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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3h

Apropos, while hard to prosecute, obtaining sex by deception is technically a crime.

Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3h

The new top tier of men will be those who can confidently express an opinion and knowledge in person. The nerds. The nerds will win.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3h

In practice this whole thing will inspire a resurgence of in-person and phone conversations and help kill off the twitching body of app dating.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3h

I know Cyrano well enough to know this ends in the death of ChatGPT

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 4h

I’m cat-sitting this football

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 5h

@dcturner.bsky.social good face

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 5h

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah and what cost to us of trying to dam the flood? Especially women! I’d rather put that energy into journalism and books and campaigning.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 5h

Other good things outside of career opportunities and customer service: reunited with a long-lost cousin. Made friends via force of personality who became and still are my irl besties. Sold a few of my finer jokes to professionals. Had a tweet quoted on HIGNFY. But that’s a bygone era.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 5h

Actually I miss the customer service influence aspect. You could get problems solved because there was a person on the corporate account whose job it was to stop complaints going viral. And I once got free Swarfega because I did a joke about Swarfega. That was good.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 5h

Worth a read. I had 30k followers, one of the original blue ticks (because I was a target of abuse, and for which I received even more abuse) and a bit more influence than I’d ever expected. It made my career. I deleted it the week Musk bought it. My publisher was unhappy. I don’t miss it.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 6h

“The legal read’s back”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 21h

Yes it’s one of those ‘lots of things can be true at once’ situations. As long as his extreme evilness doesn’t bias or diminish any potential investigation (because prisons should be safe) then I won’t be shedding any tears.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 22h

If you’re Woolwich way give me a nudge

Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been weighing on my mind. My primary school teacher’s feedback was a big contributor to my becoming a writer. But I guess the AI future doesn’t expect to have any writers.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. Was at a primary school last month that is doing this.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d

From the linked blog, “generative AI cannot tell a user how it arrived at a decision when it grades or evaluates work” - this is key and if parents are unaware of what’s happening (which they are) they should use this to push back. Demand the explanations for evaluations.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d

Primary schools are doing this. Makes me feel sick. To remove individualised insight into a pupil’s progress and skills at such a formative age is lunacy.

Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1d

Vital words on why educators should push back against using plagiarism-slop machines for grading: "grading written responses is messy by design. It’s also one of the most human activities we can do within teaching." 1/2

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1d

Vital words on why educators should push back against using plagiarism-slop machines for grading: "grading written responses is messy by design. It’s also one of the most human activities we can do within teaching." 1/2

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

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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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d

It infuriates me how Netflix has basically no older films. Presents such a distorted history.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t they just reissue the original scent?

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 2d

Absolutely superb work by this photographer.

Mikey Smith @mikeysmith.com · 2d

Donald Trump getting Gaza ceasefire over the line doesn't make him 'President of Peace'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Trump getting Gaza ceasefire over the line doesn't make him 'President of Peace'

He's been campaigning for it for weeks, and will doubtless see being passed over for the prestigious award as an unbearable snub. But in reality, he was never really in the frame - nor should he have ...

www.mirror.co.uk

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3d

They never do. His incel vibe is so strong I can imagine his sense of consent is a little off, mind you.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3d

A fun thing for me is that I can’t use ‘TK’ (to come) in my manuscripts because it’s my initials

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 3d

Full disclosure: my great grandparents were first cousins, not unusual for my ethnicity.

Further disclosure, I just did a BRCA gene test because I’m at a massively increased risk for cancer.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 3d

To quote Frank Wilhoit:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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