Lucy Sweetman
@lucysweetman.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, something else.
Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then.
Now writing with Ghost @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io
Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then.
Now writing with Ghost @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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Brexit has been the biggest political and economic disaster in my lifetime. The billionaire James Dyson is happy for us to be poorer for his 'freedom' www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... #r4today
Sir James Dyson says Brexit was worth it – even if it’s made people poorer
Britain’s fourth-wealthiest man has argued it is better to be ‘independent’ than tied to the EU
www.independent.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Brexit has been the biggest political and economic disaster in my lifetime. The billionaire James Dyson is happy for us to be poorer for his 'freedom' www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... #r4today
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Brexit has been fun for billionaires who can use their wealth to go where they want and buy what they please but for most ordinary people in the UK it has been terrible. James Dyson is one of the rich elite for whom his 'freedom' is more important than the reality of life for UK citizens. #r4today
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Brexit has been fun for billionaires who can use their wealth to go where they want and buy what they please but for most ordinary people in the UK it has been terrible. James Dyson is one of the rich elite for whom his 'freedom' is more important than the reality of life for UK citizens. #r4today
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This year we've been told over and over that there are shortcuts to Doing The Work. But there aren't, not really.
Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
A note in defense of Doing The Work, written on the shortest day of the longest year | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This year we've been told over and over that there are shortcuts to Doing The Work. But there aren't, not really.
Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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There's a real air of 'journalist interviewed lots of authors who are angry that their proposals haven't been commissioned and have decided that it must be the fault of industry trends' about this.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?
In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There's a real air of 'journalist interviewed lots of authors who are angry that their proposals haven't been commissioned and have decided that it must be the fault of industry trends' about this.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
God almighty.
December 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
God almighty.
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'How can I help them want to understand this?' is always a more interesting question to me than how I can get them to memorise it.
The teachers I meet IRL are always drawn to the idea that learning is about engaging actively with concepts, in all the different phases. It's always lovely to hear all their brilliant ideas for bringing learning to life. At heart teaching is a creative, relational act. ☺️ 2/2
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
'How can I help them want to understand this?' is always a more interesting question to me than how I can get them to memorise it.
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Well this thread is just yikes…
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Well this thread is just yikes…
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.
Jobs system, Goldsmiths, University of London
jobs.gold.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.
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Tom McTague and Michael Gove appear on #r4today twice in a single week to discuss migration and culture.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Tom McTague and Michael Gove appear on #r4today twice in a single week to discuss migration and culture.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
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The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall. #r4Today
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall. #r4Today
I’ve just walked into a room to hear Michael Fucking Gove talking about how sad it is that we are so disconnected as a country. #r4today
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I’ve just walked into a room to hear Michael Fucking Gove talking about how sad it is that we are so disconnected as a country. #r4today
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
Every time I watch or listen to #BBC news it’s like a Reform party political broadcast but sure, the right-wing DG has been leading a totally Marxist organisation.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Every time I watch or listen to #BBC news it’s like a Reform party political broadcast but sure, the right-wing DG has been leading a totally Marxist organisation.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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The trend towards seeing learning as delivering content into memory by using direct instruction has set the path to this enthusiastic adoption imo. Unfortunately people are making themselves increasingly superfluous by doing this as per @risu.bsky.social's posts below.
Talking to teachers who enthusiastically use ai reminds me of talking to people who join Facebook pyramid schemes like selling weight loss juice or make up. “It is so amazing I use it every day, I’m an entrepreneur”…
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The trend towards seeing learning as delivering content into memory by using direct instruction has set the path to this enthusiastic adoption imo. Unfortunately people are making themselves increasingly superfluous by doing this as per @risu.bsky.social's posts below.
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The frustrating thing about this is that the idea is right, absolutely yes to more enrichment, but the idea that you just set targets to achieve it is the error. What this will mostly do is advantage schools in already advantaged areas because this stuff costs £!
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
'Another expectation': Schools to be judged on enrichment benchmarks
Leaders demand support to meet new expectations which will be policed by Ofsted
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The frustrating thing about this is that the idea is right, absolutely yes to more enrichment, but the idea that you just set targets to achieve it is the error. What this will mostly do is advantage schools in already advantaged areas because this stuff costs £!
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
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Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
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If you're not aware of how far the AI sector is being driven by people who are overtly fascistic in goals and expression, and how far their power is being injected directly into the military-industrial state apparatus, it really is time you learned.
Tech fascists agenda in a few word's.
Sean Morrow auf i***a
Sean Morrow auf i***a
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're not aware of how far the AI sector is being driven by people who are overtly fascistic in goals and expression, and how far their power is being injected directly into the military-industrial state apparatus, it really is time you learned.
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well after 2 years of trying, still no regular contract work for me I guess
anyways, I have immediate availability, and more importantly I urgently need to make money to avoid homelessness, so I appreciate any boosts, shares, etc. and available for all kinds of projects
more on berraknil.github.io
anyways, I have immediate availability, and more importantly I urgently need to make money to avoid homelessness, so I appreciate any boosts, shares, etc. and available for all kinds of projects
more on berraknil.github.io
October 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
well after 2 years of trying, still no regular contract work for me I guess
anyways, I have immediate availability, and more importantly I urgently need to make money to avoid homelessness, so I appreciate any boosts, shares, etc. and available for all kinds of projects
more on berraknil.github.io
anyways, I have immediate availability, and more importantly I urgently need to make money to avoid homelessness, so I appreciate any boosts, shares, etc. and available for all kinds of projects
more on berraknil.github.io
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FYI: AI in education, ai teachers, ai degrees.. all of it is for the poor. The rich won’t be sending their children to schools full of screens and chatbot teachers. And they will be doing philosophy, business, international relations degrees. Not “ai”. It will be a sign of wealth to not use ai.
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
FYI: AI in education, ai teachers, ai degrees.. all of it is for the poor. The rich won’t be sending their children to schools full of screens and chatbot teachers. And they will be doing philosophy, business, international relations degrees. Not “ai”. It will be a sign of wealth to not use ai.
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We always see men’s refusal to change their private sphere rolls as personal failings by individual men—deadbeat dads, good for nothing lazy men, freeloaders off of women’s caretaking labor. But what if what those men actually demonstrating is a kind of gendered class solidarity?
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We always see men’s refusal to change their private sphere rolls as personal failings by individual men—deadbeat dads, good for nothing lazy men, freeloaders off of women’s caretaking labor. But what if what those men actually demonstrating is a kind of gendered class solidarity?