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Alix Mortimer

@alixmortimer.bsky.social
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I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands. 🚢 ships 🏺archaeology 🏰 medieval history 🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14h
Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 22h
Petition for a bug fix that prevents that psycho iPhone alarm noise being set as a ring tone, or at least prevents people from setting it and then leaving their phone lying on an open plan desk.
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But it's never, ever put to the public that these things are in fact a trade off and that, frankly, fascists don't make the trains run on time. You have to pay for the fascism.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean I don't especially like the frame of "we need these workers to raise our gdp" in the context of rising climate crisis, because I don't want to be in a situation where we concede that if taking in refugees *does* require the rest of us to give things up that we should say no.
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guys the SIZE of the spider I just had to put outside 😫🍂🎃🕷️
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Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A little nervous on his first day at work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police! 😍 Original post
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Young man-- there's no need to feel down I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every time I have cause to look up about the Gävle goat for some reason it looks more and more like someone is making it all up
Southern Merchants held the world record for the largest Yule Goat, but over the years the Natural Science Club's goat increased in size, and in 1985 their Yule Goat made it into the Guinness Book of Records with an official height of 12.5 m (41 ft). The creator of the original 1966 goat, [highlight] Stig Gavlén [/highlight], thought that the Natural Science Club's goat had unfairly won the title of the largest Yule Goat because [highlight] the goat was not as attractive [/highlight] as the Southern Merchants’ goat and [highlight] the neck was excessively long. [/highlight]

[The highlights are because I especially do not know what is going on here.]
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We had a non-academic installed as president. We quickly saw big moves to bring marketing to campus, like the sudden appearance of sports betting ads. Then the President stopped meeting with student gov and the faculty senate. Then the faculty senate was dissolved.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well it is still used for doing spells obviously
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LCAM 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @bkportal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The Provisional Wing of Sports Direct" - as heard on Quiet Riot Podcast
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel like I waited ~15 years for music streaming to become more sensible with reliable providers, appealing platforms etc before I properly invested in a collection again, and not only did it not become more sensible it instead became more… fascistic, so it’s back to/continuing with CDs!
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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#FolkloreThursday 🐺 Sept 24 in the old Romanian shepherd villages: Teclele (Teclele Berbecilor). Don’t sweep the house, don’t spin wool, don’t work skins, don’t lend fire. 🔥 The day wears St Thecla’s feast, but the taboos are older fire-and-wolf spirits. Break them and the pack takes your rams 🐏
🎨 Nicolae Pătru
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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new creature discovered
loafing tilcayo
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who was saying the other day 9/11 has basically slipped out of cultural consciousness? The event was 2001, the eponymous film 2006, marketing and design teams trend young, I just really doubt this was an intentional edgy pun. Maybe someone vaguely remembered an action movie without context.
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remembered this microplastics story, which is not only a piece of hopeful news but also features public peer review Slav style www.theguardian.com/environment/...
One of the team behind the letter was blunt. "The brain microplastic paper is a joke," said Dr Dušan Materić, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in GermanyMaterić said: "That paper is really bad, and it is very explainable why it is wrong"
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 17/09/2026
🇬🇷 🐷 Greek 'Piggy Island' offers unique tourist experience The tiny Greek island of Atokos has become a unique tourist sensation, with its pig population swimming and sunbathing alongside human visitors.
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If they don’t get it right on defence policy Jordan Pickford will yell at them
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
😂 Canada hanging out in the EU’s co-working space drinking the coffee, going to all the free drinks events and occasionally chairing a panel but no one knows what they actually research
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bayeux Tapestry!, unexpectedly so worth it, there is some shepherding which is the downside, but filing along it in a line at a reasonable pace is how you want to see it to follow the story. Interesting decision to not provide a translation, just a general summary of what’s happening every few yards
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The questions are 'which AI tools' and 'used how'? Presumably UKRI is using (say) CoPilot, secured to UKRI, not feeding applications into commercial training models without applicants' knowledge or consent. And presumably (never presume) the pilots are built with past UKRI EDI failures in mind.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...
fundraise.rnli.org
James Waters
I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I met Frank the axolotl.
A light pink axolotl A light pink axolotl A light pink axolotl
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Paid protestors. A favourite far right talking point. Every single accusation is a confession.
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fascinating - the post-medieval dominance of the sheep is noted down thread - but worth remembering that in the 13th century, Edward I employed hundreds of foresters to accompany his armies. For the English, Wales was wooded - a 14th century chronicler talks of Welsh wild men from the woods.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PSA: potato dauphinoise is a completely splendid autumn support, particularly with petit pois.
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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really struggling with Pakistan's U19 cricket team coaches having to confirm their particulars with a Reform councillor to get him to disperse the mob gathered outside their hotel. We're in a very bad place and we're doing nothing about it.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Though there is a amusing thought that AI researchers might find that instead of creating the scientific super-intelligence of an Asimov novel they end up getting the machine equivalent of an erratic but well-read penniless intellectual that you'd find in a 19th century Istanbul or Vienna coffehouse
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A "rigorous understanding of its mind" would be helped a bit if AI intellectual ecosystems spent a bit more time engaging with other research disciplines with a better grasp of historical, cultural, political and economic context of the vast sources of data AI projects absorbed
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
let's take good news where we can get it.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
👀 Global shipping industry group makes its first public intervention since it was founded 60 years ago, to warn that the rules governing global shipping are breaking down. "Without maritime trade... the global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt". www.ft.com/content/c651...
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Global shipping rules are collapsing, say maritime nations
Wars and the growth of the shadow fleet are causing a ‘structural shift’ in global trade, according to 18 maritime authorities
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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
reminds me of this classic Jacques Derrida lecture story
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OK, when is James Orr going to leave his role with Cambridge University? Are we still doing that?
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sidebar to all this (and noting the FT’s long profile of Orr yesterday) is that it looks terrible for Cambridge University, which already looks terrible after the sad and awful Arday affair (with criticism coming both from the left and the right).
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🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 04/09/2026
... given that this stuff has been basically common knowledge forever, why are they running with it now? Who is Farage being thrown under the bus to protect? Because the only reason I can see for running with this now is to distract us from some other blatant corruption.
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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Of all the algorithms, none are as insulting as my kindle
Kindle lock screen with an ad for a book called, I shit you not, Puck, Marry, Kill and a blurb “She’s sworn off athletes, but this defenseman plays for keeps - on and off the ice.”
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