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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My new favourite bluesky people are the Concerned Brits who are very worried that Greta Gerwig – who famously never gets things right – just doesn’t understand the really important bits of the Narnia story

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Totally agree with this and it’s how I personally feel about myself (naturalised Brit) and my child (born in England)

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The problem with two-hour flights is no one wants to check their luggage

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just saw an elderly American tip a Heathrow barista a crisp dollar bill

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rereading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and the pacing of the mahjong chapter is such a comic delight

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't want to argue with some guy on bluesky, but some guy on bluesky is arguing that "practically all university year 1 is spent trying to undo... damage done by the current [secondary school assessment] system". And I just want to say that this is not my experience. My Y1 students tend to be fab

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A particularly tedious aspect of AI is how it has convinced MA dissertation students to claim that they have identified a research gap and are going to fill it. No you haven't and no you aren't. You're an MA student who's been reading about this topic for 4 months -- you hardly know anything yet

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Polish background to Iga’s post-Toronto victory speech www.tennisforum.com/threads/the-...

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Look I try to be sympathetic to Brits coping with the heat, but they’ve just cancelled the local ferry service here (Northwest Devon) because of “extreme heat“. Today’s high here = 25°. And that’s on land, on the water it’s maybe 20-21°?

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My particular bugbear. Here in Lewisham people in £1 million homes are desperate to block £500k “luxury flats”

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I love you my british people but you don't always do yourself favours when it comes to the heat. I've just had a woman explain to me that it's 30 degrees in her flat but she doesn't use a fan "because that just makes it hotter"

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I’m totally on board with the argument about the importance of friction, and I agree that adolescence is the most important stage for identity development. But to believe Willis’s argument that identity development basically ends with adolescence, you’ve got to ignore a lot of data

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

2026 now officially forecast to be permanent death-birth crossover year Gap will only get wider from now Migration only source of population growth - but a lot less of it than was projected last time

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

One for the life course researchers

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The main thing I’ve learned from being in a Wordle group is that even progressive people tend to be linguistically conservative

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

People love to be outraged, it’s insane

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This makes me proud to be a London Centric subscriber

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Fascinating piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com - UK graduate earnings premium is shrinking because the economy is bad and there aren’t enough high paying jobs >> www.ft.com/content/649d... ‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question

In the UK, the graduate earnings premium shrank as the share of grads in the workforce rose. In the US, Netherlands, Spain, France, Canada the premium kept rising.

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I have always been angry at February but I may need to reconsider

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

My special Boxing Day post, which seems to have gone down well.

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Some parents just have this completely twisted idea that if they’re not sending their kids to private school they’re not doing enough for them – and they lose sight of all the other things that money can do for their kids

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Yeh it’s too bad they’re hyper focused on giving their kids an independent education instead of giving their kids the best possible start in life

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Stacking cork on a salmon seiner, raking blueberries, detassling corn

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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/12/2025

this has become a very important video to me

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Same for me -- a very enjoyable and encouraging autumn term, with lots of highly engaged students

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I've always hated the "You complete me" line but this makes me more sympathetic towards its larger meaning re the quest for identity kottke.org/25/12/why-is...

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Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?

I am not generally a fan of rom-coms so I didn’t think I was going to post Evan Puschak’s newest video, but he’

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

People really love a doomer thread about university kids these days, don’t they? (If I ever get bored enough I’ll write a long thread about the VERY limited value of that “1st paragraph of Bleak House” study that everyone was raving about)

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

“At least she didn’t raise my income tax” I say to myself as I sign the redundancy papers

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Not sure I buy Pinker’s theory (altho who knows?) but this from Elledge is vg. Too much of social media = purportedly intelligent people gleefully engaging in wilfully disingenuous readings of posts, seemingly for the joy of piling on

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Pakistani Brits significantly outperform the average in school performance and are much more likely to go to university. So yes just racism from someone else whose mind has been destroyed by twitter.

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Excellent reflections here about pile-ons: “The crucial thing to realise is that pile-ons are not an exchange of ideas. It is a process in which people try to establish their moral status in relation to yours, or rather the monstrous version of you they have invented”

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JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Really impressed by how much better my students are at writing nowadays. I must be doing some amazing teaching

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

One thing I would like more people, and I mostly mean my fellow men, to understand is that no matter how smart you are, other people are also smart and some of them have tried to work on the same problems you’re working on. If a simple solution hasn’t been found yet, there probably isn’t one.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

this is not true. many, many people are good thinkers without being good writers. people who *are* good writers tend to vastly overestimate what a component of intelligence it is. but I have edited many intelligent and thoughtful people who were at best average-to-mediocre writers ...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.

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