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Jeremy Noel-Tod
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Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
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I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
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In England's great ghost census, many phantoms give their home address as parish church. This is not due to spectral godliness, nor an uncommon favouring of Evensong, but a sign of the former role of the church in community life and afterlife. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
'Il n'y pas horse-texte'
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord that Lorde played, and it pleased David.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Seems a bit much for one clumsy guy
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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For #SmallPoemSunday, here's "Daily Riffs", collected in *Becoming Altar*, available from asterismbooks.com

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Today marks 100 years since the first publication of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
"I Stop Being Human"
Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🎛️🥳 Happy Delia Derbyshire 🥳🎛️ lots of stuff on our website! deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-...
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
deliaderbyshireday.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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People know exactly what‘s going on.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Imagine hearing this, 500 or a thousand years ago?
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.

Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social

👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
9 years ago I got retweeted by everyone with a drama degree
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This basically vindicates Wordsworth in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads when he wrote of 'the tendency of metre to divest language, in a certain degree, of its reality, and thus to throw a sort of half-consciousness of unsubstantial existence over the whole composition'
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“Adversarial poetry.”

Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator' huh
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM