AI BOOSTER BINGO
The squares read:
I might get attacked for saying this
Imagine what it'll do in 5 years
Al critics are just afraid
Al is better than you
Everyone is doing it
"Levels the playing Field"
Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS
Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors
MORE VOLUME!!
Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM]
Yes jobs will be cut...
Humans aren't perfect either
It's FUN!!!
No practical advice
"Sorry bluesky"
Solution to chronic underfunding
What if it could cure cancer???
I made something that appears passable
No need for pesky underlings
Is it accurate? No. But...
Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted"
Get with it or get left behind!!!
Al critics are luddites
This was actually written by AI
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I made a bingo card
03.03.2026 15:46 β
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Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.
03.03.2026 12:35 β
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Ailbhe Kenny, "Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music" (Oxford UP, Press 2025) - New Books Network
Listen! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social spoke to @kennyailbhe.bsky.social about the hugely important "Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music" newbooksnetwork.com/music-refuge
03.03.2026 11:16 β
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This, which is partially a reflection on the challenges of doing ethnography during the pandemic:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
03.03.2026 07:16 β
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"A masterclass in caution!" is a line for the ages, in fairness.
02.03.2026 10:10 β
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Three football hipsters react emotionally to a 0-0 draw between Milan & Juventus:
Hipster #1: A masterclass in caution!
Hipster #2: An Italian classic!
Hipster #3: Drool!
Sorry, but I just had to post this @davidsquires.bsky.social panel at this point.
02.03.2026 10:00 β
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Also worth noting in passing that the median British answer to the OPβs original question has been to post the Peter Griffin colour swatch meme, whereas the median Irish answer has been to say βthatβs because they donβt view Ireland as properly independentβ.
Which is sociologically interesting, no?
01.03.2026 12:38 β
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Yes, I'm agreeing with you!
01.03.2026 11:48 β
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Yeah, while I understand the point, I'm always a bit wary about the rhetorical equation of Irishness with whiteness that gets employed in these discussions.
There's plenty of my own friends, family members, colleagues, students etc who are Irish citizens but non-white. Some living in GB.
01.03.2026 11:44 β
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(Worth noting that Reform's ideological forebears have regularly over the years *not* been ok with Irish citizens voting in GB, especially during the 'suspect community' period. It was a sufficiently live issue in the 1970s that the FIS campaigned on it: collections.londonmet.ac.uk/records/AIB/...)
01.03.2026 11:30 β
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Donβt have the references at my fingertips but there were sporadic attempts to bar Irish citizens from voting in British elections during the 70s and 80s, yes. I think some of it may have been in response to the perception that Ken Livingstone was cultivating Irish voters during the GLC days.
01.03.2026 10:55 β
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a man is playing a guitar and singing into a microphone while another man plays accordion .
Alt: Shane McGowan playing a guitar and singing.
On the first day of March, it was raining
It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen
I drank ten pints of beer and I cursed all people there
And I wished that all this rain would stop falling down on me
Shane knew
01.03.2026 10:23 β
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Her hand gestures are also very βEnglish lit lecturer who is deviating from the lecture she intended to give but, actually, no, this is importantβ (complimentary).
01.03.2026 10:04 β
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a woman in a blue dress is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that
Alt: a woman in a blue dress (Rebecca from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that
22-year-old pollster, who is just trying to get her day's responses logged to earn her rent money, and has a script to follow: "So, will I put you down for a 3?"
Qualitative social scientists:
26.02.2026 19:38 β
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a woman in a blue dress is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that
Alt: a woman in a blue dress (Rebecca from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that
22-year-old pollster, who is just trying to get her day's responses logged to earn her rent money, and has a script to follow: "So, will I put you down for a 3?"
Qualitative social scientists:
26.02.2026 19:35 β
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YouTube video by British Comedy
Yes Prime Minister - Sir Humphrey shows poll rigging
Anyway, when IpsosMori release survey data on public opinions on data centres and energy use in the next few weeks, the findings can be safely dismissed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSK...
26.02.2026 14:11 β
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(I was nice to her, it's not her fault).
26.02.2026 14:08 β
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two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works
ALT: two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works
Pity the young opinion poll data gatherer who rings up a *qualitative social scientist* with a series of yes/no forced choice binary questions on complex, nuanced social issues.
26.02.2026 14:08 β
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Might just tag this one with #metascience without any further context and see what happens.
26.02.2026 12:33 β
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I'm getting PTSD flashbacks to the 2009 hurlers strike with the second one.
26.02.2026 12:26 β
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Projects might include selfie-taking behaviour outside the pub for instance.
26.02.2026 12:17 β
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Should you be so inclined, you can watch live footage of this on the Temple Bar webcam: www.earthcam.com/world/irelan...
(When I'm teaching observational methods, I get students to come up with projects based on observing behaviour on public webcams. The Temple Bar webcam is always a popular one.)
26.02.2026 12:15 β
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Ireland, Migration and Return Migration | Home
The βReturned Yankβ in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present
SinΓ©ad Moynihan's book on the cultural impact of the 'Returned Yank' bringing Americana with them, touches on this a bit: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
25.02.2026 22:03 β
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Ralph McTell and Ewan MacColl were people I had in mind. David Gray (also from an English folk tradition) is a more recent example, I guess.
24.02.2026 17:53 β
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But, listen, your take on this will be more informed than mine!
24.02.2026 17:44 β
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Hmm - I think maybe folk music gets more of a hearing in Ireland than England? So even if you're audibly from an English folk music tradition, you might find more of an audience in Ireland.
So, "Dirty Old Town" is very specifically an English folk song, but it's found its way into the Irish canon.
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