Gillian Roberts
@citizenofblue.bsky.social
Settler Canadian migrant in the UK. Reader, writer, professor, knitter, runner, cyclist, roller skater, stepmom, dog mom. Dress code: blue. Co-host of Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes, and the Stories They Tell. She/her.
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You are kidding yourself if you think OpenAI won't be charging for ChatGPT to generate CSAM for pay in a few months. They already charge money for a product that tells kids to self harm, they already have a product that generates "adult content", they already lobby against any AI regulation.
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
You are kidding yourself if you think OpenAI won't be charging for ChatGPT to generate CSAM for pay in a few months. They already charge money for a product that tells kids to self harm, they already have a product that generates "adult content", they already lobby against any AI regulation.
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I'll start to believe this when he welcomes the stranger. Until then, this is Christianism not Christianity.
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond
C of E faces dilemma as far right claims Christianity to push agenda that often clashes with gospel message
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I'll start to believe this when he welcomes the stranger. Until then, this is Christianism not Christianity.
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I understand a lot of people genuinely struggle with social relationships, but unfortunately that’s the price of living in a world where good thinking is often a collaborative endeavor. You are not thinking collaboratively with an LLM because the LLM is not thinking at all.
December 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I understand a lot of people genuinely struggle with social relationships, but unfortunately that’s the price of living in a world where good thinking is often a collaborative endeavor. You are not thinking collaboratively with an LLM because the LLM is not thinking at all.
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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People not in the US routinely downplay the degree to which law enforcement in this country is willing to kill us.
In grad school I referenced this analysis that found that cops in the US kill more people than "criminals" do in other countries. And that's routine.
In grad school I referenced this analysis that found that cops in the US kill more people than "criminals" do in other countries. And that's routine.
December 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
People not in the US routinely downplay the degree to which law enforcement in this country is willing to kill us.
In grad school I referenced this analysis that found that cops in the US kill more people than "criminals" do in other countries. And that's routine.
In grad school I referenced this analysis that found that cops in the US kill more people than "criminals" do in other countries. And that's routine.
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Contrast this with every single British newspaper
LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Contrast this with every single British newspaper
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Can’t be. The AI apologists keep assuring me that this isn’t happening.
Texas faces a power grid overload due to a surge in demand from Al
Utility CEO on the data center crunch: America's 'check engine light' is on and 'no one's going to pay attention until it breaks down' | Fortune
"We are telling policy makers the warning lights are on," Exelon CEO Calvin Butler told Diane Brady at Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco.
share.google
December 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Can’t be. The AI apologists keep assuring me that this isn’t happening.
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Interesting piece by @meganmaurice.bsky.social - ngl, I hadn’t clocked that the system was different in the men’s comp!
One of these finals is not like the other
We need to talk about the WBBL finals format
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Interesting piece by @meganmaurice.bsky.social - ngl, I hadn’t clocked that the system was different in the men’s comp!
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I could’ve been a contender! A man sabotaged by the tofu eating wokerati for dancing like a shaved bear in a cruel Victorian circus and having the personality of an overbearing and entitled pub drunk. Bosh! #Strictly
Thomas Skinner claims BBC rigged Strictly vote removing him
Thomas Skinner claims BBC rigged Strictly vote removing him
The former contestant alleges he received an "anonymous" email from a BBC executive with stats showing he received "far more" votes.
www.bbc.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I could’ve been a contender! A man sabotaged by the tofu eating wokerati for dancing like a shaved bear in a cruel Victorian circus and having the personality of an overbearing and entitled pub drunk. Bosh! #Strictly
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Universities are increasingly jumping on the "one price course materials" scam in which students all pay the same fee and have access to digital versions of their reading. Maybe this is a good idea in a world where the biochem text is $250. I hate it for specific reasons. >
December 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Universities are increasingly jumping on the "one price course materials" scam in which students all pay the same fee and have access to digital versions of their reading. Maybe this is a good idea in a world where the biochem text is $250. I hate it for specific reasons. >
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Anyone who follows BBC sport knows there are still plenty of male presenters.
All this really means - given 'Big Beasts' is a term wholly in the eye of the beholder - is that Simon, though unable to articulate it in a way that doesn't make him seem like a total loser, thinks all the men are crap.
All this really means - given 'Big Beasts' is a term wholly in the eye of the beholder - is that Simon, though unable to articulate it in a way that doesn't make him seem like a total loser, thinks all the men are crap.
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Anyone who follows BBC sport knows there are still plenty of male presenters.
All this really means - given 'Big Beasts' is a term wholly in the eye of the beholder - is that Simon, though unable to articulate it in a way that doesn't make him seem like a total loser, thinks all the men are crap.
All this really means - given 'Big Beasts' is a term wholly in the eye of the beholder - is that Simon, though unable to articulate it in a way that doesn't make him seem like a total loser, thinks all the men are crap.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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265 more redundancies on the table.
40 already gone.
Over 300 people facing chaos caused by management’s decisions.
Show your support, send solidarity, share their stories, and back the strike. ✊
40 already gone.
Over 300 people facing chaos caused by management’s decisions.
Show your support, send solidarity, share their stories, and back the strike. ✊
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
265 more redundancies on the table.
40 already gone.
Over 300 people facing chaos caused by management’s decisions.
Show your support, send solidarity, share their stories, and back the strike. ✊
40 already gone.
Over 300 people facing chaos caused by management’s decisions.
Show your support, send solidarity, share their stories, and back the strike. ✊
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Unpleasant but not so shocking when you consider how UK universities these days are run more like businesses than institutions of research & learning. Management will inevitably focus on protecting the bottom line, principles be damned.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Unpleasant but not so shocking when you consider how UK universities these days are run more like businesses than institutions of research & learning. Management will inevitably focus on protecting the bottom line, principles be damned.
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Even ignoring that she probably hasn’t had a mortgage to pay since the mid-1990s, I refuse to believe that someone who’s voted Labour since they were actually a left-wing party would react this way to a tax amounting to a maximum of 0.125% of the property value that can be deferred until sale.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Even ignoring that she probably hasn’t had a mortgage to pay since the mid-1990s, I refuse to believe that someone who’s voted Labour since they were actually a left-wing party would react this way to a tax amounting to a maximum of 0.125% of the property value that can be deferred until sale.
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Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them.
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
www.theferret.scot
November 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them.
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
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Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective.
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)
“Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future.” — Vine DeLoria, Jr. (1965), quoted in Wilkins (2018). [alt text: image of a cream and light blue crayfish on…
zoestodd.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective.
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
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The real problem is that administrators view faculty as problems to be solved, too, rather than as colleagues and certainly not as allies. This narrow posture has reinforced their bunker mentality, keeping them from aligning with faculty, consulting world experts among us, and being united.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The real problem is that administrators view faculty as problems to be solved, too, rather than as colleagues and certainly not as allies. This narrow posture has reinforced their bunker mentality, keeping them from aligning with faculty, consulting world experts among us, and being united.
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AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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Food insecurity has reached a record high of 25.5 per cent in Canadian households, according to the latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index report published by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.
Food insecurity in Canadian households hits record high of 25.5 per cent, says report
Food insecurity has reached a record high of 25.5 per cent in Canadian households, according to the latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index report published by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.
cheknews.ca
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Food insecurity has reached a record high of 25.5 per cent in Canadian households, according to the latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index report published by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.
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this is some DC comics villain shit
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
this is some DC comics villain shit
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University of Nottingham Council meets on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 to decide on the proposal to close modern languages degrees www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk/home#how-you...
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
University of Nottingham Council meets on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 to decide on the proposal to close modern languages degrees www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk/home#how-you...
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Help save Modern Languages at UoN!
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Help save Modern Languages at UoN!