Sue Smith
@suesmith.lol
🤡 Lefty Glaswegian smartarse
🎏 Helps folk learn how to code
💅🏻 Still petty after cancer
https://www.suesmith.dev
🎏 Helps folk learn how to code
💅🏻 Still petty after cancer
https://www.suesmith.dev
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Sue Smith
@suesmith.lol
· Nov 17
HTTP Golden Girls ( )
An app for learning about status codes!
www.goldengirls.codes
I bought the domain to match its predecessor so you can now access HTTP Golden Girls at
www.goldengirls.codes
www.goldengirls.codes
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I always like visiting Sloans because my great grannie who was born in 1902 frequented it. When I think of how my mum grew up in one room with ten people living in it.. It's a reminder of how fast things can change for the better.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I always like visiting Sloans because my great grannie who was born in 1902 frequented it. When I think of how my mum grew up in one room with ten people living in it.. It's a reminder of how fast things can change for the better.
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A must read for the Home Secretary:
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
Technical Brief 1: The Prevention of Migrant Deaths and Disappearances - Insights from the Missing Migrants Project in the MENA Region - World
Analysis in English on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 7 Nov 2025 by IOM
reliefweb.int
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
A must read for the Home Secretary:
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
This is similar to what we're finding with LLM assisted coding. Software engineering is so much more than writing syntax, it's a more abstract skillset than that. But the best method we have for helping people acquire that skillset is by learning to write (and read) code.
In my field, LLMs are quite useful because there are tasks that are slow to do by hand, easier to check, and not worth learning -- eg "give me the 18-25 populations from these StatsNZ spreadsheets".
The problem, generally, is the many tasks that satisfy the first two conditions but not the third.
The problem, generally, is the many tasks that satisfy the first two conditions but not the third.
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is similar to what we're finding with LLM assisted coding. Software engineering is so much more than writing syntax, it's a more abstract skillset than that. But the best method we have for helping people acquire that skillset is by learning to write (and read) code.
Reposted by Sue Smith
As instructors the most important curricular question is always: what is it that is worth learning—from students‘ own volition and from our expert perspectives? The answer is unlikely to be „outsourcing all parts of a task.“ We are at a point where my first-year students tell me as much, unasked.
In my field, LLMs are quite useful because there are tasks that are slow to do by hand, easier to check, and not worth learning -- eg "give me the 18-25 populations from these StatsNZ spreadsheets".
The problem, generally, is the many tasks that satisfy the first two conditions but not the third.
The problem, generally, is the many tasks that satisfy the first two conditions but not the third.
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
As instructors the most important curricular question is always: what is it that is worth learning—from students‘ own volition and from our expert perspectives? The answer is unlikely to be „outsourcing all parts of a task.“ We are at a point where my first-year students tell me as much, unasked.
There's a bit in the Golden Girls where Blanche says "I know I'm feeling better, my craving for cheesecake has returned" and in my household we use this routinely to indicate feeling better, "yer craving for cheesecake returned yet?"
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There's a bit in the Golden Girls where Blanche says "I know I'm feeling better, my craving for cheesecake has returned" and in my household we use this routinely to indicate feeling better, "yer craving for cheesecake returned yet?"
One of the things I'm perhaps optimistically hoping comes out of the LLM panic is those of us in developer tech being more intentional about what learning is worthwhile. It's highly personal, but finding methods to determine it should help navigate the harms and benefits of these automations.
like listen, yes deliberate difficulties do teach people things, no we cannot assign every single individual to re-invent everything from scratch, it's a non-human-cumulative-culture way to be
These tools isolate us from the social learning our brains are built to do
These tools isolate us from the social learning our brains are built to do
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
One of the things I'm perhaps optimistically hoping comes out of the LLM panic is those of us in developer tech being more intentional about what learning is worthwhile. It's highly personal, but finding methods to determine it should help navigate the harms and benefits of these automations.
Exceptional *and* useful? Me and this magic glove have so much in common.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Exceptional *and* useful? Me and this magic glove have so much in common.
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u have been visited by the WE WILL REMEM BEP THEM goat
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
u have been visited by the WE WILL REMEM BEP THEM goat
I've got a jacket I thought was white but I've just noticed is actually slightly pink which of course reminds me that's what terry wogan called simply red 🤣
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I've got a jacket I thought was white but I've just noticed is actually slightly pink which of course reminds me that's what terry wogan called simply red 🤣
Hope the two folk who just spent several minutes getting off wi one another right outside my living room window have a fun night
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hope the two folk who just spent several minutes getting off wi one another right outside my living room window have a fun night
"I will always love you"
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"I will always love you"
In my household we practice intersectional bigotry
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In my household we practice intersectional bigotry
Always love Vangelis smoking tabs while watching the Chariots of Fire boys run youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo
Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire
YouTube video by VangelisVEVO
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Always love Vangelis smoking tabs while watching the Chariots of Fire boys run youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo
"I was kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream" is such a Prince lyric lol
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"I was kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream" is such a Prince lyric lol
Would love to know why so many Glasgow newsagents have lighting you could use to perform surgery
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Would love to know why so many Glasgow newsagents have lighting you could use to perform surgery
There's a breathy acoustic white boy version of Sister Sledge's Thinking of You on in this pub and I almost spewed ma fucken ring
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There's a breathy acoustic white boy version of Sister Sledge's Thinking of You on in this pub and I almost spewed ma fucken ring
I had an interaction earlier this week where I was bending over backwards to be polite and was still accused of "yelling" lol, honestly find it hard to understand how men remain alive with this level of fragility
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I had an interaction earlier this week where I was bending over backwards to be polite and was still accused of "yelling" lol, honestly find it hard to understand how men remain alive with this level of fragility
Ah but I have a bespoke and arcane setup that disproves the generic point you made about a technology! Fucking mastodon man.
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ah but I have a bespoke and arcane setup that disproves the generic point you made about a technology! Fucking mastodon man.
This really underlines the deception of transphobic rhetoric about "women only spaces" tbh, this *is* a successful safe, inclusive space for women and people who don't attend it are trying to ruin it for the women who do.
🏊♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This really underlines the deception of transphobic rhetoric about "women only spaces" tbh, this *is* a successful safe, inclusive space for women and people who don't attend it are trying to ruin it for the women who do.
Reposted by Sue Smith
🏊♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🏊♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
This observation reflects so much of what's wrong here eh. The avoidance of any real exploration of the actual utility and limitations of this technology.. No good comes from arguing with folk who are not engaging in good faith!
If you want to build a machine that always wins at debate, then you are not interested in truth, you are interested in rhetoric.
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This observation reflects so much of what's wrong here eh. The avoidance of any real exploration of the actual utility and limitations of this technology.. No good comes from arguing with folk who are not engaging in good faith!
lol "fans who sound like hecklers" basically describes all glaswegian friendliness
looool @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social confirming for everyone that he was in fact, going to be petty boots at the primary debates:
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
lol "fans who sound like hecklers" basically describes all glaswegian friendliness