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Steph Brown
@stephjayb.bsky.social
Author | Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024)

Assoc Prof of English in Tucson | Surveillance | C20/21 Caribbean and British Lit | GWS

rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
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And for more information and context in case you still didn't read the article. (It's ok if you didn't, you're not alone.) bsky.app/profile/moll...
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
👀 permits!
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Our realtor would. not. stop. trying to sell us houses that were 50-100K above our budget bc "the guest house/suite would let you airbnb it," as though I (bc let's face it, she didn't expect my husband to do this labor) didnt' have a full time job that I could just put on hold to service an airbnb.
January 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Chili crisp, mirin, sesame seeds.

Slightly off-assignment: sliced cucumbers are ideal for carrying pretty much any kind of eggplant dip to your (my) face. Baingan bharta on a cucumber slice: 🌟
January 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Special mention to Contemporary Lit lead curator Helen Melody, who helped me access uncatalogued materials during the rebuild! But honestly, across the board the @britishlibrary.bsky.social staff are stellar and anyhow, ALL workers deserve a liveable wage!
January 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I always joke that I train pull-ups from a static start in the hopes of one day ending up in a contest of “Real Pull-ups” with one of these guys👀
January 10, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Does raise the very real question of what he could possibly be good at if it’s not this sort of thing. Turns out “I bet that dumb f*ck can’t do anything outside a CrossFit gym” was giving him… too much credit, somehow?
January 10, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I do not understand what I am looking at right now. What. On. Earth.
January 10, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Driving to the gym this morning was humming OutKast’s “Miss Jackson” and realized that the “I am several fish and not a guy” version has displaced the original lyrics in my lyric memory

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4sHI...
I’m Sorry Ms Jackson… I AM FOUR EELS!
YouTube video by Tyler Tha MilkMan
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January 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Bah! *that* aimed
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 AM