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Suzanne Fagence Cooper

@suzannefagence.bsky.social

Writer. Lecturer. Curator: Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, Ruskin, Dickens, Victorian women. Books & more: linktr.ee/Suzannefagence

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Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 5d ago

This morning, the last of four ancient cottonwoods in Lochiel, AZ, estimated to be 200–250 years old and known as the “grandmother tree,” was cut down for Trump’s border wall. 🤬😢🤬😢🤬😢🤬😢🤬😢🤬😢

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.

Dr Ella Hawkins@ellamchawk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2w ago

I block these emails at this point, because otherwise they just keep sending endless word vomit "follow ups." Please, please, just type your own email.

Kelly Thompson@kellythompson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Again I am begging all LEGIT people running cons, signings, talks, events, etc. to stop using Ai to write your emails. What's happening is ALL THE SCAMMERS/CONMEN are ALSO using it, and so your emails are basically indistinguishable from them. They give off slop vibes EVEN IF YOU ARE LEGIT.

Simon Knott@simonknott.bsky.social · 3w ago

A 7th Century pillow name stone in St Hilda's church, Hartlepool, an Alpha and Omega above the name Hildithryth. It's one of a number from the cemeteries of the Anglo-Saxon monastery that stood on Hartlepool Headland and which are occasionally unearthed under streets and in peoples gardens. 1/2

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Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 3w ago

A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all. This is 1930s level stuff.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Yaroslava@strategywoman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Morning in Kyiv. I’m having a warcoffee. The sound of a jet-powered drone breaks the silence. Then, a burst of loud shots. Blessed air defence. The drone is done. All clear. I continue sipping my black elixir.

Juliet E McKenna@julietemckenna.bsky.social · 4w ago

"AI models are typically trained on enormous amounts of data scraped from the internet, including copyrighted materials taken without their owners' permissions, to the chagrin of creative groups." Chagrin?! CHAGRIN?! Try FURY at having our work stolen and our governments ignoring clear copyright law

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 4w ago

AI companies could use creators' work without paying them under leaked government copyright proposal

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 4w ago

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · 4w ago

Good thread on "scary big AI going rogue": as others have also pointed out, it's mostly shoddy cybersecurity hygiene from the AI bros combined with how fast AI can find and exploit vulnerabilities.

Jess Miers 🦝@jmiers230.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI can now detect, automate, and chain together exploits faster than any human hacker can. That is significant. Which means that the system vulnerabilities once considered not so low hanging fruit are actually very low hanging.