That's it, the Internet is now closed for the day.

'one night I softly floated the balloon of inquiry' may be my new favourite phrase

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

frankly I prefer this over Stanford design thinking

“‘AI’ might not be good for xyz, but you can’t deny that it’s helpful for programming” -- sound familiar? In Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Ep 79 @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dig into that bullshit. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

this is very sad news.

that scene in Don’t Look Now, but cut to the middle section of Windowlicker rather than the plinky-plonky folk

never underestimate the emergent power of a fast-walking short woman with an umbrella in a busy urban environment

brain-as-a-service

Anthropic is succeeding “by building a popular product, partly by correctly recognizing which way the winds of public sentiment were blowing, partly out of luck, and also by being unabashedly full of shit.” Brilliant stuff, as usual, from @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Yet another depressing piece detailing the ‘managed’ decline of UKHE. I would say ‘infuriating’ but I am as mired in my learned and perhaps learnèd helplessness as many colleagues.

Yes.

the very notion that any woman is ever going to sidle up to an LNER member of staff and ask gnomically for a ‘package for a friend’ 🤔 I’d sooner have it announced over the PA that they were looking for someone to ‘lend’ a sanitary towel to the person in the blue shirt in carriage C than that.

In the cans this morning as I approach SKD. This is what teaching (and learning) should feel like, in my estimation. So bitty! So hectic! So exciting! So many ideas! And slowly, slowly, the pieces come together… m.youtube.com/watch?v=tquL...

Delapsing my Catholicism 🙏

urgently petitioning for The Elves and the Shoemaker to be added to all curricula since students started posting their entire undergraduate dissertations to LinkedIn

Allies of the popular mayor say he supports the plan to feed the shark until it is no longer hungry and leaves everyone alone. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I take refuge in the dhamma; I take refuge in the buddha; i take refuge in the sangha. Open to debate on the the nature of any of these. In reverse order: i look to (my) community; there are guides; and this shit will work itself out in time.

Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Consulting Richard Scarry to see what jobs will be left after the AIpocalypse. I’m feeling hopeful about ‘wheel tapper’.

Pope likes reading and I continue to commend it to my students

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

enjoying being trailed round Waitrose by security because I’ve picked up 2 packs of rechargeable AAA batteries; entirely fair play, and yes I really do need six of them just to power my pepper grinder #innovation #bailgofundme

you can tell I’ve had a catastrophic drop in cortisol since I finished marking as I’ve spontaneously started listening to Four Seasons in One Day by Crowded House; unbelievable levels of chill

Lectern out by 6pm, we reckon? Can’t be long now, I reckon.

‘Life’s what you make it’ drops in my headphones as I walk into work and I probably do need someone to make me listen to this on repeat rn because things aren’t going to get any better, are they?

It is part of our evolutionary inheritance that we forget the pain of marking. Otherwise no one in their right mind would ever do it again.

I am Toad, slowly coming round to this actionable insight

when you get a student so good you have to remind yourself what categorical marks are available above 70 (UK context)

Praying that this is real 🙏 💃

truly it is amazing the level of interpersonal skill you can get away with not demonstrating if you are a man absolutely astonishing

sensing that adaptability is not meaningfully prized in the workplace; will adapt accordingly

it would be so nice www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rsw...

no honestly I really appreciate having the opportunity to be a bit of a daft numpty sometimes it’s positively rejuvenating and I for one cherish these spaces

one (of several) reason(s) why I don’t really grow my nails long is so that I don’t morph into ‘older woman who pecks at her smart phone with long nails’, which is not really my vibe very occasionally I find myself having to take my glasses off to read a thing though so

weeping my way through Saturn in The Planets as I do about once every two years. These are the true clanging chimes of doom.

walking into SKD to Sponge Bob Big Guy Pants OK, serious academic mood

remember kids, it’s a viva voce not a mortua voce. Liveliness is the WHOLE POINT.

Helpmeet AI

when the 💩 hits the fan, you need someone who has no expectation of being cool I present Perimenopausal Woman

Me: Do I look ok? Partner: Well, you’ve got a Holland power-farming vibe

the commitment to making staff aware of our stress this month is nonpareil 👌 💯

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

egrets, I’ve had a few, but then again

going into your nests, borrowing your shiny things; that’s me

god-tier subtweeting on main

today my aspirational spirit animal is the cockroach, aiming to become absolutely bomb-proof; imma keep scuttling along under my carapace of barely scrutable facetiousness