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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 31/08/2026

Tropical Birdland! And the first outing of my new hand made dress.

Selfie with a small parrot on my shoulder

A photo of me with a macaw on my arm. You can see my dress which is blue with large minibeasts printed on it!

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 12/08/2026

The kids enjoyed the eclipse but I think I enjoyed it more. #OctoEclipse @octopus.energy

Classic eclipse through a colander pic. Projected onto a battered green wheelbarrow.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 09/08/2026

ok well this one took off - if you're wondering whether I know what I'm talking about, I wrote a paper (with @anthropunk.bsky.social ) on the original Meta glasses when they were called "Project Aria" and predicted this sort of result www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An excerpt from the paper: 4.2.3. Willingness to halt development
Finally, Facebook needs to accept the possibility that their technology and/or methods are socio-technically flawed and will not be acceptable to the society into which it wishes to deploy Aria and future similar products. Google Glass was remarkably unaccepted (Reynolds, 2015), despite the technology offering new use cases and innovation in mobile computing User Experience. Although people have either consciously or without awareness allowed our privacy to be eroded over time by new technologies, obscured cameras and other recording devices run by a ‘faceless’ automated enterprise are still very much considered “creepy” (Tene & Polonetsky, 2013).

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/08/2026

I was on BBC News just now talking about the EA buyout. I think it went pretty well! :D

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 01/08/2026

Had a brilliant week of #emfcamp, then a week of unloading it a bit from my brain, then a week at the beach to fully unload it (and my teaching from last term) from my brain.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 06/06/2026

Buried by the lede - don’t fucking use gen AI if you don’t have the expertise, time, or care to check its work. It should never be a replacement for a skilled human doing a job. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/03/2026

Final product! (Sorry for limited face blocking, we don’t like our kids being identifiable on the internet.) @johnbgallagher.bsky.social how’d we do :)

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 04/03/2026

I put the finishing touches on my 6yo’s very low key home made Max Meow by @johnbgallagher.bsky.social costume today! Really proud of this. Learned how to badly appliqué and there’s a stuffed, tie on tail with attached stuffed lightning bolt that I didn’t take a photo of.

An orange cat mask with a blue C on the forehead.

A blue shirt with a poorly appliquéd yellow lightning bolt on it.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 11/02/2026

Just catching up and I was interviewed for this last week! This was SUPER CREEPY and yikes all the way down.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 23/01/2026

Appreciating @rusty.todayintabs.com's COI disclosure today, spot on, lol

A screenshot from an email that says "AI company Anthropic (disclosure, I am not dating anyone at Anthropic)"

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 22/12/2025

Ah yes and in other "I told you so" news,

Guardian head/sub line: Keir Starmer told closer EU trade ties 'strategic necessity' for UK firms: Labour urged to accelerate reset with Brussels as many exporters struggling to trade in the EU after Brexit deal

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 11/12/2025

I think the end got cut off of that one! or is it just my browser?

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 03/12/2025

This absolutely breaks my heart. What ghouls these transphobes are, attacking welcoming and inclusive spaces like the WI and Girlguiding like this. Just awful, horrible, hateful human beings. Also fuck the media for platforming the hate that led to this. Ugh. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A screenshot from the Guardian newspaper online:
"Transgender WI members known to the leadership team at the organisation had already been informed of the decision before an announcement, said Green. 'They've been so respectful and so understanding of the decision, but profoundly sad,' she said. 'I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she's been treated as a woman with respect.'"

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 24/09/2025

It’s my book! And it matches me! (Just got the copies in the post.)

A woman wearing a purple jumper and with purpley dyed hair bits holds up a book called Getting Started with Tech Ethics.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 09/08/2025

Now making jelly with the foraged fruit and some windfall apples from the garden.

A saucepan with chopped apples, crabapples and blackberries in it, a wooden spoon to stir.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 09/08/2025

The kids and I went hedgerow foraging today! Got a lunch box full of crabapples and another full of blackberries. They got bored pretty quickly when they weren’t scoffing blackberries, but it was a good day! They enjoyed playing in the meadow nearby too, the long grass was good for hide and seek!

A photograph of a meadow with long brown grass and trees in the background. Two little heads pop up amongst the grass at a far distance.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 04/08/2025

Meanwhile, I've raised over £300 for Cancer Research UK so far with my 100 squats a day for August! My hamstrings are starting to feel it, heh.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 14/06/2025

Got a little too stuck into the @staffsgames.bsky.social CPD games jam and have been busy with it today (I'm the main coder on the team and PICO-8 isn't great for collab sadly) - we're doing an endless runner! Todo: collision checks, boosts, devil actually catching you (game over)!

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 07/06/2025

I have a full, slightly buggy, game! To do: levels, fix the bug where they stand still if someone else finishes the food, fix the bug where the sprite doesn't change if they're eating, fix the instructions so they're less janky.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 07/06/2025

Now that the teaching term is over, I would like to post this poem that I saw recently.

FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER
Now I let it fall back in the grasses.
I hear you. I know this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious on this earth.
But what are you trying to be free of?
The living? The miraculous task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
-Joseph Fasano

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 06/06/2025

I updated this while on the reception desk for the afternoon at @staffsgames.bsky.social GradEx today. Food spawns, chickens will eat it (and it disappears after they eat enough of it), they face the direction they're travelling, and they will sometimes look like they're pecking the food.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/06/2025

you can now pick up chooks and hoist them above your head. Also the chooks move about. Very basic AI, they randomly pick a direction and go that way for 10 ticks. lol

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/06/2025

just enjoying writing code that involves an array of chooks. This is a WIP and I am still learning, be kind <3

PICO-8 code that has a lot of chook-related variables in it, including an array of chooks with different characteristics.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/06/2025

This is pretty fun. I'm going to remove some of the decorations for now as I plan to add in a food mechanic, but this just makes sure it looks pretty

A PICO-8 map screen showing a pixellated pen that might be used for chickens.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/06/2025

"What did you do at work today?" "I drew pixellated chickens." "Oh."

A sprite sheet from PICO-8 showing a little guy and some pixel chickens

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 20/05/2025

Not very often you see your Morris Dancing team show up on a slide as part of a case study for genius loci in games #BDiGRA25 www.blackannis.org for those curious!

A slide being presented at a video games conference with a photo of Black Annis at the Hastings Jack in the Green festival

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 20/05/2025

Fascinating lightning talks at #BDiGRA on roguelikes by @cgislam.bsky.social, queerness in British games studies, trans emergence in games, ecogaming and some very pretty diagrams from @jarona7.bsky.social about affective encounters in games

The 5 lightning talk speakers sit on a set of sofas at the front of a lecture theatre

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 10/05/2025

Chickens had a nice day today while we cleaned out the sand pit! Found a huge stash of monster slugs so they had a field day. Hard to wash slug slime off beaks though 😅

A chicken staring down a sandpit mould that is full of ginormous slugs.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter! We came back from our holiday a day early due to big kid illness but he was perky enough to do an Easter egg hunt in the garden with the little one. Thankfully the Easter Bunny was flexible 🤣 Glorious day for it!

Two small children bending down to pick up chocolate Easter eggs from a garden bed.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/04/2025

Built a tumbling insulated composter/digester today to try to reduce food waste as our bin is only taken every 2 weeks. The compost from here will go on our open bin with chook bedding and poo & grass cuttings for great compost. #gardening #compost

The completed composter in its final place

Inside the composter - notice the very thick foam insulation

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 08/03/2025

The chickens have decided spring is here and started laying again!

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/03/2025

I’ve been at Schloss Dagstuhl this week working on a manifesto for the future of games research. It’s been an exhausting but very stimulating and exciting time, and I’ve met lots of excellent people! I look forward to finishing up our work and sharing it with you!

A photo of me in front of the Schloss Dagstuhl sign

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 26/02/2025

Cancelled my @washingtonpost.com subscription thanks to the new directives for the opinion columns from Jeff Bezos. Sorry to the hard working journalists doing their best, you were why I kept it up for so long, but this is the only way to voice my displeasure at his meddling.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 11/02/2025

This is just so short sighted, I'm so cranky. I'm sick and I'm cranky. The worst combination.

A clip from the Guardian newspaper website with the headline "UK and US fail to sign declaration on making AI ‘safe for all’ at Paris summit – Europe live"

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 03/02/2025

Ryan once again summarising the state of things in the US in the most accurate and terrifying way. @garbageday.email

These are the demagogues, oligarchs, and literal teenage boys tearing apart our government right now. They are fueled by Silicon Valley's dream of a monarchist network state and blood and soil white nationalism and they want to replace our money with the speculative cryptocurrencies they're already holding, replace the country's digital infrastructure with X, an online platform they invested in, and route all federal power to Trump, a president they're actively bribing. They did not plan any of this in secret. They know this is their moment and the coup is underway. They are serious. And every day they're in power means more years, if not decades, of our lives that we will have to dedicate to trying to piece the country back together when they're gone.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 17/01/2025

One for your album @shannonvallor.bsky.social - a friend had this pop up on LinkedIn :(

A notification on LinkedIn - "Interviewers want to see competency and warmth. Here's how AI can help you show it."

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 13/01/2025

This headline is making me SO CRANKY esp because I'm reading @shannonvallor.bsky.social's new book. These systems should never be placed in a position of replacing public service humans. They will just replicate existing poor decisions and further entrench harms. It will be a dark age.

Starmer claims AI could lead to 'golden age of public service reform', even making services 'feel more human' - UK politics live

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 09/01/2025

That California has 400 incarcerated firefighters is just shocking in itself

Nearly 400 incarcerated
firefighters deployed to battle fires The California wildfires have become so destructive that hundreds of incarcerated firefighters have been deployed to help battle the blazes that are rapidly spreading across southern California as a powerful windstorm devastates the region.
The California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) said on Wednesday that it had deployed 395 imprisoned firefighters across 29 crews, while the county fights multiple out-of-control blazes fueled by extreme winds and dry conditions.
"The work of our incarcerated firefighters and staff is an essential part of this effort, and their commitment to protecting lives and property during these emergencies cannot be overstated," said CDCR secretary Jeff Macomber.

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 31/12/2024

New Year’s Eve ‘fit 🎉🎉 Dress by Gorman Australia

Me in a bright tiered dress with a jellyfish motif

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 10/12/2024

Anyway my sub has come up so this is probably it for me. I was waiting to see how he responded to the weekend’s events and given he doesn’t even engage with good faith arguments and writes us all off as the straw men in his head I’m not interested in supporting that any more 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 05/12/2024

The biggest cliffhanger in children’s literature

A photo of the final page of “Oh no, George!” by Chris Haughton. It features a drawing of a big, long nosed orange dog that looks very suspicious with the word “George?” above it.

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