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agirlintheshed @agirlintheshed.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

They bailed them out to the tune of £10k per person in the UK. Not per taxpayer, per person, children included! If they’d given that money to the people instead I can one hundred percent guarantee we wouldn’t be where we are now. I’d like to live in that timeline tbh.

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Existential dishwasher angst Assuaged By Meta-angst ontology. (Knives go handles up, blade side down, epistemologically.

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This🧵 not only explains why AI is unavoidably shit But it also explains why philosophers cannot define chairs v stools & it serves to remind, us to spend more time IN reality [ideally in elusive “poetry clubs”] & less time doing philosophy or online Don’t confuse means with ends End (+ALT text)

Proper machines, steampunk machines, with valves and dials and cogs pipes and wait has that guy in the background got a beer?

A photographer, captures a photographer, seen through a Victorian fly wheel, looking at something that neither camera can see.

In the middle a candle, on a late industrial fire sprinkler, a big tangled hulk of red metal, which is now a museum piece. On the left, stood in darkness is a man in a hat. On the right stood in the light are things the camera cannot see.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Cathedrals are ACE. Durham Cathedral is extra ACE I don’t trust AI (see earlier post)

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Adam Clark @oleadam.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A wheelie through the Ramadan Arches #Bradord #visitBradford #cityofculture2025 #sharemondays2025

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It was the “red vintage sprinkler” that screamed “curator”

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

But we really appreciate your diligence in checking your exhibits

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Does none attendance at a none event that didn’t happen count towards your total?

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The Curator does excellent ALT text. [this is concept art, for a hypothetical exhibition, about er… something)

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James Murgatroyd @mrmurgsmaths.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So good. Jazz break occurring.

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James Murgatroyd @mrmurgsmaths.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It's Friday, so, obviously, it's Jazz and Poetry night in a speakeasy set up in my very local museum as part of @bradford2025.co.uk Nice to see the old Jowett cars (built about a mile away) still take pride of place. #Bradford @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social ##CityofCulture2025

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Happy World Poetry Day to all who celebrate. If you’re interested in writing poetry yourself, I hope this poem will be of some use.

Ten Rules for Aspiring Poets

1. Poetry does not have to rhyme.
Well, at least not all the time always.

2. Metaphors can lend a poem power
(but mixing them isn’t good).
Should they start to fly in all directions,
nip them in the bud.

3. Focus and concentration
are important skills to hone.
Close the door. Turn off the wi-fi.
Don’t get distracted by your ph

4. Avoid clichés like the plague.

5. Don’t write stuff that’s a bit vague.

6. The use of unnecessarily long words
may result in reader alienation.
Curb your sesquipedalianism
to obviate any obfuscation.

7. Always proof-read you’re work.
Accuracy can be it’s own reward!
And remember that the penis
mightier than the sword.

8. Check haiku closely
for lines which have too few
or too many syllables.

9. Never ever follow rules.

Brian Bilston

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

She doesn’t know the password… don’t tell her!

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

What do you mean you already have plans for this evening? Cancel your plans. Make new plans. Plans change. C’est la Vie. Plus ça change? Bureau de change… Change Elysées… Je ne Regrette Rein. Whisky & Jazz people, Whisky & Jazz. 🥃🍸🎷🎹😎🤫 @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social #WorldPoetryDay #Bradford2025

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Ticket holders… (well all ticket holders except one…) have now been sent the event password by email. If you still haven’t got your tickets - what on earth have you been doing with your life? They’ve been on Eventbrite this whole time! #BradfordsBestKeptSecret www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-clu....

eventbrite.co.uk

"Poetry Club 3" The Industrial Revolution

Bradford's Best Kept Secret is back. For a Speakeasy Night at the Museum. Expect Cocktails, Jazz and poetry... Sssh! Tell no-one nothing.

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Someone told the T&A! But they didn’t tell them much… www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2502228...

An infographic of someone wearing an “access no areas” lanyard

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA.

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

For those in the know but without a ticket… best act fast! #Bradford

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Nothing to see here! Just poetry people, in a poetry club, doing the poetry things, that poetry people do… Er… rhymes and stuff… 🥷 #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay 🤫🎹🎷🍸🥃🤗🤫 @bradford2025.co.uk @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social

In the dim light, of what looks like a bookshop, a lady wearing glasses tries to take a photo of jazz.

A candle lit table of cans and glasses in a room of people listening

In the darkness we can see books, and pillars and an audience, and instruments and a poet, poeting.

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🤫🥃🎹🍸🎷😎🤫 Some people know the secret! They’ve already got their tickets! Have you? #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay #Bradford2025 @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social

A poet, in silhouette, in front of an amber lit stained glass window

(Check eventbrite for tickets)

Candlelight tinkles the grand piano’s ivories

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Bradford District Museums and Galleries @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Breaking News...Reports are coming in that on 21 March, Bradfordians are invited to join an exclusive club for an evening of poetry and jazz. #BradfordBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I Will only trust AI, When it knows why, to deliberately try... to do things wrong-ly. To think outside the cube To brake the rules To subvert the normal To have a none formulayered response To stimulAI #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay #StillNotSharingTheLinkToEvenbrite #Marketing101

A jazz band… Should have cropped out the foreground blurry bit.

The back of the head of a pianist, as she stares at a stained glass window, (for divine intervention?)

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Poetry Rules 1 Poems do not have to rhyme or scan 2 Poems must; wait… is that scan thing a separate rule? Is this infact rule 3? 3/4 Brevity 4? Let your words&ideas soar, like an eagle 5ish No cliches… 6.5 Meta-metaphors obscure clarity 7or8 Never use emojis #BradfordsBestKeptSecret🥃🎷 Poetry Rules🤘

Jazz sax - grooovy.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA.

A wall inscribed in Latin, candles, a person wearing a t-shirt which says “Fight Evil with Poetry”

🤫🎹🍸🥃🎷🥷😎🤫

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Bradford has nothing that Leeds wants? Apart from a World Heritage Site, a National Museum, Britain’s best curry, the Bronte Sisters, the nations most sung about moorland, the best theatre in the north, a steam railway, best Waterstones & pizza pieces! Away with this heathen! @bradford2025.co.uk

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m sayin’ nuthin’. Nuthin’ d’ya hear me!

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 15/03/2025

Well YOU'LL never get an invite to @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social :þ

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m sayin’ nuthin’. Nuthin’ d’ya hear me!

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Listen again to “About Bradford” 11-12 on BCBradio to hear me talking about the fabulous Andrea Dunbar play at St.George’s Hall @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social but then they try to wheedle #BradfordsBestKeptSecret out of me!! @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social listenagain.bcbradio.co.uk

listenagain.bcbradio.co.uk

BCB Radio 106.6 FM Listen Again Service

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

You may have gathered some evidence, but can you use that evidence, without incriminating yourself… #BradfordsBestKeptSecret 🎷🥃🍸🎹😎🤫

A vicar, films something, somewhere, on his phone, but I can’t tell you what or wear.
It’s a secret.

A blonde haired lady films something, somewhere, on her phone, but I can’t tell you what, or where, it’s a secret.

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“Poetry Club”? Niiiccee. [Fast Show fans will really like the alt text on this one!]

A dimly lit keyboard, plays jazz, sweet.

Dimly lit cymbals and keys…extra jazzzzy, mellow.

A dimly lit double bass, double jazz; jazz jazz! groovy.

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

People often ask me, at “Poetry Club” will there be whisky? “Of course!” I reply. It wouldn’t be much of a “Poetry Club” without Whisky, I mean Jazz, I mean poems… poems! poetry comes as standard. @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social

We look over the shoulder of a purple haired lady who is drinking a cocktail. Jazz plays in the background

A whisky old fashioned cocktail, and a drinks menu

We look over the shoulder of a blonde haired lady, who is filming something jazzy on her phone

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Bradford’s Best Kept Secret @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What are your plans for #WorldPoetryDay? Have you ever wondered what happens in @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social after they shut? @bradford2025.co.uk #Bradford2025 #BradfordsBestKeptSecret

Film poster for “A Night at the Museum” half visible in the darkness are dinosaur bones, a monkey, a lion and models of soldiers

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