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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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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Solidarity. They're bastards.

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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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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Mine made it to half time. Probably for the best.

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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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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Thanks for writing that, Ed. Critical, humane, generous. Everything that wanker isn't.

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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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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Perfect timing. I'm scheduled to move my students onto Highland economy before the '45 on Monday. I'll get them onto this as a starter task!

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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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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I take students to Neuve Chapelle each year. I'll think of Charles when I am there again in Spring.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Very curious about the German headstones.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Jim looks younger than Alfred in his uniform. To think someone his age could spend such a proportion of their young life in the trenches. Beggars belief.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I looked him up on CWGC. From Dee St. Funny how things run full circle.

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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 · 21/06/2025

Not just that he read it, but he's applying it. Well done you!

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I love the sound of the clunk as it hits the back of the net.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

When my wife was expecting twins I was chatting to the barman once and he idly asked me if I had kids. I said "No, but I've got two on the way". He said "With the same woman?" The implication was the biggest compliment I have ever been paid.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm so sorry I missed it but delighted to see this in print. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. Congratulations Jérémy!

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

What a beauty. I'll keep my eyes on the auction... Thanks Steve!

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's upsetting. Wish him all the best, obviously, but such a shame it's come to this. He should be breaking records at United.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

All we need is a mash-up of his celebration and Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Where's the outlet? I like Mazraoui a lot but he's better as RCB and then bring Amad to wingback. Dalot's limited on the left. I fear this set-up with these personnel is just inviting pressure. I wish we could incorporate Garnacho somehow. I'm worried.

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'd love to. Wish I could. January's already over-subscribed but we should definitely plot something for later in the year. You're still getting out for the night runs?

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Hermiston @hermiston.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Lovely to find you here too. We're overdue a jog.

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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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