminal British comedy sketch show debuted on BBC2 46yrs ago today.
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Way to feel VERY old
As the first comment says, 'top frenching' 🤣
urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"
Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
As the first comment says, 'top frenching' 🤣
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"Old people are just young people who have been alive for a very, very long time."
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"Old people are just young people who have been alive for a very, very long time."
Brilliant old fashioned telly that you have to wait (impatiently) for and can't binge. Impeccable production and attention to detail. Already hooked.
The Celebrity Traitors review – this star-packed bonanza is all you’ll be able to care about
The Celebrity Traitors review – this star-packed bonanza is all you’ll be able to care about
It’s everything you want from the gameshow, but with loads of famous faces. And at one point, it feels like you’re witnessing like the last pure moment in history. Beautiful
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Brilliant old fashioned telly that you have to wait (impatiently) for and can't binge. Impeccable production and attention to detail. Already hooked.
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If the people of this country are divided on immigration they will lose the fight on wealth inequality.
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If the people of this country are divided on immigration they will lose the fight on wealth inequality.
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✍️ Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain
What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain
People worry that students are increasingly using generative AI in their work. It saves time, but what is it doing to their brains?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
✍️ Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain
What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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“I was a Remainer, I’m still a Remainer, and I’ll be a Remainer until my dying day”
- Minister Chris Bryant at the Labour Movement for Europe
rally at #Labour Conference
- Minister Chris Bryant at the Labour Movement for Europe
rally at #Labour Conference
September 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“I was a Remainer, I’m still a Remainer, and I’ll be a Remainer until my dying day”
- Minister Chris Bryant at the Labour Movement for Europe
rally at #Labour Conference
- Minister Chris Bryant at the Labour Movement for Europe
rally at #Labour Conference
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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐