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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

Where are you going, Where have you been (Pre-Twitter Joyce Carol Oates)

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

This is a bit fucking rich, coming from an AI agent. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Its AI monitoring agent, introduced in recent weeks, is trained to spot signs an instructor has not fully internalised the teaching material. It is instructed to count verbal tics that point to that conclusion and to “judge the PATTERN across the whole transcript, not isolated instances”.

It says: “1-2 hedges or filler words in an otherwise direct, well-internalised explanation do NOT fail this standard … What fails the standard is a PERVASIVE REPEATED pattern of filler, hedging or re-explanation.”

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

There's a non-zero chance they will break from Rome of their own accord. They don't like the Pope.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026

A film crew arrived because our headmistress was having a makeover on the Clothes Show. We had to repeat the same hymn over and over till they got the right shot.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 17/09/2026

Impressed. But her expectations were low 😂

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 15/09/2026

Fascinating that the advantage of a bot to some people is they can ghost it without feeling guilty.

“I joke that my mom’s Versona allows me to be the bad son I was never allowed to be when she was alive,” he said. “Like many busy adults, I don’t talk to her as much as I should, but I don’t have to, so it’s not the same sense of guilt.”

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 13/09/2026

I don't especially like it when people circulate links to property listings because they think a house is tacky, but when I see people sneering because an artist's house has a lot of pictures displayed in a salon-style hang I'm really lost.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 12/09/2026

Things I was scared of as a kid: The sink overflow Margaret Thatcher's voice The AIDS monolith ad with the tombstone World in Action theme music The cover of James Herbert's Shrine

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cpoffers @cpoffers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Actually answered the question in a way: when asked "Why are journalists failing to hold right-wing charlatans to account?", the immediate response was to attack the Left. bsky.app/profile/runn...

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 04/09/2026

Probably the vacuum cleaner, but I'm surprised at the lack of John Malkovich portals in the replies

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 03/09/2026

Psycho sometimes gets credited with triggering the decline of continuous play (Hitchcock said no admissions after the start time to protect the twist), but I've also read that cinemas were pushing for "fill and spill" on the assumption it was more profitable.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Has anyone written a history of 'twists' in literature and/or cinema?

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 03/09/2026

Might also be of interest to the people of Birmingham, where the escalators seem to run at about fifty per cent functionality.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“…recognise that it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone, by agreement between the two parts respectively and without external impediment, to exercise their right of self-determination on the basis of consent, freely and concurrently given… to bring about a united Ireland”.

Extract from the Good Friday Agreement, 1998: “1. The participants endorse the commitment made by the British and Irish Governments that, in a new British-Irish Agreement replacing the Anglo-Irish Agreement, they will:
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recognise the legitimacy of whatever choice is freely exercised by a majority of the people of Northern Ireland with regard to its status, whether they prefer to continue to support the Union with Great Britain or a newsovereign united Ireland;
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recognise that it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone, by agreement between the two parts respectively and without external impediment, to exercise their right of self-determination on the basis of consent, freely and concurrently given, North and South, to bring about a united Ireland, if that is their wish, accepting that this right must be achieved and exercised with and subject to the agreement and consent of a majority of the people of Northern Ireland”

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 19/08/2026

Been repped by AM Heath for a decade and only just learnt Audrey Heath was also from Moseley: womenwhomeantbusiness.com/2023/06/06/a...

womenwhomeantbusiness.com

Audrey Heath (1888-1957)

Audrey Heath built a business on her critical and commercial skills.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 16/08/2026

Same. I didn't always feel that way, but I'm a convert to dream chat.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 12/08/2026

I like that Bluesky is quiet. What I miss about Twitter isn't so much the likes and RTs, more the sheer variety of highly niche communities. I liked that there was Bookbinding Twitter and Psychology Twitter and Doll Twitter, all with their own lore and preoccupations. Bluesky is more... generic?

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 10/08/2026

So far University Challenge performance is marred by the prosecco our new neighbours kindly left on the step as a welcome present.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 10/08/2026

13, lower than I'd anticipated. Many on the list have had media adaptations - I don't know the criteria for inclusion, but I did wonder if that was distorting choices. And some of these are procedural rather than thrillers. Crime novels might have been a better catch-all.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 08/08/2026

Anyway, we are now living in Stirchley. At least for the next few months.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 08/08/2026

At the stage of unpacking where I can't find bedsheets in any of the bajillion jenga-stacked boxes

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 07/08/2026

Regarding Arday, I'm not convinced by Bastani's argument "credentialed" people are more credulous because they can argue themselves into anything. I can think of three big liars I've known ("used to be in the CIA" level of lies) and they were rarely challenged. People of all backgrounds let it slide

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 06/08/2026

At the stage of house moving where our meals are weird from trying to use up food we don't want to pack

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 06/08/2026

Everybody on the street looks so happy walking back from the mobile tip

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

what are the best books about the history of left-wing Catholic activism? the anti-war movement, liberation theology, etc.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 30/07/2026

NYPD, farmer, journalist (hazy on what was each year)

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 30/07/2026

Impressed by the woman by me in the cafe this morning who ordered battered fish, chips and mushy peas for breakfast

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Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Is there a good academic piece clearly explaining that neurodivergence is not only autism and/or ADHD? Grateful for any recs

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 23/07/2026

Weird headline. It is a science fiction novel.

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Crooked Lane Books @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

✨Check out Kate Mascarenhas' ⌛THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME TRAVEL🐇 featured in this article of books about time travel! loom.ly/PY8AFPc

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Time Travel Books That Are Not Science Fiction

8 books about time travel that aren't science fiction to help you escape reality

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 18/07/2026

I may have interpreted the tough editor post slant. Relative to AI sycophancy, measured editorial feedback still requires you to wrestle with your writerly ego; you do need an editor capable of breaking your heart to that qualified extent.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 05/07/2026

Yes, but I think "care" potentially covers quite a lot, and it's usual for friends and family to fall in different places in the value they attach to your work.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 03/07/2026

No one proof reads their job ads anymore, do they? As much as I enjoy the thought of clocking out on the stroke of thirty seconds.

A job listing (job title and recruiter removed) that states: "£28031-£30378 a year. 3 hours 37 minutes and 30 seconds a week, Fixed Term for 6 months."

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Real pleasure to contribute an essay to this, big fan of the previous titles in the series

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 23/06/2026

The ice cream options at New Street Station are poor. I'd say someone could cash in, but most of the retailers seem to be struggling with their refrigeration.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 28/05/2026

I will be interested to see if this has legs, but I'd imagine in England the employer justification would be AI use is a business need (however speciously) not indirect discrimination.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 27/05/2026

Shut window method doesn't work. Well, it works in the room of my house where the window basically looks out on a brick wall. I'm assuming it works in houses with shutters, ie not English houses.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 26/05/2026

Very cheered by Magnifica Humanitas.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 26/05/2026

A 7am start to the workday has its advantages in a heatwave.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 25/05/2026

The doctors in this article seem to be contradicting NICE guidance, rather than social media influencers.

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Kate Mascarenhas @handle.invalid · 20/05/2026

Falling is entirely lacking in Catholic vibes. I bet none of the talent involved are Catholic. The tells are usually attitudes towards pain, confession, and art (not guilt).

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