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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 7h

If there's one groups in society who NEED to stop using AI to make resources, slides, posters, it's teachers. You're literally showing your students that you used AI to do your own homework. You look like a moron. It's shameful. Do not do this.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 9h

Hmmm. How to reconcile ‘Tomorrow is a new day’ with ‘Live for the moment!’ Confucius would have known!

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 9h

At this time of year we have an electric fan heater for an instant blast of comfort first thing. The central heating (which takes about 20 minutes to take effect) can usually wait till Octobers out.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 12h

He’ll still get the FIFA gong. What more could anyone wish for?

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13h

Not a bad idea at all, though it would cost us daft Brits a small fortune in exchange commission and loss. Money talks, whatever its colour!

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13h

In Hull, as God is my witness. I believe I had a half pint of IPA and an Irish Whiskey. Minor sorrow drowning event. Barkeep accepted it, I suspect, as he was off to Latvia soon and could do with the note. Which whiskey? you ask. Can’t recall. Not the really good stuff, but it worked!

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13h

This is down to widespread terror about *anything* more than 1 Standard Deviation outside the peak of *any* bell curve. That fear is OK and a matter for the individual. But stoking it into into suppression and oppression of the ‘offending’ minority is not.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13h

Keep them on their toes by changing your usual order every 5 or 6 visits :)

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13h

Yep. Terrifying and yet liberating!

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 13h

I actually paid for drinks in a local pub with a €20 note recently. Quite a triumph 😊

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14h

Know by what route payment reaches them?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As Trump gifts Putin a financial and propaganda victory, let's take a moment to remember all those British politicians who have endorsed the US President and repeatedly hitched themselves to his egregious bandwagon.

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Nigel Farage Finds It Boring

ALT: Nigel Farage Finds It Boring

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 14h

Only two dotted lines separate my local Reform Councillor from Trump. Shocking thought.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20h

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

A kind thought, Jon. How’d you get on?

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

Hunting, probably. They just look relaxed cos they’re so good at it.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

That’s when the competent ones slide into position.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

He’s *such* an asset to those darker, quieter zealots working relentlessly behind the scenes to create the new ‘America’. I wonder what form the turning point will take when they decide to get rid of him and install the real thing.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

There’s no virtue in putting it off. Get the heating on and at least pray in comfort for those who haven’t any 🙂

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

Aw, look. He even has a copy of the holy scriptures tucked under his little arm!

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Keep your Great British lawn and your garden borders secure with the… WEEPING TOMMO™ From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

In TV vox pops around the Referendum time, a lady in Essex remarked that she’d vote ‘Leave’ because she fancied ‘a change’. It would be so … English if the key to arguing for the Euro turned out to be “Fancy a bit of a change? How about switching to the Euro!”

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 15h

We who can string words and thoughts, harmonies and collages together should open our hearts and minds to AI in the same way our parents set aside their quaint recipes, cooking pots and hand-crafted dishes and said ‘Welcome’ to simulacra made with vast machinery and chemicals in remote steel sheds.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16h

“Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16h

It’s been … sobering … to realise that *cruelty* is and always was such a widespread and powerful driving force among humans. We know it but seem powerless to evolve. This must be why, from time to time in our history, we have framed to send ourselves various Prophets, Messiahs and Saviours.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 16h

Hmmm. Never tried one of those, but I’d love a go!

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 17h

That pine tree may have saved me from a worse fate!

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 17h

Ah. A fellow desdichada 😞 Years since, learning to ski, I first knew that instant when, beyond a tipping point, you become unrecoverably out of control and can only toss your head back and embrace the mad, painful rush toward that pine tree. Wordle 1,939 X/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oddly, “What’s in it for me?” is also the thrust of current recruitment advertising for the British Army. Reminds me of John F. Kennedy’s ‘My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country’ in other times.

British Army recruitment ad showing three guys levelling a window frame

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yet she stood for a party, one of whose flagship, headline policies is to stop other refugees like her from getting in, staying here safely and thriving.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... “Mob rule” ? Oh f**k off! What he means is that no one - esp anyone with principles/ethics (because that would make him look even worse) should get in the way of his income stream! THIS is what I don’t like about🌹 - they tolerate ppl like Watson and say nothing!

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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is. I like how colour begins to assert itself through the clothes in foreground.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trapped! Wordle 1,938 5/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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