abbi
@abbis.bsky.social
Digital Education Lead @ UCL Arts & Humanities #SCMALT
Vintage bookshop owner: prudenceandthecrow.com @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social
Caffeinated bodybuilder. Highly talkative. Enthusiastic gig-goer, long-term internetter. Chaotic dropspinner. Any/any.
Vintage bookshop owner: prudenceandthecrow.com @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social
Caffeinated bodybuilder. Highly talkative. Enthusiastic gig-goer, long-term internetter. Chaotic dropspinner. Any/any.
Tonight is carnival night in Glastonbury, the music is everywhere, the excitement is utterly tangible; it is delightful.
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Tonight is carnival night in Glastonbury, the music is everywhere, the excitement is utterly tangible; it is delightful.
doing some top tier adulting this weekend, very unusual
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
doing some top tier adulting this weekend, very unusual
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And then they will say The Thames River? And you will have to say - No no - the River Thames.
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
And then they will say The Thames River? And you will have to say - No no - the River Thames.
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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)
MUST. WATCH.
broke: watching Game of Wool
woke: watching the 8-hour Norwegian sheep-to-jumper slow TV hosted by a spare queer crime drama protagonist
woke: watching the 8-hour Norwegian sheep-to-jumper slow TV hosted by a spare queer crime drama protagonist
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
MUST. WATCH.
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This is a particularly timely Transgender Awareness Week. Thank you to all the trans members of @libdems.org.uk - we see you, we appreciate you, and we're sorry for the grief you go through in the name of our party. We are hugely encouraged by the swell of support for you this year.
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Today is the beginning of Trans Awareness Week.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is a particularly timely Transgender Awareness Week. Thank you to all the trans members of @libdems.org.uk - we see you, we appreciate you, and we're sorry for the grief you go through in the name of our party. We are hugely encouraged by the swell of support for you this year.
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Right yes I've seen the Waitrose ad now and the things that nobody told me are that a) this is our old local pub b) this is outside our old flat, so thank you, nothing says Christmas like being extremely bloody homesick (house is also Rebecca's childhood home in Ted Lasso)
youtu.be/wWeYKBXmCRs?...
youtu.be/wWeYKBXmCRs?...
The Perfect Gift | Waitrose | Christmas Ad 2025
YouTube video by Waitrose & Partners
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Right yes I've seen the Waitrose ad now and the things that nobody told me are that a) this is our old local pub b) this is outside our old flat, so thank you, nothing says Christmas like being extremely bloody homesick (house is also Rebecca's childhood home in Ted Lasso)
youtu.be/wWeYKBXmCRs?...
youtu.be/wWeYKBXmCRs?...
FENTON!!!
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
FENTON!!!
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
The new Mac advert begins "Every idea you love began with a blank screen..."
wtf
wtf
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The new Mac advert begins "Every idea you love began with a blank screen..."
wtf
wtf
I find this so confusing. You're learning a whole language, not just "how to read". I learnt the English alphabet and read with a dictionary next to me for like, a decade. I remember learning to read letters, and simultaneously learning to look up words as a toddler.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I find this so confusing. You're learning a whole language, not just "how to read". I learnt the English alphabet and read with a dictionary next to me for like, a decade. I remember learning to read letters, and simultaneously learning to look up words as a toddler.
I think it has to be American Psycho, because I didn't realise you could actually do anything at all with words, there are actually no book police. It made me realise what a choice every single act of storytelling is.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I think it has to be American Psycho, because I didn't realise you could actually do anything at all with words, there are actually no book police. It made me realise what a choice every single act of storytelling is.
All a bit much, this Wednesday day, isn't it? Time to not do anything involving brain and only involving soft quiet now.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
All a bit much, this Wednesday day, isn't it? Time to not do anything involving brain and only involving soft quiet now.
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I am sick and tired of UK politicians' ill-informed crusade to make the UK the least safe place to go online, and the weak link in the global Internet.
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I am sick and tired of UK politicians' ill-informed crusade to make the UK the least safe place to go online, and the weak link in the global Internet.
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I just wish less of my life was spent dismissing kind ‘offers’ of ‘help’ from ‘AI’ ‘assistants’.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I just wish less of my life was spent dismissing kind ‘offers’ of ‘help’ from ‘AI’ ‘assistants’.
I think we have to live through a maddening era of "AI" standing in for "objective, sensible" whilst also being radically unaccountable because nobody takes the design and parameter-setting of these things to be an actual, political job.
The difference between including "AI" in a headline and not is going to get super-interesting, depending on the understanding of whether or not the intended audience is for/against.
I think so. This is the press release - it feels like AI-powered was shoehorned in so it would get press attention.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I think we have to live through a maddening era of "AI" standing in for "objective, sensible" whilst also being radically unaccountable because nobody takes the design and parameter-setting of these things to be an actual, political job.
The difference between including "AI" in a headline and not is going to get super-interesting, depending on the understanding of whether or not the intended audience is for/against.
I think so. This is the press release - it feels like AI-powered was shoehorned in so it would get press attention.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Education Secretary sets roadmap to improve attendance levels
Every school to be set an individual minimum target to improve attendance and set up every child to achieve and thrive.
www.gov.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The difference between including "AI" in a headline and not is going to get super-interesting, depending on the understanding of whether or not the intended audience is for/against.
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but also screenshot any that force a choice you don't want to make or don't allow a none of the above option, and send an ESOMAR complaint
Once more begging people to join yougov and take the flipping surveys
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
but also screenshot any that force a choice you don't want to make or don't allow a none of the above option, and send an ESOMAR complaint
Once more begging people to join yougov and take the flipping surveys
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Once more begging people to join yougov and take the flipping surveys
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Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
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This is utterly shocking. The Olympic spirit is about inclusive humanity and kindness.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is utterly shocking. The Olympic spirit is about inclusive humanity and kindness.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
I am so very much not in the mood to go to the gym this morning but I really must...
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I am so very much not in the mood to go to the gym this morning but I really must...
Who was I telling to watch Solaris the other day, @thatteacat.bsky.social was it you?! Loook!
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Who was I telling to watch Solaris the other day, @thatteacat.bsky.social was it you?! Loook!
The poppy is such a specific thing to me, a person who grew up by the Poppy Factory, where we, as small children in school and at Brownies, regularly sang Old Songs and Christmas carols to deeply scarred, disabled and traumatised men at the Star and Garter. I do indeed remember them.
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The poppy is such a specific thing to me, a person who grew up by the Poppy Factory, where we, as small children in school and at Brownies, regularly sang Old Songs and Christmas carols to deeply scarred, disabled and traumatised men at the Star and Garter. I do indeed remember them.