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Virginia Werewoolf

@woolfianjosh.bsky.social
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Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4h
Sure Jan, let’s trade.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 9h
Anthropic: Claude is a god, whom we must worship Also Anthropic: it is illegal to be mean to Claude lest you hurt its feelies
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 19h
It’s like if U2 stole all of your albums, ground them up into a slurry and forced you to listen to the sludge all day long
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am more likely to say thank you to a vending machine for giving me a frosty beverage or wee snack than I am to AI, which can provide none of those things.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kathy Beale still somehow looks younger than her ostensible son.
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Eastenders
ALT: Eastenders
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Time to take a big sip of coffee and google “properties in Harrogate”
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m fairly sure I bought this sandwich from a campus Starbucks concession the other week. It cost $12 and tasted fluorescent, somehow.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Heaven help me I have had an Idea for a trade book, and I think it’s a good one. Only thing is I’m suspicious of how good it is, given it’s the fruit of my brain-loins, and wonder if the idea was someone else’s. Maybe I heard it in a conference bio???
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Saving this for when I finally have to bite the bullet and upgrade
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Big Law as opposed to???
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it just so happens that this one (1) soundbite was all he had.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
wait no what am I saying, that's Sardinia...
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tired: Britain is European Wired: Britain isn't European Inspired: Britain is Sicilian
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In October they do a non-living and non-cancelled special
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone needs to hammer it into certain heads that the skillset needed to be a good (e.g.) GP doesn’t make one suited to manage a practice, and that is entirely fine
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Phaedrus. Specifically the bit where Plato goes off about writing being Bad
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But what if it's night and there is no su––
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
mfers invented the h-index but somehow even worse
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Captain Holt's Iconic 'Bone?!' Moment (BB99)
Alt: Captain Holt's Iconic 'Bone?!' Moment (BB99)
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mine is very much No Shit Sherlock. Like, yes, I probably do live in [TOWN REDACTED] given that I’ve specified said town as my home address.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gotta admire their commitment to the bitment.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AI Apologists Hate Him: One Simple Trick to escape Fantasy Football (it's saying "sorry lads, not for me")
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Are any of us really old enough to contemplate the Pale?
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am once again asking
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No no, you see Apple doesn’t need to record cos it has enough data on you to perfectly predict when you’ll go Hey Siri, and this is better somehow
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jumbly Crumbly
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The written plot summary is free but it’s 50 bucks to access a podcast version, and 250 to speed it up.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New startup idea: Homr™️, which explains Greek myth at a fifth-grade level, but with enough soi disant premium features to keep the startup bros sated
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
None of these people know how to read.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know precisely the one you mean and goddamit was I tempted because it has been EONS since a permanent job has come up in modern lit.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, but what about if you engineered it to be dippable and marketed it as a cracker? Congratulations, you’ve just invented the triscuit, you absolute maniac
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Am also looking forward to some nice veggie options, which are far better back in *checks notes* Belgium
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At the risk of Doing a Further Food Discourse, it has been three (3) weeks, and I am very much looking forward to being back in a country where the average meal doesn't leave me feeling low-grade crappy.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also Hugh Gaitskell.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My most toxic trait is that I refuse to learn the difference between Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Gaitskill.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Actually, dracula is about estate agents
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Delivered as a MOOC! And the completion certificate’s an NFT!
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Woo and also hoo! Congratulations!
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tbf minnesota has been over for quite some time now
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
☹️
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BYO lunch, to be ate al desko.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lunch with the other side = people who prefer salt beef over pastrami
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Martin Luther, Wittenberg (1517, colorised)
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey Gork, make me a focus group that answers the question “how much should I love ai and want to kiss it on the mouth?”
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What a truly repugnant statement. I'm not exaggerating when I say this is fascist rhetoric.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's giving Guy Who Has Only Watched S5E6 of The Sopranos
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the darkest in that not a single scene is lit correctly?
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Next step, ban cars within the Ox ring road and run these up all the arterials.
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bold of him to assume he won’t be a paperclip by then.
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 02/10/2026
I'm a language junkie, that's my hit.
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S01E06 The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth 4 March 2004
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