I've got a whole set of velcro curlers, thin foam curlers and setting lotion for ya Chels... #OperationChelsea #TheArchers
Vicky Garnett, PhD
@snappyhapper.bsky.social
Here to talk #TheArchers, hiking, Digital Humanities, Linguistics if I'm feeling brave, and maybe show off some photography. Late diagnosed ADHD, so I should probably be doing something else right now...
Blimey it was all a bit aggy tonight, wasn't it?! I mean, I was annoyed with almost all of 'em! Fallon for wanting to talk replacements while in the middle of a busy lunch service; Jolene for her selfishness, and Kenton for being making it all about him because 'family'. #TheArchers
Ah jaysis, I knew a Harrison ep would be a struggle to get through, but saying he feels he's let down god because of his and Fallon's split, I mean christ could he get more nauseating?! And self-agrandising. #TheArchers
Anyone else getting bald, slightly toothless with a string vest, brown trousers and braces vibes off of Bert? #TheArchers
Gosh, Guy Garvey really was born for this genre, wasn't he? Helps he's a massive Peter Gabriel fan as well for Entangled. #ProgProms #BBCProms
Looks like they skipped Living In The Past. But they kept Soft Machines and Moody Blues in the broadcast? Disappointed with that choice tbh. #BBCProms #ProgProms
Oh Susan, just drop it over to the showroom, don't let Anne-Marie dictate any of this! #TheArchers
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3w agoGiving myself a headache in the archives
Me: (raves around the kitchen in middle aged fashion to Guy Called Gerald) My husband:"................ you're confusing the dog." It's Friday night. It's #TOTP!
Did I just hear that right? Did Nicky Campbell just say that "'Chaka Khan' is African for 'woman'"? African? AFRICAN??!! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ #TOTP
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy
Lucy Burke@lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · last mo.It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering
Blimey! I was beginning to think George had grown up and gone all sensible over the past few weeks, saying some very un-George things. And then his bitter and possessive side kicked in again on last night's ep, and balance is restored. #TheArchers
Watching reruns of Harry Enfield and Chums, and they showed Mr Cholmondley-Warner. I was struck how dapper a chappy he seemed, so went onto IMDB and found to my surprise.... it's Martyn Gibson! #TheArchers
Meanwhile the UK Web Archive has been unavailable since the British Library cyberattack in October 2023. Our already-spotty digital preservation infrastructures are falling into disrepair along with our universities. www.webarchive.org.uk
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Oh god Tracey, noooo! 🤦♀️ Don't believe a word of this 'our' cheese nonsense, it'll go straight back to being 'my' cheese as soon as any publicity or awards come knocking. #TheArchers
Joanna Page for PM. I'm not ready to say goodbye to her being on the telly having the best fun ever every week. We need a way to get her a permament TV appearance doing silly things. #Taskmaster
I'm not OK with the loss of Anthony Head. We've already lost Catherine O'Hara this year. 2026 already has disturbing echoes of 2016, I'm really not asking for a sequel.
Ooooh I don't like the way Hellin spoke to Akram today. The whiney "we've spoken about this before, haven't we?" particularly got my heckles up, mostly because of the condescending tag question. Fair play to Akram for telling T and H they have a staff welfare issue! #TheArchers
Post a fictional character that you relate a to a little TOO much....
Tina Belcher's Iconic Dance
Alt: Tina Belcher's Iconic Dance
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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel@alisoneales.com · 2mo agoPost a fictional character that you relate to a little TOO much
"As we all know, the search box is not neutral" -Andreas Fickers And with Google in the past weeks replacing its search results with AI generated responses, that neutrality has gone out the window. As #DH scholars, training society for #AI Literacy has never been more important. #DARIAH2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Oh dear god, make her stop!! Mary being surprisingly racist towards her own kinsmen there. Jaysus!!!! #Gogglebox #NEVERDoTheAccent
That charleton Graeme Whatsisface who calls himself a dog whisperer is on #Gogglebox ingnoring a dog's pain at jumping out of cars or going upstairs by making the dog go up with treats. Once again not solving the root cause of the problem and just going for a quick fix. God I hate that man.
Can't not love Shiny Happy People! Clap 👏 clap 👏 #TOTP
Aaand I'm done. My working week is over, so catching some rays with the Doggles in the back garden. #Borsetter
