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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Making the most of what might be my final writing session in my gorgeous garden that I have loved and care for for the last few years. Fuck landlords.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Humans dream of purpose, not labour.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Myself and my partner continue to have the conversation of if and when we leave the UK, for similar reasons. Trans people are drowning in the UK, even the more privileged of us.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

parent bat signal: can anyone recommend a childminder in Witney/Oxford/Woodstock/Botley? ours has abruptly decided to leave the profession and now we’re scrambling to find an alternative. needs to accept the funded hours from t’government. HELP

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are you: - a trans woman or a non-binary person with a prostate? - aged 40+? - on oestrogen and/or post-op for bottom surgery? - based in the UK? The TransPRIDE study invites you to participate in research to inform better trans-inclusive prostate care! transpridestudy.org.uk

Recruitment poster with text that reads as follows. Trans or non-binary?
Join us in research led by and for trans people to improve our healthcare.

TransPRIDE (Trans & non-binary Prostate specific antigen Reference Interval
DEtermination) is a research study to help find the normal levels of the PSA blood test in trans women and non-binary people with prostates.
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a blood test that helps detect prostate
problems including cancer.

It is lowered by gender-affirming hormones and surgeries but we do not
know the expected normal levels for trans women and non-binary people.

Knowing the normal PSA blood test level will help doctors to find and treat prostate cancer more quickly in this population.

We are looking for 500 trans women and non-binary people aged 40+ who have been on feminising hormone therapy for at least 3 months, and/or had any kind of bottom surgery, to take part.

Participation involves a blood test for PSA and hormone levels, and short
questionnaires.

Blood test results will be returned, and participants are given a £25 gift
voucher for their time.

For more information visit: transpridestudy.org.uk
Or contact: bartsctu-transpride-study@qmul.ac.uk

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ten years since I started this MA programme, one of the best decisions I ever made

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North has published its Call for Papers for its 16th annual conference, themed "Between Worlds". Open for applications from postgraduate students, Early Career Researchers and independent scholars in Old Norse 👇

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apparently during my break from academia (2022-2026), a number of citation style guides has dropped the requirement to include the place of publication in a reference... did anyone else know this? Feels like breaking the rules lol

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026

a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My brother is a 26 year old man (still lives at home bc The Economy), and despite years of protesting, my mum still insists on waking him up for work every single day

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

well, "the only tory on bluesky" what is happening is that politicians and the media have been stoking racist sentiment every day for the last 30 years for their own benefit and publicly guffawing about how funny it is. Weird you haven't noticed

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Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Every response will help build the evidence needed to ensure Disabled people are not overlooked in future climate and heatwave planning." Very important survey from @disrightsuk.bsky.social gathering disabled expertise on the impact of the climate crisis.

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DR UK launches survey on heatwaves and Disabled people

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine them saying they’re going to limit cancer diagnoses

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was very excited to pick up a copy of Neil Price's latest book, and even more excited to find myself in the back!

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations! You've reached the Bearded Tit part of your feed.

A Bearded Tit peeks around a tall reed with its head tilted curiously towards the camera, as though checking you've made it to the right place. Its soft grey head, peachy-buff body and distinctive black moustache markings stand out against a beautifully blurred reedbed.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Back at the day job today after a luxurious week in PhD land (including the Gender and Medieval Studies conference!). Invoices and email about meetings and meeting about emails, here I (reluctantly) come 😢

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣📣📣📣

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They could not deny the Holocaust. But what they could do was hide its political reality. They must present the Holocaust as the only genocide that ever happened because to understand why the Holocaust happened is to unmask colonialism itself.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a long-term Ed Sheeran hater, it's great to have a lot more vocal haters on board 🥰

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Frankly it’s been “fuck Ed Sheeran” ever since he was voted “most influential person in Black music” (LOL) and instead of maybe discussing how white artists often come up on Black music for cool points then drop it when they’ve made it he tweeted “listen with ears not eyes”

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Feeling really fucked up about Dr Arday's death. In April he gave a keynote speech called "Wanted Dead or Alive: The Playbook", detailing what ended up happening to him. The media weren't going to stop until he was dead. We need accountability yet I have no hope of seeing any.

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm sure it was a completely different situation when Joyce was accused by Jennifer Bilek of plagiarising her antisemitic conspiracy theories for the former's bigoted anti-trans book 🙄

Helen Joyce❤ @HJoyceGender tweets:

Happy publication day TO ME!! I hope all you lovely people buy my book. I hope you read it. I hope you love it. I hope you talk about it lots, and give it to all your friends. Thanks all who helped me along the way! xx twitter.com/LittleHardman/... 21 Jul 2021

Jennifer Bilek @bjportraits quote tweets:

Your interview of me in 2020, for this book, proved fruitful, I see. A citation was called for, for the work you lifted from me. My followers are messaging me abt this. I think other American feminists got a raw deal as well. But, I won't speak for them.
#plagiarism

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you haven't already, can you please take a minute to sign this demand for a public inquiry into the role of the media in Prof. Arday's death? Thanks so much. Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project share.google/yglZz4Gw42RJ...

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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This needs to start coming out of his sugar daddies' pockets.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

According the BBC, that's £239,529 of public money that Farage wants to waste.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Yeah basically this. And the whole announcement was a party political broadcast aired on the BBC. Also makes the subsequent suspension if there is one seem undemocratic. Can level of a lot of criticisms at Farage, being bad at politics isn't one of them.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm glad he's resigned, but he has been one of the most influential politicians of the last 15 years imo, while only being an MP for two of them. I think he prefers the influence with less accountability.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So is he fucking off or not?

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Important tactical advice for UK trans people. Next time you risk having your rights eliminated have you tried? Being Rupert Murdoch Editing a flagship newspaper Running a major BBC news show Being a billionnaire If you haven't done these ingenious tactics, well you just aren't trying.

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Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The ban has been continually delayed because: A) terfs are upset that it might protect trans people from their attempts to erase us B) the current NHS approach to trans healthcare for under 18s is functionally conversion therapy

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What use is AI on a burnt planet?

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The CfP for the upcoming #MAMG26 is now live! The event will take place on 5-7 Oct, assynchronously and online. Come join us from anywhere in the world to discuss medievalisms in games and alternative approaches to the ludic past.

In a time of growing political and environmental anxieties, the Middle Ages are often sought as a source of inspiration for alternative futures. Ecologically-minded games like Of Life and Land look to the medieval past to explore alternative, non-exploitative engagements with nature. Medievalist RPGs have long served as possibility spaces for players to interrogate and experiment with notions of sexuality, gender, and identity more broadly. Games like Scriptorium and Traveller’s Rest imagine medieval pasts divorced from the logics of violence often associated with the period. Medievalist fantasy games like Metaphor: ReFantazio openly engage with utopian thinking and our capacities to imagine possible worlds.

We invite analytical ‘papers’ (comprising 400-500 words of text or 5-minute videos) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones.

We encourage submissions from medievalists, games scholars and developers at any point in their career— especially those from Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers and members of any groups under-represented within the academy and industry. We welcome pieces addressing any region globally, and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’ and ‘medievalism’.

We are able to accept papers in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 3 August.

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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Suprised I haven't seen this on here- couldn't find it with a quick search so I'm uploading it. Activists going into Stonewalls office to hold them to account over recent statements. If any of the creators are on here- i'll take this down and promote your vid. www.instagram.com/reel/DZsXGmp...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/05/2026

Just started listening to the new book, "If we tolerate this: How the British establishment made the far right respectable" and it opens by reading out the BNP's list of manifesto promises from 2010. All of them are now mainstream.

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑

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⚢ Wheypenwifestre 🔆 @nizzy.cc · 27/05/2026

Remembering this absolute corker from the new guidance. "Saying that homophobic people have negative attitudes towards gay people is stereotyping" Our judiciary is stacked with the weirdest people alive.

Examples of stereotypes in relation to religion or belief are that persons who hold or manifest certain gender-critical beliefs necessarily have negative attitudes towards trans people, or that persons who hold or manifest the belief that same-sex sexual activity is sinful necessarily have negative attitudes towards gay people. The judgment explains that: ‘it may be that some persons who hold / manifest such beliefs have such animus, but it is stereotyping to assume that all do.

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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I've been exploring the academic relationships to N*zism in Viking academia and related areas for nearly 10 years and I'm still shocked to learn that some of the key theorists I've been taught about were card-carrying National Socialists

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