lauraashe.bsky.social
Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused. Never knowingly underdressed. New book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
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Surely it needs to go to penalties after six black smokes
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Many congratulations! Wishing you and your family all happiness
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She's a cat, isn't she
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I mean my guess is that I sort of agree with her headline for diametrically opposite reasons
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Thank you for this public service
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There's a chapter in Frantzen's The Corrections about a (supposedly middle class?) family in the US where the kids have thousands and thousands of dollars' worth of ignored toys and tech and I had to ask my US friends if this was real or parody and they said it was real so
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I'm indulging the idea that you also did it earlier in the year but froze solid then broke like the T-1000 in the liquid nitrogen
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Not kidding. That person may be the most beautiful man ever to have lived 👀
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Blackbirds: taking food round to everyone long after everyone else has given up
Robins: loudly pontificating about politics
Herons: standing in the back garden smoking on their own
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Oh take a walk along the river . You'll hit a pub within ten minutes in case you lose heart
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It's that kind of 24/7 commitment that makes the difference
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I love this kind of precision
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You made them do that
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Indeed
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Please tell me you put that in an anniversary card every year
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It's not merely absurd, it's malevolent and wholly intentional
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I'm more likely to be eaten by the seagull 🤣
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There's this whole industry of couples in full white wedding outfits posing for photographs at dawn to avoid the crowds. I first saw them in Rome.
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Sorry to disappoint 🤣
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There's no problem! I love this headline for its careful understated scientific actuality. Also I think (we all know?) that the world's gone mad and isn't that into careful understated scientific actuality, unfortunately
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This means: so you can make a run for it?
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Very on brand and also appropriate
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This is unthinkable and now here we are. I am so sorry. So fucking stupid and malicious