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Beth Witham

@nny.bsky.social
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Learning technologist (FHEA), lover of terror and queer romance, ADHD brain, cheerfully asexual, she/her, all opinions my own

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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 16m
#LTHEchat Some considerations when aiming for a 'thriving campus culture' - are there spaces for students where they are not facing a computer? Do they have to spend money to be there? Do they have to book in advance? How do they know they are welcomed? How are they actively *being* welcomed?
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 20h
I have a terrible memory (ADHD) but I know that at 13 I had internalised that I was supposed to find it flattering. (I did not).
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know sometimes you have those periods in your life where it feels like all the joy, enthusiasm, energy, creativity and curiosity is getting industriously squorshed out of you?
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Pinkie Pie Deflates
Alt: Pinkie Pie Deflates - I have no doubt this has Awoken things in some people
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t feel that a cock-on-a-stick merits this level of noise (Goose fair time, I am still learning how my house sounds at different times of year, this is definitely ten days of earplugs)
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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you see an increase in cancer diagnosis you don’t impose a wait limit on time it takes people to get assessed. You employ more cancer specialists. People are going after a disability because it’s an easy target. This is state sanctioned suffering, abuse and neglect.
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Louise Rees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🎨🦒🦦 @louiserees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A2 - IMHO you can be included in the way that there is consideration in the planning of activities/running of things, but if there's no human/social interaction with you as a person, with interests, hopes etc, then I'm not sure you can feel you belong. #lthechat
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just had a one-off counselling session and the major take away was You Are Allowed To Lower Your Standards For Yourself In Times of Extreme Stress. Which I hadn't really internalised before. Also that when you have worked hard not to mask, enforced masking is EXHAUSTING. #ADHD lesson learned I guess
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty sure I've mentioned before the time that I accidentally stole 73 books from my primary school and they had an assembly about how you should please not do that.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
just stop your cryin', it'll be alright they told me that the end is near 'cos my first games console had wood veneer
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PBs today - 50kg x10 Romanian deadlifts (prev 45kg), 50kg x10 squats (prev 45kg), 12kg dumbbell chest press x10 (prev 10kg), 20kg standing military press x7 (prev 15kgx10) oog oog oog I am the jellyman
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"well i've never seen one of those before" is a deeply reassuring opening line from the boiler guy
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
six hour window for the arrival of the gas man so it's gonna be an afternoon of deeply anxious wees
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Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to being put in charge of a large hadron collider now that particle physics and librarianship have been demonstrated to have transferable skills.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Things are FINE
A pen and ink attempt to work out how my skills at crisis management (defining and solving immediate problems, taking decisive action, coming up with speedy solutions) might support me navigating change (with associated emotional dysregulation, lack of info and lack of clear action)
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Half my time on Duolingo is 'no it isn't'. It's not massively helpful to learn equivalent colloquialisms. Well - it is, kinda, but you need the middle step. You need the [phrase in language] which literally means [translation of each word into your language] but is equivalent to [translated phrase]
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘Has AI solved…’ No. ‘Have people, using AI, solved…’ I mean probably not, but maybe.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Have discovered I do in fact have abs Immediately regret this discovery
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ooh Bulgarian split squats we hates them preciousssssss
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very impressed by my overachieving friends but let's pour one out for the knackered lads
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes, I understand, you’ve fiddled with the settings, and that is a reasonably pleasant shade of pink, but it is, fundamentally, when you get right down to it, morning again. How about tomorrow we try something different? Something *new*, something *exciting*. How about we just let night keep going?
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
superseeded toast, drench of butter, scrape of nutella. It's all okay, buds, it's all gonna be okay. #CopingMechanisms
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today I've bought a foot stool and a teapot warmer, not beating the middle-age allegations any time soon XD
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I swear some @greenlungband.bsky.social songs are scientifically, perfectly designed to be sung back at you by a transported crowd - WHAT a banger to end an album on, and I cannot WAIT to bellow ‘I’ve always sworn upon the horns’ in December 🤘🤣
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Saturday morning plans 💜😁💜
Green Lung’s album Necropolitan on vinyl and Plum Blossom Lego
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I often find, in fact, that the rush to disavow ever having Liked the Bad Thing is counterproductive. it's more useful to sit in the messy nuance of having once deeply loved something that you cannot love the same way now. monsters aren't all immediately apparent. we will all get conned by someone
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GREEN LUNG @greenlungband.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
𝕹𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖘 𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖓𝖔𝖜! Our deepest thanks to everyone who has listened, preordered and spread the word. We can’t wait for you to hear the album in full - and to celebrate, an animated music video for ‘Dance to the Grave’ is premiering now 💀 💜 youtu.be/7EeepVS9OXA?...
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GREEN LUNG - Dance to the Grave (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by GREEN LUNG
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Alas I cannot listen today as I have the Headache after a fit of the Vapours, but @greenlungband.bsky.social’s new album has the most elaborate and beautifully designed liner notes I’ve ever seen. @slipperyjack.bsky.social has done an absolute Hell of a job 😍
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good morning. Mood this week. art by Sam Araya
the silhouette of man in a chair smeared with hard black lines
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A, dammit. A was what I meant. It is so early. #LTHEchat
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s it like inside your head?
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Kaspar Hauser Walking in Fargo Fog
Alt: a silhouette trudging into fog
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
the ADHD 'debate' is so stupid because I haven't gone food shopping for long enough that I have mostly eaten bread for a few days I don't want to eat bread Nothing is stopping me from eating anything else aside from my brain and this is a microcosm of my life And people think this is a choice??
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Spent today volunteering in a community garden rather than hunched over a computer - so like, my lower back still hurts but for better reasons. Now covered in woodchip dust and pleasantly exhausted and guiltily delighted that my gym buddy has cancelled lifting tonight :D
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Current brain means I need to celebrate even the very smallest of wins so I present my first successful French plait! 🤣
French plait in dark blue hair
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There is an exceptionally large spider in my house. We met two nights ago, awkward roommate overlap in the kitchen, and last night it came and hovered awkwardly in the doorway while I watched tv. The company’s nice, but I feel a bit more awkward about napping on the sofa on my lunch break.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Honestly I've never watched any Mr Beast content and likely wouldn't recognise him if he came up and smacked me in the face. I *would* get to watch him get arrested, though, which feels - going on vibes - like it's probably overdue.
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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I was clearly delusional when I convinced myself I could stick to only buying a new book after completing one from the TBR pile
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Massive dichotomy with my particular flavour of #ADHD - change is awesome and novel and interesting and inspiring; uncertainty is paralysing and stressful and narrowing and destabilising. Trying to find strategies for shoring up, planning for uncertainty, resilience, but it’s a really tall order 😓
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The single best comment you can get on your writing is when someone recognises something you crafted deliberately and prided yourself on and refers to it as your 'signature style' and 'a wonderful blend of emotion and artistry' and ngl I am a little bit in love with this AO3 commenter now
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Two PBs lifting last night, although I am so close to starting that they don't count for much as yet. Still - progress! I can lift moderately heavy things! Also I gashed my little finger on the dumbbell rack, my first gymjury :D
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Finished reading Butter. Thoughts and feelings aplenty. Next re-reading Small Gods because I feel like there will be Brutha vibes about the half-orc cleric I'm going to start playing on Friday - accordingly, love affair with Frances Hardinge's writing temporarily on hold XD
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don't know where the siren is in relation to my house but somehow the acoustics make it sound like someone's playing it mournfully on an oboe...
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today's menu: Fridge dregs.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why is the framing always 'costs taxpayers'? Like... yes. That's why I pay my taxes, I want that money used please. I'd rather it was used to clean up illegal dumping sites than for military budgets and shit.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Time for a midweek mood check! Use a vid, pic, of GIF to share how you’re feeling today 🖤
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Oblivious Fight
Alt: Stan Lee with large noise cancelling headphones obliviously sorting books in a library while Spiderman has a fight (wrecking the library) in the background.
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Beth Witham @nny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What are hobbies that don’t involve close focus? I need an eye test, I can’t afford new glasses, my job is screens and my hobbies are reading, writing, video games, cross stitch, crochet, paint by numbers… How do I avoid boredom without eye strain?? 🤣 (audio books are a side not a main #ADHD)
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