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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t want to brag, but the country of my ancestors are doing a lot for world peace and global justice right now.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Autumn is definitely coming to London. Regent’s Canal this arvo.

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Students don’t want to be fleeced and swindled by profiteering outfits like United Student, to whom many unis have outsourced their accommodation problems. Well done young people.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dark Lotus (noun): A genre of films and tv series in which a cast of unlikeable characters travel to a holiday destination or resort, only to be beset by misfortune - with much of the entertainment value derived from watching them suffer, unravel, or mutually destruct. Etymol.: 'The White Lotus'.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I managed to slip in a pretty blatant dig at the modern university managerial class in my last article. And neither the readers nor the editors saw a problem with it. So it’s right there, in the published version, and open access too! 😂

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’ve never seen so many people looking so pleased with themselves standing in the middle of the street with colanders in their hands.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You earned yourself a nap. Take Thursday off. Send it to the press by Friday. Done.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If I’m honest, I didn’t love The Odyssey film. But I don’t want to break “Zeus’s Law” (whatever that is), so I’ll simply say: Up the Sea People!!

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Muppet Mob Rally

ALT: Muppet Mob Rally

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Starting the week with a little bit of filming.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It’s an almighty good thing for the sport that Spain won the World Cup and that horrid little goblin Enzo Fernandez got sent off. Well done Spain. Best team won.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The longer this goes on, the likelihood of an Argentina mugging increases

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

That was a stupidly enjoyable game of football. Absolutely bonkers. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s controlled 0-0 in the final.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Anticipating a flurry of undergraduate dissertation proposals on Homeric reception and Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Here’s a calming photo of Hampstead Heath if anyone needs it, because this level of stress is unsustainable 🤢

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nah, can’t see France coming back from this.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I will, if we see a goal fest tonight. But somehow I doubt it

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Lucky you. All I managed to find in the fridge was this. Look at the state of it: 0.0%, lemon fake beer 🫠

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The queen of sharing bag chocolates. Topped only by Revels.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This seems like a terrible omen for something

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

That’s the sort of principled politician I can get behind!

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

All you England haters can take a Hydration Break now.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We are extremists! I’ve never been so proud of our discipline. The editor probably had to ask the writer to remove the word ‘even’ before ‘classics’.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Got my hands on a copy of this — hot off the press. Her writing is absolutely gorgeous. Her earlier book, The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit, is one of my all-time favourite books. This one should be just as good.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is such an egregious lie. I’ve read two books on this shit and I’m only halfway ☠️

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Literally every word of this article. These bastards are largely responsible for the job cuts and all the other atrocities. Management consultancies should have no role in the running of universities, or any public-sector institution for that matter. It’s basically privatisation by stealth.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The only thing that’s even more unappealing than the headline is the name of the sex garden: Aphrodite’s Hothouse. 🤢 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

theguardian.com

Sex garden to ‘break taboos’ at Chelsea flower show as gnome ban ends

Lovehoney sponsors Aphrodite-themed ‘pleasure garden’ full of flowers associated with love and sex

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King's Classics @kingsclassics.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We're getting ready for our 2026 Greek Play The Clouds (3-5 March)! Here's director Giulia Balsamo talking on instagram about how directing an ancient Greek comedy fits with her film studies MA. www.instagram.com/p/DU3Ell1iBv... Book your tickets at estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

So there, that’s my first BlueSky contribution of 2026. And don’t at me for never posting anything about Higher Education or Classics 😉

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

But then when it goes badly, the manager gets sacked not them. The lowly paid staff at the club receive redundancy notice, not them.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Like the Pro-Vice Deans, sporting directors at clubs have overwhelming authority on everything from finance to transfer to youth development to style of football. They earn huge amounts of money while occupying such positions.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

These people, like the Pro-Vice Deans in modern universities, now call the shots. Yet they themselves are almost never accountable for failures.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I can’t say I feel sorry for Amorim (or Maresca for that matter), but I am now increasingly worried about the power of the ‘sporting director class’.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Here's the programme for the upcoming 'Fixed Handout 3.0' workshop on Luxorius. Get in touch if you'd like to come along. Cheers. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Waking up to the news of Man Utd losing to Grimsby is rather joyous. They come up with such exciting and varied ways to lose. They’ve basically mastered self-humiliation as an art form.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

As if the Battle of Actium wasn’t anticlimactic enough already, now imagine Roman soldiers wearing this poxy thing prancing about in Alexandria… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Bolton Museum displays rare Roman sun hat following restoration

The 2,000-year-old hat, which kept soldiers cool in Ancient Egypt, is one of only three in the world.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/60683

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Here’s a list of hobbies you can pursue this weekend instead of posting on the Classics List: Extreme Pickle Tasting Toilet Paper Origami Pizza Slice Geometry Analysis Competitive Sock Matching Snail Racing Commentary Ceiling Stain Interpretation Emergency Exit Sign Appreciation

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Good morning from an empty and *air-conditioned* BL reading room.

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Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is what injustice looks like: we don’t have anything from books 7-10 of Tacitus’ Annals, yet we have four books — FOUR long tedious books — of Ovid’s Ex Ponto.

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