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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So far this morning Reg has: - dived headfirst off of a chest of drawers onto Margo Leadbetter - opened all of the kitchen cupboards - got the zoomies so intensely that he toboggan slid down the stairs He is currently sat in said chest of drawers plotting, I assume, my demise

Tuxedo cat peering round the side of a chest of drawers

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reg’s six monthly vet checkup yesterday. He is considering legal action.

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Transcription software can be great, and it can also be inaccurate (press hostility)

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The cat’s pretending to be an extra in Midsomer Murders again

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One of the things that worries/saddens me the most about the use of LLMs in universities is the impact it has on student/instructor dynamics. Students turn up having read the work, just like they used to, but they’ve now also run their questions/analysis through an LLM. (1/3)

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Margo Leadbetter got chased out of the garden by a cat this morning. I have just spent half an hour searching for her, which involved walking up and down the street holding a plate of cat food and calling for a character from the 1970s hit show the Good Life.

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

President of the neighbourhood watch committee

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We can literally send people to the moon so why am I lying on my kitchen floor with a baking tray to drain the washing machine

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

still looking! please share with your networks ☺️

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@newstatesman1913.bsky.social The Politics Show suggesting George Cottrel is some lost soul Farage gave a chance to have a “life of glamour and power and importance that they may not have otherwise had” when he’s from an exceptionally rich family and grew up on a private island is laughable

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Why is he lying like he’s been killed on the baracade in Les Mis

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 30/06/2026

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public

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Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

So sad to hear about Penelope Keith. One of the greats. Feline Margo Leadbetter will be getting a few extra treats tonight in her honour ❤️

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I know I’m a broken record but to see universities abandon critical thinking and completely chuck out their own policies around sustainability, research ethics, academic integrity, etc in the pursuit of shiny new tech has been quite something

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Good morning Reg has worked out how to open cupboards

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Spent ages looking for Reg only to find he had melted under the spare room bed

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/05/2026

For further insight into the impact of Section 28 on the queer community, see this conversation between volunteers and researchers involved in the oral history project 'Section 28 and its Afterlives'.

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Intergenerational Oral History and Section 28

How can oral history interviews between different generations of LGBTQ+ people aid our understanding of the ongoing impact of Section 28?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I almost forgot - remembering Schoolteacher, INTO President, Scottish born Irish revolutionary and feminist Margaret Skinnider was born #otd May 28, 1892. She and her life long partner, Nora O’Keeffe, lived together in Clontarf

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 28/05/2026

my latest: "Race, Rhetoric, and Infidelity in Calpurnius Flaccus's Natus Aethiops" - now out with Rhetorica muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Margo Leadbetter is in her model era

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The man at the checkout pressed “visibly over 25” a little faster then I perhaps would have wanted

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Me and Reg have a new bit when he has zoomies where I chase him round the house pretending to hold a microphone to interview him. “Mr Gonzalez, how did you become so speedy?”

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In just under six months my 5k time has gone from 37:20 to 28:20 🙏

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Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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Labours of Liberation: Resourcing Feminist Activism in 1970s Bristol

Abstract. This article uses a case study of Bristol Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) to interrogate the bureaucratic, administrative and material logistic

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I cannot overstate the number of cat beds there are in this house. And yet…

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Who’s got no thumbs and eats plastic? This lady!

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Can anyone recommend scholarship on Irish nuclear history/culture 🙏

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Friend bought me some breakup flowers, Margo Leadbetter knocked them off the desk. Please ML it’s been a hard week 😭

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

She’s a very strange creature

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It’s just me and the Howls Moving Castle audiobook against the world

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/03/2026

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

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al mac @almac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We’re heading into scarce Lime bike season, winter troopers

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Happy gotcha day to my best boy. Two years ago he was sad, sick, and scared. Now he’s a round, happy, and chaotic tiny criminal. It’s the redemption arc we all deserve.

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Say what you will about the new £185m Schwarzman Centre in Oxford, but my office is essentially the Severance set

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I’ve got to say I’m not all that impressed with these chimney sweeps

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 21/02/2026

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Detained at his own brother’s pleasure

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Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

She’s figured out that if she sticks her paw into the auto feeder she can get a few biscuits out

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