@clairehignett.bsky.social
Artist making textiles about feeling safe and unsafe, and the wary space in between.
You can also find me 'at'claire_hignett on IG.
You can also find me 'at'claire_hignett on IG.
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Fewer than 500 more signatures needed to reach 100,000 & trigger a Westminster parliament debate on the future of driven grouse shooting.
Plz sign and share - we might get there today! @ruthtingay.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Plz sign and share - we might get there today! @ruthtingay.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
April 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Fewer than 500 more signatures needed to reach 100,000 & trigger a Westminster parliament debate on the future of driven grouse shooting.
Plz sign and share - we might get there today! @ruthtingay.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Plz sign and share - we might get there today! @ruthtingay.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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eBay have changed their terms of service and you're automatically opted-in for your personal data to be used for AI development and training.
To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.
To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.
March 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
eBay have changed their terms of service and you're automatically opted-in for your personal data to be used for AI development and training.
To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.
To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.
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You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
March 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
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🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts.
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
March 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts.
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
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This video kicks ass: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?...
How Trying Became Cool Again
YouTube video by Nathan Zed
youtu.be
February 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This video kicks ass: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?...
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Only 25% of 16 year olds are getting driver’s licenses. There are a few reasons why: www.teenvogue.com/story/fewer-...
Way Fewer Young People Are Learning How to Drive
Only 25% of 16 year olds are getting driver’s licenses.
www.teenvogue.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Only 25% of 16 year olds are getting driver’s licenses. There are a few reasons why: www.teenvogue.com/story/fewer-...
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Thread - Schnittke shows us the limitations of AI.
This should be a simple test - look through the well structured online catalogues of vinyl issues and find out if a piece has been recorded and issued on vinyl.
But AI's need to create a convincing and satisfying answer gives us false info.
1/4
This should be a simple test - look through the well structured online catalogues of vinyl issues and find out if a piece has been recorded and issued on vinyl.
But AI's need to create a convincing and satisfying answer gives us false info.
1/4
January 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Thread - Schnittke shows us the limitations of AI.
This should be a simple test - look through the well structured online catalogues of vinyl issues and find out if a piece has been recorded and issued on vinyl.
But AI's need to create a convincing and satisfying answer gives us false info.
1/4
This should be a simple test - look through the well structured online catalogues of vinyl issues and find out if a piece has been recorded and issued on vinyl.
But AI's need to create a convincing and satisfying answer gives us false info.
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The best news of the day. Non-human animals are still having fun.
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The best news of the day. Non-human animals are still having fun.
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So a Chinese AI company copied what US AI companies are doing but did it cheaper? I just can’t imagine how that must feel.
* laughs in creative person embracing karma *
* laughs in creative person embracing karma *
January 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
So a Chinese AI company copied what US AI companies are doing but did it cheaper? I just can’t imagine how that must feel.
* laughs in creative person embracing karma *
* laughs in creative person embracing karma *
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I think this is the perfect time to start posting about Greenland and the amazing textile Herjolfsnes finds, aye? Greenland is a district of Denmark and was settled by several distinct Inuit cultures in waves from c.2500 BCE to c.1200 CE, plus the Norse settlement late 10th-15th centuries. 🧵1/
January 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I think this is the perfect time to start posting about Greenland and the amazing textile Herjolfsnes finds, aye? Greenland is a district of Denmark and was settled by several distinct Inuit cultures in waves from c.2500 BCE to c.1200 CE, plus the Norse settlement late 10th-15th centuries. 🧵1/
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Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Authors, please don’t use AI images in your social media marketing posts. Would you like to be replaced by AI?
Craft shops, please don’t use AI images in your social media marketing posts. Would you like all your customers to be replaced by AI?
Craft shops, please don’t use AI images in your social media marketing posts. Would you like all your customers to be replaced by AI?
January 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Authors, please don’t use AI images in your social media marketing posts. Would you like to be replaced by AI?
Craft shops, please don’t use AI images in your social media marketing posts. Would you like all your customers to be replaced by AI?
Craft shops, please don’t use AI images in your social media marketing posts. Would you like all your customers to be replaced by AI?
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Fake snow asbestos was chrysotile asbestos, which is brilliant white and has a layered appearance, and it was sold from ~1930–60s. If you have vintage ‘snowy’ decorations they may still contain it, and it would be best to get rid of them (your local council can advise you)
December 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Fake snow asbestos was chrysotile asbestos, which is brilliant white and has a layered appearance, and it was sold from ~1930–60s. If you have vintage ‘snowy’ decorations they may still contain it, and it would be best to get rid of them (your local council can advise you)
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Hello. Anybody there?
December 1, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Hello. Anybody there?
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Remembering Terry Pratchett on his birthday 🎂
📷 Boris Spremo, Toronto, 1995
"Give a man a fire & he's warm for a day, but set fire to him & he's warm for the rest of his life."
📷 Boris Spremo, Toronto, 1995
"Give a man a fire & he's warm for a day, but set fire to him & he's warm for the rest of his life."
April 28, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Remembering Terry Pratchett on his birthday 🎂
📷 Boris Spremo, Toronto, 1995
"Give a man a fire & he's warm for a day, but set fire to him & he's warm for the rest of his life."
📷 Boris Spremo, Toronto, 1995
"Give a man a fire & he's warm for a day, but set fire to him & he's warm for the rest of his life."
Finished this last night. Absolutely excellent. This looks textile industrialisation of textiles from the perspective of the USA and worldwide covering fast fashion and the environmental implications of manmade fibres - from use of oil to chemical usage in processing.
#textile book
#fibreart
#textile book
#fibreart
November 20, 2023 at 10:13 PM
Hi, I'm Claire.
I make art using embroidery or machine knit stitch. I don't often get time to hand knit, but I'm in the creative doldrums so I'm teaching myself top down knitting using yarn and a pattern I bought at Yarndale this year
Pattern by Purl & Jane
Yarn is Mohair Tweed by Knoll
#knitting
I make art using embroidery or machine knit stitch. I don't often get time to hand knit, but I'm in the creative doldrums so I'm teaching myself top down knitting using yarn and a pattern I bought at Yarndale this year
Pattern by Purl & Jane
Yarn is Mohair Tweed by Knoll
#knitting
November 19, 2023 at 2:43 PM
Hi, I'm Claire.
I make art using embroidery or machine knit stitch. I don't often get time to hand knit, but I'm in the creative doldrums so I'm teaching myself top down knitting using yarn and a pattern I bought at Yarndale this year
Pattern by Purl & Jane
Yarn is Mohair Tweed by Knoll
#knitting
I make art using embroidery or machine knit stitch. I don't often get time to hand knit, but I'm in the creative doldrums so I'm teaching myself top down knitting using yarn and a pattern I bought at Yarndale this year
Pattern by Purl & Jane
Yarn is Mohair Tweed by Knoll
#knitting