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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Still coming to terms with this card at WHSmith (or whatever). Who is the recipient?

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lake America

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As much as this fool deserves to be pilloried for his absolutely absurd statement, and it says something about Reform’s idiocy, why is this the top story on the Guardian site? They aren’t in a position to create policy, and probably never will be, so why are we treating anything they say seriously?

A screenshot of the Guardian newspaper’s app’s main page, with the main headline (under ‘News’) ‘Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat’.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

so the government can send us an emergency alert about the national risk of wildfires, but can’t actually address why it is that we’ve become a country at risk of wildfires, something formerly associated with arid climates?

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is brilliant. I read it, expecting American exceptionalism to claim all sorts of global phenomena, but they nailed it. The only thing missing is the most American thing of all: a gun. (Gift article)

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Opinion | The 25 Objects That Explain America (Gift Article)

Want to understand this country? Look at our stuff.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s a dark, miserable day here, I have a cold, and my thesis is stressing me out. But this has raised my spirits immeasurably.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If I were a person in the past writing a document that may be looked at by historians one day I would simply have legible handwriting

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The ENGFRA game healed something. Two teams Playing phenomenally. Records broken. Golden boot challenge laid. And our boys were incredible. Saka, Rice, Spence, Henderson, all of them. Proud of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, and glad France gave us such a great game.

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Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I love the World Cup because it lets you see the unique cultures of nations expressed through football, like Germany's ruthless efficiency, Brazil's beautiful dance, Spain's style and flair, France's total collapse in the face of slight adversity, and Italy's rich ancient history.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The social media age carries additional emotional risk during major sporting events: watching all the highlights, memes, and commentary during England’s great run means that all my timelines nothing but painful reminders of their big loss. Some effort will have to go into re-curating my feeds.

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Why did big Dan Burn simply not eat Messi, while there was still time

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

London Florence Paris New York Amsterdam

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Think I’d be great at soccer. I regularly go 90 mins without accomplishing one goal

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/07/2026

"waaaaaaaaah, oh wah wah waahhhhhhh" - Nigel Farage, 62

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

pretty concerned that the Mexico fans blasting music at the England players' hotel all night might throw them off their normal game and they actually start playing well for a change

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If Cambridge is clever enough, they go fully analog from now. Paper books and humans doing things.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Big day today. Turned down for my first academic job (a rite of passage!) But, locally famous for being anti-fascist.

Photo in the Oxford Mail of a middle-aged, middle-class woman screaming at people who weren't even there, and who live off others' anger, therefore perpetuating the whole process of ideological division which is tearing apart the fabric of society. Part of a journalist's story on the crowds of people protesting against the platforming of 'Tommy Robinson' by the Oxford Union, costing the city and local businesses thousands of ££, for absolutely no benefit to anyone except Tommy and his racist hooligans. Photo of the photo courtesy of my college librarian.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Happy to report that the anti-fascism protestors outnumber the Robinson supporters about 100-1. And lots of entertainment watching the toffs trying to get in to the Oxford Union.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A legendary historian who has inspired so many, and will continue to do so. I’m very glad to have met him, and to have heard him speak about discovering Menocchio in the archives. RIP.

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È morto lo storico Carlo Ginzburg

Fu uno degli studiosi italiani più tradotti e conosciuti all'estero, per i suoi lavori sulle classi subalterne medievali e moderne: aveva 87 anni

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

And this is why people hate the Oxford Union. Ashamed of the association doesn't even begin to cover it. I'll be out there protesting with the other anti-racists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Oxford Union should pay for Tommy Robinson policing, says council

Tommy Robinson is due to take part in a debate at the historic union on Wednesday.

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It is an outrage that residents will end up footing the bill and associated disruption that comes from inviting a man who has a well documented history of racism, violence and deception. There is no value to free speech in platforminng racist conspiracy theorists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Oxford Union should pay for Tommy Robinson policing, says council

Tommy Robinson is due to take part in a debate at the historic union on Wednesday.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/06/2026

I’m middle class, left wing, and my lived experience has taught me that I’ve been afforded more human rights on account of features I was born with and can’t control (skin colour, location of birth, cisgender, etc) than other people, and that makes me fucking furious because that’s unjust

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Royal Studies @royalstudies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Buy Matthieu Mensch's new book in the Routledge Lives of Royal Women series with this 20% discount code 26AFLY2 Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France: Daughter of Marie-Antoinette and Almost Queen

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Oxford Court Studies @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We are excited to host this book launch and a talk by its author, Matthieu Mensch next week! Please join us in person next Monday at 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, Jesus College, but if you can't attend, the link to join online is below. All are welcome, and a drinks reception will follow the talk.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

From @oxfordclarion.bsky.social. So it turns out inflaming culture wars doesn't make financial sense?

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Feminism is a project that holds that men and women are similar in most ways and should therefore be treated equally in most cases. TERFism is a project that holds that men and women are fundamentally and irrevocably different any must always be treated differently.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Prof. Lyndal Roper deserves this honour so much. Nobody is more inspiring, enthusiastic, and encouraging, and she is such a brilliant scholar. I'm honoured and very glad to have had the opportunity to pay tribute to her (even under an alias?!). Congratulations Lyndal!

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Meet the 2026 Holberg Prize Laureate, Professor Lyndal Roper.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

All I wanted was a technically competent vaguely left-leaning government who would undo the worst of what the Tories did, and change us back to a welcoming, no longer hate-ridden society.

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Interesting analysis for those of us interested in hope and aware of the big graph that shows Reform peaked in October last year and is sliding inexorably down.

Peter Kellner, the elections expert and former YouGov president, has posted a good analysis of the results so far on his Substack blog. It is well worth reading in full, but here’s an extract.

Behind the impressive tally of Reform’s gains – likely to end up well over 1,000 – Nigel Farage should be privately worried. In last year’s local elections Reform won 41 per cent of all seats contested across England. On the basis of the overnight figures, this year’s tally is around 33 per cent. If there were no polls, and there had been no elections last year, this year’s figure would be astonishing. But we do have the record of recent polls and elections, and it seems clear that Reform has peaked …

In contrast to Reform, Labour has cause for relief, despite losing half the seats it was defending yesterday. It’s bad – and in normal times it would be catastrophic – but it’s not as bad as its record in local council by-elections over the past 12 months, where it hast lost three-quarters of the seats it was defending …

However, even on the most optimistic interpretation of Labour’s performance, the overnight figures contain a stark warning. John Curtice told BBC viewers in the early hours that while Labour has lost many SEATS to Reform, it has lost VOTES more to the Greens.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Among the many problems I have with the new building, the inaccessibility for attending other faculty’s research seminars is a big one. If the point of the building was to make interdisciplinary collaboration easier, it’s failing.

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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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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

friend asked me for advice on returning to university and aiming for an academic career. it’s so hard to realistically portray for someone how unrealistic that is in 2026 without sounding incredibly bitter and pessimistic. but honestly who would advise someone that this a good career path?

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Well when you put it like that... I think when I started my doctorate the situation was dire, but still, many times that number of jobs. Just enough that many of us believed we might be the lucky ones.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Great example of how fake history is made in our AI world.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’m very excited about this group of speakers. It really is just coincidental that it’s so heavy on the Franco-Italians for what is probably my last term.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just received word from a friend that one of their students cited an article of mine in an undergrad essay. Surreal.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Lets hope jd vance campaigns for Reform in Britain

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

One of my favourite books ever. Hilarious, incisive, and somehow timeless. But almost got me kicked out of my book club.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Probably going to have to flesh out the traditional dismissal of Great Man Theory in first-year historiography lectures now it turns out that two to three deranged geriatrics actually can slingshot the entire planet into the sun

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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Easter is a great time to teach your kids about science for example I won a huge chocolate bunny in a first grade Easter egg hunt and the next day the ears were gone and my dad taught me about evaporation

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Watching the Women's Boat Race. A tiny man, screaming at eight exhausted women to work harder. Classic patriarchy.

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Co-sign 100%. Our faculties have been downgraded in size, access, and amenities. Rather than celebrating the importance of the Humanities, we have been lumped together in the periphery, hidden behind other faculties, in a building which prioritises rare public events over its students.

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The Schwarzman Centre is a commercial venture, not a place of learning - Cherwell

Schwarzman's donation was meant to revitalise the humanities. But with cramped libraries and cramped faculties, it's closer to a death knell.

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Cargie (Spooky Version) @cargie.baby · 03/04/2026

look at that you son of a bitch thats all we have. thats it. that's all there is, this impossibly delicate little egg in the endless black nothing. this water droplet. its our home, its where we all live and hating each other just makes no sense when its this precarious

a photo of the earth taken from the Artemis mission in space. you can see the traceries of clouds along with the auroras on both poles. the continent of Africa is visible along with the atlantic ocean

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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