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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every single September I’m taken by surprise at how physically and mentally exhausting a whole day of teaching can be. It’s a performance and it reduces me to a jibbering idiot by the end of the day!

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Exhausted Spongebob Cheers

ALT: Exhausted Spongebob Cheers

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Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

An incredible new PhD opportunity at @uhihistory.bsky.social under Dr Nicola Martin: An Environmental History of the Jacobite Risings in Scotland. This is a fresh and fascinating filter to apply to Jacobite Studies and the programme is under the very best of direction and care.

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Postgraduate research - An Environmental History of the Jacobite Risings in Scotland

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Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Just a wee reminder for anyone listening to politicians doing the ‘I condemn the violence but people have legitimate concerns’, shuffle, immigration in NI is 3.5% of the population. Most of them working in NHS, social care and other badly paid jobs.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

At this point being pro-AI is being a climate change denier and being very very relaxed about racial and sexual discrimination. Why would I want that?

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Ah yeah, remember the good old days when the only way into the 24-hour butcher's was via a trapdoor in the miniature phone box?

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No Question About That @nqatpod.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

JIm Ratcliffe is a scumbag. More than that he's a hypocrite. And dangerous. Words. open.substack.com/pub/nqatpod/...

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'

Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

One day everyone will accept Netanyahu to be pure evil. It will be a mainstream consensus. At that point he will be used as a convenient sponge for all the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated in his time. As if it all started and ended with him. Always remember - it was never just him

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Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

LIMITED TIME ONLY! A Rising Man is 99p on Kindle. Read it before the new one comes out! www.amazon.co.uk/Rising-Man-S...

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'll have to get that book. When the kids and I watched the Wonka movie I did think more than once he was bit like Bobby in those days.

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Wayne Barton @waynesbarton.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate xx

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