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@benjcartlidge.bsky.social

Classics. Languages. Cat. Violin.

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Ra Ra Rasputna,
Lover of the orange tsar
There was a cat that really was gone!

07.08.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.

Personally, I won’t even say hello to A.I. Just a death stare.

07.08.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I was just thinking it was time I made shkmeruli again

05.08.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She doesn't really believe in equality, because obviously she will introduce a benign dictatorship. But she did seem to like the music.

05.08.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tonight Nyx listened to Ethel Smyth and learned about feminism.

05.08.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's also a weird statement. "Second type of innovation" means "drift and contact"? But those are very different.

31.07.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bit like Germanic VerschΓ€rfung!

31.07.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Boo, wrong

31.07.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Garcia Ramon used to get wildly worked up about that.

31.07.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some recent Nyx pics

31.07.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Students in England shun foreign languages at A-level, report finds Ofqual figures show a sharp fall in pupils taking exams in French and German

A well known, longstanding and important problem gets another look in a new HEPI report this week.

Link to the HEPI report is: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/t... 1/2

31.07.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Orange and white cat with large round eyes

Orange and white cat with large round eyes

Hallo lett me intorduce myselve I am Gonzo Ca'at I will bite yore enomys fore a smol cashmonie fee or perhabs a treet of pupperpony

08.06.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 891    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 3

Then again, I might use this next time I need an example of a false dichotomy

21.05.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This isn't a drinking game, this is downing a bottle of vodka through a straw.

21.05.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Ah. Insufficient bloodlust opportunities. She wanted to murder the toy birb.

21.05.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Damn you, curtain, why must you oppose my will?"

21.05.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course - "game" has an /a/....

21.05.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good lord man, put the bottle down.....

21.05.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nyx clearly wants something and I can't figure out what. (I'm aware the answer is almost certainly dreamies...) but she seems more insistent than usual.

21.05.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trouble is we have so many subgroups of Germanic, it's so differentiated (and they all do umlaut and breaking slightly differently). If we had as many Tocharians or Albanians as we had Germanics it would easily be as weird.

12.05.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? Universities Aren’t Ready for the Answer | The Walrus AI is here to stay. It’s up to educators to articulate why writing still matters

Quoted here: my earlier piece for @thewalrus.ca

thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-writ...

08.05.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What makes me mad about AI in education How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it

open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

08.05.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 33

Omg

27.04.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Rhymes with Wickham, as in Mr, from Pride and Prejudice.

26.04.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I don't want to be cynical, he lied, but is it possible Trump talked to Zelensky in the Vatican just so the story would be about him?

26.04.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of those things that's actually completely obvious when you think about it but still seems bizarre.

22.04.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meeting them, and briefly wondering if I might be one.

18.04.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"gonzobongos" should be trademarked

18.04.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two children at school in uniforms and it looks like Japan, both of them look like girls or femmes. One is holding a giant tuba so that it's stuffed over the face of the other one that's pinned up against the wall. The one holding the tuba is labeled every company. The tuba is labeled unwanted AI And the one against the wall is labeled me

Two children at school in uniforms and it looks like Japan, both of them look like girls or femmes. One is holding a giant tuba so that it's stuffed over the face of the other one that's pinned up against the wall. The one holding the tuba is labeled every company. The tuba is labeled unwanted AI And the one against the wall is labeled me

13.04.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7452    πŸ” 2616    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 79

Also, men should start wearing moribunds again

15.04.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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