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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New Blog post: BAFTSS paper: "Magical Objects and the “Untranscended Materiality” of the Non-Magical-Class in British Fantasy Adaptations." jdhdoveton.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/m...

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15/07/2026

We're happy to support Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents, organised by @amit-singh.bsky.social (UCL). A free two-day summer school exploring class, culture & today's social challenges through workshops and discussion. Find out more and register: buff.ly/MSeyFEG #Sociology #SummerSchool

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A MONTH AFTER I POSTED THIS I CHECKED REFWORKS AND THEY HAD ADDED TV SHOWS, ONLINE VIDEOS AND VIDEO GAMES TO THEIR REF TYPES. TOO LATE REFWORKS... TOO LATE!

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I always think of @99pi.org when I go to the toilets at uni and "encounter" this failure of signage. First is the sign by the cleaners cupboard (opposite the toilet corridor), second is in the toilet corridor, third is the "sign" on the door of the toilet corridor. How would you "evaluate" this?

A teal sign on a white wall which reads "encounter" under a room number code.

A teal sign which reads "evaluate" under a room number code.

A sheet of paper on a white door which has "W/C" written in black marker pen.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Me, to referencing management software: Hi, are you ever planning to implement TV shows, Online videos or Video Games as reference types in your software? RM Software Co.: Er... we have all the *normal* type of references here... none of that *weird* stuff. Maybe someday, if it ever takes off lol.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The inhumanity is accelerating. There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/10/2025

This was the first test that had many trans people worried the Greens would fold. That they didn't is an excellent sign and a rare show of actual support for trans people from a political party that isn't just empty words. More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is important. I learnt stuff. I sobbed. Please watch it. You will not regret it. Thanks @lindsayellis.bsky.social Still got my Team Lindsay pin.

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The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

They really should separate baby health and safety guidance into: • Bad habits to get into, that are fine to do once or twice but have longterm risks, and • Things that might kill your baby if you do them even once. I understand that people still wouldnt be able to discern the difference, tho.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

When my partner was pregnant the midwife told them to not eat mangoes because they are unhealthy. Fresh fruit is unhealthy.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Joy, including: Joy, Sadness and Sadness. Anger, including: Sadsad

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

See how easy it is to say the right things about Palestine? Turns out you don't need 20 months to write an agonizing wishy washy essay. Or 12 months to make a video essay.

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WHY DID SHE POST THIS

YouTube video by HasanAbi

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is like: First half: fun boys adventure story with a gothic mansion, kidnapped on a ship, fighting pirates, surviving on an island, hiding from the English, trekking the Highlands. Second half: homoerotic fan fiction about a historical Jacobite soldier.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

From @jdhdoveton.bsky.social, a useful insight to keep in mind whenever a columnist claims a paradoxical indulgence while condemning it, which is quite a lot

@ItsMeBabyArms on Twitter, now @jdhdoveton.bsky.social: "To be abel to write "why the poors should stop eating chocolate cake and open ISAs", you need an opposite number opinion columnist to write "I don't care what they say, I'm middle class and it's okay for me to eat a whole chocolate cake". And the universe is in balance."

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So if anyone here is reading this and has similar feelings I'm begging you to go and find local leftist groups that you fit in with and help them, because if you think the left has done nothing but be online and complain then you simply don't know what the left is doing right now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2025

reactionary centrists have a totally incoherent theory of politics whose primary upshot is that they validate and legitimize the far right

STARMER'S POLITICAL MYOPIA IS TYPICAL of politicians and commentators I would characterize as reactionary centrists-those who, in addition to having moderate policy preferences, share a view of the far right as having unaccountably low agency, and figuring them as simply reacting to the actions (and alleged excesses) of leftists, progressives, and advocates of social justice. 1
Reactionary centrists rarely imagine solutions to political problems that do not involve a policy move to the right, especially on social issues. Won an election? You'll need to give ground to govern.
Lost an election? You'll need to give ground to win next time. That this is obviously unfalsifiable doesn't bother them in the slightest.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is extremely disappointing. When you've just admitted that a genocide is happening, it's bizarre to spend the rest of your post criticizing the manners and motives of the people trying to stop it.

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From the ContraPoints community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the ContraPoints community

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"Vote for the slow and gentle genocide party, or you're a fuckin traitor!" Beyond satire.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Mmmm nice I haven't had a long Sunday nap since... the last Dune film came out!

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I don't know why I was surprised by Death Comes to Pemberley being fanfic. It's a fan fiction.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

@benlitherland.bsky.social Hi Ben. Would you consider doing an episode of your podcast on so-called "aspirational media" and its supposed effects?

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Agree. I count as the dad under such laws so I was only entitled to 2 weeks, and it sucks. 2 weeks is nothing. Eurgh.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Every term my university slaps me in the face by inviting me to submit my work to a competition an arts researcher will never win.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If I went back to school now I'd be one of the students who gets extra time. It's funny, I was sent to learning support a few times because they couldn't understand why someone who got As in their coursework was getting Cs in exams. I was only getting through 1/3rd of the paper. Extra time helps!

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Extra exam time: why do so many schoolkids suddenly need it?

Every year, more pupils are granted special ‘access arrangements’ to give them a fairer chance in GCSEs, A-levels and other exams. But with more than 600,000 arrangements in England alone, can the sch...

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is the British Medical Association 👇

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Chat GPT really stepped up for those people who always dreamed of being a literary fraud, but couldn't be bothered to put work into the grift.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Fantasy scholars help me out. There's a lot of talk of "the fantastic" and fantasy-as-mode in the literature. There's a lot of writing on fantasy as "more than a genre". There's a lot of speculating about what fantasy is, what it does, how it is experienced as a form...

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Omg u guys just realised the copy and paste is FUUUUCKED on this thing

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So funny to me when British people go abroad and 'worry' about 'being ripped off' when this country is one big rip off. Sales are fake. I've never seen a genuine sale in my life. Charity shops charge more than primark. Clubcard price is literally just the real price. Pubs charge £6 for 6 chips.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If you're appalled at the government's treatment of disabled people, in work, out of work, on PIP, off PIP; you should have been paying attention to the switch to individualised and occupational models of care introduced at the turn of the millennium.

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New podcast. This about how far right talking points distract us from eliminating the state violence of neoliberal capitalism open.spotify.com/episode/2wmH...

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Against Bigotry and Hatred

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Google Scholar, which has desperately needed an update for about ten years, has finally added a new feature - a PDF reader. Sounds good, except they've only added it to show off an AI summary bot - summarising each PDF each time you open it.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Could be a good moment to reflect that the paramilitary & carceral apparutus of "border security" isn't designed to mitigate crimes but to restrain and violate people. Inventing an idea of "illegal people" in your head might help you hide from that point, but the weapon is purpose built to harm you.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

What people don't understand about benefits like PIP, Universal Credit (Jobseekers) and Access to Work is they are propping up a private sector that does not want to pay a living wage, doesn't want to hire disabled people, people with care responsibilities, etc.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@fcoppa.bsky.social wake up, the corporate accounts have discovered vidding.

Screenshot from a tiktok video by Lionsgate, a video they call a 'fan edit' of Peeta and Katniss from the hunger games. Peeta is seen with glowing captions over his face reading: "...I've had a crush on forever"

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I am devastated that I missed all the memos on this. 😭

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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I've got an extra copy to give away of Authenticity and Adaptation! If you repost this, I'll pick from one of the reposters next Thursday (20th) and mail it out. 💀📖

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm going to start off my Bsky journey by plugging my blog. By plugging my blog I hope that I will be motivated to write on my blog. jdhdoveton.wordpress.com

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JDHD

Rebellious research on fantasy and class, neurodivergent rantings, videographic criticism, learning through teaching, and reaching out into the void.

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Dr. JDH Doveton @jdhdoveton.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hello! I hope to rebuild my network of academics/filmmakers/writers/educators on here so please follow if you are any of those!

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