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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Bluesky invites me to "translate" this headline. Thank you, I will: I will replace "large-scale migration" with "genocide and ethnic cleansing".

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

Fashion news
Tailors 'were working on advanced fabric so exquisite it is invisible to stupid people'
Reports say new imperial suiting fuelled nudity fears, with courtiers airing their concerns to the board before CEO
Sam Conman's sacking
Hans Christian Andersen Global fabrics editor

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Part of a thread, and also here is a template for writing to MP/the PM specifically about Palantir's profiteering in the Gaza genocide

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There's a great new Senior Research Associate role being advertised in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at University of East Anglia this month, working on an AHRC-funded project on creative-critical teaching in English studies. Please share! vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21...

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Senior Research Associate (RA2392) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2392) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Arts and Humanities (HUM) School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing (L...

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Ever-so-tender moment between Virgin & Child, at home, with a single candle. And who needs more in broad daylight? Painted 1430 by Robert Campin.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"There is a long tradition of conservative lyric anecdotalism in English poetry" my goodness and don't we know it RIP J.H. Prynne www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

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Ian Patterson | Gospel Furbelow Dastard

J.H. Prynne was not a name to conjure with when I was a first-year English student at Cambridge in 1966. As far as I...

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I am just so unsurprised by this

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Have just moved house and I'm very pleased with my new 'Penguins and Poetry' bookshelf

A photograph of a bookshelf holding a lot of vintage Penguin paperbacks, a shelf of Penguin Classics poetry, and then a shelf of miscellaneous poetry from other publishers

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 31/03/2026

This Week's Bestsellers! Head to our website to find out more: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou...

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I offer mentoring for creative prose writers! All genres and styles welcome; block booking discounts available; rehabilitation treatments offered for all the adverbs Stephen King wants you to get rid of. rosalindbrown.com/teaching-and...

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Teaching and mentoring

My approach as a creative writing mentor is informed by the teaching I received during my Creative Writing MA and PhD, by teaching I have done myself as a qualified secondary school teacher and as …

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 01/04/2026

Clippy popping up asking "are you not entertained?"

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I saw an advert for Copilot recently and it literally showed someone using it in a business negotiation 🤔

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The review is paywalled but I'm so excited about this book – Gwendoline Riley is absolutely amazing

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Asher Perlman @asherperlman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The perfect tote bag doesn’t exis—

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Keats question: in the final lines of 'Ode on Melancholy' – "His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might And be among her cloudy trophies hung." – why are the trophies "cloudy"? My edition glosses only the hanging of trophies (in temples, cathedrals etc.) and not the adjective.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"If AI handles the gruntwork, the learning pathway disappears" along with, potentially, the self-esteem pathway, the deep and lasting reward pathway, the ability to create anything worth someone else's attention pathway (&c. &c.)

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My books bring to light the alienation that was already present in my readers

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 03/03/2026

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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Teaching and mentoring

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

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Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

1Died (alas!) on this day in 1455, Fra Angelico, the Angelic Friar. Here, Annunciation from the 1440s on the stair landing at the convent of San Marco, Florence.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Amazon supervisor told delivery driver to keep driving across the muddy tidal flats; denied they were an employee when they got marooned I cannot emphasise enough how easy it is to boycott Amazon ✊

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Ruin a film by changing one letter: Shakespeare in Hove (or, somewhat more disturbingly: Shakespeare in Gove)

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There's still time to respond to the consultation on the awful proposed changes to settlement rules

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This just sounds like pure delight.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

So is tantra the plural of tantrum or what

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

“This is an overwhelming show of support for the commonsense position that AI companies should pay for the resources they use'. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan

Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

2/2 Narrative into icon: Giovanni Bellini's amazing Presentation in the Temple. So intense and claustrophobic. Love this one.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Chess game, 1555: the artist's three sisters & their nurse. Mischievous youngest, calm & knowing eldest, middle one who always gets fooled by them. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

and either they assume 'ordinary people' have no interest in these things too, which is unbelievably insulting to pretty much everyone, OR (/and) they believe any 'good' art (= already canonical) will be able to make a profit and therefore doesn't need funding, which is ignorant and wrongheaded

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

the black ribbon on her wrist 👏

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

You shouldn’t have to work if there’s a bird outside you want to watch

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

'Despite AI’s popularity, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I am shocked to my very core by this news.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"A more courageous Labour government could have helped with what might be called structural fact-checking: calling out the lie that migration is to blame for Britain’s declining social services and widening wealth gaps", etc. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

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Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines

Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

What I don't understand about the rush to AI is why people don't *want* to think. Thinking is the most pleasurable, gorgeous, exciting, sophisticated thing I do, and skipping that to get to an output and have more time to spend, I don't know, on my phone or something just seems insane to me.

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Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"Using LLMs makes your work bland, vague, and wrong, and impedes the development of skills ... That development only happens with sweat, practice, shitty first drafts, errors, time, and revision." it makes your work BLAND, VAGUE, AND WRONG against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...

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Syllabus Language - AGAINST AI

(looking for persuasion rather than edicts? here's one template)

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