Vicky Booker
@vickybookerlit.bsky.social
Writer, reader, walker, lover of nature and all things Ancient and Greek. May contain gin.
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I could not love this curator more - intellectual shade thrown all over Hercules
(Cleveland Museum of Arts)
(Cleveland Museum of Arts)
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I could not love this curator more - intellectual shade thrown all over Hercules
(Cleveland Museum of Arts)
(Cleveland Museum of Arts)
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This is great, thank you.
after a conversation with a friend last week, I just wrote a thing to try to help parents of kids who are confused about what career to even imagine in the world of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is great, thank you.
I'm always late, but this is still funny.
November 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'm always late, but this is still funny.
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Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.
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British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979.
Photo © Virginia Turbett
via @britcultarchive.bsky.social
britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...
Photo © Virginia Turbett
via @britcultarchive.bsky.social
britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979.
Photo © Virginia Turbett
via @britcultarchive.bsky.social
britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...
Photo © Virginia Turbett
via @britcultarchive.bsky.social
britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
This is a fabulous interview/advice column! The socks bit especially....
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
October 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is a fabulous interview/advice column! The socks bit especially....
Following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social breaks my heart every day.
As it should.
As it should.
12 October 1940 | Dutch Jew, David Costima, was born in Amsterdam.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber with his elder brother Isaäc.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber with his elder brother Isaäc.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
October 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social breaks my heart every day.
As it should.
As it should.
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Great thread.
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Great thread.
The thread under the Unsolicited Hick Pic is superb.
Unsolicited diptych
October 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The thread under the Unsolicited Hick Pic is superb.
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'Making people pay for retail goods would kill the shoplifting industry.'
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
'Making people pay for retail goods would kill the shoplifting industry.'
Today I got down my 1986 copy of Rider, in honour of Jilly. I was far too young to be given the hardback from the library by my mother 😳 but I couldn't wait to get my own copy.
I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.
I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Today I got down my 1986 copy of Rider, in honour of Jilly. I was far too young to be given the hardback from the library by my mother 😳 but I couldn't wait to get my own copy.
I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.
I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.
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Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
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I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
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Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
Great thread, thank you.
There are plenty of books at your local libraries and bookstores to read and learn about autism that do not focus on Tylenol. Best of all, more and more books are being written and illustrated. More and are being published! 📚
😊 Here are a few:
😊 Here are a few:
September 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Great thread, thank you.
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You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.
September 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
September 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
I've just added a couple of Maureen Duffy books to my wish list. I knew her name but hadn't read her - yet.
Bravo to Bernadine Evaristo for setting up the RSL Pioneer Prize for older women writers, and for naming the working-class-born playright, poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, and activist Maureen Duffy as its first recipient.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Celebrating Maureen Duffy, a true pioneer | The Observer
Older women writers are too often overlooked. My new Royal Society of Literature prize aims to change that – starting with Duffy, a literary trailblazer ...
observer.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I've just added a couple of Maureen Duffy books to my wish list. I knew her name but hadn't read her - yet.