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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rereading (listening) to the first two Ninth House books by Leigh Bardugo, ahead of getting stuck into Dead Beat (#3), and am being reminded a) how good they are, b) why I'll continue recommending them until the end of time, c) why I had Academic Thoughts about them that I need to develop.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Journalling? More like writing a letter to a friend that quickly becomes too depressing to send, instead acting as a cathartic release that you recycle.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it is incredibly fucked up that the UK government and police consider it a much worse crime to wear a t-shirt or wave a placard with 'palestine action' on it than to block ports and attack lifeboats

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is this somehow a reference to Digory ringing the bell ??? Because if so, I have a lot of follow-up questions...

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Re-listening to the first two books to prepare myself for this beauty that I pre-ordered. Last time I read this series I had Academic Thoughts about it, so we'll see how long it takes me to open my notes app!

A hand holds up a hardback copy of Dead Beat (Ninth House book 3) by Leigh Bardugo. In the background, out of focus, is a fireplace and Persian style carpet. On the mantelpiece above the fireplace sits a click, behind which a mirror has been mounted to the wall.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bought a "gingerbread" chai mix, thinking it would delightfully usher in autumn, and was shocked and dismayed to learn that "gingerbread" here equates to "the fiery pits of ginger hell".

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore's statement about getting pulled from Ed Sheeran's tour is so, so good. Didn't think I could respect the guy more tbh! Well worth a read.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“I’m not complicit, I was just following orders.”

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Incredibly niche posting, but I just had maybe my most successful solo session of the 'Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game' (via Steam), and it feels unjust that I got zero achievements from it in the game :'(

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 10/09/2026

"I have never learned to blag or bullshit because I have a machine that does that for me" is such a miserable withering of the true human spirit.

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Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wrote a thing!!! Go read 👇

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads

Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.

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moonie 🌻🌾⛅ @moonix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

ao3 e-mails are the only e-mails that find me well

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The S4C public-service Welsh-language news managed to get through a whole interview feature and article on the same trans person denied healthcare without mentioning "biological sex" or a 29-year-old's lost breastfeeding opportunities, btw The BBC specifically is making a choice here

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

GC activists claimed "children are making irreversible choices and they do not understand the long-term consequences" and the institutional response was a) to ban puberty-blockers, which are entirely predicated on their reversability and b) to stop adults making choices about their lives right now

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026

I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Crying over an AU of my favourite Persuasion fic (written by the same author), which has the premise "what if Anne had a BFF, and his name was Fitzwilliam Darcy?". The answer is that her life is a million times better because someone's in her corner, and she's happy 5 years ahead of schedule 😭

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

essential reading if you saw that NYT article about Heated Rivalry AI fanfic a few weeks ago - or if you're interested in the current state of independent journalism.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This section from the end of @princesmweekes.bsky.social's video really sums up the importance of analysis like this (highly recommend you watch the whole thing, and I don't even watch that show):

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just cried a little watching this doc - the enormity of Jerry's creative output meeting the specificity of his creative process, and the *joy* it brought him just bowled me over.

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Corrections confirmed, so I'm officially Dr Rowe! (Though I've been advised that I should've been calling myself that since the viva, but oh well)

Screenshot from an email that reads: Congratulations! The examiners have confirmed that the required major corrections to your thesis have been carried out to their satisfaction. On behalf of the University of Birmingham, I am therefore pleased to advise you that you have qualified for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Another banger from @skipintroyt.bsky.social, on the topic of Zootopia and the police's involvement in segregation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XpZ...

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a measured and appropriately serious video essay about zootopia.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm presenting at Fantasy's Present Pasts @ University of Glasgow next Thursday (25th), from 14:00. It's gonna be a sick panel, let me know if you're gonna be there! :)

I6 (typo in screenshot): Modes of Knowing (Room 433)
Chair: Alena Cicholewski
• Yang Zhang – Retrofitting the Archive: History, Myth, and Speculative Re-encoding in Ken Liu’s Fiction
• Georgie Rowe – Portal Fantasies and Access to Knowledge in Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea
• Despoina Tantsiopoulou – Campus Is Hell: Academia, Time and the Freudian Unheimlich in Rebecca F. Kuang’s Katabasis

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm presenting at Fantasy's Present Pasts @ University of Glasgow next Thursday (25th), from 14:00. It's gonna be a sick panel, let me know if you're gonna be there! :)

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sammy v @doctorveemd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Any thoughts I have on the existence of trillionaires will certainly get me kicked off this site

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ROLES Sexuality & Gender Studies Network @rolesbham.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's the time again (I definitely didn't forget BlueSky existed 😅) ROLES is delighted to announce our call for papers for our 15th annual conference, taking place all day on the 19th June via Zoom. For more information, or to submit: tinyurl.com/roles-2026

Poster for call for papers of the ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Conference 2026. The post invites 250 word abstracts as well as a 50-100 word biography, for a 20 minute presentation, for the conference taking place online on 19th June. Submission deadline is 12pm (BST) on the 8th May. Submit/more info at: https://tinyurl.com/roles-2026

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Whoever joined the BBC 6 Music team who loves half•alive - I love *you*. Second of their tunes in as many weeks, when I've never heard the boys on the radio before. A delight!

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Really great video from @skipintroyt.bsky.social about the most popular TV show in America and its politics, with a surprise dip into my own research interests (folk music). A great, informative watch. youtu.be/jFEVQwiSyjI?...

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Yellowstone is so much worse than you think.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just left the theatre after 'Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift', and it was *so* good. Wonderfully theatrical in ways that delight my "studied a lot of theatre in undergrad" self, from the self-conscious doubling of actors to the whizzy sets to the literal dream ballet. 10/10 👏

The view of the stage from the audience. The entire stage has been painted like a grassy knoll on a sunny day, with a round cutout in the centre of the back wall, with the words "Midsomer County: Badgers Drift" encircling the opening. An assortment of houses can be seen through the opening, depicting the village of Badgers Drift.

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Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I had a great time chatting to @stinaface.bsky.social and @ninajonesfilm.bsky.social about asexual representation, and you can listen to the podcast episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/3p5D... Also, go read my blog about the impacts of ace representation below 👀 Happy Ace Week everyone! 💜

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Episode 7 Asexuality on Screen

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Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Did you miss this event? I answer some of the audience questions over on Instagram - check it out! www.instagram.com/p/DQOYFPxjWN...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 09/08/2025

Ons thing that's really bugging me about the "PhD level intelligence" is that a PhD isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of commitment to study and specialisation in a narrow field (and opportunity to do so). "PhD level intelligence" isn't really a meaningful phrase

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Now that I no longer have academic library access, I’m really feeling the decline of basic web search. AI just exacerbated the SEO problem.

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Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This feels like a Tumblr question, but I've not been on that platform properly in about a decade, so I'll ask Bluesky: do you associate any #Dimension20 campaigns with particular times of year? Easy example: Unsleeping City s1 with the Winter festive period.

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Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

My wonderful friend is doing this research and is still looking for more people to take part! Please share 😊

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.

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