a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

Reddit - thank you.

Oh no I'm writing my Something's Gotta Give lecture and fell down the thinking about Keanu and Diane > watching Keanu and Diane presenting at the 2019 Oscars > watching clips of Parasite winning Oscars rabbit hole

Someone has sent me a DM on here but I can't read it because I refuse to do age verification. If it was you, please say

years ago a bunch of friends roasted me because I said I thought Tim Curry was hot in Muppet Treasure Island, and then they all sat down and watched the movie for the first time and ended up apologizing to me

Can't wait to see this

The new routine I'm learning in tap class is set to Janet Jackson's 'Control' so I guess it's time to watch Hustlers again soon

That's how it was, kids

Bunnies take their revenge. Rabbits Roasting a Hunter and His Dogs. Virgilius Solis, German, 1514-1562. (The Cleveland Museum of Art)

"Homer, We've gotta do something. Today he's drinking blood, tomorrow he could be smoking." Was literally doing revisions today on a chapter about child vampires. If I weren't already up against the word limit I'd totally add this as an epigraph.

just shared this in a group and realised it’s the anniversary of this absolute s tier tweet by @jon-snow-420.bsky.social

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

At the risk of sounding like a deranged conspiracy theorist or doomsday prepper, sometimes I can't help but feel like we're headed towards a Y2K-style disaster*, as a result of the bugs and problems being introduced into society by genAI. *As in, how Y2K was imagined to go had it not been averted

If you have absolutely nothing good to say about A.I. come and sit by me. www.thewrap.com/emma-thompso...

TIL airline miles don't actually equate to real miles, after trying to redeem 5,000 'miles' for a flight and it only lowered the price by £20 🙃

ROY BATTY: …I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone. CHATGPT: That’s a powerful story 🎯 Thank you for sharing with me! It really spoke to your passion for space! 🚀

As someone who studied in Hull I am both bemused and delighted by this. I loved my 4 years there and it only seems to have gotten better since. Just a shame that the NatGeo piece doesn't mention 2 of Hull's best attributes: chip spice and Spiders night club www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

Cheating by posting 2 couples but this sums up all you need to know about me, my taste, and what I value in a relationship

I've walked off with the lapel mic after 3 out of 4 of the lectures I've delivered this semester. It's a good thing I don't make a habit of talking to myself or making phone calls immediately after the lecture or it could end up being VERY embarrassing.

@meanlouise.bsky.social new item for your collection

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

I slept for 10 hours last night 🥰

I am currently reading Sidney Lumet's Making Movies, which functions pretty effectively as a rebuttal to this morally and artistically bankrupt mindset

joe wright, director of pride & prejudice (2005) reading letterboxd reviews

This excellent piece explains why I've never committed to "online" books. I buy them, they are mine, nobody can take them away without coming into my house and literally pulling them off the bookcase (used books can be gotten incredibly cheap, by the way--also, libraries exist).

This is, for clarity, exactly my position. A lot of machine learning is amazing (and has been for years!) - you will pry google lens from my cold dead hands f.ex. But poor quality, unnecessary, forced on you, misleading, thieving slopAI is stealing its valour & spoiling the whole brand/concept.

Got a flu jab yesterday.

It's so powerful to see myself represented in the media

(Cartoon by cassandracalin.com)

I can only name a single person I've ever known who actually likes Leto, and it was my ex circa 2007. And I wouldn't be surprised if he is still, perhaps the only, fan of the actor.

No one can accuse me of shying away from upsetting my students: I made them watch Bright Star last week.

Anyone using this excuse for their ignorance is a bullshitter or needs to sack their agent/publicist/whoever for failing to inform them of the implications of joining a Rowling project, and then do some serious self-reflection. Enough of this mealy-mouthed garbage.

I joined the Greens specifically so that I could vote for Polanski as leader and I'm increasongly feeling very smug and happy with these choices.

Incredibly refreshing to see a uk politician just say yes a woman can have a penis and can you be normal about trans people if you dont want them to have a dick fund their transition awesome love this guy

Hades II: errrr, so the Phantom mini-boss is an asshole and WAY too hard for what it is, right??

Amazing seminars today on Bright Star. Very happy with the level of discussion even among students who (somehow) weren't overly keen or not affected by it. We even did some unplanned theorising of the haptic and emotional significance of the cat.

All my comics have happy endings!

Someone just reminded me that Fergus was the subject of this tweet years ago that turned into a minorly viral meme. So if you do an image search for 'big strong man tiny potato boy' right now all the top results are Fergus. 🥹

We’re filming at the end of the month! Please help teens make a ballet horror short in their own way 🔥 here’s our director Nia (age 16) and DOP Ace (18) doing a tech scout with Production Designer Xoni (12) video calling in. Link to support: gofund.me/af5acb1a6

Same for academics and it's so depressing

The Best Years of Our Lives is really a miracle of a movie for how beautifully it speaks to the moment in which it was made while keeping one eye open for how it can serve as a kind of historical record. It's so hard to tell stories directly about the immediate present, but it manages it.

I went to look this up, hoping it would eventually come to the UK, but it turns out it already has and I missed it 💔 I will greedily eat up whatever surrealist oddity Julio Torres wants to serve me. This one sounds like it's in a similar vein to his special My Favorite Shapes, which I loved.

“I asked chatgpt” well i asked your wife. She’s leaving you, Steve; for being such a massive loser

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My students found my Letterboxd and are now following me on there. I'm annoyed, but also this is the most Susie from Summer Camp Island (the cat in my avatar) response to have so I guess at least I'm being consistent with my brand.

The amount of coughing I just heard coming from a full lecture theatre I'm about to have to spend 90 minutes in 😷 glad I got re-jabbed yesterday...

Just in case Elon's seal of un-approval isn't enough, believe me that Dead End is perfect Halloween viewing for kids and young people - especially (but not only) if they identify anywhere on the queer or neurodiverse spectrum

hades II is very good! that's my review