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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 20h

Warfare is amazing!

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 1d

I gave a keynote on accent bias and social mobility at the ABI (Assoc. of British Insurers) last week. Alongside my keynote, they invited me to write a blog post on our work which you can now read below:

www.abi.org.uk/news/blog-ar...

Accent bias as a barrier to social mobility | ABI

www.abi.org.uk

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 1d

One of the greatest works of art in the music video genre.
RIP, D’Angelo.
youtu.be/SxVNOnPyvIU?...

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 2d

"Language has been verbing for as long as it has languaged." New post on Agatha Christie – as a verb stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/t...

to Agatha Christie (v.tr.)

The conversion of nouns to verbs (to impact, to medal, to leverage, to architect) is a continual object of criticism and word rage. But language has been verbing for as long as it has languaged. In…

stancarey.wordpress.com

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 3d

Love the alt text! Perfect!

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 4d

I just uttered something similar to the words in this post to my husband.
He was very confused. 😂

LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 4d

Charli xcx is Role Model’s SNL Sally

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 4d

I’m rooting for the Blue Jays in the ALCS obviously, but I’m obsessed with Humpy.

Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 5d

Humpy the Salmon, Seattle Mariners, 2025 Topps style

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 5d

Linguists are funny.

Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 5d

Unsolicited click pic

List of symbols for click with place of articulation next to each: billable, dental, (post)alveolar, palatoalveolar, alveolar lateral

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 5d

In the 15th inning of tonight's ALDS, my beloved Humpy the salmon won his first ever victory in the Mariners' salmon race.

A half an inning later, the Mariners finished it all off. Coincidence?

www.mlb.com/mariners/fan...

Prior to tonight, Humpy the salmon had NEVER won a salmon race at T-Mobile park.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 6d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 5d

We’ve seen both of them live, and I still get them confused.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5d

FREDDIE: I got Geese.

EDDIE: Goose?

FREDDIE: No, Geese.

EDDIE: More than one?

FREDDIE: It’s just the one. Geese.

EDDIE: I’m saying. Geese is more than Goose.

FREDDIE: I’m glad you think so. I tried for Goose, too, but no luck.

Freddie and Eddie, the Nation’s Leading Temu Abbott and Costello, in “Dat Bird!”

“Goose is a jam band. Geese is indie rock. They both have new albums. They’re also both on tour. Confused? We can help.” — New York Times - - -FRED...

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 5d

I remember how, before this game started, I thought, it'll be done around 11, I'll finish the dishes then, take out the trash, get in bed and maybe read for an hour. I was so much younger then

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Shein, the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer, is preparing to open a physical space in one of the most coveted retail spots of Paris. But France is pushing to stem the company’s presence in the country.

Parisians Protest Shein’s First Physical Store

As the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer prepares to open a physical space in a venerable department store, France pushes to stem the company’s presence in the country.

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t remember much about this show but I remember Ted Knight’s college sweatshirts!
Also, one of the daughters was in my beloved Streets of Fire.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 7d

Too Close for Comfort - College Sweatshirt Heaven - Commish looks at the 1980s TV show and does a deep analytical dive into all 129 episodes where the main character wore so many different college sweatshirts.

sickos-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/too-close-...

Too Close for Comfort - College Sweatshirt Heaven

College Sweatshirt Heaven - Commish looks at the show 1980s TV Too Close for Comfort and does a deep analytical drive into the show with so many different college sweatshirts.

sickos-newsletter.beehiiv.com

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 6d

Started watching The Studio with Aaron, a rewatch for him. S1E2, I said to him, “This is like The Bear’s ‘Review’ but for film nerds like you.”

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 6d

Icon. One of the greats.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/mus...

Inspirational Edwyn Collins' emotional Manchester goodbye during Albert Hall gig

Edwyn Collins played his final gig in Manchester on Tuesday evening when he appeared at the city's Albert Hall

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 6d

What a burn from David Simon.
Seriously, you’re going to ask one of our great television minds if AI would help with a scene transition? What the heck?!?

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a Long Winters day:
“You want to burn the liars?
You'll set us both on fire
You're faking, so I'm pretend sleeping
Waiting for this to be fun
It's true little miss mean mini-bar guard
We're gonna have to try something new
Let me breath fire down on you”

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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 7d

THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE MOVING ON TO THE ALCS!!! 🇨🇦⚾️

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 8d

Aaron had a friend at the NYFF screening. He joked, “If you run into Timothée Chalamet, can you tell him we named our cat after him?” 😂

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 9d

Following the first reactions, Timothée Chalamet is being lauded for his “career-best performance” in Josh Safdie’s ‘MARTY SUPREME’

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AJW @andreawest.bsky.social · 8d

I love this type of breaking news.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 8d

BREAKING FROM INSTAGRAM - Pudge is napping.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 9d

Meant to share a while ago, all my drawn syllabi for the semester, including the minicomic as syllabus with my Ai statement in it. (Curiously there are more words in my comics syllabi than the non-comics one…) All available (with text versions as well) on my site spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Photo of drawn syllabi - two for comics classes and one for a non comics class as a minicomic

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