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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 30/09/2026

Fantastic bookshop find: a Latin textbook in Welsh, complete with glossary and a guide to spotting Latin borrowings in the modern language.

Cover of Llyfr Dysgu Lladin — Latin Textbook

Explanations of Latin grammar in Welsh. Examples include Insula Mōna - Ynys Môn and Urbs Dēva - Dinas Caer

A classic Latin glossary with principal parts and everything, but the translations are into Welsh

Table showing the outcomes of various Latin consonants in Modern Welsh, with examples

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corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026

i want to applaud james joyce for the ending of finnegans wake. really doing 'the' work

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I quite simply would like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden

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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 21/09/2026

Meta: “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform (topics that are central to Woolf’s work) are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’

Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out, Meta tells theatre

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Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This amazing find inspired me to make this wee illustration, I found it very evocative to imagine the early medieval churchyard at Govan could be a hive of activity and craft workers. Not just stone carving but jewellery as well

an illustration of a woman in early medieval clothing working on a piece of shale jewellery, in the top right corner is an enlarged depiction of the piece she is working on- a lump of shale being worked with a hole in the centre perhaps in the process of making a ring

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Phone camera's poor quality but the medievalist four seasons wall painting in insole court in cardiff is top-notch Victorian peasant-gawking

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fully in favour of the neighbour who is currently informing the street gc that on channel 5 there's a documentary about 'why spiders are on the up'

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/09/2026

Pynchon was a realist

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kind of bizarre this reading, as there's not a single portmanteau nor is the language as layered in encryption ...

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videosyncrasy @videosyncrasy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Only able to appreciate jokes in this specific cadence rn

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Kevin Snyder @guns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very useful Apple

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Gonna show my students the brilliant scene in Frederick Wiseman's 'National Gallery' (2014) where a class of blind people are talked through a Pissarro painting

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Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm really excited to share the cover for my book "The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the U.S. South," which is coming out with University of Georgia Press in June 2027. I absolutely adore the cover - so chic!!

A book cover for "The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the US South" by Siân Round. The cover is black with orange and yellow font. 5 images of 1920s and 1930s magazines appear.

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joycesociety.bsky.social @joycesociety.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sep 18: The latest installment in our online Lunchtime Launch Series: "One Long Blue Streak: Joyce and Swearing," hosted by editors Casey Lawrence and Frances Ilmberger, with Valérie Bénéjam, Sam Slote, Tímea Mészáros, and Trisevgeni Bilia.@myexplodingpen.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Lunchtime book launch Joyce Society 9/18/26

Registration form for this ONLINE event

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"in the hope they'd prove jackpotty, and stories would suddenly shower out like dimes ..." From the preface to William Gass's In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

"Hours of insanity and escape ... collecting names in the hope they'd prove jackpotty, and stories would suddenly shower out like dimes ...
Horace Bardwell, Ada Hunt Chase, Mary Persis Crofts, Kelsey Flowers, Annie Stilphen, Edna Hoxie, Asher Applegate, Amos Bodge, Enoch Boyce, Jeremiah Bresnan, James G. Burpee, Curtis Chamlet, Decius W. Clark, Revellard Dutcher, Jedediah Felton, Jethro Furber, Pelatiah Hall, George Hatstat, Quartus Graves, Leoammi Kendal, Truxton Orcutt, Plaisted Williams, Francis Plympton, Azariah Shove, Peter Twiss; and in addition the members of the cooking club of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, 1899: Dean Booher, Floy Buxton, Nellie Goorley, Ira Irwin, Bessie Johnson, Clara Kelly, Sadie McCracken, Clara Mozier, Josie Plumb, Sarah Swingle, Maude Smith, Anna, Belle, Deane, and Ivan Talmade, Roberta Wheeler."

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Universities UK has announced a target of 50% of students doing work-based learning by 2030. In 2025 HEPI reported that 68% of domestic undergraduates are in paid work in term-time. Can we not hold these two facts in mind simultaneously?

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026

But in this internet subculture, saying completely insane and ridiculous things like this really is considered a form of being smart. It’s a display of pure rationality. You crunched the numbers and, sorry if it shocks or offends, but here are the results. Don’t like it? Take it up with Bayes.

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Fa-ghoul-tha Christie @joelnb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think we should hold ourselves to a higher standard than calling the oesophagus the 'food pipe' in headlines.

Headline of 'Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk' with a photo of a hand reaching for a mug with steam coming off it

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Nightmare Lamp @nightmare-fueler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

its crazy how Frank Sinatra sang "Fly Me To The Moon" just a decade before the first Frank Sinatra landed on the moon

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Roy, MBA, MFA @roydotexe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

More Wendy Mulford, dedicated to Fanny Howe

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

These posts aren't quite wrong, but I'm unsure farage's 'unique magnetism', or the grubby willingness of broadcasters to put him in media, is quite what's behind the kneejerk violent coercion we have seen of late. Ditto the ideological moves to service it. Surely the cause is deeper

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/09/2026

The amount of oil use avoided by EVs in China in the first half of 2026 is the same as the amount of oil USED BY THE ENTIRE UK www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

a chart showing projected avoided oil use

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

he believed in starting again, from ignorance; I was rich in ignorance (Nuala O'Faolain)

from Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody (1996)

I was saved, however by the labour historian, Raphael Samuel. As if he were the angel of his name, he came to me, even though I hardly knew him, and presented me with a cake in a tin that his mother had sent him, and told me firmly that he would help me to work. He gave me essays to do every week - the growth of a reading public', Chartist oratory, the novels of "Mark Rutherford". He took me to a study-group in Nuffield where people talked about Paley and Defoe and Spengler and the Bryant and May strike and Dostoevsky and Henry Mayhew and Trotsky and Peterloo. Raphael was a pioneer of the inter-disciplinary approach. He believed that anyone who had done a specialist degree had been trained in incuriosity about everything else. He believed in starting again, from ignorance. I was rich in ignorance.

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Things I listened to this week (blue edition)

Bitchin bajas + Olivia wyatt - sailing a sinking sea
Sarah davachi- the will of tongues
Caterina barbieri- patterns of consciousness
Wayne shorter- night dreamer
Nicholas payton and butcher brown- a supreme blue
George harrison- all things must pass
Improvement movement- your perfect real life
Ryley walker- course in fable
4hero- two pages

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don't actually begrudge Emily Wilson getting to retranslate the Odyssey at all, but I do want publishers to try to siphon some of the Epic Revival energy into, I dunno, actually finishing the Chicago Mahābhārata or a bunch of the untranslated Irish tales, perhaps

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Made it to the sainsbury centre to see this great exhibition

Living by the rule: contemporary meets medieval

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You don't look so good. Well done!

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Even for critics who might consider it straightforwardly mad, Yeats’s A Vision has obvious allure and appeal. MacNeice’s late book (potboiler) on astrology by contrast has failed to attract similar interest?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'Three devolved governments are now reviewing how to fund higher education. Each is working inside machinery whose history is a series of tightenings nobody announced, and whose current workings are officially none of their voters’ business.' 1/2

wonkhe.com

How Westminster got away with slashing "devolved" spend on higher education

Back in 1990–91, Scotland's universities received 14 per cent of the regular annual grant paid to Great Britain's universities.

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legally cami @anodynerhyme.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

adding buttocksmothered to my lexicon

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Come for the batshit cover art on this 1970 Mentor ed of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stay for the incredibly bitchy annotated bibliography

Cover of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Burton Raffel

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Several books cited only in the Afterword are here included; however, in all cases the annotations are by the translator.
Benson, Larry D., Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Rutgers University Press, 1965.
Sensitive and learned discussion of sources; literary convention and characterization; style; narrative and descriptive techniques; meaning. The book is modest in tone but richly informative; much the best study in print.
Blanch, Robert J., ed., Sir Gawain and Pearl: Critical Essays, Indiana U.P., 1966. Very much a mixed bag: six essays, some of them horrendously awful, some spottily intelligent. Not recommended.
Borroff, Marie, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study, Yale U.P., 1962. A rather ponderous, wordy, and frequently insensitive study of difficult matters; sometimes useful, but to be consulted with caution, despite the heavy scholarly apparatus.
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Burrow, J. A., A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Gren Knight, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. Literary dully effective. Not recommended.
criticism on a very low level, though sometimes Fox, Denton, ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Prentice-Fall,
1968. A brief but sometimes rewarding collection; some of the essays are at best spottily intelligent, but the selection is distinctly superior to that in the Blanch compendium. Recommended, with due cas-tion.
Howard, Donald R. and Christian Zacher, eds. Critical
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Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. Useful; fuller than the Fox collection; sometimes a bit pedantic.
Kittredge, George Lyman, A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight, Peter Smith, 1960 (first printed in
1916). A highly speculative, well-written study de voted exclusively to literary sources, actual, pos-sible, and imaginary. Of moderate interest, it used both sparingly and appropriately.
Longnon, Jean, and Raymond Cazelles, eds., The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, George Bra-ziller, 1969. No direct connection with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but many of the illustrations beautifully reproduced-are vivid evocations of the spirit, and often much of the detail, of the poem.
Loomis, Roger Sherman, The Development of Arthurian Romances, Harper Torchbooks, 1964. Biased and crotchety, but clear and, for the beginner, modestly informative; deeply traditional, hostile to much in contemporary criticism, Recommended, if used with due caution.
Savage, Henry L., The Gawain-Poet: Studies in His Personality and Background, University of North Carolina Press, 1956. A set of crotchety historical essays having no proven connecti a to the Gawain-poet and no relevance whatever to the poem. Na recommended.

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Brb precipitating a dame down the spanish steps

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Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This has to be high on the list of oddest footnotes I have read.

Photograph of a footnote in which it is explained that the Italian scholar of the Baroque Mario Praz was supposed to have psychokinetic powers, and to have used them to precipitate Dame Helen Gardner down the Spanish Steps.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When I first moved to SoCal and took my child to the city library (as one does, first thing), this book title had me confused for several minutes.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

check this out

the tale of peter rabbit. beatrix potter. hieroglyph edition. white book cover of small hardback with title in egyptian hieroglyphs and illustration of peter rabbit

open to a random page. illustration on the left side with rabbits under a tree. hieroglyphic text on the right with footnote:
Line 3: 'Cotton-tail' has been translated as "Linen-tail' 1let (sed-mehew), since cotton was unknown in ancient Egypt.

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Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yes my messages have an automatic signature! ~ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵃⁿ ᵃᵐᵃᶻⁱⁿᵍ ᵈᵃʸ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵗʰᵉ ᵘˡᵗⁱᵐᵃᵗᵉ ʷᵒʳˡᵈˢ ᵖᵉʳˢᵒⁿ~ No you can’t copy my idea! ~ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵃⁿ ᵃᵐᵃᶻⁱⁿᵍ ᵈᵃʸ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵗʰᵉ ᵘˡᵗⁱᵐᵃᵗᵉ ʷᵒʳˡᵈ’ˢ ᵖᵉʳˢᵒⁿ~

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It is essentially taboo ever to use words like racist, or, in certain geopolitical contexts, massacre. Even though these words can be used precisely and conscientiously, most editors aren't committed to truth but to managing emotions: specifically, to freeze any righteous anger on the vine

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My new edition of ulysses has this instead of 'Trieste-Zurich-Paris 1914-1921'

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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just learned that one of the buildings i teach in is where the Gaelic League was based in London (1913-16)

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From Ways of Seeing to this.

Seven pairs of aspiring art dealers from across the UK get the opportunity to test their creative instincts, flex their entrepreneurial muscle and see if they can make money in this highly competitive world. Under the watchful gaze of host Steph McGovern, series mentor Cordelia de Freitas and industry insiders, each episode pulls back the curtain on a corner of the art market, tasking the pairs with real-world challenges designed to test the different skills needed to succeed in the art business. Every penny they make, they get to keep, and for the last pair standing, there is a prize of brilliant British art worth £50,000.

Their first deal is all about graduate art. Cordelia and guest mentor Matt Carey Williams - an expert in graduate art - have gathered 14 artists from the Royal College of Art and other prestigious art schools around the UK. The pairs must choose two artists to represent, negotiate a commission split and then sell the artists’ works at auction. The three teams who make the least profit are in danger of going home.

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