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Sarah Mount

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Service Lead at dxw | author | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | recovering academic

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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/09/2026
Accurate wisdom OH in Starbucks: "Unfortunately it's just a very bad time to be a person"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 14/07/2026
"Thinking some more with medium effort" is what I'd like Slack to say when I'm typing
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 08/07/2026
By convention, MPs do not address the House wearing a hat. So if Count Binface wins an election, must he remove his lid? Or cause a constitutional crisis? Does Erskin May cover this?
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 04/07/2026
Really enjoyed Disclosure Day in spite of some poor opsec and a very ham-fisted handling of theological questions
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 30/05/2026
Easily the best FAQ I have read: "But LLMs aren’t fully reliable ... Claude is especially fond of speaking French." aider.chat/docs/faq.htm...
aider.chat
FAQ | aider
Frequently asked questions about aider.
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/05/2026
Over in the Other Place the Pope is receiving advice on his SEO
Image of a Tweet with the text: 

Daniel Tenreiro replying to @Pontifex

Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/05/2026
2026 and the only way I know to extract an image from a Google doc is to save it as HTML
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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 18/05/2026
🚨Are you a policy professional who has attended GovCamp?🚨 We are developing Policy Camp, an event for policy practitioners! Tell us your experience of unconferences. What worked, what was useful, how we can best support policy professionals. Email us at policycamp1@gmail.com by 24th May! Thanks!
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/05/2026
Surprised to discover that the Telegraph believes Ed Miliband to have the power of Cnut the Great. England never changes, I guess.
Telegraph image with a photo of Ed Miliband and the words "Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea".
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/05/2026
There's a knee-jerk assumption around that Wikipedia and ArXiv banning AI slop puts those orgs in the #NeverAI camp, but encouraging human authorship now will prevent future model collapse, so I see these moves far more in the #AIForever camp
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/05/2026
There is a queue in #birmingham city centre that goes for MILES and the nice man in this brunch place tells me it's people waiting to purchase a watch?!
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 09/05/2026
In the 2007 film The Brave One a vigilante has The Dixie Chicks on an iPod, which must have felt very current back then
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 08/05/2026
The use of the word "after" to subtly imply a casual link really annoys me."He resigned after...". Well yes, but I had lunch after the fall of the Roman Empire, but somehow the two things are not related.
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 08/05/2026
I think this is the first ever election where not only have we been canvassed but people came round to check that everyone had voted
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 07/05/2026
"A forgery implies that there is a genuine medal. As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize | France | The Guardian
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 04/05/2026
"You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung heap" #Highlander
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 04/05/2026
"You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung heap" #Highlander
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 02/05/2026
I was not prepared for how much of middle age would be spent re-watching things I slept through
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/04/2026
I think the chap next to me in this Starbucks is breaking up with someone. Or he possibly should be, based solely on his side of the row.
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/04/2026
The thing that struck me about the latest "AI deleted my prod" story wasn't the deleting in prod, or the use of "guardrails" that, once again, turn out to be a bit of prompting but this: "the volume ID was shared across environments."
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 25/04/2026
No amount of predictive text could generate, or indeed prepare you, for this story
When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, he left carrying a peculiar souvenir. He showed it off to two friends who were waiting outside the jail to collect him: it was a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine with a jagged series of lines-not unlike a heartbeat monitor, or a mountain range scribbled on it. This was, 6ix9ine explained, the autograph of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The signature was also dated, in Spanish, "2.º Abril."

"Look, one of one," 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. "Maduro signed it," he said, proudly, before adding, "Venezuela forever."
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 21/04/2026
Discovered a take away near a former home called "Pricy Kitchen" which seems a bit too honest
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 18/04/2026
Rare sighting of a sub that outclasses the headline by a country mile
Daily Mail sub for an article saying "The restaurant owner said the two crustaceans were pets named Ronnie and Reggie"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 08/04/2026
I have an email address which is structured first name.lastname@domain.invalid so it seems particularly impressive to get SPAM which starts "Hello Scott". Data cleaning remains challenging, I guess
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 06/04/2026
Re-watching The Devil's Advocate again and "We're hiring you out at $400 a day" feels a bit different in this economy. But yes, "Free will, it's a bitch"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 04/04/2026
"Oh no! I love their nuggets" - great quote from One Battle After Another
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/03/2026
There premise of the film Mercy is "what if AI courts" but ISTM that allowing a defendant to investigate their own case is at least as prejudicial if not moreso
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 11/03/2026
Train delayed due to "waiting for a part of the train to be attached" because it's always nice to try out a new announcement
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 08/03/2026
Start of the new Capture season feels like an advert for Celebrity Hunted
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 08/03/2026
Venturing out of Coventry for a couple of days and the guy in the corner shop near the station asked where I came from and replied BELL GREEN IN THE HOUSE. I had no idea that Coventry was this popular.
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 08/03/2026
Nice to see someone using @overleaf.com on the train
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 05/03/2026
Person next to me on the train is reading Jean Genet
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 01/03/2026
Should it be possible to copyright AI authored works? Some interesting responses to that question in this slightly confused article: www.bcs.org/articles-opi...
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The impact of generative AI on authorship | BCS
Georgia Smith MBCS explores the relationship between AI and authorship with Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey, and globally renowned expert Merve Hickok, President and Policy Director at the Center for AI & Digital Policy (CAIDP).
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 20/02/2026
"You're changing lives. But with water". Once again the Apprentice does not disappoint for hyperbole.
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 19/02/2026
Can't tell if the chap on this train knows he's singing out loud or he just has very good noise cancelling on his earphones
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/02/2026
Birmingham has, apparently, always been amazing. And noisy.
A photograph of a wall with the following quotations painted on it:

'Birmingham has changed a lot, but for me it's still the centre of the universe.' Benjamin Zephaniah, 2005

'Its inhabitants work as if they must get rich by the evening and die the next day.' Alexis de Toqueville, 1835

'I was surprised at the place, but more so at the people. They possessed a vivacity I had never beheld.' William Hutton, 1741

'Bremicham, swarming with inhabitants, and echoing with the noise of Anvils, for here are great numbers of Smiths.' William Camden, 1586
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/02/2026
Do #Birmingham people not know that Sabai Sabai has a lunch menu? I don't know how such a good place can be so empty
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 07/02/2026
Vibe coding appears to be surprisingly hard work for something that claims to simplify my life
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 31/01/2026
Giving Club Mate another go and it's definitely better without corn syrup
A bottle of Club-Mate zero
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 30/01/2026
Saw a Kevlin Henney which, in this case, was a Windows bootloader terminal. The screen was massive and embedded in a mirror in a metal lift, so I couldn't take a photo of it that didn't look like one of those "people selling mirrors" feeds
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 29/01/2026
Great to be at #WPLDN tonight meeting old @dxw.com friends and making new ones
WordPress London venue showing a projector screen with a WordPress London logo
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 29/01/2026
Overhearing some kid getting bollocked, via mobile phone, for using their phone when they were told not to. "If you don't, football is off the table". Definitely some lessons here for middle managers but not necessarily positive ones "do you get it?"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/01/2026
"I admire it in a way, but I do want to use the printer without being called a murderer." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
telegraph.co.uk
Six ways Gen Z are ruining the workplace for everyone else
Junior staff members with ‘unrealistic expectations’ are rewriting the rules of the office and leaving their senior colleagues baffled
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 23/01/2026
This is the single most Stanley Kubrick headline I have ever seen
Headline from a news site: "A new obelisk 'lifeform' is hiding inside humans"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 21/01/2026
Rather than a quiet coach where train passengers have to be quiet I would really love a carriage with no announcements
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 20/01/2026
"Because I yearn to live a valiant life, Cadet Master" sounds like a great answer to "and why did you apply for this role?" #StarfleetAcademy
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Gavin @gavinbeckett.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Great to be hosted by a council for #ukgc26 - public services all come together around people in places 🫶🏽
A slide reading #ukgc26 in partnership with Birmingham City Council
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 17/01/2026
There's a few @dxw.com folks here at #UKGovCamp today so do come and have a chat if you're in Brum 🐂 today #ukgc26
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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
...and we're off 🙂 #ukgc26
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