Lucy Sweetman
@lucysweetman.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, something else.
Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then.
Now writing with Ghost @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io
Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then.
Now writing with Ghost @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Well this thread is just yikes…
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Well this thread is just yikes…
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.
Jobs system, Goldsmiths, University of London
jobs.gold.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.
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Tom McTague and Michael Gove appear on #r4today twice in a single week to discuss migration and culture.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Tom McTague and Michael Gove appear on #r4today twice in a single week to discuss migration and culture.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
The BBC calls that ‘objectivity’.
Gove is supposedly worried about economic stagnation and the decline of institutions — but never his own party’s role in the immiseration of millions.
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The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall. #r4Today
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall. #r4Today
I’ve just walked into a room to hear Michael Fucking Gove talking about how sad it is that we are so disconnected as a country. #r4today
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I’ve just walked into a room to hear Michael Fucking Gove talking about how sad it is that we are so disconnected as a country. #r4today
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
How quickly the guilty are redeemed. How respectfully he is dealt with by Justin Webb.
Give me strength.
Every time I watch or listen to #BBC news it’s like a Reform party political broadcast but sure, the right-wing DG has been leading a totally Marxist organisation.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Every time I watch or listen to #BBC news it’s like a Reform party political broadcast but sure, the right-wing DG has been leading a totally Marxist organisation.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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The trend towards seeing learning as delivering content into memory by using direct instruction has set the path to this enthusiastic adoption imo. Unfortunately people are making themselves increasingly superfluous by doing this as per @risu.bsky.social's posts below.
Talking to teachers who enthusiastically use ai reminds me of talking to people who join Facebook pyramid schemes like selling weight loss juice or make up. “It is so amazing I use it every day, I’m an entrepreneur”…
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The trend towards seeing learning as delivering content into memory by using direct instruction has set the path to this enthusiastic adoption imo. Unfortunately people are making themselves increasingly superfluous by doing this as per @risu.bsky.social's posts below.
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The frustrating thing about this is that the idea is right, absolutely yes to more enrichment, but the idea that you just set targets to achieve it is the error. What this will mostly do is advantage schools in already advantaged areas because this stuff costs £!
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
'Another expectation': Schools to be judged on enrichment benchmarks
Leaders demand support to meet new expectations which will be policed by Ofsted
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The frustrating thing about this is that the idea is right, absolutely yes to more enrichment, but the idea that you just set targets to achieve it is the error. What this will mostly do is advantage schools in already advantaged areas because this stuff costs £!
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
schoolsweek.co.uk/another-expe...
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Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
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If you're not aware of how far the AI sector is being driven by people who are overtly fascistic in goals and expression, and how far their power is being injected directly into the military-industrial state apparatus, it really is time you learned.
Tech fascists agenda in a few word's.
Sean Morrow auf i***a
Sean Morrow auf i***a
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're not aware of how far the AI sector is being driven by people who are overtly fascistic in goals and expression, and how far their power is being injected directly into the military-industrial state apparatus, it really is time you learned.
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FYI: AI in education, ai teachers, ai degrees.. all of it is for the poor. The rich won’t be sending their children to schools full of screens and chatbot teachers. And they will be doing philosophy, business, international relations degrees. Not “ai”. It will be a sign of wealth to not use ai.
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
FYI: AI in education, ai teachers, ai degrees.. all of it is for the poor. The rich won’t be sending their children to schools full of screens and chatbot teachers. And they will be doing philosophy, business, international relations degrees. Not “ai”. It will be a sign of wealth to not use ai.
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We always see men’s refusal to change their private sphere rolls as personal failings by individual men—deadbeat dads, good for nothing lazy men, freeloaders off of women’s caretaking labor. But what if what those men actually demonstrating is a kind of gendered class solidarity?
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We always see men’s refusal to change their private sphere rolls as personal failings by individual men—deadbeat dads, good for nothing lazy men, freeloaders off of women’s caretaking labor. But what if what those men actually demonstrating is a kind of gendered class solidarity?
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Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
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I find this very touching…& also worrying. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been an absolutely essential guide to this era. And if he thinks I’m right then we’re in more trouble than we realise
Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
October 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I find this very touching…& also worrying. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been an absolutely essential guide to this era. And if he thinks I’m right then we’re in more trouble than we realise
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If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs
Yep, @johnharris1969.bsky.social, you're right about this. Two further points:
1) The Blair govt started some of this rot with targeted youth funding being prioritised over funding for universal youth services within local authority education services.
1/2
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
1) The Blair govt started some of this rot with targeted youth funding being prioritised over funding for universal youth services within local authority education services.
1/2
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yep, @johnharris1969.bsky.social, you're right about this. Two further points:
1) The Blair govt started some of this rot with targeted youth funding being prioritised over funding for universal youth services within local authority education services.
1/2
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
1) The Blair govt started some of this rot with targeted youth funding being prioritised over funding for universal youth services within local authority education services.
1/2
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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English democracy relies on local councillors. So why are so many facing the axe? | Polly Toynbee
English democracy relies on local councillors. So why are so many facing the axe? | Polly Toynbee
Government plans to merge councils may not save money, and do nothing to solve the very real problems they face, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
English democracy relies on local councillors. So why are so many facing the axe? | Polly Toynbee
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Women's status has regressed so much that Betty Friedan, once thought of as an almost simplistically remedial entry-level feminist stating obvious truths, is now a wild eyed radical.
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Women's status has regressed so much that Betty Friedan, once thought of as an almost simplistically remedial entry-level feminist stating obvious truths, is now a wild eyed radical.
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My first review. And book of the week!
I reviewed this superb book about memoir for @rte.ie RTÉ Culture this week.
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
My first review. And book of the week!
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Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.
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UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project
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October 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
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Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
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