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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Does your work involve 'dangerous writing'? Interpret as you wish. This is a truly interdisciplinary project and the most interesting one I've been involved with for years. Jan 16th deadline for 250-word abstract submissions.

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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

At the recent #DangerousWriting symposium experts explored how texts from prison blogs to protest theatre can both empower & harm asking how do we care for stories that carry pain? www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m... @criminologyuom.bsky.social @marionvannier.bsky.social @jonshute.bsky.social

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Saw Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly in a stage adaptation of David Peace’s ‘Red or Dead’ yesterday in Liverpool. Comprehensively marvellous. Charisma and pathos in equal measure, plus an hilarious Kevin Keegan hairstyle from 1973. With my tribe!

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I also want to belatedly record my joy at observing the parade of planets last week. I only saw 5 as Mercury and Saturn were too low on the horizon. Mars not in this view but that was also a clear, red treat.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Been supporting them for 44 years and this is one of the very best away performances; Allison 11/10.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I hardly ever do social media these days but have to say engaging tonight with many decent, funny and insightful US folks in my thread has cheered me right up. There is always hope.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Book #6. Good ‘un. Volcanoes, storms, Peru, foment, stifled revolution, Andean natural history, polar ice, battles, deus ex machina rescue.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Book #5. Commuter read. V light but fun. Written for TV, adapted v well.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Playing around with an older laptop today, I was really happy with how google chrome ‘synced’ my bookmarks: turns out this means ‘overwrite & destroy dozens and dozens semi-randomly & in a way that is unrecoverable’. Really useful feature.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I teach atrocity crime to criminologists & have been using Project 25/campaign speeches to predict Trump’s engagement with ongoing conflicts. My grimmest predictions couldnt capture something as unhinged as ethnic cleansing for resort development. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...

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Trump’s Gaza plan could amount to war crime, say experts

Academics fear US president’s lack of reference to international law could lead to global breakdown of peace and security

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Dry Jan done. No fuss. Wine tasted super strong. Enjoyed greatly with game stew and cheese.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We’re gonna fly, baby fly. As degrowth/MMT & other positions make clear, growth at any cost is immoral, deadly & doomed. Staggeringly reckless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise?

As UK chancellor backs expansion at London’s biggest airport, we assess the possible environmental impacts

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Book #2. 16/21! Those who know, know.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

New piano book. Can play the Beethoven; learning the Jazz etudiette.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Morning walk best-of from the last couple of gelid days.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The Labour tragedy: stunned/surprised at being in power, with no vision, pointless self-imposed limitations & essentially the same failed macro-economic model of the last 15 years, they resemble a miserabilist, bureaucratic wing of the Tory party. Failure opens space for deep(-er) Faragism.

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Reeves mulls deeper cuts to public services as borrowing costs soar

Chancellor could slash departmental spending in spring after ruling out tax increase, officials reveal

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This looks great, and there are a number of open access articles.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Gott in Himmel, is nothing I value safe from this man?! I’m not migrating to Everton (‘bluecry’?)!

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Glorious, then bleak midwinter.

Valley view in full sunlight; cloudless dawn.

Valley view in snow, high wind and leaden sky.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Trying to relax over the holidays, I keep encountering extreme violence: yesterday, a Richard III doc showing death by multiple head & body wounds; today reading Alfred Russell Wallace describe hunting/wounding/killing/skinning 16 orang-utans in grotesque detail. What a dismal species we are!

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A quiet year, all-in, but I’m still turning up and learning. #hinterland

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... Will watch this with interest. Cash transfers have a decent evidence base, and arguments against are ideological-cultural, resorting to poor law stereotypes of the feckless poor.

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Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty

Led by King’s College London, study will recruit 360 people in England and Wales to explore benefits of scheme

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Manchester doing its thing on my morning walk this week.

Sunrise over a green-framed building in Manchester

Sun on the old quad, university of Manchester

A Manchester Met building in the Sun, Oxford Rd

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you’re going to fall for a phishing scam, falling for your own Uni’s false ‘cautionary tale’ scam isn’t a bad one. Sadly, I instantly forgot my new pw & spent 36hrs locked out. I got back in just in time to speak at an online meeting in Chennai. Am left reflecting how amazing yet fragile IT is.

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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

After migrating last week, I thought I'd better make my first post to avoid being mistaken for a bot. I've found starter packs to be very useful and, for what seems the first time in years, have a feed that is full of interest & basic good will. Long may it continue. Thanks everyone for the follows.

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