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That "we'd all be speaking German" line certain British people come out with is such a giveaway, clearly it was primarily evil because British supremacy was under threat 🤡

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 4h

This piece provides a really good bit of sociological and historical context on violence and parts of Glasgow city centre recently sensationalised on tv www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

gla.ac.uk

Welcome to Glasgow’s four corners: making a ‘problem’ place.

Susan Batchelor considers the way in which certain urban spaces - and those who frequent them - come to be constructed as problematic.

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 17h

So many times I stick on a youtube video about some aspect of tech culture and I just cannae get through it

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 17h

I don't want ai generated content to replace human created content, but I would use a tool that made vloggers turn it down a notch.. a uk filter if you will

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 01/10/2026

I may have drank a bottle 🤣

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 01/10/2026

Ha that is a madeira memory

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 01/10/2026

So wild that bananas are a real thing that grows on plants, that is some charlie and the chocolate factory shit

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 30/09/2026

Someone's specific line of work drying up is total shite, and may be contributing to an sustainable situation.. But it doesn't eliminate the existence and need for the broader field of domain education, we just haven't figured out what the channels by which it's consumed are going to be

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 30/09/2026

That means we can shape the experience using plain old software, it means we can make this genuinely empowering, by designing interfaces that are optimised for learning rather than to avoid it, llms are very handy for that

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 30/09/2026

For me there are countless learning applications I could build now that weren't possible before, and importantly we're seeing that improvements to deployable uses of this technology are primarily not now going to come from the models themselves so much as what we build around them

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 30/09/2026

The parasitical relationship between AI platforms and content is an unmitigated disaster, *however* LLMs themselves present an enormous new world of opportunity when it comes to teaching dev skills.. that capability is of course sidelined when undermining labour is the goal

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 30/09/2026

Genuinely don't mean to undermine the impact on web content / publishing and the looming disaster of model collapse, but as someone who has more or less specialised in it for many years, I have extremely mixed feelings about the multitude of posts announcing the demise of developer education..

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 29/09/2026

Nick from head office didn't know many readers

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 29/09/2026

I still think my favourite example of company leadership not understanding the customers was when I worked in a bookshop and they tried to get us to approach folk and attempt to engage them in conversation

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 29/09/2026

We absolutely determined to learn nothing from the entire history of software here aye

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 29/09/2026

If you describe a product failing to expose an effective user interface as a skill issue I am afraid I cannot take your analysis very seriously

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 27/09/2026

The only non tech people in my social circle who aren't surprised by the ai safety shenanigans are those who've worked for charities, non profits, other supposedly ethical organisations, they're like aye of course folk branded this way will be horrific, lol

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 26/09/2026

Went to that sonica thing at pollok house and the artworks were magic but most importantly there was a seat on top of a radiator and now I won't rest until I have one

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 25/09/2026

I may have posted this before but many years ago I was in a sports centre changing room when my pal said something about toothpaste and a lassie shouted across the room WHOSE FACE, MY FACE!? and idk how I came to be visited by this foreshadowing of online interaction but here we are

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 24/09/2026

I stayed at a B&B in a castle last week and the lady said when they had issues with water coming in a roofer went up into the attic and found it was stuffed with bones left by an owl that lived nearby, the guy came down the stairs with bags full of bones... lol no thank you

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 24/09/2026

I've been kind to animals my whole life but a squirrel has been destroying my flowers and if I catch the wee bastard it'll be getting dropkicked across the street

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 24/09/2026

Seriously, how did we become infected with these, the noise they make is infuriating as well 😭

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 23/09/2026

lol I just had a conversation with my pal about how she's tried to make a washing line work but it just isn't happening

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 23/09/2026

Truly one of the great mysteries

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 23/09/2026

One thing I cannot understand is folk who have a big garden but only a whirlygig and not a proper washing line

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 23/09/2026

Interesting, maybe the aftermath of the referendum, I'm not honestly sure why!

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 23/09/2026

Very this. I'm not sure why (perhaps exposure to a wider range of perspectives via the internet + of course immigration have helped) but it feels like we collectively have a clearer understanding of these dynamics here than certainly in my lifetime, notably in white folk from non-Irish backgrounds..

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 22/09/2026

🤣 I may have done this a few years ago

A macropad displaying the text "your scientists were so preoccupied etc"

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 22/09/2026

My mesh network looking at my browsing history

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 21/09/2026

Every time find one it disappears off the shelves 😭

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 21/09/2026

Putting kewpie mayo on my plant based fish fingers like some southside cafe arsehole

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026

Oh noes if I look at my phone I can see internet boys being cheeky to me 😂

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026

See when you get shite from folk on social media and mention it and other folk are like I'm sorry that's happening to you and you're like, it's ok pal I live in Glasgow, lol

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026

Told myself some story about how it was important for my recovery to stress that I didn't need additional support or some shite, idiot

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026

We had a number of gigs lined up right after my cancer surgery (booked before my diagnosis) and got to sit in the disabled section as a result, now every time I'm at a standing gig I'm like why the fuck did I drop that shit

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026

Disco in general is ideal for my default 2.5k swim apparently

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 20/09/2026

I sometimes use a thing called a tempo trainer when I swim, it's like an electronic metronome you put in your swimming cap to beep at your chosen stroke rate.. Sometimes I cannae be bothered with it so just keep a song in my head instead, today was the bee gees more than a woman which worked nicely

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

I still have one as well, it's just in the living room lol, on the rare occasion that it rings we're like what the fuck

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

Calls the table in the hall the phone table even though it's never had a phone on it years old

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

Perhaps part of how they seem incapable of happiness and are even more angry when they win

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

Like how yer aristocratic and white supremacist types always seem to expect to be thanked for not being even more horrible than they are

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

Maybe that need is a weakness we can exploit idk, the idiotic knots they've tied themselves in in the pursuit of this impossible dream is really something.. I want to be an utter cunt but I also want you to describe me as a good guy is an incredibly stupid but not new mindset

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

Reading more about the rationalist / effective altruism shite over the last few days I think what strikes me most is these incredibly wealthy people who want to continue being selfish horrible cunts but simultaneously have a need to describe themselves as ethical somehow lol

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

It's wild seeing folk engage in handwringing discussions of the loss of prestige etc for people who expected to earn hundreds of thousands per year from a young age and be regarded as special geniuses.. And I live in a wealthy country ffs

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

For people I talk to where I live, software jobs remain a great opportunity, that really hasn't changed, idk perhaps consider that what you regard as an opportunity may be subjective lol

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

One of the things I struggle with re the software jobs apocalypse is that the conversation typically revolves around the collapse of six figure salary jobs at big american tech cos, whereas for people in my actual reality that isn't remotely what they're expecting or would even dream of

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

the joy in this man's voice every time 😭❤️

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 18/09/2026

How is this not a bbc children's television series

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