Steve Holmes
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Joining the x-odus. Find me @steverholmes.bsky.social Baptist minister, presently employed to teach theology at University of St Andrews.
St Andrews
Joined August 2009
Another meeting this week with 'AI in assessment processes' on the agenda. What I want to know is, why are there thousands of AI apps that allow lazy students to avoid writing their essays, but not one that allows lazy markers to avoid reading theirs?
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I have just read an early Rabbinic text speculating on the geographical source of the dust God used to create Adam's buttocks. It's going to take me some time to process this.
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Our eldest is doing the Edinburgh Kiltwalk (21 miles) today to raise money for the charity she works for, @JustLove_UK. Link below if anyone is interested...
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But is there a metre long flap they can push out every leap year?
The Dome (is there no end to the New Labour legacy?) 12 yellow poles for the months of the year, 52 metres high for the weeks of the year, 365 metres round for the days of the year.
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Apart from *everything else*, do the semi-literate morons who comprise the AZ GOP not realise it should be ‘fewer kittens’?
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A photo I took six years or so ago from a little jetty in Kenmore, looking down Loch Tay. Not actually my favourite from that shoot, but it will be on the wall of a gallery in Barcelona in an exhibition next January, which is a first for me.
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I have the proud owner of two brand new Zeiss lenses ... unfortunately they are in my reading glasses, not on the front of my camera.
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...JISC Historical Texts was a resource combing EEBO with ECCO ('eighteenth-century collections online'--guess what it had...) and was just much nicer to use.)
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So, when they want to do something important and ceremonial, the English nick a big Scottish stone to make it work. This seems a familiar story...
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I know the English upper class are inbred, but, seriously?
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Love this:
Greatly enjoyed this brilliant cameraman following the action at the trampoline gymnastics today
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@chad_helmer I mean, I'm very much in favour of the well-placed memento mori, but I prefer your museum's future tense to that sign's present tense!
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