Another Russian fake video with deep faked audio has Jane Austen scholar Dr. Gillian Dow stating Jane Austen would have definitely would have wanted to assassinate Chancellor Merz.
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Can you prove otherwise?
aug 27, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
With her books??? Could they not find any more plausible? James Bond! Superman! Chuck Norris!!
aug 26, 2025, 9:04 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
I’d be fascinated to know what Venn diagram of demographics they’re going after with that one
aug 26, 2025, 9:46 am • 6 0 • view
We need to retaliate with a deep faked Hölderlin scholar.
aug 26, 2025, 10:43 am • 0 0 • view
Wait - what?! I'm trying to think who could possibly benefit from circulating such nonsense.
aug 26, 2025, 9:34 am • 4 0 • view
It’s not lies it’s untruth. A frothy knowledge like substance to gum up the works, makes you doubt what you do know
aug 26, 2025, 9:48 am • 3 0 • view
Yes, it's part of 'flooding the zone'. I think I understand the principle, but it seems so utterly random at times.
aug 26, 2025, 10:43 am • 1 0 • view
Given the engagement on those posts are entirely inauthentic I suspect it's more about faking impact to report back to their funders so they keep getting money.
aug 26, 2025, 10:45 am • 7 0 • view
It's nearing the end of the month, quotas must be filled.
aug 26, 2025, 11:13 am • 2 0 • view
As @darthputinkgb.bsky.social likes to say, the point of disinformation is not to make you believe something, but to make you believe nothing. And do nothing.
aug 26, 2025, 11:12 am • 1 0 • view
This is AI's power now, where will we be in 5, 10 or 20 years? We will need AI to tell the fake from the real. The control framework needs to be in place now!
aug 26, 2025, 9:53 am • 0 0 • view
One video is about me being banned from entering Germany for an article we published, except it's all made up.
aug 26, 2025, 8:56 am • 159 22 • view
It does, however, have this, which makes it all better. Good to see @shayan86.bsky.social agrees with me.
aug 26, 2025, 8:57 am • 142 11 • view
Pretty clumsy
aug 29, 2025, 7:42 am • 1 0 • view
"YES, I AGREE" 😂
aug 26, 2025, 11:14 am • 2 0 • view
That one reads like a British comedy sketch.
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The Jane Austen scholar video also has claims Jane Austen collected tarantulas, purchased the largest mulberry garden in "western Britain" for breeding silkworms, and sponsored an assassination attempt on George Washington, despite the fact she was 14 when he died, and a baby during the war.
aug 26, 2025, 9:08 am • 253 37 • view
The phantasms have a certain Trumpiness to them.
aug 26, 2025, 10:04 am • 0 0 • view
Attn @sinsleyh.bsky.social
aug 26, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
OMG!
aug 27, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like it comes from the same zone of bullshit as that American woman who said that there was no evidence that the Roman Empire existed.
aug 26, 2025, 10:24 am • 3 0 • view
Nonsense, I’ve seen some really good films at the Roman Empire back in the day
aug 26, 2025, 10:45 am • 3 0 • view
I don't want to know what Daphne Du Maurier got up to in her spare time then...
aug 26, 2025, 9:36 am • 10 0 • view
This video sounds *amazing*. Can you post a link?
aug 26, 2025, 12:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't think it's a video. I think Jane Austen did a podcast about this.
aug 26, 2025, 7:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh yeah, the one where she had special guests George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
aug 26, 2025, 7:39 pm • 3 0 • view
She had Charlotte Brontë on there too, but they hated each other. That was one of the most popular episodes.
aug 26, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
I remember that one. They had a dance off that ended in a nasty hat pin fight.
aug 27, 2025, 5:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep - that's the one.
aug 27, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Almost as brutal as *that* episode of In Our Time about the Industrial Revolution
aug 27, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh man. I saw this post out of context and was really excited about her tarantula collection until I read to the end.
aug 26, 2025, 9:14 am • 10 1 • view
😄
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
Quite ridiculous. Austen was only 41 when she died in 1817. From wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo 2 years earlier.
aug 26, 2025, 10:03 am • 17 0 • view
Western Britain? So not THE largest in Britain then. If only she stuck to silk business and dallied in assassination and writing fiction
aug 26, 2025, 11:23 am • 1 0 • view
Oh no, Sir Walter Scott and Emily Bronte were also keen keepers of arachnids and had vast mulberry forests in Scotland and Yorkshire respectively.
aug 26, 2025, 12:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Can't wait for the Netflix series.
aug 26, 2025, 11:10 am • 4 0 • view
Gosh, it actually makes her sound exciting... not the utter boredom-fest I encountered at school.
aug 26, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
She was hiding in plain sight: "If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad". —Northanger Abbey
aug 26, 2025, 9:35 am • 36 0 • view
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. But for revenge I prefer the venom of a tarantula.” — Northanger Abbey
aug 26, 2025, 10:27 am • 20 0 • view
Pride With Extreme Prejudice!
aug 27, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
paging @maureenjohnsonbooks.com
aug 26, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
*pulls up chair*
aug 26, 2025, 12:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Tbf I've seen kids spend their pocket money on worse
aug 26, 2025, 11:02 am • 0 0 • view
I just remembered that I once read an #alternatehistory short story where, in a Britain that had been occupied by the French following a successful cross-Channel invasion, Jane Austen conspired with Davy Crockett (visiting from America) to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon.
aug 26, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I quite like the thought of Jane Austen secretly running a network of international assassins on behalf of the Crown.
aug 26, 2025, 9:11 am • 36 0 • view
New Netflix series just landed
aug 26, 2025, 9:17 am • 1 0 • view
Aged 14, no less!
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 am • 3 0 • view
James Bond Junior
aug 26, 2025, 9:16 am • 1 0 • view
Id read the hell out of this. If Aphra Behn could be an Authoress and Spy why not 😄
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 am • 2 0 • view
Specialising in tarantula based assassinations.
aug 26, 2025, 9:14 am • 22 0 • view
A steam punk version of that James Bond scene.
aug 26, 2025, 9:59 am • 2 0 • view
She was clearly an early founder of The Kingsman organisation. That’s why Colin Firth, who is only pretending to be an actor, is in both The Kingsman films and the definitive BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. Surely.
aug 26, 2025, 11:06 am • 4 1 • view
With a signature monogrammed silk handkerchief left at every scene
aug 26, 2025, 9:15 am • 15 0 • view
Sounds like the basis of the next BBC 'alternative history' drama series after William the Bastard and Hastings.
aug 26, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I should really stress none of that is true, but would make a good YA novel.
aug 26, 2025, 9:15 am • 208 7 • view
Oh, it would. I'm imagining it as a graphic novel.
aug 26, 2025, 9:47 am • 3 0 • view
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_a... It’s a crowded field
aug 26, 2025, 1:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Jane Austen: Schoolgirl Assassin - already on it.😉
aug 26, 2025, 9:19 am • 30 2 • view
I was thinking Jane Austen vs Zombie George Washington
aug 29, 2025, 10:38 am • 1 0 • view
Don't spoil my sequel! 🤫🤣
aug 29, 2025, 10:43 am • 2 0 • view
Dark academia vibes.
aug 26, 2025, 10:09 am • 2 0 • view
What they apparently teach Russian school children about Jane Austen.
aug 26, 2025, 10:16 am • 159 4 • view
Is this an actual (genAI) image from the Russian propaganda video? Cheers,
aug 26, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
AI gen
aug 26, 2025, 2:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks. So it was part of the propaganda video? I’m very interested in how much genAI is used by nation-state propagandists these days. (I’d also like to know if any of them are using their own curated algorithms and datasets.)
aug 26, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Jane Australia
aug 26, 2025, 11:34 am • 2 0 • view
She had trained attack spiders?
aug 26, 2025, 10:50 am • 21 0 • view
No social media back then, so she had some free time to fill.
aug 26, 2025, 1:15 pm • 14 0 • view
Gods forbid a girl have hobbies
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