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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 13h

Oh god the cat's copying famous pictures again

Andrew Wyeth, 'Christina's World' (1948)

Merrill the cat lying in an odd position

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PLEASE GATHER ALL OF MY EVIDENCE

Guardian headline: "No. 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... A brilliant piece. "The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship."

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wyatt promises that he will find the person who has been chewing the shower tube, no matter who it is

A thoughtful dark brown cat is sitting a little awkwardly under the tube for a shower head

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Made the error of opening the fridge

An athletic and glossy dark brown cat is poised on the bottom shelf of the fridge, examining the contents

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feeling a bit annoyed with the airport security guy who confiscated my folding corkscrew. I mean I suppose you could stab someone with it, but only if they were willing to hold still while you turned it several times

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading a Reacher set in Texas, and as a little European I simply cannot get my head round exchanges like "Is there somewhere to get coffee around here?", "Yes, I know a place about an hour away"

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The folk protest music scene is back

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chances that this dusty bric-a-brac shop window in Toledo contains a magical figurine that will swap souls between bodies: approx 30%

Dusty shop window, unlit, showing a series of weird bits and pieces. If you zoom in, some are genuinely creepy little animal sculptures

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This for me is the epitome of holiday photo. We ditched the suitcases and within ten minutes were mainlinng beer+papal palace ftw

The papal palace in Avignon, viewed over a table holding two frothy pints of lager

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Warm-blooded not the same as empathic, confirm scientists

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Could anything be more satisfying than hole-punching cardboard boxes with your canines?

Brown cat in a box caught in the act of biting through the lid. He looks a bit feral. There are perforations all along

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Ed Sheeran Tour latest

Partridge: I might as well say this now, Sue Cook has pulled out.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am so profoundly sorry to hear of the death of Julia Boffey. A wonderful person; a brilliant scholar; she was unendingly kind and good and large-hearted.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just did three hours straight of filming talking head to camera and when I got up they looked a bit worried and asked if I needed biscuits (I needed a beer)

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The cats tipped the sodding muesli all over the floor and now ... they're eating it

Muesli scattered everywhere with two cats tucking in

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New series of #InOurTime starts 17 September with a discussion of More's "Utopia" Fantastic panel- @lauraashe.bsky.social @drjoannepaul.bsky.social and Cathy Shrank BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia share.google/Y0vqfquGZEgH...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia

How the description of a fictional island has fascinated readers for centuries.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So I'm going to bed and I've got into bed and am halfway down but applying moisturiser and taking tablets and whatnot and then the cats just come and curl up on me exactly where I am and now I can't move until they have a fight at 5am

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We went to Les Halles fish market. We bought him. HE WILL MEVER FORGIVE US

Array of dourade royale (gilt head bream)

Close up on one massively pissed off gilt head bream

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When you're the pope but you're pretty sure someone's going to show up with an army

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm sorry but we can't have robot hunting dogs until we at least have flying cars. Future dystopias had cool stuff too and I am disappointed with this one

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Heading out for dinner in Collioure

Me looking happy on a cobbled pretty street

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Boats. Boats look nice. I know nothing about boats.

Port Vendres harbour in the morning. Little boats. Sunrise.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Better than the glass half full/empty: The ABBA Test "Anybody could be that guy" = "Any one of them could be my soulmate!" vs "Literally anyone will do"

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So we had a tyre blow out on the motorway and couldn't make it across to the hard shoulder so had to stop in the fast lane (!) and be rescued by the police (!) after a petrifying half hour of watching people approach very fast in the rear view mirror And I feel astonishingly lucky and very grateful

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

why are the media reporting a robot 'broke usain bolts record' its a fucking robot what next are you gonna report on an M1A2 abrams tank winning at shot putt

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

While Relaxing In Their Gattio, Local Cats Discover They Are Being Photographed

A brown and a golden cat sitting on a shelf in the sun

A brown and a golden cat staring at you in horror

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Godstow Abbey still killing it 900 years later

Shot of the remaining wall with window apertures in the sun

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So it's going to turn out he leaves the USA to Harp in his will?

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Brown cat says he can do this too

Brown cat lying on his back with legs in the air

Brown cat in a ridiculous stretched pose on a blue sofa

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Three ways of enjoying a chair, mindfully

Golden cat looking noble on a blue chair

Golden cat looking silly on his back on a blue chair

Golden cat looking blissfully asleep on a blue chair

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Congratulations to Professor Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social who has been awarded the New #Chaucer Society's 2026 Publication Prize for her book 'Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy' (OUP 2025).

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Professor Laura Ashe awarded New Chaucer Society’s 2026 Publication Prize

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Mum takes a picture of me on the beach. I am the Shadow. I will vanish without trace. The police will never find me

Me in silhouette standing on a beach with the sun behind me

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Norfolk coastal path run this morning

Thornham old (?)boathouse in the salt marsh, sun rising behind

View of the beach at Thornham looking toward the rising sun

Boardwalk with pinewoods to the right, scrub, beach and sea to the left; sun rising behind

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Occasionally someone will ask "how do they know those shelves are for them?" and as any cat owner knows, that's really not the issue

Two cats curled up on a cat/bookshelf fixed to a wall

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The river towpath is currently bursting with fruiting blackberry bushes; hundreds of people pass by every day, and I for one always stop and take a handful of blackberries to eat. But I keep seeing people with bags and boxes systematically stripping the bushes and ... I think that's out of order?

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

On the Eurostar wondering if it's weird that the quickest way I can tell if it's Normandy or Kent is the shape of the electricity pylons

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Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Looking forward to new proposals! And thank you to @lauraashe.bsky.social for taking on the editorial, and all the board members [including @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social!].

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