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Helen Traill

@traillhelen.bsky.social
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Sociologist, lecturer in pol econ and sustainability, love a community garden/allotment, fervent reader

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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
an excellent use of this poem format
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i saved thousands on my car insurance by returning to the sea
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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
One of the best takes on "AI", including AI in higher education, compared to the majority of writing almost guaranteed to rehash all the tired and useless tropes from writing on the crisis in higher ed (what is wrong? everything. what shall we do about it? nothing) open.substack.com/pub/theconvi...
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Do Not Resign From Life
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
some things you can really only do the once or they become rote but if I could relive one moment this here would be high on the list www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s67...
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The Mountain Goats - Sugar, We're Goin' Down [Live]
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thought this was a nice thoughtful take on AI use - not blaming them for using the tech but equally, making the case for writing as communication and the struggle as the point www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Didn't know we could just make up international prizes and award them to ourselves?! I like the defense of "it's not illegal to make up a worthless award"
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/03/2026
Tired: They‘re NPCs Wired: I’m an NPC
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Really exciting funded collaborative PhD position with Glasgow Food Policy Partnership and some excellent colleagues - share with your foodies! Combines food, community and social change with space for candidates to shape it to their own desires...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Ah yes, I'd forgotten that scientific evidence could just be revoked and therefore made untrue. May as well stick your fingers in your ears and say "la la la I'm not listening"
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11/02/2026
AI simply cannot stand in front of a classroom, gesticulating wildly and writing semi-illegibly on chalkboards, both of which are key to building rapport and convincing your students you are worth learning from
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This looks really cool - a history of play!
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is a good reflection on change work and networks and how stuff moves: tickled my brain this morning. Something about connecting a nascent movement for doing better... medium.com/onioncollect...
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Connecting Hope for Alternative Futures
Part 2 — Networks and Movement Building: Tracing how networks help connect and unite UK practitioners into a transformative movement
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Dr Paul M @drpaulm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Autocorrupt is a tiny drunk gnome inside your phone that is doing the best it can.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“His insomnia leads him to sit and read in his armchair. Like in the old days, when the computer didn’t limit his time so drastically.” —Enrique Vila-Matas being brutal @ everybody alive
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This is such a cool image - so tiny, but kind of tripe-like? A bit mesmerising
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Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive are hosting a talk by Ståle Holgerson on his new book, Against the Crisis 4 Nov 6:30-8pm Civic House free but ticketed www.eventbrite.com/e/against-th... “The most clarifying dissection of ‘crisis’ as concept and reality to appear in several decades” --- Andreas Malm
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Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World -Ståle Holgerson
Join Ståle Holgerson to discuss his new book Against the Crisis, hosted by Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I hope this day is soon
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Schools are back (in Scotland) and somehow I still can't do everything? It's almost as if society is not built to facilitate full time working, caring parents to have any peace or hobbies or a life...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2025
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000 Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found. 8,900 Named fighters listed as dead or ‘probably dead’ in Israeli database as of May 2025 Continue reading...
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The people who hung this banner outside the Labour headquarters have been arrested and will face trial in the UK in January. These are the extreme Orwellian measures Western governments must take to normalize Israel's genocide and war crimes.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/08/2025
governments would rather beg consumers to reduce their minuscule individual resource usage than go to therapy* *properly regulate corporate energy consumption and end the use of fossil fuels
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Extraordinary words from an extraordinary man
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What if every game does not in fact need an optimisation bot? Can I just... Be bad at it but still enjoy it? (NYT games, I'm looking at you)
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There's dystopian and then there's whatever this is...
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alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
pretty shitty that young people now have to learn with both a 24/7 torrent of entertainment microtargeted to their neuroses in their pocket and a learning environment full of chirpy little prompts to press a button and fake their homework so they can spend a little more time in the neurosis torrent
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This. I want to show all my students this. Because they think a plausibly strung together sentence means something it doesn't.
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The horror. The absurdity of everyday stuff while you know it's going on.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Okz this is pretty useful, and allows me to consider this place as a kind of work adjacent procrastination
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025
The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Come work with me (and Ross Beveridge (PI), Andy Cumbers and Allan Cochrane) on what we think will be a really interesting project!
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is a nice case made for letting snakes stay. There's a critical parallel with the way we treat humans who are being/going to be displaced by climate change...
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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Helen Traill @traillhelen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Come work with me (and Ross Beveridge (PI), Andy Cumbers and Allan Cochrane) on what we think will be a really interesting project!
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Places I've heard of so far - UEA, Durham, Kent, Cardiff, Northampton, Canterbury Christ Church, Dundee... York & Northumbria recently did VS cull and not sure if progressing to further cuts or if that's stemmed the tide for now. This is a genuine crisis!
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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