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Day job: senior English language lecturer at #UniFreiburg Here as: photographer - genealogist - wordplay enthusiast - #MentalHealth advocate - bilingual German / English - Welsh abroad. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 She/her. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally.

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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 22h
Let's hope so! I've noticed a lot more of our students becoming vociferously anti-AI and calling out others for using it in recent months.
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Tania Doney @taniadoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, who's your money on? Gérard Depardieu? Javier Bardem? Personally, I suspect Jackie Woodburne (Susan off Neighbours).
UK news
Marco Rubio says foreign actor was 'clearly' behind suspected plot at UK airbase
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 29/09/2026
CC @inksea.bsky.social I'm torn between genius and I'm sorry
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Ustindorff @ustinoff.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Ich habe eine kleine interaktive Abfrage gebastelt, wo ihr euch die Stolpersteine in eurer Gegend anschauen könnt (Link). Beispiel: Magdeburg. Beim Klick auf den Kreis erhaltet ihr den Text auf dem Stein. Einfach die Karte zu eurem Ort verschieben und neu ausführen. overpass-turbo.eu/s/2xap
Karte von Magdeburg mit Markierungen für den Ort eines Stolpersteins
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Such important information here! Please share and encourage your institution to adopt similar.
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Close to six hours on the Autobahn has not been the most scintillating Friday experience. Grateful for small giggles along the way.
A car on the Autobahn, with someone sticking a goose glove puppet or toy out of the window.
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ThereForME @thereforme.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
George Monbiot was nominated for last year’s ThereForME Advent Calendar for using journalism to shine a light on failings faced by pwME. Today, he writes that too often people with ME are abandoned, while discredited treatments continue to be prescribed. He’s right.
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Kenneth Deuel @kendeuel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"To Boldly Split" - Evolution of Infinitive Tense Verbs from 2nd Millennium English Grammar to Modern Federation Standard
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent to know! (re the National Library of Scotland historical maps resource referred to in my previous posts)
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Haven't used this Scottish resource but wanted to add that for those researching Wales, @rcahmwales.bsky.social have a fab resource for layering modern & historical maps, pinpointing sites of particular interest. It was a GOLDMINE on my recent Penmachno #familyhistory tour. www.historicwales.gov.uk
historicwales.gov.uk
Historic Wales
Welcome to Historic Wales, the map enabled portal for historic environment information in Wales. You can search hundreds of thousands of records of Welsh archaeology, buildings and artefacts.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a brilliant site
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ThereForME @thereforme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're excited to share something we've been working on for a while. ThereForME is now a registered charity! 🥳 1/4
We’ve got news!

ThereForME is now a registered charity. 

ThereForME is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
registered in England and Wales. Registered Charity No. 1218590.
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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THOSE THREE TERMS ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE!!! (Speaking as a Brit in America, I actually find myself having to explain this A LOT 🙃)
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Jussie Northside @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is it for people with no background in economics, defence, education, social and foreign policy, or law to be asking politicians questions about these very, very controversial, difficult, complicated issues every Sunday, Laura?
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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And flights passing through the regions! So any flight leaving the UK (and Europe) heading to North America or any flight inbound to Europe via the Atlantic. It’s painful. How do journalists think aircraft get to the other side of the Atlantic?
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I fear I may have broken part of my Ancestry tree by feeding it too many intermarriages. 😑
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kermit the Frog ys one thousande tymes more real than Tilly Norwood
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk. It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...
noosphere.app
Passport to Piddington
Last week an Oxfordshire village declared independence from the United Kingdom - ostensibly in protest at a local refugee centre. But is something darker going on?
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Matt Davies @fwyalchen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
17/09/2026 – Secure ward 📷 – Not too long ago I’ve been sitting on this one until it was a little less ‘now’ #dementiasucks #dementia #alzheimers #family
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How to save your sole: a step-by-step approach.
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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran, a man who surrounded himself by Irish musicians yet did not realise where their sympathies were likely to lie when it came to Palestinians, once again reminds us of how pig fucking ignorant Brits are when it comes to our own history.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've just noticed that the letters needed to spell Ed Sheeran are contained in both Schadenfreude and Auf Wiedersehen
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A week tomorrow, I’ll be heading to Wales and reading poems in Monmouth. Shows in Aberystwyth and Cardigan follow shortly after, and then I have a jaunt to Cardiff in November. Hope to see some of you there. Diolch.
A poster for my forthcoming tour containing my Welsh dates:

23 Sep: Monmouth
24 Sep: Aberystwyth 
25 Sep: Cardigan
1 Dec: Cardiff

It also features pictures of a gravestone, an aspidistra, a kettle, a wheelie bin, an eyeball and a rat on a Raleigh Chopper.
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fame at last
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sign: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
petitions.senedd.wales
Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who have already completed assessments. Ensure that any ongoing clinical review is conducted concurrently without disrupting active, established patient care. Publish clear, transparent Terms of Reference and a strict timeline for the independent review of the Welsh Gender Service.
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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Had an incredibly rare attack of Finish-itis yesterday and got these both finished up. Despite the mistakes on the evenweave banner, I think I fudged hiding them all enough in the end!
Cross stitch banner with Craft is for everyone picked out in Pride banner colours Cross stitch of a bunch of flowers in pink and purple, with French knot sprays as part of the bunch
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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Is anyone able to help out someone in hospital in Bury St Edmunds with no local support?
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Watching Last Night of the Proms on my last (scheduled) night in the UK for this year. 🫣 In my defence, I went for a shower while Land of Hope and Glory was on. Urgh.
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Angelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I just had to download an app, create a profile, and attach a credit card *to do one load of laundry* in a place I will never be again. I really hate the modern world sometimes.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Making progress on my #FamilyForestry26 tour: we found the grave of my 3 x great grandparents, Richard and Jane Williams of Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant, in St Tudclud’s graveyard at Penmachno. Off to visit the house later today. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/...
Me standing at a mid-19th century slate gravestone with a backdrop of further graves, a small church, some trees and houses.
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Making progress on my #FamilyForestry26 tour: we found the grave of my 3 x great grandparents, Richard and Jane Williams of Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant, in St Tudclud’s graveyard at Penmachno. Off to visit the house later today. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/...
Me standing at a mid-19th century slate gravestone with a backdrop of further graves, a small church, some trees and houses.
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just found a box containing Mum’s bridal veil and graduation hood, plus my grandfather’s graduation hood. 🥹
A black graduation hood with ermine and blue silk trim, with the manufacturer’s label and a name tag.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 04/09/2026
what the fucking fuck www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/
whitehouse.gov
Arcade
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Close encounter with a legend of the #Aberystwyth classical / theatrical music scene. ❤️
An erudite-looking man with grey hair, beard and glasses, and a slightly younger woman with grey hair (hopefully without visible beard) smile into the camera.
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Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Independent Historians! Fancy a meetup in Birmingham (6pm on the 16th) and/ or Leeds (30th)? Informal drinks/ chats...It will be great to see you! Non-members welcome 🤗 DM @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social for more details. See you there 🤩.
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hello from sunny #Aberystwyth! 👋 🌊
A woman in sunglasses smiles into the camera. Beyond, the seafront buildings and a hill, with blue skies and blue-green sea.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Section 28 is back then.
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My parents got married 60 years ago today. Feels quite poignant to be making this trip at this point. #FamilyForestry26
A black and white photo of a newly-wed couple in 1966.
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Off to Wales for 2 weeks to visit family present and trace some of my ancestors in the north. Hashtag here and on IG will be #FamilyForestry26 Today we are mainly attempting to get from Freiburg to Birmingham.
Middle-aged couple on a train, smiling into the camera.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Fantastic piece @carolecadwalla.bsky.social This stuck out for me: "Any [UK worker] has the right to minimum health & safety protections in the workplace." Universities are _atrociously bad_ at protecting staff mental H&S and staff with mental health disabilities 1/2 substack.com/home/post/p-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Explaining to hubby where something is in #Aberystwyth - "It’s just behind the #Hinterland police station”. 😅
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Dr D @bexxi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@ingress.com Hi, is there a known issue with Mod Battle points not being logged right now? None of my actions in the last 15 minutes have been logged.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Satisfying how the Protestant urge to religious self-criticism gets you an eighteenth century Welsh Methodist writing things like "and are we not also rather like the Hindus ourselves, because we only marry people who go to the right kind of chapel and are extremely attached to our cows?"
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