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gossip_guy

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Whoops, Ruby wasn't paying attention when Googling "quotes about siblings" and accidentally reveals she didn't actually read the thing she claims she read, for the 42,948,567th time.

I'm also dying at Ruby's weirdly clinical and ambiguous birthday message to her sister; note that Ruby doesn't actually says anything positive about her sister or their relationship anywhere in this post.
 
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Griftwood

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Okay, so I’m procrastinating and decided to use my procrastination time usefully and went through Roobee’s study day. Didn’t find any inconsistencies with the date (or she’s got really sneaky at hiding them) but she really is half-assing 50% of it and lying about the other 50%. Behold:

She gets up some time after sunrise, gets dressed and has breakfast - I’m guessing she starts WAHHRK around 8:30 or so (hard to make out the time but it starts with either 8 or 9).

She ”writes an outline” of The Jew of Malta, reads an article on it, then reads the whole play - the time looks to be something starting with 10 when she starts reading, or when she films the first clip of herself reading. ”That took me a couple of hours,” she announces, goes down to get coffee, then says ”it’s now been an hour” and claims to have worked on her novel.

She then reads from an introductory book on Shakespeare ”to brush up on my Shakespeare knowledge” and films the sponsorship segment, then announces ”it’s now 12:15”. Instead of going to lunch, she then ”writes up summaries of all the cantos of The Faerie Queene” (there are 75) and ”reads another canto” (number 3 - but she’s ”taking it slyowly because I’m just really enjoying it”).

After an insufficient lunch, it’s time for some transcription of Early Modern handwriting. It’s 13:44 according to her iPad. She then watches an introductory video on the Bodleian (time shown, it’s now 14:37). She then reads an entire book on early printed books on PARLAYGO and takes notes; the clock on her desk shows a time of 16:55.

She goes out on a ron, saying she will take a 45-minute break. She time travels back to 15:07 briefly to unbox her Apple pansill, then proceeds with her break of coffee, cake and wahhrking on her novel. She then reads two critical essays; the time is 17:something. (Even if it’s 17:59, she has once again managed the impossible and gone for a run, shower, coffee, cake, writing and reading two critical essays all within 54 minutes, not to mention the time travel.)

After this, it’s time to make and eat dinner, and then she has a therapy session at 19:00. She then writes for 3+ hours and reads 400 pages of a book before going to sleep.
 
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gossip_guy

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She’s obviously half-inched that recipe from a website so why not just share the link rather than an artistic interpretation? There’s so much missing here it makes my baker’s soul hurt.
I went back to check that section and she steals absolutely everything and contributes nothing of her own.

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The design template is one of the stock layouts/designs from the website/printing service she used.

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Most of the recipes and images are copied and pasted from Pinterest.

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Others nabbed from specific sites she found in Google searches.

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She just copies and pastes everything, with no attention paid to any missing information, like cooking instructions.

Most of the recipes have no instructions whatsoever, just a list of raw ingredients for you to pile into a bowl and eat with a fork, presumably.

For the few that she's included cooking instructions, there are...issues.

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James's Peach Rolls (from James and the Giant Peach, I guess, but she doesn't clarify who or where any of these recipes originate from and leaves it to the imagination) have cooking instructions included, mercifully. Only...instead of an actual recipe for peach rolls, she's just copied this recipe for vegan brioche, word for word:


And in her rush to steal all her content from other sources and put in zero thought or effort of her own, she forgot that there are no peaches in that stolen recipe and so peaches aren't included anywhere in the cooking instructions. There's just a half-assed note on the ingredient list - 'Sliced peaches (to roll inside)' - but no indication at what point to do that, because she was too damn lazy to amend the instructions.

So the design is borrowed and the recipes incompetently stolen, but surely someone who brags that she JANUINELY reads 1,000s of books a year and loves literature more than anything has a few memorable passages and scenes rattling around her dusty, hollow skull? Especially since she's constantly advertising all the annotation apps she AWLWHEYS YEEZES.

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Nah, she just skimmed Goodreads quotes until she found something food-related.

You might think she's at least contributed her own ideas as a starting point, using foods she remembers from her favourite books, right? Or since she loves REEESAAARCHING AND LAAAHRNING so much, she'd grab a favourite book from her shelf and skip to the passages about food?

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Nope. She got ChatGPT to think of things for her.

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"find some pieces of food writing in the beatrix potter books and list them for me please"

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"give me some foods and extracts about these foods which appear in the charles dickens b[...]"

But not to worry, I'm sure for Harry Potter she'll have some quotes memorised or scenes in mind, considering she stole her fake name and her entire fake personality from a character in the books. She should know those books like the back of her grimy hands. And she has the books on her "BOCKSHALVES" to grab and check for the quo--

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"find a quote from harry potter about butterbeer"

Oh.

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"can you find a quote from a book where[...]"

Oh dear...

I guess it's too hard to come up with her own ideas or find quotes for herself when she only pretends to read books.

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She proudly shows off her plagiarised creation and there's no credit anywhere for illustrations, photos, recipes, quotes, etc. If she tries charging money for this, it'll be a shitstorm. And I guess it's a different matter if this is just something she did for fun, but there seems to be zero fun involved, either.

It's not exactly a fun passion project when it's a joylessly and cynically slapped-together pamphlet to which she contributed nothing of her own and which is focused around her completely fake interest in literature. It's just embarrassing on every level.

And what makes it even worse is that she was stupid enough to leave all this footage in, because she thinks time-lapse footage will hide everything in a blur of faux-productive busywork. She's her own worst enemy, and I'm not sure why anyone believes her lies at this point when she shows her hand in every video.
 

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inyo

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If you're so bored at the age of 23 that you're making a recipe book, copying out poems, or painting over a book cover, then I think it's a sign to get a job.
 
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😬 Seems she doesn't send out replacements of her products when she says she does either... if you're so checked out from your business, there really is no shame in closing it. I have noticed her comments on tiktok becoming more sceptical of her recently.
 
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Griftwood

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Welp, I guess we put it on the bingo card for a reason 🙃

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lol she really thinks she’s going to be traipsing around Oxford, writing letters and decorating them with stamps, using her portable cutlery and two pencil cases full of pens and pencils and mildliners and page flags and washi tapes 😂 This confirms it, she really is only doing this for the aesthetics and the bragging rights. She’s such a fucking dilettante 😂
 
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Griftwood

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End of what year, precisely? Oh let me guess, she’s talking about the academic year at her old school, because god forbid she move on to defining time in terms of calendar years or even university academic years 🙄

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edit: she takes a fucking TAXI to work 😂🤦
 
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Deeznutslol

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“We NEED to normalise going on rainy walks”…. What?
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Since when was going out in the rain not “normalized” for someone who lives in the UK? It literally rains for like half of the year lmao. Either you go out in it or you remain shut in your house all day.
I’ve not been on this thread for a while and haven’t caught up with her, but one look at her tiktok tells me that clearly she’s still an absolute melt lol
 
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figgypud

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I have never once written a summary of a text I've read for my degree. For my reading for this year, I've got a Google doc with initial thoughts, motifs I notice, the main themes but those are just things to look back on to jog my memory.

I'm currently reading Bleak House in preparation for October and to nobody's surprise, someone carries "a broken candle in a broken candlestick", not a broken candlestick in a broken candlestick holder.
 
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Imagine being in a lecture and everyone's there with their laptops and then this vision in Miss Patina bursts through the door and proceeds to tip the entire contents of a Ryman's superstore out on the desk next to you. Followed by what you think is the early tremors of an earthquake but is actually just The Planner being hauled out of the kanken and clanked down onto the desk, scattering washi tape and Gaviscon tablets to the four winds.
 
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CatCafe234

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“We NEED to normalise going on rainy walks”…. What?
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Since when was going out in the rain not “normalized” for someone who lives in the UK? It literally rains for like half of the year lmao. Either you go out in it or you remain shut in your house all day.
I’ve not been on this thread for a while and haven’t caught up with her, but one look at her tiktok tells me that clearly she’s still an absolute melt lol
Tell me you’ve never had to walk to school/work in the rain without telling me you‘ve never had to walk school/work in the rain …
 
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coldestofspirits

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I’ve been thinking more about Ruby’s decision to apply for the early modern MSt, and how - to be frank - utterly ridiculous it is. She doesn’t like the period; it’s never been her literature of choice; we know this. She’s very obviously applied because it’s less competitive to get into compared to some of the other MSt courses. I realise these are not original points, but just recapping here before moving on.

The issue is that she is SO fixated on going to Oxford that she’s screwed herself over in terms of doing something she might actually like, academically. Feel free to skip my entire post if you’re not interested in deeply nerdy waffling about alternate options she could have (should have) taken.

Ruby will struggle to get good marks on the MSt, because she’s one of the weaker members of the cohort. She did a less rigorous degree and got a lot of help, whereas others in the cohort will have done more rigorous degrees without leaning on a friend the way Ruby did (and will also have genuine, independent interest in the period).

She will probably try to compensate for being at the weak end by (1) slogging and (2) sucking up to the dons, but neither will work quite as well at masters level. However, she’s canny enough to weaponise her mental health for extensions etc (I’m not concerned about mentioning this because I don’t believe it’s giving her ideas - she knows), and Oxford will grant those. She knows how to advantage herself.

If she underperforms in the masters, she will have a much more difficult time being accepted for a DPhil at Oxford (even though she is massively advantaged by not needing to win competitive funding, like most students). What she could have done - but didn’t because she just wanted to get to Oxford as quickly as possible - was do a masters in something that actually interested her (children’s literature), and where it was thus much more likely she would get higher marks. That would also have given her a more focused and refined application for DPhil at Oxford, along with, ironically, a stronger academic profile, and she could’ve gained a doctoral place for four years!

There absolutely are academics at Oxford who are interested in children’s literature and would have considered supervising her, if she’d presented a strong DPhil application with high masters marks in a relevant field. I’m not saying who they are because I refuse to help her, haha.

But her chances of successfully applying to write a doctoral thesis on something she would genuinely like (twentieth century literature for children/girls, mostly) are if anything hurt, not helped, by the MSt she is doing. It makes her look indecisive and academically unfocused. The appropriate MSt would have been the modern one, but I’m guessing she felt she wouldn’t get in, and was intimidated by the content. You don’t study modern and contemporary literature at a top university without engaging properly with literary theory and challenging texts. That’s why she should have done a focused masters somewhere else, aimed to nail that with high marks, and then gone for Oxford. But oh well. Too late now.
 
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CatCafe234

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I shouldn't be surprised by her stupidity at this point, but I'm honestly shocked that she's dumb enough to just tell people once again that she's copying and reading summaries/essay extracts when she hasn't even read the book yet.

She couldn't make it more obvious that she has no interest in engaging with the learning process and will be applying her AXATAR cheating repertoire again:

  1. Avoid reading the main texts.
  2. Read a SparkNotes summary instead.
  3. Read some short critical essays to find a central argument you'd like to steal from someone else.
  4. Quickly skim-read the text to find quotes that support "your" argument.
  5. Arrange study interrogations before and after every lecture and seminar with Blakeney to pester her for thoughts, ideas and talking points. Ask ChatGPT for thoughts, ideas and talking points.
  6. Send tutor an essay-length email full of leading questions to get them to furnish you with even more ideas.
  7. Slap together a Frankensteined essay from all your stolen materials.
  8. Profit.

She outed herself with this at undergrad, so it's nothing new, but her openly announcing again that she's fucking around with summaries and essays before even attempting the core reading is mind-boggling, especially with her proudly talking about her newfound reliance on ChatGPT lately. You're not supposed to tell people that you're cheating, Ruby!

Even if you believe her lies and believe she JANUINELY reads the book after, for someone who claims to have such a high intelligence and a huge passion for reading and learning, it's not a good look for her to say that she constantly needs study guides, essays and character breakdowns in place ahead of time for a "foundational grounding" before she can understand and come up with thoughts on a basic text.
Poor Blakeney, being replaced by ChatGPT.
 
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slamvs27

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I went back to check that section and she steals absolutely everything and contributes nothing of her own.

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The design template is one of the stock layouts/designs from the website/printing service she used.

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Most of the recipes and images are copied and pasted from Pinterest.

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Others nabbed from specific sites she found in Google searches.

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She just copies and pastes everything, with no attention paid to any missing information, like cooking instructions.

Most of the recipes have no instructions whatsoever, just a list of raw ingredients for you to pile into a bowl and eat with a fork, presumably.

For the few that she's included cooking instructions, there are...issues.

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James's Peach Rolls (from James and the Giant Peach, I guess, but she doesn't clarify who or where any of these recipes originate from and leaves it to the imagination) have cooking instructions included, mercifully. Only...instead of an actual recipe for peach rolls, she's just copied this recipe for vegan brioche, word for word:


And in her rush to steal all her content from other sources and put in zero thought or effort of her own, she forgot that there are no peaches in that stolen recipe and so peaches aren't included anywhere in the cooking instructions. There's just a half-assed note on the ingredient list - 'Sliced peaches (to roll inside)' - but no indication at what point to do that, because she was too damn lazy to amend the instructions.

So the design is borrowed and the recipes incompetently stolen, but surely someone who brags that she JANUINELY reads 1,000s of books a year and loves literature more than anything has a few memorable passages and scenes rattling around her dusty, hollow skull? Especially since she's constantly advertising all the annotation apps she AWLWHEYS YEEZES.

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Nah, she just skimmed Goodreads quotes until she found something food-related.

You might think she's at least contributed her own ideas as a starting point, using foods she remembers from her favourite books, right? Or since she loves REEESAAARCHING AND LAAAHRNING so much, she'd grab a favourite book from her shelf and skip to the passages about food?

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Nope. She got ChatGPT to think of things for her.

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"find some pieces of food writing in the beatrix potter books and list them for me please"

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"give me some foods and extracts about these foods which appear in the charles dickens b[...]"

But not to worry, I'm sure for Harry Potter she'll have some quotes memorised or scenes in mind, considering she stole her fake name and her entire fake personality from a character in the books. She should know those books like the back of her grimy hands. And she has the books on her "BOCKSHALVES" to grab and check for the quo--

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"find a quote from harry potter about butterbeer"

Oh.

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"can you find a quote from a book where[...]"

Oh dear...

I guess it's too hard to come up with her own ideas or find quotes for herself when she only pretends to read books.

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She proudly shows off her plagiarised creation and there's no credit anywhere for illustrations, photos, recipes, quotes, etc. If she tries charging money for this, it'll be a shitstorm. And I guess it's a different matter if this is just something she did for fun, but there seems to be zero fun involved, either.

It's not exactly a fun passion project when it's a joylessly and cynically slapped-together pamphlet to which she contributed nothing of her own and which is focused around her completely fake interest in literature. It's just embarrassing on every level.

And what makes it even worse is that she was stupid enough to leave all this footage in, because she thinks time-lapse footage will hide everything in a blur of faux-productive busywork. She's her own worst enemy, and I'm not sure why anyone believes her lies at this point when she shows her hand in every video.
You're a goddamn detective. Wait till you catch her using ChatGPT to write her Master's essays for her lol.
 
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