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bexxi.bsky.social
Day job: senior English language lecturer at #UniFreiburg Here as: photographer - genealogist - wordplay enthusiast - #MentalHealth advocate - bilingual German / English - Welsh abroad. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 She/her. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally.
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Overheard just now. Two middle class middle aged Penarth ladies in convo as I’m walking slightly behind them. “I said I can accept you being gay. But the mullet. I thought you lot had natural style.” “What did he say?” “He said “bloody hell Mum.””

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Huge thanks to @gwenynen.bsky.social for solving my problem - diolch yn fawr iawn! 💚

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After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

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12:58 #Nature, #Insect, #Wildlife, #MacroPhotography, #Outdoors, #Environment, #Explore, #Adventure, #Photography, #Photo

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Happy Cadaver Day! #iykyk #freiburg #fronleichnam

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So, folks, how are we finding the new #Pulp album? I’m listening to it for the first time right now and am going to reserve judgement until I’ve heard it 3 times.

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Just watched the ITV documentary Proud, which commemorates the first Welsh gay march 40 years ago and looks at how things have changed or not changed since. Highly recommended!

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Just a reminder, folks: the Spectator publishes this sort of thing, so their opinion on who is nice and who is nasty doesn’t count for much.

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Caught the White Garden at Sissinghurst at its most perfect this week. A heavenly tangle of pure white flowers and cool green leaves.

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Graduation got me wearing clothes that sound like they're being described by George R. R. Martin

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Delighted to discover that I do not have a 2-hour meeting at the arse end of this already hot day. #fullofwin

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It *IS* hotter than lukewarm, but it's decidedly stewed! xD

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I've boiled water for tea FIVE times today, and each time I forget about it again and it goes lukewarm... ... Proud to report that on the fifth attempt, I have now poured water into the mug, and tea is presently brewing.

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Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project! #Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)? Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'? I want to hear from you!

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Imagine my delight at 8am this morning, arriving at the department after a teaching-free week to do a "quick" few photocopies, at having to first clear someone else's paper jam (twice) and cancel their print jobs before I could get my copies.

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Radioteleskope wurden erfunden, weil Astronom*innen bei der Arbeit gerne Musik hören.

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Seagull drinks coffee, steals mug of man installing anti-bird spikes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Boston's No Kings parade tomorrow would have clashed with the Pride Parade so the city has decided to lump everything together and call it "NO KINGS, but YAAAAS Queen!" Go Boston!

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We have discovered overnight that our new £400k Smart Window™ system at Kent Campus opens automatically to the sound of thunder. A clean up operation is currently underway.

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Happy 14th June to all those (except one) who celebrate.

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That there’s a headline.

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Back in Freiburg, where it’s been HOT!! 🥵 Still 26° at 22:20. But SO good to be home, as well as grateful for the wonderful privilege of being able to go away on holiday. 😊

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The dazzling interior of the Hoechst Technical Administration Building in Frankfurt, designed by Peter Behrens (1924)

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Either a typo or a big career pivot here for the Home Secretary

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If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them. History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.

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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Wrote about my first trip to a tech event in a while where I found some fascinating tech on the @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social stand. I found the show hard to navigate and exhausting which perhaps explains why I accidentally posted this last night not this morning!

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Welcome to the archives.

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I’m getting a lecture from my 11 year old about sustainable water use meanwhile she’s got 4 cups of half-full drinks in the detritus of her bedroom.

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