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Flic French

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She/her 🏳️‍🌈 Archivist, librarian, lesbian (not necessarily in that order). Queering collections is the new gay agenda.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Carol Ann Duffy is a creation of the Jim Henson Workshop
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 01/10/2026
This National Poetry day please remember than poetry isn't real. It's a conspiracy by typesetters.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Defense of the humanities has to include all of the branches and areas of study that other people defended for years until they didn't have jobs and voices anymore.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This. Libraries are places where HUMANS with EDUCATION and EXPERTISE help you navigate information and connect you with resources. Data centers are warehouses. Libraries are not warehouses. They can be repositories, but they don't just store. They're alive. Support the fuck out of the PEOPLE.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/08/2026
Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
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I haven't heard people talking about this, but AI is an absolute game changer for doing historical research. History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts— a massive logistical/memory problem made so delightfully easy with agentic research. 1/
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I did an OCR conversion of all my PDFs to make text files, built a semantic search index, and can just let my agents roam free to answer questions, fact-check, dig up interesting stories, quotes, etc. It takes a lot of the hard work out, as well as a lot of the human error. 2/2
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 01/07/2026
time for Wrath Month bitches, this one is for the trans homies
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/06/2026
My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.
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Fake Muppet Show Guests @fakemuppetguests.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star The Rosetta Stone!
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found.” For literal years, Israel has perpetrated genocide against Palestinians. This is documented in report after report. So much of the world is complicit with this horror.
theguardian.com
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist
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Flic French @justflic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ah, to have the confidence of a 1960s man looking at the technically complicated work he’s “completed” himself rather than outsourcing to a qualified professional, thinking “she’ll be right” and immediately destroying many many boxes of material with intrinsic value.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Top screen: Slurm Slug looks at Fry (who has Meta AI over him) "that's Meta AI you can ask it anything"

Professor " ask it to fuck off"
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Today is World Press Freedom Day, and we stand with journalists and media workers everywhere, supporting their right to report without fear or favour. A free, independent media is essential to our democracy. #WorldPressFreedomDay Image: UNESCO/Till Noon
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New "The Oxford dictionary defines..." just dropped jade.io/article/1225...
Can ChatGPT aid in construing the Lease?

The applicant sought to rely on the evidence from Dr Bannerman on the answer given by ChatGPT to two questions:

(a)          What is the ordinary meaning of the phrase “medical centre”?; and

(b)          Would a skin cancer clinic or cosmetic clinic, where medical practitioners provide specialised medical services, fall within the ordinary meaning of the phrase “medical centre”?

The use of artificial intelligence in the form of large language models such as  ChatGPT is emerging as a tool useful for many tasks undertaken by those practising in the legal profession. It has been described as having “some promise” for judicial officers in other jurisdictions; see for example Snell v United Specialty Insurance Company (2024) 102 F 4th 1208 at pages 50-1; 26-7; 53 and 29.  But I am not satisfied of the relevance of its use in this case and I therefore reject the admission of Dr Bannerman’s affidavit sworn 5 September 2025 because:

(a)          the construction task in this case is confined in terms of the permitted extrinsic material to be considered;

(b)          as discussed in paragraph 72 above, resorting to tools such as a dictionary to ascertain meaning (which is akin to what the applicant seeks to use ChatGPT for in this case) is generally not useful;

(c)          the questions (particularly the second one) lack context and are framed in such a way that any answer would not assist in the construction task;

(d)          the accuracy of any answer provided by a Generative AI chatbot is unknown and without checking the source of information may make any answer unreliable;
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report
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UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report
Experts put estimate for economic harm done by 200 years of chattel slavery at $2tn, but stress this is ‘not an invoice’
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....
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dr mo and mr normal @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Enough discourse. I think the Muppets are the modern comedia dell'Arte
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I got time today, so let's dig into why this article is a crock of shit. There is no ethical use of genAI and any librarian arguing otherwise is lying to you, so ignorant they should be ignored, or drifting. 1/ www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...
choice360.org
AI and the Librarian: Reconciling Personal Ethics with AI as a Professional Necessity - Choice 360
Despite their concerns with it, librarians can't refuse to engage with AI, so what does AI ethics look like for today's academic librarian?
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
thank you australian government for protecting my eyes from seeing whatever filth this pervert posted🙏
Elmo:
Beep beep! Elmo coming through

(Blurred out image with a warning that it has been age-restricted for adult content)
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 24/04/2026
“Sometimes people need to make the tough choices,” said the man too scared to properly tax gas companies chaser.com.au/national/alb...
Albanese tells child to hand over wheelchair so it can be melted down for weapons parts
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If you wanna ascribe ai a personhood its that of a demon spirit, it can pretend to be human but it is not and you can never understand it and it will say and do things harmful to you that are perfectly normal to it cause it is an alien entity pretending at humanity to lure you in
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds
The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 13/04/2026
gonna tell my grandkids this was microsoft copilot
inflatable rubber pilot from the movie "airplane"
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
if tori amos can do it, so can you
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 08/04/2026
I will bet it never crossed any of these people's minds that this indicates a perception of bias *away* from dignity and respect for trans and disabled people. It only goes one way. Conservatives are once again granted the position of "neutrality" and "reason" that is always denied to progressives.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Why does it look like a giant Tupperware container?
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Flic French @justflic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Come and work with us at UQ and play a crucial role in our developing digital preservation program! I have 16mm films coming out of my ears this week and I want to make them accessible 🎥💾💿
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
People keep comparing this to a lot of 1. dead creators who can't harm anyone anymore 2. leaving out the fact that she is a billionaire who is currently harming trans people, directly, by funding orgs & initiatives. Separating art from artist is not more important than actual lives.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/03/2026
I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again
an old wooden cathedral door with a hole in the bottom through which a cat pokes its head
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/03/2026
Sorry but I'll always laugh at these Unlike history, the Fukuyama jokes will never end
Instagram comments begging Francis Fukuyama to end history
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel
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Andy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win
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Flic French @justflic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The attacks by the IDF on Palestinian cultural heritage, including archives, amount to ethnic cleansing. This has been evident since 2023. www.ica.org/ica-adopts-s...
ica.org
ICA Adopts Statement in Support of Palestinian Archivists and Archival Institutions
ICA Adopts Statement in Support of Palestinian Archivists and Archival Institutions
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The oreo is as important as oxygen
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Flic French @justflic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
All of this
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kylie b @roguesquirrel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young
jenna maroney
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Flic French @justflic.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Really didn’t have “Chris Minns draws from the Jon Bjelke-Petersen playbook” on my 2026 scorecard but I guess that dead asshole is popping up all over the place these days.
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/02/2026
Sabrina Carpenter being on The Muppet Show makes perfect sense. I think she’s basically a muppet to begin with. Like in the field of contemporary celebs she’s gotta be in like, the top ten of obvious muppets masquerading as people.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Stop saying underage women. They are children.
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Flic French @justflic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A botanical pharmacopeia called Maslov’s Hierarchy of Weeds
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 03/02/2026
that's quite literally a career-ending ethical violation, friendo
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