Justine Bothwick
@justineb.bsky.social
Reading & writing. Nature. Travel. Teacher of English Lang & Lit. Guardian of Mia Basset Fauve. Lives in Rome. From Winchester. Published author. Short stories with Nightjar press, The Lonely Crowd, Confingo, & more. www.justinebothwick.com
Looking forward to this tomorrow, and being a student for a day! 👻👻👻
Last couple of days to go, and still time to grab your tickets for WINTER HAUNTS 2025 - and here are just some of the superb Gothic and ghostly authors who'll be joining us for the day... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #ghoststory #ghoststories #gothic #gothicfiction #ghosts
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Looking forward to this tomorrow, and being a student for a day! 👻👻👻
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Last couple of days to go, and still time to grab your tickets for WINTER HAUNTS 2025 - and here are just some of the superb Gothic and ghostly authors who'll be joining us for the day... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #ghoststory #ghoststories #gothic #gothicfiction #ghosts
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Last couple of days to go, and still time to grab your tickets for WINTER HAUNTS 2025 - and here are just some of the superb Gothic and ghostly authors who'll be joining us for the day... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #ghoststory #ghoststories #gothic #gothicfiction #ghosts
Friday night. At last!
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Friday night. At last!
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My new short story colllection The Building Inspector is now available from @nightjarpress.bsky.social on nightjarpress.weebly.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
My new short story colllection The Building Inspector is now available from @nightjarpress.bsky.social on nightjarpress.weebly.com
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It’s true. We are publishing a mini-collection by this talented writer. Normally we publish stories singly, in pairs. If that makes sense. Something made us break that pattern.
My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.
October 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It’s true. We are publishing a mini-collection by this talented writer. Normally we publish stories singly, in pairs. If that makes sense. Something made us break that pattern.
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Come to @smallpublishers.bsky.social today.
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Come to @smallpublishers.bsky.social today.
Looking forward to this!
Add an extra chill to your winter with a lively day of ghost story and Gothic fiction interviews, panels and workshops - WINTER HAUNTS is about to descend once more... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau...
October 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Looking forward to this!
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Add an extra chill to your winter with a lively day of ghost story and Gothic fiction interviews, panels and workshops - WINTER HAUNTS is about to descend once more... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau...
October 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Add an extra chill to your winter with a lively day of ghost story and Gothic fiction interviews, panels and workshops - WINTER HAUNTS is about to descend once more... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Beautiful, and occasionally creepy, funghi
Beautiful, and occasionally creepy, funghi
The amazing world of fungi – in pictures
Dr Tom May, a mycologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens and an expert witness at the Erin Patterson trial, has collaborated with renowned fungi photographer Stephen Axford for Planet Fungi, a new book f...
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October 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Beautiful, and occasionally creepy, funghi
Beautiful, and occasionally creepy, funghi
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Teaching students “AI prompt engineering” is such an offensive perversion of inquiry based education it makes me breathe fire.
genuinely what the fuck is an "ai skill" that isn't basic reading comprehension, skepticism, the ability to evaluate sources, and, like, typing?
October 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Teaching students “AI prompt engineering” is such an offensive perversion of inquiry based education it makes me breathe fire.
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Margery Kempe and Dame Julian of Norwich share the narrative in this exquisite novel by @vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Contrasting medieval lives, each with the same intent, their circumstances and inner worlds rendered with deep insight and authenticity. A wonderful book.
Contrasting medieval lives, each with the same intent, their circumstances and inner worlds rendered with deep insight and authenticity. A wonderful book.
October 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Margery Kempe and Dame Julian of Norwich share the narrative in this exquisite novel by @vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Contrasting medieval lives, each with the same intent, their circumstances and inner worlds rendered with deep insight and authenticity. A wonderful book.
Contrasting medieval lives, each with the same intent, their circumstances and inner worlds rendered with deep insight and authenticity. A wonderful book.
Nice moo-rals in the village of Cacciano, Le Marche
October 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Nice moo-rals in the village of Cacciano, Le Marche
Haha (funny, not funny)
cackling
"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education."
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Haha (funny, not funny)
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My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too
My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too
The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too
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Won't be long until I'm back at QUAD for my INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING course, with eight afternoon sessions kicking off on the 16th October! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/intro... #derby #derbyshire #writingcourse #writingcourses #course #courses
September 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Won't be long until I'm back at QUAD for my INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING course, with eight afternoon sessions kicking off on the 16th October! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/intro... #derby #derbyshire #writingcourse #writingcourses #course #courses
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"Just as Jay Gatsby is an enigmatic larger-than-life figure driven to accumulate wealth at all costs in a futile bid for the love of Daisy Buchanan, the Xerox 914 beats on ceaselessly, printing page after page, for reasons that readers cannot fully comprehend."
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by the Xerox 914 Photocopier
Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the wa...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Just as Jay Gatsby is an enigmatic larger-than-life figure driven to accumulate wealth at all costs in a futile bid for the love of Daisy Buchanan, the Xerox 914 beats on ceaselessly, printing page after page, for reasons that readers cannot fully comprehend."
Not sure whether to laugh or cry
"What does student success have to do with faculty success? Everything. If you think about it, faculty success is just student success, but with 'faculty' in place of 'student.'"
Our Faculty Success Initiative Redefines Everything You Thought You Knew About “Faculty” and “Success”
Thank you, everyone, for completing the Faculty Success Survey. During these challenging times, we understand that many of you are feeling great st...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Not sure whether to laugh or cry
We need to uninvent the leaf blower
Q: Where are leaf blowers most commonly used?
A: In leaf-dense areas directly outside your bedroom window.
A: In leaf-dense areas directly outside your bedroom window.
Frequently Asked Questions About Leaf Blowers
What is the main use of leaf blowers? Leaf blowers allow us to powerfully blow leaves into big piles. This is totally awesome. It ensures that huma...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
We need to uninvent the leaf blower
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The House of Splinters is just as good as The Silent Companions. If you love beautifully written, haunting mysteries, come and hear @spookypurcell.bsky.social in conversation with JJA Harwood at the store on Thursday 9th October. www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... #GothicMysteries
September 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The House of Splinters is just as good as The Silent Companions. If you love beautifully written, haunting mysteries, come and hear @spookypurcell.bsky.social in conversation with JJA Harwood at the store on Thursday 9th October. www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... #GothicMysteries
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Q: Are there any other advantages to using ChatPerson over chatbots?
A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.
A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.
Introducing ChatPerson
Joining ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta, and many other powerful chatbot services, we are proud to announce the release of our new RI (real intelligence) ser...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Q: Are there any other advantages to using ChatPerson over chatbots?
A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.
A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.
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Paying a premium to have your kid hooked up to the data extraction machine.
September 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Paying a premium to have your kid hooked up to the data extraction machine.
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‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support
‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support
Therapists say they are seeing negative impacts of people increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help
Vulnerable people turning to AI chatbots instead of professional therapists for mental health support could be “sliding into a dangerous abyss”, psychotherapists have warned.
Psychotherapists and psychiatristssaid they were increasingly seeing negative impacts of AI chatbots being used for mental health, such as fostering emotional dependence, exacerbating anxiety symptoms, self-diagnosis, or amplifying delusional thought patterns, dark thoughts and suicide ideation. Continue reading...
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August 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support
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"Share the longest period of time you’ve ever wept. Then, as a group, seat yourselves in order from shortest cry to longest cry."
Faculty Meeting Icebreakers
Write down the most common intrusive thought that keeps you up at night, but don’t include your name. Then choose a table leader to read each thoug...
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August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Share the longest period of time you’ve ever wept. Then, as a group, seat yourselves in order from shortest cry to longest cry."
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Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.
August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.