Emily
@emily-405.bsky.social
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Maybe LLMs speak prep-school (post-) Imperial British English. Because that's what most English knowers globally use.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Maybe LLMs speak prep-school (post-) Imperial British English. Because that's what most English knowers globally use.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Oh my fucking god @tomrobinson.com
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Oh my fucking god @tomrobinson.com
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Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
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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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obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
October 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
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We have real-time monitoring just inside one of the charge points via @telraam.bsky.social
telraam.net/en/location/...
telraam.net/en/location/...
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We have real-time monitoring just inside one of the charge points via @telraam.bsky.social
telraam.net/en/location/...
telraam.net/en/location/...
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Renters' Rights Bill becomes law
Described as the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years, a new law to give renters more rights was formally approved on Monday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Described as the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years, a new law to give renters more rights was formally approved on Monday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Renters' Rights Bill becomes law - here's what it means for you
Sweeping new rules for renting in England receive royal assent - so what is changing?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Renters' Rights Bill becomes law
Described as the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years, a new law to give renters more rights was formally approved on Monday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Described as the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years, a new law to give renters more rights was formally approved on Monday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Under Over Over - West Hampstead
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.
The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
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chicks rock
October 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
chicks rock
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The Andrew formerly known as Prince
Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King'
In a statement, the prince says:
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Andrew formerly known as Prince
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Can I offer you some nice gourds in these trying times?
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Can I offer you some nice gourds in these trying times?
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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August 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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the scenario we all feared
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the scenario we all feared
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This is fun/good.
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is fun/good.
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Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do
August 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do
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Madness this morning. My partner's works laptop couldn't connect.
She shouted at me "The Internet isn't working"
"What is it?" I replied.
"It’s a worldwide network of computers and other systems that all speak to each other, but that’s not important right now."
Turns it was in Airplane mode...
She shouted at me "The Internet isn't working"
"What is it?" I replied.
"It’s a worldwide network of computers and other systems that all speak to each other, but that’s not important right now."
Turns it was in Airplane mode...
August 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Madness this morning. My partner's works laptop couldn't connect.
She shouted at me "The Internet isn't working"
"What is it?" I replied.
"It’s a worldwide network of computers and other systems that all speak to each other, but that’s not important right now."
Turns it was in Airplane mode...
She shouted at me "The Internet isn't working"
"What is it?" I replied.
"It’s a worldwide network of computers and other systems that all speak to each other, but that’s not important right now."
Turns it was in Airplane mode...