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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

End of week 2. Moving like a tortoise, full of rigor mortis.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Read all about the occult afterlife of ancient mystery cults in a piece by me and the magical @mjpcuervo.com

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cover image by Faallaway, with design by Sam Freeman. Words by Nick Freeman, @kjsoar.bsky.social, @mjpcuervo.com, @pjrobichaud.bsky.social, Thomas Waters, @verityholloway.bsky.social and @englishheretic.bsky.social. Edited by @mjpcuervo.com 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No Outlook, I do not want or need you to summarise my daily emails. I am, almost, a functioning adult and can read and then forget to reply all by myself.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What the actual...? How is this legal?!

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The theme song for Dark Towers really was a banger. As ever, hats off to Derek Griffiths www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGlQ...

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Dark Towers theme tune (1980)

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ah, thank you! It's 'South Italy, England and Elysium in the Eighteenth Century', Alastair Small, Carola Small The Antiquaries Journal 79, 301-345, 1999

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Finally got around to seeing The Odyssey. The Laestrygonians scene was a total homage to Boorman's Excalibur, right?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Spending annual leave wisely

Photo of a cross stitch showing a woman and a horned figure standing by a fire, with the phrase 'you had your qualms?!'. From Widow's Bay, episode 4

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is the only historically accurate Helen I will accept

Helen of Troy as a duck, from Disney's DuckTales TV series

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Good point, I'll get on it

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

'Why is my anxiety so bad?' I wonder, as I put down a horror novel to sip my 7th coffee of the day and watch the news

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Recharge. Reassess. Regroup. Reenchant. Resist. Thank you @cultauthor.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026

Has Westminster just given up on education and learning? All of these courses seem pretty essential to a functioning society. England is in real trouble.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What horror movie image haunts you? (Although this is not a movie, it's probably the saddest and most haunting scene I've watched)

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's the wine cellar at Waddeson Manor for those of you who like to multitask

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Scheduling snafus happen to the best of us

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The perfect room for when you accidentally schedule the wine tasting and the demonic invocation for the same evening

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Not only is it a terrible way to look at education, it’s also meaningless. It doesn’t include which university the person went to - I am willing to bet most Oxbridge graduates and the privately educated get higher wages, no matter which subject they take, through uni and school networks.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Kids are on their phones too much. I don't know why they don't use the many youth clubs, public swimming pools, community clubs or sports facilities successive governments and skint local authorities have underfunded, closed or sold to property developers.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you need a smile today, here is a video of Abu going to the beach for the very first time

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's quite subtle. Odd. Not unpleasant.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Chasing the coffee down with these Kit Kats that friends brought us back from Japan. Think they're raspberry, matcha, and wasabi. I'll find out soon I guess

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thought it was friday, it's actually thursday. Celebrating this small win with a coffee. How's your week going?

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'm so sorry, thinking of you all x

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A depressing but essential read

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...

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Barn Storm

It is not often I get angry, but a recent encounter with a standing stone has really annoyed – and shocked me. I am pretty used to prehistory being badly treated, and indeed a whole chapter o…

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I don't know what's in the water, but this seems to have been the term from hell for everyone. Hug.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And you have to write so much on each OU assignment as sometimes that's the only communication you have with a student. Because of the OU I write fairly extensive comments - both a blessing and a curse 😀

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Yep, but I got a fractional upgrade midway through the year, starting immediately, so mine had to be adapted pretty much overnight. Should be more settled next year 🤞

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In non-work stuff, please enjoy this photo of Abu at the temple of Nodens

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

[adding up on fingers...] 4? One of them has two assignments, and for another there were presentations before the final submission. There may be more, there's certainly some moderation too - my brain is porridge right now

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Fabulous! Also, I should be marking, but I've been reading the Secret History of the World instead 😀

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I should also add that I teach across disciplines, so that may be a reason too

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Some of it is my module, where I'm the sole lecturer and marker. Others are team-taught modules, essentially marking the parts I taught, or the tutorial group I was assigned. One I seem to have ended up doing it all, due to workload/staffing changes. I think that's all, but my brain is scrambled!

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It certainly feels it! But I was wondering how it stacked up in general.

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Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

'Good' to know this is standard (although not good at all really)

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