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Dr. Jenny Alexander

@drjennya.bsky.social
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Lectures in Media & Politics UK (views own not employer's). Teaches Enviro Comms. Born 325ppm CO2, Loves human-created art > AI, LGB w the T 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 9h
Wow - apparent unilateral notice fr @brightonuni.bsky.social to withdraw from ALL prior agreements w union brightonucu.bsky.social - wonder how Brighton will do in the National Student Survey next year (staff working conditions are students' learning conditions!)? V. sorry to hear this - solidarity!
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Brighton UCU (@brightonucu.bsky.social)
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 9h
"An overreliance on AI for answers erodes our cognitive fitness. " In David McKee's kids' book The Magician Who Lost His Magic, Melric the magician began using magic to lazily avoid everyday effort (e.g. making his bed) and lost his magic as a result. Unfortunately relevant...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 11h
Ruin a book by adding a word: Far from the Madding Crowd Funding
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I see Hegseth has awarded himself an iron cross - no emoji can capture the mixture of laugh-cry and horror this regime constantly brings, but CWS does it
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Next will come US pressure on Ukraine to stop drone strikes on Russian oil refineries, and a GOP mid-terms election strategy which blames higher fuel prices in the US on Ukraine (not the US Strait of Hormuz fiasco) - democracy in Europe is in a vice between twin malevolencies
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Perfidious Columbia
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A huge political mistake by the UK Greens and not a good look that the leader (Polanski) was absent from the vote
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour pls hire decent comms people if you're doing this - there's so much material. Make those who lied to the public own it - Rees Mogg's defunct "Minister of Brexit Opportunities" (no one could find any) Boris' example ("champagne in pints" ffs). But be Mamdani-positive - Breturn freedoms
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Infokomposter Mönche
Alt: The monks from the British absurdist comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) dressed in hooded brown robes walking solemnly in formation whilst whacking their own foreheads with wooden boards - a gif for a face-palm writ large!
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Blake'S 7 B7 Episode D06
Alt: The rebels Dayna and Soolin (both women) in space uniform disguise. Dayna is sarcastically saluting. From the British TV show Blake's 7 Episode D06 "Headhunter"
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oleaginous letter of the week...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wasn't alleging that murdered Sandy Hook kids were fake people/ "crisis actors" a form of identity theft? The Onion's Infowars takeover is precisely the law of karma this dude seems to be preaching. Faking being oblivious to that - pitiful end-state drivelling of a burned out outrage machine
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mogg has been flirting w the far right for ages; he's not a defender of multiculturalism. "Mongrel people" in the old-fashioned sense he's using it, meant acknowledging a mix of Celtic Britons, Romans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans in English ancestry... www.independent.co.uk/voices/lette...
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Letters: Why do we let Jacob Rees-Mogg off over his far-right connections?
Please send letters to letters@independent.co.uk
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As the RNLI says, "Anyone can drown; no one should."
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And at the same time... "I believe that strong families are the foundation of American society, and I oppose efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman." boebert.house.gov/issues/pro-l... This why the outing campaign of the 1990s happened...
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Pro-Life and Family Values
As a mother of four children, I believe that life begins at conception, and I will always defend life. Every human being has inherent value and dignity regardless of their stage of development, abilit...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Get ready for some truly execrable content attempting Starship Troopers without the irony...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This Asmodei essay worries about "problems in execution" but not about problems in extinction; AI is here dematerialised; the climate catastrophe of energy/water hungry data centres absent. The other big lacuna is the assumption the US will still be a democracy: darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Femoids love me" - ahh the smell of desperation: outfrontmagazine.com/new-poll-sho...?
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New Poll Shows Shift Among Women Voters Ahead of Midterms - OUT FRONT Magazine
The survey, conducted by Bellwether Research and Consulting, found that women currently favor Democrats 47% to 39%.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The horror of AI generated slop, and the indifference towards its social harms from social media platforms where it is posted, continues... I do not want the world it is manufacturing, all while accelerating climate breakdown. Futurism are doing great journalism in this space @futurism.com
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hello Lyndsey, ahh I'm so glad for you that your Dad had a good death. Still, losing a parent is a big life event, so take good care of yourself 🌻 x (Jenny, from long ago Evering Road days)
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Robot Slips on Banana Peel
Alt: A Dog-Robot turns a corner in a home on a wooden floor, near some judiciously placed banan peels' it slips, and goes down
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 04/09/2026
So glad I came across this gem. 💎 🎵 by Margot Darling
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From outside the US (I'm in the UK) the Google map itself still says Lake Ontario (but the side-bar gives both names). It's frightening to watch the attempted creation of a Soviet-style alternative reality in the US (a key hallmark of totalitarianism)
A screenshot of a Google Maps search for Lake Ontario taken from the UK 3 Sept 26 showing the lake on the map itself still labelled "Lake Ontario" but the description in the side bar saying "Lake Ontario (Lake America)"
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They are a Trumpian party and I for one don't want a "Farage Albert Hall" and goons with shock gloves in our future
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Important as the research on the impact of cognitive offloading starts to arrive: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
THIS IS THE WAY - Education is faced with an issue of inter-generational justice; youth should not be deprived of the ability to think critically, hard-won over generations (e.g increasing literacy rates), by the seduction of GenAI cognitive offloading, leading to dependency on tech oligarchy
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The age of slopaganda continues to go well I see
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh great, this guy gets private views at the British Museum now? www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Peter Thiel Palantir
Alt: A gif of Peter Thiel's character in Southpark giving his deranged sing-a-long exposition about the Anti-Christ to a bunch of the non-plussed Southpark kids
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🤣Meanwhile, here is 12thC writer John Wallingford complaining that incoming Viking men were stealing away the local women because of their <checks notes> excellent bathing and grooming habits www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/vikin...
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Viking Male Grooming: History of York
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I regret to inform fellow Brits...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some good news, now the era of climate disaster is upon us...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think back to Greta Thunberg's prophetic "How dare you!" speech at the UN in 2019: "entire ecosystems are collapsing.. and all you can talk about is money" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn
Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI datacentres are part of the climate crisis: "Early in the AI boom, in 2023, US data centers consumed 176 terawatt-hours of electricity, roughly as much as the entire nation of Ireland... that’s expected to double or even triple as soon as 2028." www.lincolninst.edu/publications...
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Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 27/08/2026
Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This trend, we've seen on the ground for a while - hence why the current slash-and-burn of courses across the country, esp Humanities & Social Sciences, reduces choice for students without wealthier parents - the opposite of Labour values, but 🦗🦗🦗https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70gy180e8lo
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More students planning to live at home for uni over 'insane' living costs
Students like Jessica say they worry about missing out on student life, but feel they have no choice but to stay at home.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Excellent journalism highlighting the toxic ideology of "race realism" and its funders
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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think this fantastic essay is probably the last word on the Odyssey discourse newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The Odyssey Wars
Christopher Nolan’s latest film is a commentary on a world where rules have collapsed and might makes right; it is also a repudiation of the right’s culture wars
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I cannot with how hard Grok is paging Dr. Freud - the cigarette, the train, the rain, the rocket, the horse, the black hole, the rose... eugh
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I feel this deeply - the march of the slop machine vs freedom of thought "..an iron curtain that comes down between a young person and their potential for thinking, for experiment and conquering frustration, for stamina and for invention – and thereby, between the young people and their freedom"
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Bin off the fash with this cheery Count Binface ad 🌞
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You remain indefatigable in the face of oligarchy and I am always impressed
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Reality has never sounded more like an @theonion.com headline
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As they're replaced by lockable unisex rows of cubicles, I miss the public women's toilet as a social space (which to be clear, I've always been completely happy for trans women to be included in). Others may disagree. I think there's a great sociology PhD in there.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Loved it , but Division 12 what are you doing - leave that ghost-ship where you found it!
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Oligarchitecture of misery
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