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Corey

@coreysoper.bsky.social

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Lecturer at UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. I dig weightlifting, rolling D20s and succumbing to the woke mind virus. Bleating about history, nature, nerd stuff, fitness, politics and education. 📚🌿🗳🤓💪🏳️‍🌈 He/him

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 8h

There's a female general in the Ciaphas Cain books, and numerous women serving in IG units.

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 8h

Tbh I struggle to conceptualise how diverse an army consisting of trillions of people from millions of different planets would have to be to be "improbably diverse"

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 9h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 13h

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 13h

Appalling framing from the BBC, here.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What can the King do about Prince Andrew scandals?

What sanctions could King Charles apply to Prince Andrew after the latest claims about links to Epstein?

www.bbc.co.uk

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 13h

If one were a cynic, one might question the utility of denim hot-pants in most archaeological pursuits.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 13h

Even though it has dipped since 2023, there's a very obvious trend, and it is not towards *less* antisemitism...

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 13h

Whereas second you rock up to the date and she goes "I can't believe your favourite novel is Brideshead Revisited, too - what did you like about it?" you're going to be exposed immediately and it will be excruciating

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 13h

I think they get tricked on the app because you're typically juggling a few conversations which are often quite similar, so your attention is pulled in various directions...

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 13h

A perfect distillation of AI use: it can save you time, but it alienates you completely from the intended outcome. Sure, you can chat to twelve people with minimal effort but you won't make a connection with any of them - just as you can generate 100 mediocre essays and understand nothing.

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 14h

I just wanna express that I hate EMR so so much

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 1d

But many of them do? The obsession with George Soros, Musk's belief that you could "defund the Left", the Great Replacement - their model of 'the Left' is largely that it is a creation of shadowy cabals rather than an intellectual-political tradition itself.

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 1d

Truly, German is the lego-bricks of languages

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 3d

I saw that Jenny Nicholson video where there were FOURTEEN of them (!) and as she recapped the crap cash-in ones, it dawned on me I'd seen most of them at some point. They had beaten that dead horse into fossilisation.

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 3d

She just wears monochrome overalls every day. Very efficient.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 3d

Can't imagine why this lot would have trouble connecting with the public.

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 3d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 3d

I always felt that was the kind of profoundly cynical move he did to try and capture some Heath Ledger magic - to appropriate some of that legend for himself. I'm not convinced he was doing it in order to be full method at all, especially having seen his performance (lol).

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 3d

www.jpost.com/israel-news/... I can't see any peace deal until Likud and Netanyahu are out of power.

Opposition leaders meet ahead of 2026 election | The Jerusalem Post

Multiple party heads offered to provide a political safety net to ensure the peace deal passes.

www.jpost.com

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 3d

We had years of debate about whether Trump's movement was a fascist one - I never expected them to openly identify themselves with historical fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 5d

If Jilly Cooper and Terry Pratchett aren't your "people i would have dinner with" guests then you're playing that game wrong.

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 6d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 5d

This is like those weirdo fascists who love Lord of the Rings. Read those books again because I think you might have missed something!

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly the same as Kent, then.

Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah the "woke liberal elite Jews that believe in open borders" is Great Replacement Theory boilerplate. The Jews are doing mass immigration to destroy the white race, bla bla bla.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7d

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

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