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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

20 AUD according to AI overview (but AI is wrong about almost everything). They also entice people to vote by having 'Democracy sausages' available outside polling stations, apparently!

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While Pavarotti was partial to Japanese cars. His favourite was the Nissan Dorma.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I gather that Meta has blocked the Lula campaign page.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The problem was the AI detection tool we used turned out to be totally unreliable. Much of what it detected as AI-generated/-assisted turned out not to be, hence every such viva I was involved in resulted in the student being found ‘not guilty’. 2/2

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was an SL in HE until last year, by which time students using AI for coursework was a thing. If the AI detection tool we used when marking showed more than a certain %age of student’s work was AI-generated, then we viva-ed the student. 1/2

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Different scenario but I once attended a job interview where they gave me a cappucino which turned out to be the most delicious I'd ever had, but was also as hot as lava. The interview was a disaster and petered out just three minutes in, but I refused to leave until I'd finished my cappucino.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alex who? Never heard of him!

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She sometimes refers to them, for variety's sake, as my Brezhnev eyebrows.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Damn. I forgot that was happening today. Will have to give it a whirl next month.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That day was long ago in my case. Your post reminded me to ask my wife to trim my eyebrows. I shall be revisiting my misspent youth by going to a gig tonight, and old man eyebrows (or my Denis Healey eyebrows as my wife calls them) would have spoiled the youthful look I'm going for.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The alternative, as has happened in various places at various times in history, is, when the person the statue was originally supposed to represent has fallen out of favour, is to make small alterations, add/subtract an attribute or two, and rebrand as a statue of someone else entirely.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Could mean anything other than jeans, gym-wear, shorts, tee-shirts, flip-flops, crocs etc.

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns. One person who had seen the whole report described it to the Guardian as “apocalyptic”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The expression was "thinking caps" where I grew up.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Or, to put it another way, the two things are not always mutually exclusive. It is possible both to 'really believe' something, and for the thing that you really believe to be a conspiracy theory if you're incredibly gullible/an idiot.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This reminds me strongly of the emblem of my Lancashire ancestors seen here in the church in Standish with the initials of my great x7-grandfather.

Wooden pew end featuring low-relief carving showing a stylised (i.e. not naturalistic) owl standing with the body of a rodent (perhaps a rat) in its talons. To the lower left of the design is an uppercase R, to the lower left an uppercase. To the left and right off the pew end can be seen the red seat cushions on the pew, with hassocks hanging from the back of the pie in front. At the top of the pic, daylight streams in through the church windows.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lovely. I became well acquainted with his work during my short time as a junior curator at NMW (as it then was) in Cardiff, having first discovered him during my Art History degree. I didn't have to look far to find that I still have my copy of the catalogue of the 1982 Tate exhibition catalogue.

Cover of catalogue of Richard Wilson exhibition with artist's name in uppercase lettering over an image (a detail from Wilson's c. 1765 painting 'View of Hounslow Heath) with seated figure in red with broad-brimmed straw hat in foreground. Grassy heathland beyond with a body of water just to right off centre and trees to the right of that. More distant trees in the background. Blue sky with large white clouds above.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a half-French person living in Britain, that sounds entirely normal to me.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's no excuse for the ridiculously misguided belief that your job as a writer of drivel for a right wing rag gives you the moral authority to sit in supercilious judgment over others.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I always thought Fleabag was little more than a more youthful, supposedly cooler and edgier, Miranda rip-off.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not sure if anyone really rates any of them in the sense of aesthetically appreciating any artistry/creativity that may have gone into making them. Lots of people seem to enjoy watching them (though, personally I've no clue why), but that's not the same as rating them.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was a Corbyn supporter but am very staunchly pro-Ukraine. As a French/British dual national, I am very worried about the prospect of the second round of the French presidential election next year being a choice between two pro-Russia a-holes, Le Pen and Mélenchon.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also, the source he quote tweets misspells the surname Miliband.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lovely! Taken from Garret Hostel Lane bridge?

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Presumably it no longer has a smoking section?

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I thought they were cameras that only capture footage of things that are completely worthless. Short for floccinaucinihilipilification cameras.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought it was "Free DDT" as in "Get your free dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane here!"

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MPs' salaries are paid by the taxpayer, so perhaps they should be banned from spending any of what they're paid on alcohol, cigarettes or gambling.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I shall try not to be offended. Je suis (moitié-) français!

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mmm. Making me wonder if it might be an idea to reconnect the old out-house toilet out the back of ours. Best of both worlds - a proper toilet + the night air.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yet I'm quite certain that all of our French family think of my sister, her children and me as the English cousins.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While I tell people I am half English and half French, I am actually 17/32 (53-ish%) English and sadly only 39% French, thanks to a French great-great grandmother having shacked up with a half-English, quarter French and quarter German bloke (and a arrière x2-grandpère who married a Swiss woman).

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still a controversial subject in that the French days 'huit jours' when they mean a week, and 'une quinzaine' for a fortnight.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But existing forests are mainly just small remnants of vast ones that existed centuries ago. I'd go further and say that we need to start reversing the deforestation of our planet.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I only ever received ones asking me if I wrote things I knew that I definitely couldn't have written because they were on academic topics I knew nothing about, i.e. ones that fell entirely outside my own field.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The best coffee in Paris is to be found in traditional Paris cafés, not in US-style 'coffee shops'.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When I was a kid, I thought that Esso customers were putting Tony the Frosties tiger in their tanks, as he and the Esso tiger were very similar looking.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exactly the opposite for me.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The ‘in particular’ suggests that this is not an exhaustive list, i.e. there are other things, perhaps dozens or even hundreds of them, that are also prohibited but which they are not going to tell you about.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Brings back memories. I went to primary school close by in Mortlake.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Unless of course, one is preparing for the day when one has lost control of the whole of the rest of one's country, other than one's capital city, and when said city is under siege from one's enemies.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It never ceases to dismay how common it is for those who started on the left to veer sharply to the right in getting older. It doesn’t seem that long ago that Syed was standing as a parliamentary candidate for Labour. He joined the Tory party last year. Perhaps he should have stuck to table-tennis

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He isn't on the rise. Reform were topping the polls six months ago, had slipped to second place behind Labour by about three months ago, and according to some recent polls, they've now dropped to third place, below not only Labour but also the Tories.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And he seems to be anapostrophic.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Misread the screenshotted tweet from the Adam Smith Center as saying "We were thrilled to officially welcome our FAIL 2026 Senior Leadership fellows..." Would be highly appropriate in Truss's case.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

His appearance put me in mind of Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon (which can of course be seen at University College London) - with added 21st century animatronics.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

C’est une bonne question! Peut-être devrions-nous la poser à Birmingham City Council.

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fines for pavement parking are now enforceable by LAs throughout England and Wales, not just in London. See from 1:12 in this video: youtu.be/5SI7rzF8TII?...

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Massive UK Parking Law Changes Just Dropped! — IMMEDIATE FINES!

YouTube video by Better Call Kal

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