Julie W
@jw52.bsky.social
1,000 miles p/a nature walker, socialist, doctor of philosophy, Detectorists fan, ❤️Aude.
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Zak Polanski giving a lucid account of where we are. Seven minutes saying what so many of us think, but no one dares to say in public. Thanks
news.sky.com/video/home-s...
news.sky.com/video/home-s...
Home Secretary's comments 'irresponsible', says Green Party leader
Shabana Mahmood told Sky News today that the rally overnight was "fundamentally un-British".
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Zak Polanski giving a lucid account of where we are. Seven minutes saying what so many of us think, but no one dares to say in public. Thanks
news.sky.com/video/home-s...
news.sky.com/video/home-s...
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Zak Polanski on channel 4 news tonight.
Absolutely 💯 spot on!
Absolutely 💯 spot on!
October 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Zak Polanski on channel 4 news tonight.
Absolutely 💯 spot on!
Absolutely 💯 spot on!
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Populist thinking struggles to get a foothold in academia because it dodges facts, rejects trustworthy sources, and offers untestable assertions. Rejecting it is not bias; it is standards doing their job.
April 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Populist thinking struggles to get a foothold in academia because it dodges facts, rejects trustworthy sources, and offers untestable assertions. Rejecting it is not bias; it is standards doing their job.
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Although the first three words gives it away #EMCA
Racists used to just be outright racist and it was easy to spot.
But now, it's often concealed beneath layers of denial and obfuscation.
Now, you sometimes have to talk to them for up to 10-15 seconds before concluding that yes, they are in fact racists.
But now, it's often concealed beneath layers of denial and obfuscation.
Now, you sometimes have to talk to them for up to 10-15 seconds before concluding that yes, they are in fact racists.
September 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Although the first three words gives it away #EMCA
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Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.
September 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.
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It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
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An interesting radio story about detectorists... and crime.
BBC Radio Wales - Fool's Gold
How the luckiest treasure hunters on earth became Newport's most wanted.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
An interesting radio story about detectorists... and crime.
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7- Karl
Ci serà sempre un cantu by Voce Ventu
(Corsica: There will be always a song)
Karl being inspired by my grandpa, the playlist contains a lot of Corsica songs, and it was difficult to pick up only one, here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYul...
Ci serà sempre un cantu by Voce Ventu
(Corsica: There will be always a song)
Karl being inspired by my grandpa, the playlist contains a lot of Corsica songs, and it was difficult to pick up only one, here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYul...
Ci sarà sempri un cantu
YouTube video by Voce Ventu - Topic
www.youtube.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
7- Karl
Ci serà sempre un cantu by Voce Ventu
(Corsica: There will be always a song)
Karl being inspired by my grandpa, the playlist contains a lot of Corsica songs, and it was difficult to pick up only one, here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYul...
Ci serà sempre un cantu by Voce Ventu
(Corsica: There will be always a song)
Karl being inspired by my grandpa, the playlist contains a lot of Corsica songs, and it was difficult to pick up only one, here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYul...
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Stuff like this. Detectorists / Inside No 9 producer Adam Tandy talking about making sitcoms…
pod.link/1779990694/e...
pod.link/1779990694/e...
Be Funny Or Die
Further thoughts about comedy and how it works...
EXCLUSIVE to PAID SUBSTACK SUBSCRIBERS joelmorris.substack.com
pod.link
June 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Stuff like this. Detectorists / Inside No 9 producer Adam Tandy talking about making sitcoms…
pod.link/1779990694/e...
pod.link/1779990694/e...
An AI converted a paper of mine into a podcast? 😕
May 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
An AI converted a paper of mine into a podcast? 😕
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Right. Tax it to the fucking skies.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.
So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
That's a long time in the microwave.
mashable.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Right. Tax it to the fucking skies.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.
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A comprehensive comms success.
May 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A comprehensive comms success.
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Do we need a sort of corporate Magna Carta? Something that provides a definition of the limits of power for transnational interests?
May 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Do we need a sort of corporate Magna Carta? Something that provides a definition of the limits of power for transnational interests?
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Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.
ICYMI: An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data Bill proceeds towards its final stages 👇 #BookSky
Data Bill's AI amendment to enforce copyright law on tech companies defeated in parliament
www.thebookseller.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.
Just north of Limoux yesterday.
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Just north of Limoux yesterday.
Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima
Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe. Meanwhile UK universities are being decimated by job cuts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe
Macron and von der Leyen expected to announce protections for researchers seeking to relocate amid Trump’s crackdown
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe. Meanwhile UK universities are being decimated by job cuts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Something marvellous has happened in Hertfordshire but i bet the press won't mention it. I've now got a Green/Liberal Dem council, Liberal Dem/x county Council and Labour MP. 10 years ago this was a Tory stronghold. Please stop going on about Reform www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...
Hertfordshire election result - Local Elections 2025
Get the latest news and election results for Hertfordshire council in the 2025 Local elections from BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Something marvellous has happened in Hertfordshire but i bet the press won't mention it. I've now got a Green/Liberal Dem council, Liberal Dem/x county Council and Labour MP. 10 years ago this was a Tory stronghold. Please stop going on about Reform www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...
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Labour are going to learn exactly the wrong lesson from this, aren’t they?
May 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Labour are going to learn exactly the wrong lesson from this, aren’t they?
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My favourite key to unlocking the Detectorists - Andy and Lance think they are respectively a romantic and a pragmatist, but they have it the wrong way round. Perfect flaws.
April 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My favourite key to unlocking the Detectorists - Andy and Lance think they are respectively a romantic and a pragmatist, but they have it the wrong way round. Perfect flaws.
