Bradford’s Best Kept Secret

They bailed them out to the tune of £10k per person in the UK.

Not per taxpayer, per person, children included!

If they’d given that money to the people instead I can one hundred percent guarantee we wouldn’t be where we are now. I’d like to live in that timeline tbh.

Existential dishwasher angst
Assuaged
By Meta-angst ontology.
(Knives go handles up, blade side down, epistemologically.

This🧵
not only explains why
AI
is unavoidably shit

But it also explains why
philosophers cannot define
chairs v stools

& it serves to remind,
us to spend more time
IN reality
[ideally in elusive “poetry clubs”]
& less time doing philosophy
or online

Don’t confuse means
with ends
End

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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

We’d love to see New Model Army playing Live in Bradford as part of City of Culture 🥷 #BradfordsBestKeptSecret

@newmodelarmy.bsky.social @joolzdenby.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @alexrossshaw.bsky.social @kerstenengland.bsky.social

Cathedrals are ACE.
Durham Cathedral is extra ACE
I don’t trust AI (see earlier post)

I give up.

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Oh ffs

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Missing photos!

A wheelie through the Ramadan Arches #Bradord #visitBradford #cityofculture2025 #sharemondays2025

Industrial metalwork, painting red. Two men In fedoras stand back to back.

Chains, gearing, metal pipe work, one of the pipes might be a saxophone

Cogs, metalwork, industry a man with a hat has a beer.

Industrial Jazz
Hashtag World Poetry Day
Poetry Club Three

@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret #Bradford2025 #WorldPoetryDay
#Whisky #Jazz #Goth #Poetry #speakeasy
🤫🥃🎹🎷🍸😎

It was the “red vintage sprinkler” that screamed “curator”

Nothing to see here

But we really appreciate your diligence in checking your exhibits

Does none attendance at a none event that didn’t happen count towards your total?

I’ve gone all film noir!

The Curator does excellent ALT text.

[this is concept art, for a hypothetical exhibition, about er… something)

Industrial things. No Jazz, honest…

Candle lit engineering

Machines, people, Whisky.

What did I miss?
Industrial Jazz / Poetry / Ukrainian dark wave synth pop… obviously. #Bradford2025

#WorldPoetryDay #BradfordsBestKeptSecret
@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @joolzdenby.bsky.social @drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social

So good.

Jazz break occurring.

It's Friday, so, obviously, it's Jazz and Poetry night in a speakeasy set up in my very local museum as part of @bradford2025.co.uk

Nice to see the old Jowett cars (built about a mile away) still take pride of place.

#Bradford @bradfordspeakeasy.bsky.social ##CityofCulture2025

Ten Rules for Aspiring Poets 1. Poetry does not have to rhyme. Well, at least not all the time always. 2. Metaphors can lend a poem power (but mixing them isn’t good). Should they start to fly in all directions, nip them in the bud. 3. Focus and concentration are important skills to hone. Close the door. Turn off the wi-fi. Don’t get distracted by your ph 4. Avoid clichés like the plague. 5. Don’t write stuff that’s a bit vague. 6. The use of unnecessarily long words may result in reader alienation. Curb your sesquipedalianism to obviate any obfuscation. 7. Always proof-read you’re work. Accuracy can be it’s own reward! And remember that the penis mightier than the sword. 8. Check haiku closely for lines which have too few or too many syllables. 9. Never ever follow rules. Brian Bilston

Happy World Poetry Day to all who celebrate. If you’re interested in writing poetry yourself, I hope this poem will be of some use.

She doesn’t know the password… don’t tell her!

What do you mean you already have plans for this evening?

Cancel your plans.
Make new plans.
Plans change.
C’est la Vie.
Plus ça change?
Bureau de change…
Change Elysées…
Je ne Regrette Rein.

Whisky & Jazz people,
Whisky & Jazz.
🥃🍸🎷🎹😎🤫
@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social
#WorldPoetryDay #Bradford2025

"Poetry Club 3" The Industrial Revolution Bradford's Best Kept Secret is back. For a Speakeasy Night at the Museum. Expect Cocktails, Jazz and poetry... Sssh! Tell no-one nothing.

Ticket holders… (well all ticket holders except one…) have now been sent the event password by email.

If you still haven’t got your tickets - what on earth have you been doing with your life? They’ve been on Eventbrite this whole time! #BradfordsBestKeptSecret

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-clu....

Artwork by @viddycreative

An infographic of someone wearing an “access no areas” lanyard https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-club-3-the-industrial-revolution-tickets-1000014900487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1hgikn9*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODYwNDg5MS4xNzQxMjc4MjEz*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MTI3ODIxMy4xLjAuMTc0MTI3ODIxMy4wLjAuMA.

Candlelit whisky, Clandestine Jazz

Someone told the T&A!

But they didn’t tell them much…

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2502228...

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#BradfordsBestKeptSecret - It's On In Bradford “Poetry Club” An exclusive poetry club, hidden inside a secret jazz speakeasy, that elusively pops up inside Bradford’s finest buildings. The next one is on #Worldpoetryday I’ve said too much. ...

It’s on “it’s on in Bradford”, but where it’s on and how you get in, remains a well kept secret. #BradfordsBestKeptSecret

itsoninbradford.co.uk/events/bradf...

For those in the know but without a ticket… best act fast!
#Bradford

In the dim light, of what looks like a bookshop, a lady wearing glasses tries to take a photo of jazz.

A candle lit table of cans and glasses in a room of people listening

A poem, being read.

In the darkness we can see books, and pillars and an audience, and instruments and a poet, poeting.

Nothing to see here!

Just poetry people,
in a poetry club,
doing the poetry things,
that poetry people do…
Er…
rhymes and stuff…
🥷

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay
🤫🎹🎷🍸🥃🤗🤫
@bradford2025.co.uk @bfdcathedral.bsky.social @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social

A poet, in silhouette, in front of an amber lit stained glass window (Check eventbrite for tickets)

A candlelit whisky cocktail

Candlelight tinkles the grand piano’s ivories

🤫🥃🎹🍸🎷😎🤫

Some people know the secret!
They’ve already got their tickets!
Have you?

#BradfordsBestKeptSecret
#WorldPoetryDay
#Bradford2025
@bradfordmuseums.bsky.social