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riddsteve.bsky.social
Academic, walker, photographer, accidental haikuist and player of Northumbrian pipes, not necessarily in that order. Working at School of Computing, Newcastle university. Playing somewhere across Northumberland, UK
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Today's university in crisis is Kingston, which is cutting all the departments and subjects below, a savage retrenchment that won't even make them half of the £20m savings they need. Every day will be like this until something is done.

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An old friend will call Listen and remember then Book on the next train #DailyHaikuPrompt - friend #haiku #senryu

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Spydere man Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondrye webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo, anon cometh Spydere Man

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

This is an extremely helpful review on @hepi-news.bsky.social of a book I didn't want to read before and definitely do not need to do so now. As @profstevenjones.bsky.social sharply observes "Why is it that only ‘cancelled’ academics seem to have media agents?" www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/15/w...

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“Is there any evidence that people with, to quote Trump, ‘severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities’ can become air-traffic controllers? There's more evidence that they just end up President of the US.” @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

#DailyHaikuPrompt - pebble A beach of shingle Retreating waves drag across Loud whispering stones #haiku #poetry

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Unexpectedly having a few days in That London, if we still call it that. View from Primrose Hill as the sun goes down, still unbeatable.

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The UK government’s consultation on AI is not fit for purpose, seeking to benefit big tech at the expense of creative talents | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

#DailyHaikuPrompt - December At last December Takes the hint and slips away Key under the mat #haiku

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to the world A new daughter, granddaughter This morning her first Breath - #dailyHaikuPrompt A very personal one this morning, but the prompt was just too perfect. So, just call me grandpa. Lily born just after 3am, mother and baby doing very well.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

It's a brand new podcast (episode) For twenty twenty (four) They Might Be Giants brand new album ... A fantastic, and surprisingly comforting, episode referencing a surprising number of songs that aren't actually on the album. Loved it.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not saying that AI-written books are becoming a problem on Amazon, but here is the first page of a new book on the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege.

submitted 81 days ago • 51 comments

“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme” 👏👏👏

submitted 84 days ago • 33 comments

What Joe Bloggs (just normal men) are known as in seven different languages: 7. Joe Little Carrot (Slovak) 6. Otto Normalconsumer (German) 5. Wang Number Five (Mandarin) 4. Average Svensson (Swedish) 3. Name Nameson (Danish) 2. Mid-range Vasya (Russian) 1. Statistical Kowalski (Polish)

submitted 86 days ago • 48 comments

Sad indeed. And "... perhaps the saddest part of the story will be the ending of the scheme which Windows had with young musicians, whereby they could rent an instrument out to see if it suited them before buying it…", absolutely - great scheme for violin rental when the kids were at school

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So... some years ago I made up a horse for a joke. And AI took me seriously.

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

Big fact-check on lots of the immigration lies being amplified today by the usual grifters. Please boost.

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)

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@icysedgwick.bsky.social congratulations, Dr! Enjoy the official ceremony bit 🎓

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure about the new Star Wars.

submitted 254 days ago • 41 comments

Excellent starter pack, best I've seen so far. RIP Geoff.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

So this mastodon bridge thing is fun, I'm now following myself (my alter-ego over there is generally concerned with haikus, for which I make no apology)

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Oh dear, Meta isn’t having a good day, is it? ground.news/article/eu-s...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments