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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 8h

If the Ukrainian army stopped fighting, the Russian army wouldn't stop shooting Ukrainians.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's also a certain "popish plot" element, in that there is no way to seperate faith and culture from the myth of dual-alleigeance without conversion (of some kind), and even that still comes with suspiscion

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I must confess I dropped SNW after S2 but in broader terms I do think Trek is at its best (read:good) when it takes itself seriously and runs with the campiness rather than lampshading it. Granted that is also my take on Gilbert and Sullivan.

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The UT-Austin Core Curriculum Task Force is requiring that Gen Ed courses draw 50% of their readings from this list of 50. Unfortunately, it seems to think that the “Great Questions of Human Life” can only be explored through the canon of Western civ (token exception: Confucius).

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Treating Confucius as synonymous with the entirety of schools of Chinese philosophy over thousands of years is considerably worse than just leaving him out entirely.

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Merryn @merrynwalters.uk · 04/10/2026

I do forget about Bluesky, and I shouldn't. So... who wants to see some WW2 maps, and hear about the mapmakers? This is a favourite of mine. Prome, Sandoway, Thayetmyo - 85: J9 - some of the Survey of India's fine work in Burma, published in (not updated since) 1929. Come on, isn't this awesome?!

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I suppose it depends whether we define nation-states as aspirational categories or as real ones. We may not live in a world with very many 'real' nation-states in execution but there are clearly many entities that want to be, and it's the desire to become, not the state of being, that matters.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t stop laughing

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, no. Herbert outside his written fiction was an advocate of choosing people for office on the basis of random selection rather than election, with very short term limits. He was clearly quite influenced by revisionist scholarship in favour of the Athenian democratic model.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

which then manifested in both his written work and his public statements almost as an absolutist stance along the lines that 'nobody should have any power at all'.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think Herbert disliked the Act but not civil rights – put another way, his political leanings seem very distrustful of organised authority in general (while not outright anarchist he was openly supportive of Athenian-style systems of short-term officialdom by lottery instead of election)

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyways if you want Star Trek with some guts and a strong relationship with political economy, read @eomproject.bsky.social

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s good to point out the ‘major gender row’ would not exist had JKR not been such a transphobe because that’s just her now. She claimed Imane Khelif and Liu are trans - which is not true and also shouldn’t matter - and whipped up hate, because that’s just her now

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unfortunately Semen is how you spell it in Ukrainian.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I first saw it around 2020/1 so the risk there is functionally zero.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No, just a good imitation. There's no signature.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Okay so this making me think my assessment of the size of VTuber awareness on Bluesky was a bit of an undersell.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Replies ought to be enabled by me at least, though perhaps that changed further up the thread.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone's been duped here because this is straight up an actual photo of Adolf Hitler from 1927: www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/EY7VVNO...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ngl I'm not currently convinced this *isn't* a photoshop of the other guy.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As you can imagine I was rather surprised when this happened and I blinked out of existence.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Again I am very much non-expert on Singapore but I came away with the impression that Singapore’s official line is that the British colonial period is a hard reset (which makes for an interesting contrast to Hong Kong where the official line is we were never actually a British colony ever.)

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It depends to some extent on what you’re looking at; as I recall the substance of those conversations revolved around public history needing to embrace all of SG’s *current* principal ethnicities (Chinese, Malay, Tamil, Euro) in a way that makes telling pre-colonial history functionally impossible.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s sort of astonishing how wrong Braverman is on every level about what Englishness is and how it’s been constantly redefined and debated historically and culturally. And now I see she is also amazingly wrong about all other national identities too

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t say I’ve spoken to a lot of Malay Singaporeans over the years but from the few I have there is a sense that a notional commitment to multiculturalism undermines Malay indigeneity.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And yet you look at the 75% ethnic Chinese population, Mandarinisation, the adoption of Simplified Chinese, the way other ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia see Singapore (rather than the PRC, interestingly) as aspirational, the way Chinese media companies (eg MiHoYo) abscond there…

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It gets all the trickier when migration enters the picture. What is the relationship of, say, Singapore, or Vancouver, or your local takeaway to Chinese nationhood?

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HPHK blogpost from Prof Ray Yep. //I could easily summarize my childhood in one word: immobility. Like many of my peers growing up in the early 1970s, Hong Kong Island was my whole world. It was a big deal to cross the harbour!// blog.hphkbristol.net/2026/09/22/i...

Tram on Hong Kong Island, 1984. HPHK, Nigel Spry Collection, DM3263/1/18/18

Star Ferry Pier in Central, 1983. HPHK, Nigel Spry Collection, DM3263/1/16/2

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a) ‘Englishness’ is a social construction b) Suella Braverman can think whatever she likes about it c) No-one else has to take her seriously Thank you for coming to my Twat Talk.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another illustration that the new hardline immigration policies are completely vibes led and all about vice signalling, not evidence led in any way.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The BBC switching its local resources from radio to the website has been disastrous for the business model of local newspapers, but you have to balance that against how good it has been for 'the BBC's opponents' and 'random companies who now get a PR hit on the biggest news website in the UK'.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The cultural logic of imperialism holds that Our Way is The Best Way and that everyone else should be made to follow it, and the economic logic holds that We Deserve The Best Stuff and can take it if we want. As you've said, it doesn't think violence itself is intrinsically desirable.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is basically Orwell's take on imperial conservatism vs fascism: Orwell's take (commenting on Kipling) was that imperial conservatism saw violence less as inevitable and more as an unfortunate necessity in the process of establishing The Law, the latter of which was The Point.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had this conversation with a colleague yesterday and I think my distinction is that the bloodshed and violence of Empire is an inevitability of the ideology, whereas the bloodshed of fascism and Nazism is the Point of the ideology

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

Fragment of a fresco depicting part of a human face, mostly the eyes. Thin lines form a grid pattern, simulating the edges of tesserae.

Fresco fragment showing a naked torso of a woman, her legs and pubic area covered in a red himation (cloak). Her right hand carries a basket laden with fruit, which look like giant globes of grapes. Grapevine leaves appear in the background. A Dionysian scene. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of the body.

Fresco fragment depicting some sort of half-human creature with wild hair and bare torso, gesturing upwards with his right hand and holding a branched stick with his left. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of his garment and body.

Fresco fragment with the torso of perhaps a god with golden skin, a red himation flowing outwards and partially covering his or her legs. Perhaps Dionysos?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyways Americans thinking mongrel=bad is kind of, in my view, another point in favour of my "many Americans don't really believe you can be bi/multiracial" take

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I don't want growth" is, unfortunately, the political equivalent of being annoyed that an eight year old might one day be fifteen.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We keep telling them that everyone in the UK has eaten British Indian food even the smallest towns and they’re like “haha they’re not British” and they were calling this latest viral take “comedy genius”

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean isn't that basically just Hove?

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is quite possible that Labour and the LibDems will need to work together after the next GE. It would be a huge mistake for Davey to allow (very) short-term political advantage to make that much harder than it should be.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 30/09/2026

In addition to exhibits, Out Museum in San Francisco Chinatown also has books! "Queering Chinese Historical Archive" is fully translated in English and Chinese and covers over 2000 years of LGBTQ history! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 949 Clay St, San Francisco outmuseum.org

Book "中国酷儿化的历史档案 Traces: Queering Chinese Historical Archive"

Alfred inside a gallery that has a variety of artwork, including installation pieces and paintings

Book open to page BC770 - 618 From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period to the Sui Dynasty 从春秋战国时期至隋朝

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She thinks she's Death, but no she's actually already dead and this is her eternal punishment.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah it's an odd one. It's one thing to not feel like she's done enough to make up for the stuff she said as a teenager that has since hung over her, but it's another to performatively declare your dislike every couple of weeks seemingly for the sake of doing it.

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah there is a segment of the site made of smaller EN indies (AFAIK the largest VTuber on bsky is Nimi) but a vocal chunk also skews towards the whole 'Mori Calliope is an irredeemable person for unspecified reasons who poisons everything she touches' angle which is just very tiring to deal with.

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