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An Arizona man that fatally shot another male in a road-rage incident will be resentenced after an AI-generated video of the victim forgiving him was improperly used during sentencing. The initial judge said he felt that the AI-generated depiction of the victim portrayed “genuine forgiveness.”

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Awful news for a local archive, somewhat mitigated by the fact that many of the photos they held had been digitised and stored online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Archives and former World War One drill hall destroyed in blaze

The building in Coigach had also served as a village hall and venue for a piping school.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's really tedious to send a complaint to a supplier about their shoddy practices, and the response comes back as a regurgitated version of your words, spat out by an LLM. It's just showing that the supplier can't even be arsed enough with customers to get a human to respond with their own words.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Fellowship connecting civil servants with researchers opens for applications Programme funds public and civil servants to spend time in universities discussing their policy challenges with relevant academics" www.civilserviceworld.com//professions...

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Fellowship connecting civil servants with researchers opens for applications

Programme funds public and civil servants to spend time in universities discussing their policy challenges with relevant academics

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Delighted to hear the Lord President mention the issues being caused for the courts by AI generated junk, and the importance of avoiding wasting court time with it.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another excellent Jennifer Findlay doing fun things with smutty books! I myself have a collection of over 100 pre-2020 librarian-based dirty books 😈

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ladies and gentlemen, this is columbo no. 5 a little bit of me getting outta your hair a little bit of suspect standing there a little bit of facts about my wife a little bit of you killed him with that knife

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A webinar about the conservation and stabilisation of Anne Lister's ('Gentleman Jack') diaries, with all proceeds going to Lavender Menace Queer Books in Edinburgh to support their work preserving LGBTQ+ books? What a combination. Book up!! www.icon.org.uk/events/conse...

icon.org.uk

Conserving LGBT+ History Webinar: Anne Lister’s Journals

Learn all about the conservation of the diaries of “the first modern lesbian”!

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dear All Websites With News Sections: please, please, PLEASE put dates on your news items! Otherwise it's impossible to know if news items referring to things happening 'recently,' 'last week' or 'soon' exist in the past, present or the future!

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Did an induction. Gave them homemade tablet. We're now their favourite people.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair.

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels.

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Imagine if other professions got the same kind of TV and movie attention that cops do. *Gravelly VO* "In a city without remorse, In a world full of chaos... She brings order. It's ...The Librarian" [Montage of a woman stamping/sorting books, before leaping over a library cart with explosions]

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How did you spend your Sunday? Me, I spent it trying to see if it was still possible to ask for trial by combat rather than trial by jury in Scotland.... www.linkedin.com/pulse/duel-j...

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To duel, or not to duel?

In December 1984 an Edinburgh post office was robbed at gunpoint by two masked men. Using a shotgun, they compelled the two terrified female staff to give them money before they escaped.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today's random musing: advocates can appear in the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, but there's nothing to stop them (other than it involving spending more money than needed) appearing in the sheriff or JP courts, is there?

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What was going on in Parliament House in 1703? Were people selling butter illegally?

Screenshot of an NRS record entry which says "Creamers of Parliament House vs Keepers of Parliament House : Decreet"

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My NRS reader's ticket has expired, so I need to go get a new one. This requires two passport photos. The only passport photos I have are the ones I got taken for the original card to be issued. I don't look any different. Can't I just reuse the photos? Also: why no option for digital photos?

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A nice handful of Stevenson bottle stoppers for the collection. Fun wee Donoghue v Stevenson case (AKA the Paisley Snail) related items!

Three bottle stoppers for glass bottles from various eras. Each stopper is different, with one having raised text saying "Stevenson Paisley, estd 70 years", another having depressed text saying the same thing, and a other saying "D. Stevenson Paisley, Glen Lane"

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I would really like it if people stopped assuming that gavels are currently, or have ever been, used in Scottish courts. Or any court in the UK, in fact.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I kind of find Bloomsbury's commitment to making their ebook platform as awful as possible quite impressive. Want to be able to actually find an ebook? Want an author to go with the book title? Want an edition number? Want an ISBN? All apparently outrageous and illogical demands to make.

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Shea Whitney: At This Point, It's Getting Ridiculous

ALT: Shea Whitney: At This Point, It's Getting Ridiculous

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social where have the bus shelters gone on South Bridge on the West side? Is it part of an approach to reduce pavement congestion during the Festival, or is it a planned shelter replacement programme?

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ah yes, thanks Word, for helping me out with the well known issues of...which persecution.

Screenshot of a line in a document which says "and began an era of witch persecution". The word 'witch' is highlighted, and below it Word is suggesting that the proper word to be used in this line is "which", giving the sentence "and began an era of which persecution"

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ah yes, women getting to have equal rights with men has absolutely led to the complete collapse of society now. Clearly. *sigh* Source: Edinburgh Evening News, 17 March 1950, 6

Screenshot of a newspaper headline. It says "Lord Lyon and the Lessons of History: Scotland's most ancient tribunal, the Court of Lord Lyon King of Arms, believes that some modern ideas of sex equality are dangerous, that they may lead to the downfall of society, and that those who advocate them forget the lessons of history."

Screenshot of newspaper text which says that women having equal standing in a family will lead to the break up of marriages.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In things I wish I hadn't seen, but now I have and you will too... New research published in the Journal of the Institute of Conservation recommends PPE for handling all red rot because of the risk of heavy metal contamination (lead, arsenic, cadmium). #GLAMS 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I enjoy when I come across snippets about historical judiciary that show they were just normal folks too. Like the Lord President who had an illegitimate son while he was Solicitor General for Scotland. Son never inherited his father's Baronetcy as he was not "lawfully begotten.”

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm just a girl, standing in front of Trove's website (again), asking it to explain to why me trying to search it to research the site of the old Inverness court and prison was such an outrageous thing?

Screenshot of the text "blocked by Front Door", shown by the Trove website because I made the outrageous move of trying to search the holdings on the site. Which is the purpose of the site.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Good news - Karen's Bricks & Bones meticulously-made model of the lost Union Corner has been bought by Network Rail, and will be displayed in Glasgow Central Station. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Miniature model of Glasgow landmark destroyed by fire goes on display

The model - which depicts the businesses affected by the blaze - can now be seen by the public at Glasgow Central Station.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The main improvement I'd want from the British Newspaper Archive is for the search within bookmarked articles to search your notes on the articles, not the article text. The OCR on the original may be rubbish, it's my notes that make it make sense! blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2026/07/14/t...

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The new British Newspaper Archive arrives on 28 July

We're delighted to announce that the new British Newspaper Archive will launch on Tuesday 28 July 2026, with a range of brand new features.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Another event where I was successfully socially awkward and managed to appear mostly incoherent in at least 3 separate conversations. You'd think I'd know how to do conversations by now but the later the event the stronger the introversion.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Look! @ashleydouglas.bsky.social fabulous new book about Scotland's 16th century Sappho, Marie Maitland! If you want some Scots political and social history, some Scots-language romance and some heartbreak, she's got ya covered!

Cover of the book "With My Own Hand" by Ashley Douglas, held up in front of a shelf of law books.

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

NB cyber attack was October 2023 if you were wondering if you should be protecting important digital infrastructure at all

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not only do they make delicious baked goods, Tunnocks also sponsor a prize for postgraduate students and early career researchers using Scottish archives and archives holding Scottish materials. www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/the-t...

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The Tunnock Prize 2026 now open! - Scottish Council on Archives

29 June 2026

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I think the guy who was outside work last week smoking the world's most potent weed is back again, cos my window is open and my office reeks.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Unexpected job title of the day: "an advocate and sometime kelp-agent."

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

[To the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Buckinghamshire Archives Finds in a box an old thing that nobody has seen Turns into a meme

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It’s paperback day for #StoryofaMurder ! In honour of that, let’s answer a few questions about the Crippen murder… hop aboard…

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just found the most egregiously racist language in a text from 1882. Putting a note on the catalogue record so that nobody comes across that language without warning. Yeesh.

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Jamie Kellett (Heida Reed) Says 'No Need For That'

ALT: Jamie Kellett (Heida Reed) Says 'No Need For That'

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