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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've had it, my sister too. My friend who i worked with couldn't sleep in a room with mirrors or he'd get the hag.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh the hag is very real in Newfoundland!

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

But their still-living relatives will appreciate them being called menswear models.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ha, it's my cousin's family so can definitely be sure they aren't mannequins.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Charlie Heaton, by contrast, has gone so fully authentic Newf (only I'm allowed to use that word) that I'm honestly a little worried about him.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He is but he is the Newfoundland Fisherman Fantasy I never knew I had so we are going to cut him some slack.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some Newfoundland accents are extremely Irish, straight out of Waterford/Wexford/Cork. But most are more of a blend of West Country and Irish, esp where this is meant to be set.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Charlie Heaton's accent is the best fake Newfoundland accent I've ever heard (not perfect, but good). The other fake ones are too Irish (Hartnett, Davis); but there are plenty of real ones because there are a lot of cast who are Newfoundlanders (i.e. Willow Kean, Joel Hynes).

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm watching Below on Netflix and it's really wild to see how accurately they've captured the material culture of Newfoundland, and even some of the history. My mother's home was relocated like the one in the opening scene, though of course it wasn't pulled under by a giant sea monster.

three men pull a house across the water with a small boat.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We're at episode four and also loving it. The accuracy is rather uncanny.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Iceberg ice market plot clearly ridic

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The attention to detail in the material culture is especially crazy.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Josh Harnetts accent isn't great but he is a very hot fisherman so we'll forgive him. You can spot the real accents but some of the fake ones aren't bad, esp Heaton's.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watching it now and it is so authentically referenced it's blowing our minds. Charlie Heaton has gone deep in. It's wild. No idea if it's any good yet, like as a show, but it's pretty accurate in terms of Newfoundland.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I find something terribly sad (& ironic) about immortalizing an animal on a bank note whose population has been decimated by habitat loss, vehicles, etc. There were 30 million hedgehogs in 1950s Britain. There are fewer than 1 million now. Hedgehogs are going extinct. So we stick them on our money.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...the solution is usually to do the goddam work. It's fascinating to watch how AI is reshaping but not at all reinventing the centuries-old conversation about the outsourcing, automation, and invisibilisation of care work and (to follow Verges) 'dirty work'. AI Bros are just so profoundly naive.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most women will recognize this guy who thinks it's a flex to get AI to read to his baby. Men often want nothing to do with the tender & quotidian work of child-rearing (hashtag NotAllMen). Men often 'hack' solutions for traditionally female labour that aren't actually solutions at all because...

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Confessions of a total dork: Sometimes, when I have forgotten to put something on my to-do list and then complete it anyway, I add it to my to-do list just so that I can check it off

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me: Ah. Jeffrey Archer is dead. My Partner: Who is Jeffrey Archer?

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The best place to end a beautiful golden day like this one.

A basket of apples hangs in an apple tree in dappled sunlight

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kid the Younger and his friends on the street play tag on scooters and they call it Scag.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know most people share this to demonstrate the horrors of police violence in the US, but I'm sharing it because Canadians and Australians ought to pause for thought too. We too often compare ourselves to the US when we should be comparing ourselves to the places that have 0.0.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kid the Younger and his friends on the street play tag on scooters and they call it Scag.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This man appears to be fundamentally confused between History and 'The Past'. And the word 'process'. And the word 'law'. And many other words.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You could say I have porcinus envy.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My cousin is torturing me with pictures of all the porcinis he is picking back home.

Too many porcinis for one cousin. A dozen lie on muddy ground

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This reminds me of the time I thought I got an exciting email from Donut Reply.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because of disruption at kings x, I had to cycle to Liverpool Street for my train and I need to ask... do they literally move the hoardings surrounding Liverpool Street Station every two weeks? Or are the gods trolling me and moving the actual station?

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've celebrated the first meal of the cod I caught and hauled back to the UK with a cod and chorizo stew. The Iberians really know how to treat a codfish, let me tell you.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's wordle goes out to all the Anastasia Krumpnik fans out there. Ifkyk...

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're redecorating Kid the Younger's room, and i suggested we go online to get some ideas of what he might like. 'Nah', he said. 'All the pictures will just be AI'. I love how much this generation is Not. Having. It.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right now, UKRI is not using AI for direct grant apps. They are trialling from 10 september a retrospective test to see if AI will make same decisions as humans for past apps. OP it's talking about an indirect funding app. But this means: not to late to protest/ change?.... (not hopeful)

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'Doesn't New York have its own President?' - Kid the Younger

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ach, this made me miss Ye Olde Twitter!

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beechnut shells under bike tyres must be in the running for one of the best sounds ever.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Old ladies immediately arrested and imprisoned for holding up signs to protest the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Far right thug uses what looks like an illegal knife to slash a boat, endangering a life. And here I am many hours later waiting for any kind of police action.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You guys I know I shouldn't talk about my students in public but I have just read so many great dissertations this week that I am compelled to crow about it.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'll let them know! Them and several others. You may regret this.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The tomato crop has been so good this year that my allotment neighbour's wife told him if he brings anymore home she'll put him in stocks and pelt him with them.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So, turns out this chilli referenced below was in fact a Naga 'Pit Viper' chilli, which at one point a few years ago was crowned 'hottest chilli in the world.' Kid the Elder's friend ate part of one. We came home to a patio covered in milk.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When presented with the woods, a bear shat.

In a recent study, pupils using AI saw their average homework score rise by 18% across all subjects after six months. But come exam time, the same students scored 20% below their classmates who had not called on AI’s help. We analyse the data: bit.ly/4xax1gs

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Or puts it on a plane to somewhere that would horrify his mother.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, won't someone spare a though for poor Teenage Son George at Oxford, whose classmates now all know he's in a twisted snapchat relationship with his mother.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You see, I used to think this. Now I think their bubble wall is so thick that they genuinely don't think anything is odd about this kind of behaviour.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Doing this to a teenage child is bad parenting for them and for the parent on so many levels, as the original op-ed itself demonstrates ('spin out? 'panic'? 'can breathe again'??) But when your son is nineteen--an adult by all legal definitions--doing this is not parenting at all. It is stalking.

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