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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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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026

A very special lady is celebrating her 80th birthday today. 80 years ago today, on 2 October 1946, the paddle steamer Waverley was launched at the A. & J. Inglis Pointhouse shipyard in Glasgow, where the River Kelvin meets the Clyde. 📷 Bob Dougans #Glasgow #history #waverley

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Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday, the Secretary to the University of Edinburgh emailed all staff (many on strike) about UoE's Dignity and Respect policy: "offensive and personal attacks are never acceptable". Meanwhile, a student received this response from THE PRINCIPAL to their email supporting the strike.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the medieval theological conception of heaven as both a place and a state of being is easy to understand when you're from Yorkshire

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026

Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.

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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Top tip: as someone who is clumsy and rarely can get craft stuff to look like the picture, rug hooking was the exception. Needs less fine control than other crafts, easy to undo mistakes singly even if you only notice them later.

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

E FOR EXPERIMENTAL (1975)

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

Good grief. "The right to bigotry must be protected at all costs."

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Long ago in different roles I have done breakout sessions at big conferences. One I was co-running a workshop, the other I was one of four speakers. Both were in bigger rooms and had more attendees than this. I can now claim that I am personally more interesting and popular than transphobia.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears

Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Teaching prep always makes me think how our promotion reward systems & REF really disincentivises writing teaching materials. There are so few recent bitesized & affordable intro texts. I look at reading lists & we’re all still using Porter & the old OU intro to hist med…

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The size of *one* of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, versus Exeter cathedral 🤯 From this useful piece profiling the local campaigns against it: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A diagram comparing the size of one of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, with Exeter cathedral. Source: Guardian piece linked to in post.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is an excellent resource for anyone who supervises trans+ folks doing fieldwork but, also, many of these recommendations are applicable well beyond fieldwork, for anyone leading, supervising, mentoring, employing, or otherwise collaborating with trans+ colleagues I highly recommend it:

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's worth saying that the actual definition of women being insisted upon by these people in relation to, for example, Caster Semenya or Imane Khelif is one that would have been completely unintelligible to the vast majority of people throughout history.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If only there was some obscenely rich woman’s rights person who could challenge these things

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Licensing North Sea fields won't solve our refining problem. Both Labour and Tory governments complacently allowed refineries to close and for Britain to become dangerously dependent on refined products. The industry clamour around licensing comes from the same companies who shut out refineries.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A carved "pillar-biter" from the church of St. Bavo in Haarlem, from 1509-1517. With roots in Medieval iconography, pillar-biters represented hypocrisy and false piety. More here: www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/dev...

A polychrome wooden carving of a man in pilgrim's garb with a priminent rosary grotesquely gnawing on a church column

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yoohoo! The Cinema Museum in London is fundraising to buy its building with a gala show. The theme is movies about movies and it looks amazing. September 30, if you can get to London! cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/ex...

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Extravaganza of Silent Films About Filmmaking – to Help The Cinema Museum Buy its Home – The Cinema Museum

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today brings further nuggets of GC delusions 'gold'. Peggie has been on paid leave since March 2025. Its about to run out and she is using this as some sort of terrible affliction of threat of poverty.

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Part of the total enshittification of Higher Education in the UK.

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not the point of the post, but I haven't seen this map before and nice mapping of the 'West Yorkshire' group onto the likely rough territory of the early medieval kingdom of Elmet. But we're aw Jock Tamson's bairns.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No music at the Bungalow Tea Rooms.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Evan Davis on PM asked if ‘Danny Tommo’ “had any kind of point” by puncturing a dinghy with a knife because “the [authorities] should be doing that themselves”. He went on to describe it as “vigilante action”.

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a very good guide for organisations on practically managing their inclusive toilet provision post FWS v Ministers 2025 & EHRC 2026 guidelines. From Third Sector Against Transphobia drive.google.com/file/d/18Iw5...

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Behind Closed Doors A Practical Guide to creating Trans inclusive toilets V1.8.pdf

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I can't give exact dates for everywhere, but I do remember that there was a well-established Chinese restauranteur in Tobermory on Mull by 2002 because there were discussions about the diversity of Balamory vs Tobermory. An inner Hebridean island. Versus Scotland's capital.

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Given that songs from the Epic of Gilgamesh onwards (likely but not definitely sung as much ancient poetry was) are political, not to mention artists grappling with difficult issues throughout history, there is no other way to read this than "SILENCE PROLES AND GET BACK IN LINE"

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If so some eason you do choose to work for free (for example, for a charity, or to support a small local enterprise), consider sending them an invoice for your usual fee, and mark it void. That way, they'll know the value of what you're giving them.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went into this like "the people living there should get to decide what happens, but I'm assuming that we did something horrid and genocide-y in the past because, you know, the British Empire, and so therefore Argentina has some proper moral and/historic claim", but actually??? No??? Wild.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Michael Marra has been elected Scottish Labour leader with 63% of the vote over Joe Fagan's 37%. Turnout among party members was under 50% for the first time since devolution created this role. Turnout among affiliate members (mostly trade unions) was a staggering 5%. These numbers tell a story.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The focus on joint degrees in particular has a stench of external consultant: "We identified N underperforming programmes. Give us money!" It's very hard to understand what UoE management are up to, except on the supposition that they don't like universities and would prefer not to have one to run.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 18/09/2026

And that's just *one* of almost 100. It feels like current state of Scottish press and media is the perfect environment in which to dump such monumental educational and cultural vandalism by the lorryload and to get aesy with it in public. Where is political and editorial outrage when you need it?

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 18/09/2026

Have found it hard to find out what Edinburgh University is up to. But that particular institution proposing Scottish Literature be merged into a Scottish & English Lit. joint honours ought to in itself be setting the heather ablaze. But feels kinda like there's just a lot of tumbleweed blowing

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Dr Michelle Walker (/Moffat) @moffski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain"

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Googling the Scots law position it seems (like a number of issues in Scots law) it is incredibly unclear (www.historicenvironment.scot/publications...) but in practice a 'likely more than 100 years old' cutoff is used (www.digitscotland.com/what-happens...) Also no Coroners here, just the Fiscal.

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Greater Govanhill @greatergovanhill.com · 17/09/2026

When we interviewed Thomas Kerr in 2024 standing for Conservatives in Glasgow East, he praised Govanhill’s “unique and wonderful character”. Now as a Reform MSP he has called it a ghetto. We asked what changed... www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/two-y...

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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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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I may have posted before this excellent short video discussing Mar-a-Lago face from an anthropological point of view. It’s so good. I want to quote almost every line. Subtitles are on if you don’t like sound m.youtube.com/shorts/A-1Kf...

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Mar-a-Lago Face #makeup #anthropology #beauty #psychology #womenempowerment #culture

YouTube video by AnthroDorphins

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

RIP 847 years ago Hildegarde von Bingen, abbess, mystic, theologian, musical composer, astronomer, pharmacist and doctor, and among many other things inventor/discoverer of the sacred language “Lingua ignota”, who died #onthisday in 1179 CE. (Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")

A brightly coloured manuscript image of an oval-shaped world containing stars or flowers and surrounded by feathers or leaves, with a hole in the middle and a particularly prominent florescence towards the top. Grotesque faces or masks illuminate the left, right and bottom edges.

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Not actually a Treponema @generalparesis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An immense amount of harm done by someone who seems to genuinely have thought she was doing the right thing (in a worldview suffused with imperialistic arrogance to be sure).

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