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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just finished Juliet E Mckenna’s 9th Green Man book. I love that, despite being ready to take on supernatural beasts, Dan drives carefully & worries about getting the stains out of his clothes! Was also inspired to reread Sam Ottewill- Soulsby’s “City of Dog”. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Had no idea that watching the removal of barnacles would be so engrossing! 🧵

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Compare and contrast.

Photo: Four police officers carrying an elderly woman
More than 500 people arrested at Palestine Action protest in London
Arrests and detentions took place at first mass demo since group's ban was ruled unlawful by high court
More than 500 people have been arrested at the first mass demonstration opposing the proscription of Palestine Action since the group's ban was ruled unlawful by the high court.

"The ‘spontaneous’ protest was broken up by midday on Saturday and no arrests were made"
Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters
Up to 500 activists dressed in black brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He’s talking about other people, isn’t he?

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"When given access to a well structured large historical dataset" Oh, so in other words when someone else has already done the research for it?

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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This idiotic tweet reminds me of when a friend and I visited Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Founded in 1850, it reveals a fascinating history. We noticed how many gravestones were for infants. And for many young sibling dying in the same week. We realized that it was before vaccines and antibiotics.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You know you’re old when you live on a hill, with a great view, but when someone asks if you saw the fireworks, you have to say that you only heard them vaguely because it was past your bedtime …

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Used to get my IB Diploma students exploring the world of Charles M Schulz. He had something to say about most things that were important.

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Straight talking honesty about immigration, racism & Brexit. Now wouldn’t that be something?

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

But what books did they choose?

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is why memorials are so important. They're the closest to feeling history which is essential for learning from it. We all learn best from our own experience, like a child told not to touch the hot stove & doing it nonetheless. The sight, sounds, atmosphere of memorials is the closest we get.

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Read this & wonder why any debate about smartphones seems always to focus on the behaviour of young people.

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Rosamond McKitterick passed away over the weekend. She was a leading historian of the Early Middle Ages. This piece from The Historians' Sketchpad offers a thoughtful and personal remembrance of her salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a... #medievalists

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A Scholarly and a Moral Education: Remembering Rosamond McKitterick

Photo of Rosamond McKitterick, taken by the author on 1 February 2020 overlooking the Forum at Rome. Rosamond McKitterick died on Saturday 13th June 2026. As a sentence, that’s easy to write and im…

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Gustav Zamore @gzamore.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A beautiful tribute.

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Deeply saddened by this news. Her scholarship lives on, but there will be a presence missing in the lives of so many.

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Hello BlueSky, I’m having a lovely day. First some shopping in #Ventimiglia and then a pizza in #Bordighera.

A collection of shopping bags have been set down on the pavement and falling over them is a shadow silhouette of a woman wearing a hat.

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

Cover of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Love this whole thread! So many special memories of reading to my 3 kids (7 years between oldest &.youngest) individually & together. Like reading Eva Ibbotson’s Journey to the River Sea to them during a very rainy camping holiday.

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Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A man at a meeting I attended recently made a big deal about how his office door doesn't say "Professor", just his name, and that's how he encourages healthy research culture. I pointed out that that works for him because, unlike me, he probably won't be mistaken for his own secretary.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

When the plane has high standards for your inflight reading.

Photo of back of seat on a plane with the words ‘Literature Only’ written on it.

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Self-medicating. Don’t judge me.

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“Elementary, my dear Dachshund!”

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

[Ed:be careful:he flails] cracks me up every time!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The world of medieval studies is vast and that the bits of the literature you’re familiar with will be shaped by what you work on, where and with whom you were trained and employed, and what languages you can use. The giants in your solar system will be distant stars for many of your colleagues.

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

thinking about the gould quote again

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Stephen Jay Gould
evolutionary biologist and author,
died May 20, 2002

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Apparently I’m a bot! My mind is blown!

Someone with “25+ years’ experience“ was sure a photo posted of a Morgan car was AI generated. When I replied that it wasn’t, “evidence” was supplied. But I was there, I protested! This is apparently untrue because my father met a poodle in Paris called Thais & named me after it.

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

#Easter & #Passover overlap as US-Israel war on #Iran rages & religion is harnessed for & against the campaign. Is it becoming an un-holy war? #thisweekthosebooks has context from 2 books by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby & TariqAli of @newleftreview.bsky.social thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/good-god-p...

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Leah-thais @leah-thais.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Do we think these 6 men in suits had a moment’s thought about taking up all that foreground space & confining the women they were “celebrating” into a tiny area behind them?

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This chimpanzee civil war would make such a great case study for a course on international relations, thinking about the role played by geography, historical ties, structures of power and organisation, changing personalities and simple bad luck in causing a murderous conflict 1/2

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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

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