Somhairle Kelly
@eithin.bsky.social
Queer, trans, disabled, he/they. Artist, designer, amateur material culture historian, ex-nanomaterials scientist. Open University environmental everything student. Welsh, living in Scotland by the sea.
Fix your hearts or die.
Fix your hearts or die.
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ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this
TIL about this teaching fad, promulgated by a guy who literally does not know that children grow up.
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 6:25 PM
TIL about this teaching fad, promulgated by a guy who literally does not know that children grow up.
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Scottish Independence 🏴
Welsh Independence 🏴
United Ireland 🇮🇪
RT if you agree.
Welsh Independence 🏴
United Ireland 🇮🇪
RT if you agree.
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Scottish Independence 🏴
Welsh Independence 🏴
United Ireland 🇮🇪
RT if you agree.
Welsh Independence 🏴
United Ireland 🇮🇪
RT if you agree.
Reminder to self: today I have post-codeine brainhaar in addition to normal brainfog. It's OK to only get a bit done. If I can get a bit done in seven different directions (which is frankly inevitable) that's better than beating my head against a single essay question for ages.
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reminder to self: today I have post-codeine brainhaar in addition to normal brainfog. It's OK to only get a bit done. If I can get a bit done in seven different directions (which is frankly inevitable) that's better than beating my head against a single essay question for ages.
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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The sewing box has resurfaced too! Now the only excuse I have for not sewing these sections is my university assignment.
One nice surprise from all the packing and unpacking I've had to do recently - the lovely needle book @evenicholls.bsky.social made me has resurfaced! As for the thing I still can't find? The box with all the thread in. I have miles of sashiko thread, but no embroidery or bookbinding thread at all.
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The sewing box has resurfaced too! Now the only excuse I have for not sewing these sections is my university assignment.
Clearly the next Bond film should have all the human spies being made redundant and being replaced with BritGPT version 007 agents.
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Clearly the next Bond film should have all the human spies being made redundant and being replaced with BritGPT version 007 agents.
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One nice surprise from all the packing and unpacking I've had to do recently - the lovely needle book @evenicholls.bsky.social made me has resurfaced! As for the thing I still can't find? The box with all the thread in. I have miles of sashiko thread, but no embroidery or bookbinding thread at all.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
One nice surprise from all the packing and unpacking I've had to do recently - the lovely needle book @evenicholls.bsky.social made me has resurfaced! As for the thing I still can't find? The box with all the thread in. I have miles of sashiko thread, but no embroidery or bookbinding thread at all.
I have been struck with a sudden yearning to visit a ginkgo tree. But I have no idea where to find one, even if there is one I can sustainably visit. Most annoying.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I have been struck with a sudden yearning to visit a ginkgo tree. But I have no idea where to find one, even if there is one I can sustainably visit. Most annoying.
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Performative not-readers are just weird. I mean, I know intellectually that not everyone has a book or an e-reader in their pocket at all times, but they don't have to flaunt it.
People are being accused of "reading performatively", that is reading in public as a way of showing off or 'looking cool'?
That sounds like an accusation made by people who don't read.
That sounds like an accusation made by people who don't read.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Performative not-readers are just weird. I mean, I know intellectually that not everyone has a book or an e-reader in their pocket at all times, but they don't have to flaunt it.
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"you have much more stuff now so you should shut up and live in precarity" is a pitch with a number of defects
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"you have much more stuff now so you should shut up and live in precarity" is a pitch with a number of defects
The past tense of rewild ought to be rewould.
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The past tense of rewild ought to be rewould.
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don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing
March 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing
Mamdani is going to implement Maria law. How do you solve a problem like that?
Mamdani is going to implement Daria law or whatever.
Mamdani is going to implement SSHaria law. Communications will be end to end encrypted.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Maria law. How do you solve a problem like that?
MY dictionary never got dusty. 9/11/13 are all no though.
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
MY dictionary never got dusty. 9/11/13 are all no though.
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The white poppy has been worn for over 90 years, as a symbol of remembrance & peace.
By wearing a white poppy, we remember all victims of war, both civilian & military. We remember those who are so often overlooked, buried under the rubble, suffering from starvation or displaced from their homes.
By wearing a white poppy, we remember all victims of war, both civilian & military. We remember those who are so often overlooked, buried under the rubble, suffering from starvation or displaced from their homes.
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The white poppy has been worn for over 90 years, as a symbol of remembrance & peace.
By wearing a white poppy, we remember all victims of war, both civilian & military. We remember those who are so often overlooked, buried under the rubble, suffering from starvation or displaced from their homes.
By wearing a white poppy, we remember all victims of war, both civilian & military. We remember those who are so often overlooked, buried under the rubble, suffering from starvation or displaced from their homes.
I went for a five-minute walk around the town centre, and saw nine different groups of red poppy pushers. And a 250% increase in Union Jacks over last year. Fortunately a "got one, thanks" while prominently wearing a white poppy caused no unpleasantness.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I went for a five-minute walk around the town centre, and saw nine different groups of red poppy pushers. And a 250% increase in Union Jacks over last year. Fortunately a "got one, thanks" while prominently wearing a white poppy caused no unpleasantness.
Oh, great. My entryphone has died. So I can't let deliveries in, including the new hot water bottles we're Very Much Looking Forward To.
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Oh, great. My entryphone has died. So I can't let deliveries in, including the new hot water bottles we're Very Much Looking Forward To.
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I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM