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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6h

He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 6h

I find the imperial attitudes Europe is showing towards China to be utterly nauseating and other countries notice as well, know your place foreigners, to be subservient...

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 6h

We are going to win because nothing built on lies is built to last

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 6h

new name going forward

Dear Dr. History,
I am a submission assistant in the field of qualitative research, education, teacher education, educational management, and my name is Emily.

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you everybody. We've made the £10k target. Anything extra will go into the Bristol Defendant Solidarity coffers to help support other antifascists. I really can't tell you how much your support means. You all fucking rule, and our comrade and his family send their love and thanks.

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 7h

Who doesn't love teaching the Ashokan inscriptions? I have used three different handouts for these over the years, all provided here as possible companion materials for my India book. www.audreytruschke.com/teachingindia

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South Asia Teaching Resources — Audrey Truschke

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Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 7h

the reason British food has such a dire reputation is mostly because of the catastrophic damage done by the two World Wars

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 7h

Harry Lime in The Third Man. He’s charming, persuasive, utterly amoral. Basically what a lot of tech messiah guys would like to be (they share the same ethos) but don’t have the charisma to pull it off.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 7h

The concept of a radicalised Starmerite should be a contradiction in terms, but is actually a thing.

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 7h

Marc Bolan - BOTD in 1947

Color photo of Marc Bolan posing on a skateboard in 1970s glam attire.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 7h

Also I'm fairly sure it was the Dutch who conquered the world for spices. We did it for tea, and we're not exactly known for not drinking it. (Incidentally, Indonesian food seems to be to the Netherlands what Indian food is to Britain.)

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 7h

Weird list really. I can think of quite a few Francophone novelists who are better than the repulsive Houellebecq, and how come Marilynne Robinson is out at 40/1? And JK Rowling, LOL!

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Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next week, on Thursday, October 8. Said winner will take home 12.0 million Swedish kronor (SEK), or a little over 1.2 million doll…

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 7h

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 10h

big birb

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a tradition of conservative politicians standing weird

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 8h

Okay I kind of love it

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Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social · 8h

Nightcrawler appeals to Catholics, swashbucklers, and monster fetishists in equal measure, which works out to something like 110% of the population globally.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 8h

Yesss new Vajra novel always cause for celebration in this skull.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t tell Reform but here’s George slaying the dragon in Genoa, above Italian and EU flags. St George’s Cross was used as the flag of The Republic of Genoa long before it was adopted by England.

Fresco of George slaying dragon on front of a grand palazzo, with Italian and EU flags below.

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 8h

how many 20-somethings have read Kundera? When I was a young 'un we all had The Book of Laughter and Forgetting in our back pocket

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 8h

The unfortunate thing about Paul Kennedy (and every other person in international relations not named Francis Fukuyama) is that they were writing in the late 1980s. Kennedy also thought the Soviet Union would continue into the 2020s, but then again so did the CIA.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15h

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 8h

Rewatching. No one not called Alec Guinness should be allowed to play Smiley. share.google/ZRJckUCCBnUD...

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Smiley's People (TV series) - Wikipedia

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 8h

Pope Leo’s encyclical took direct aim at AI consciousness. Anthropic’s Chris Olah almost pulled out of the launch over it. Then he stood in the Vatican and suggested Claude was akin to Christ’s incarnation: “They are made from us, from our words.”

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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

Anthropic invited theologians to help shape Claude’s moral formation. Then it took the question of AI consciousness to the Vatican.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 8h

You can already see this happening with the big authors of the 2000s like George R.R. Martin and Dan Brown. *A Game of Thrones* came out in 1996, and the *The Da Vinci Code* came out in 2003. Neither has near the cultural cachet it did even ten years ago.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 8h

I love that the internet has basically turned some people into crazy Ultra-Tory Backbenchers from the 19th century. We've democratised an ancient pre-victorian form of crankery that believed the true path to Merrie England was via abolishing the income tax and ripping out the indoor plumbing

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 8h

Things in Deep Time you can't even imagine....

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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · 10h

Arrived while I was away: Kate Ryan’s new (Sept 2026) ‘Blood, Guts & Black Pudding: Ireland’s Dying Art of Blood as Food.’ Ireland is not unique in its blood-eating (Germans, Filipinos, Maasai, Cajuns, and French—to name a few—also indulge), but I’m particularly looking forward to biting into this.

Front of book with a white background and dark blood sausage. It is:

Ryan, Kate (2026). Blood, Guts & Black Pudding: Ireland’s Dying Art of Blood as Food. Dublin: Nine Bean Rows.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 8h

Read all about the occult afterlife of ancient mystery cults in a piece by me and the magical @mjpcuervo.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

6/ In a lengthy open letter (PDF) addressed to “the honorable people of the United States of America”, released on Tuesday, the IRGC tells Americans to “wake up” and “wrest control back from corrupt politicians”. img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09...

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Kat @kat8655.eurosky.social · 8h

Took up close photos of the lapidarium's tombstones, you might be interested. @orphanim.bsky.social @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

Bardic folk metal

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 9h

Before the jiangshi became China’s hopping vampire of horror films, C-dramas, and TikTok, it was born from a stranger sorrow: the need to bring the dead home. Old tales speak of “corpse-walking,” when Daoist priests guided bodies back to their native villages #folklore 1/2

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 9h

I bought an early 60s book on the modern English novel second hand. It was obsessed with classifying authors and novels into major and minor. Graham Greene was minor. The most major major author turned out to be Joyce Carey, who I'd never heard of. Turns out to be an Irish bloke!

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 9h

It also addresses the farcically low bar for getting a statue in like, 1885. Cardiff is full of statues to like, the deputy mayor and I don’t even know if they were problematic it’s just in 1900 they gave out statues to people who now don’t have Wikipedia pages

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 9h

i love conan. I was watching his thing on the rest is history where he said "all statues of real people should be made of durable soap, they should last a good 60 years and then we decide if we want to remake them or not".........i love that. i love that attitude to historical figures. it's so good

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 9h

Disraeli's novels are terrible to read but people who know about him know he wrote novels.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

one of my go-tos on this is Marie Corelli, who is a *terrible* writer, but in some ways the most interesting ones are the good works that time simply washes over.

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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 9h

This is why I urge (everyone) to read Philip Hensher's recent and superlative A History of the Novel in Britain. He's actually read Mary Corelli et al and covers a lot of the above. One notable theory: lots and lots of them are history novels and those appear to date more than contemporary fiction.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 9h

Also Kristina Richardson's "Roma in the Medieval Islamic World" (2022) has two excellent chapters on how Arabic blockprinting technology developed among Romani astrologers in the Middle Ages

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 10h

Today’s #churchfromabike is the Catholic Church of St Joseph in Stortford. Or as the inscription on the outside says: Deo Optimo Maximo Divo Joseph et SS Angliae Martyribus. Which had me instantly thinking of the John Cleese centurion correcting “Romans Go Home” but anyway…

St Joseph and the English Martyrs - Bishop’s Stortford

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 9h

any year between A.D. 1900 and A.D. 2099.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 10h

This is undoubtedly true and I think a lot of companies have bet heavily on IP on the mistaken understanding that there are "forever" characters or acts, when they're subject to quite rapid decay.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 9h

As Joe points out, "The Conservative Party has become disastrously dependent on the votes of the over 60s." I'm sure they won't make that mistake going forward. Oh, hang on...

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 14h

A tweedy spelunker encounters a subterranean dino in 'The Lizard' by Cutcliffe Hyne. Instead of eyes it has evolved long groping feelers. The story appeared in 'The Strand Magazine' in June 1898, illustrated by Paul Hardy. #WyrdWednesday #dinosaur #monster

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