Jackie Rippeth
@tenisonpurple.bsky.social
Retired accountant. Knitter and reader
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Love a vintage card and this one from the TFL archives is gorgeous
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Love a vintage card and this one from the TFL archives is gorgeous
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Twilight in a dress, the inkiest of velvets that reveals a lighter blue silk lining and broad silk sash to break up the complex folds of cloth. It is one of Dior’s earliest collections, 1948 #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Twilight in a dress, the inkiest of velvets that reveals a lighter blue silk lining and broad silk sash to break up the complex folds of cloth. It is one of Dior’s earliest collections, 1948 #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.
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Agree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.
The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Agree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.
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And today realised she thinks a 45 year old woman unironically saying Muppet Christmas Carol is good is an extreme personal eccentricity, rather than a view held by most of the population, including academics working in the field of 19th century English literature.
Today I discovered that my lodger has never seen A Muppet Christmas Carol
two muppets are chained to each other and one is laughing
ALT: two muppets are chained to each other and one is laughing
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
And today realised she thinks a 45 year old woman unironically saying Muppet Christmas Carol is good is an extreme personal eccentricity, rather than a view held by most of the population, including academics working in the field of 19th century English literature.
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I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.
Pink Cremant de Limoux #ConfinedCocktsils after final knitting in pub for the year
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Pink Cremant de Limoux #ConfinedCocktsils after final knitting in pub for the year
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Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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December 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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This seems basic but… 🤷♀️
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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 8:33 PM
This seems basic but… 🤷♀️
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so I guess our local schools are using Duolingo to supplement language learning; the kids have to log so many minutes a day on the app, but it doesn’t show the teachers which language and so one of the teens just told me she’s level 22 in American English, I’m dying
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
so I guess our local schools are using Duolingo to supplement language learning; the kids have to log so many minutes a day on the app, but it doesn’t show the teachers which language and so one of the teens just told me she’s level 22 in American English, I’m dying
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
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Rory spends nearly all of every weekday in a fluffy bed on Stacey’s desk, “working.”
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Rory spends nearly all of every weekday in a fluffy bed on Stacey’s desk, “working.”
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
So I got him a nameplate to make sure anyone who stops by knows who he is and what his job is.
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A woman (20s?) is standing in the cheese section of a supermarket, obviously completely overwhelmed.
A sales assistant comes up, puts a hand on her shoulder and says: "It's all gonna be okay, love. In five days it'll all just be indigestion. You'll do fine." (3)
A sales assistant comes up, puts a hand on her shoulder and says: "It's all gonna be okay, love. In five days it'll all just be indigestion. You'll do fine." (3)
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A woman (20s?) is standing in the cheese section of a supermarket, obviously completely overwhelmed.
A sales assistant comes up, puts a hand on her shoulder and says: "It's all gonna be okay, love. In five days it'll all just be indigestion. You'll do fine." (3)
A sales assistant comes up, puts a hand on her shoulder and says: "It's all gonna be okay, love. In five days it'll all just be indigestion. You'll do fine." (3)
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A tiny human (2?) has decided that the ONLY way she can get around a department store is by wrapping herself around Dad's leg.
Dad holds up a fluffy blue bathrobe and asks: "You think Mum'll like this one?"
Tiny Human Limpet looks up and nods her approval and goes back to limpetting. (2)
Dad holds up a fluffy blue bathrobe and asks: "You think Mum'll like this one?"
Tiny Human Limpet looks up and nods her approval and goes back to limpetting. (2)
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A tiny human (2?) has decided that the ONLY way she can get around a department store is by wrapping herself around Dad's leg.
Dad holds up a fluffy blue bathrobe and asks: "You think Mum'll like this one?"
Tiny Human Limpet looks up and nods her approval and goes back to limpetting. (2)
Dad holds up a fluffy blue bathrobe and asks: "You think Mum'll like this one?"
Tiny Human Limpet looks up and nods her approval and goes back to limpetting. (2)
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Draft Guidance on Toilets and Changing Rooms OUT for consultation.
No, not THAT guidance - but mine.
I got fed up with waiting for this government to get on with the guidance that’s really needed especially after the Kelly and Peggy cases.
translucent.org.uk/toilets-chan...
No, not THAT guidance - but mine.
I got fed up with waiting for this government to get on with the guidance that’s really needed especially after the Kelly and Peggy cases.
translucent.org.uk/toilets-chan...
Toilets, Changing Rooms and Showers In Workplaces and Service-delivery Locations - TransLucent
Toilets, Changing Rooms and Showers In Workplaces and Service-delivery Locations discusses legal rights to facilities access under the Equality Act 2010.
translucent.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Draft Guidance on Toilets and Changing Rooms OUT for consultation.
No, not THAT guidance - but mine.
I got fed up with waiting for this government to get on with the guidance that’s really needed especially after the Kelly and Peggy cases.
translucent.org.uk/toilets-chan...
No, not THAT guidance - but mine.
I got fed up with waiting for this government to get on with the guidance that’s really needed especially after the Kelly and Peggy cases.
translucent.org.uk/toilets-chan...
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BBC News editorial, though not its management/ lawyers, ‘both sides’ its very own defence to an extinction-level legal threat.
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC declares it will fight the US President but should it?
As the US president follows through on his threat to sue the BBC, what are the options for the corporation?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
BBC News editorial, though not its management/ lawyers, ‘both sides’ its very own defence to an extinction-level legal threat.
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No wonder Trump and his lawyers smell blood.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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"proportional" "reasonable"
Incomprehensibly cruel.
Incomprehensibly cruel.
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"proportional" "reasonable"
Incomprehensibly cruel.
Incomprehensibly cruel.
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Listening to complaints from gammons on their way to the Whithall protest about restoring Christianity to Christmas about how they're in "Sadiq's woke london" where Christmas is banned
They had just walked past the Trafalgar Square christmas tree.
They had just walked past the Trafalgar Square christmas tree.
December 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Listening to complaints from gammons on their way to the Whithall protest about restoring Christianity to Christmas about how they're in "Sadiq's woke london" where Christmas is banned
They had just walked past the Trafalgar Square christmas tree.
They had just walked past the Trafalgar Square christmas tree.
My lovely handmade #YaySwap bird bauble from @karenshancock.bsky.social Thank you. And thanks to @gazpachodragon.bsky.social for organising
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
My lovely handmade #YaySwap bird bauble from @karenshancock.bsky.social Thank you. And thanks to @gazpachodragon.bsky.social for organising
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I must have been a very good boy this year. I have received two trampolines and eight wheelie bins, and it is still two weeks to Christmas.
#stormbram
#stormbram
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I must have been a very good boy this year. I have received two trampolines and eight wheelie bins, and it is still two weeks to Christmas.
#stormbram
#stormbram
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Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Not a day goes by when I don't wonder if they were holding the plans upside down
December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Not a day goes by when I don't wonder if they were holding the plans upside down