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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 12h

Just watched the Rossellini Flowers of St Francis in honour of the day. If you haven’t seen it, do.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy feast of St Francis on the 800th anniversary of his death.

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chris Rock being both laughably wrong and disturbingly antisemitic about the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One day everyone will always have been against this. Including the Guardian.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was away for two days on a research trip. As you might imagine much of my morning today has been taken up with deleting emails.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm working theologically on hope as a current side project. I think hope is urgently needed in our apparently hopeless world. It is precisely for this reason that I stand utterly opposed to the hopewashing that we are seeing from Britain's governing party.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(sigh) IF IT'S CAPPED, THEN IT'S NOT A SAFE ROUTE

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's an annoying tendency in contemporary Catholic thought to claim that contemporary society is 'relativist'. Things are vastly more complicated than that. And there are plenty of people who could do with recognising that some of their truth-claims are relative.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it too early to post 'Burnham out!'?

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham has just given Reform a massive boost.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First supervision with a visiting PhD student working on Wittgenstein. There is hope!

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I continue to find this bizarre as well as deeply dubious given that Suella Braverman is not a Christian. (That’s not a No True Scotsman, she’s a Buddhist).

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fun teaching contextual theology this afternoon. This module could help me to work out what I think about the subject matter!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 27/09/2026

Our members at Edinburgh University are on strike over outrageous cuts. Here at Labour Party Conference we heard from students who stood in solidarity with our members in a huge rally this week. Inspiring.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I commented on this “partnership” already, and this is not good news. Keep commercially acting AI firms out of our cultural heritage.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My controlling Marxist take on HE is that we are commodity producers, helping to produce the complex labour-power of our students. We should therefore in our teaching help students see, through the beauty of their subjects, that they are worth a lot more than this.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tidying study and found book on Wittgenstein and religion that I urgently need to read. Result. Even if it's not the most exciting way to spend a weekend.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reading a PhD student’s work. One of the most rewarding bits of my job.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meh. Permitting any use of AI works against those of us who will not use it for ethical purposes. Anyway, to be a little harsh, academics should be able to write.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last working day before teaching term starts!

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

35 years to the day since Nevermind was released. Imagine an alternate timeline where 59 year old Kurt Cobain is being required to promote a new deluxe edition on his Instagram and make appearances on TikTok shows.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the other, more substantive, hand: if what these folks mean by contrasting the academy with "the real world" is that the academy has a different ethos than, say, many for-profit employment settings, then ... YES!

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Making slides for a talk at St Andrews next month. It's about claims such as "God is not an object".

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of people have to do lots of work. MPs are paid very well, in part to write speeches. Let them do that or face criticism.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I've mentioned, I'm writing an article on the reception of Wittgenstein by 20th century British Catholics. I'm going to say something about the Slant authors: their engagement with Marx is rightly widely recognised, but there's an awful lot of Wittgenstein in the mix as well.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Catholic moral theology marks a distinction between killing and letting die. This is sometimes misinterpreted as meaning that letting die is very often OK. In fact it relatively rarely is. And letting refugees drown at sea is not one of the exceptions.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starting work this afternoon on a paper on the reception of Wittgenstein by British Catholics in the 20th century.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 23/09/2026

A lot of reporting on drinks spiking today because it‘s freshers‘ week across most universities. Sadly, the reporting is dodging the key social issue: that it‘s overwhelmingly men spiking drinks. The root problem is male violence & male entitlement, & the social forces that promotes those things.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is sort of interesting that the second you start mainlining AI stuff you turn into a "woke neoMarxist postmodernist humanities professors are all knowingly lying to you" guy

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t LIKE feeling like only fire from heaven can cleanse this place, not least because I am conscious that I too am a sinner, but I am increasingly feeling that way.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know that bit in the Gospels where Christ says that if anyone causes a child to stumble,* it would be better for them to have a millstone tied round their neck and drowned in the sea? Well. * Matt 18:6

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The people responsible for this are in grave danger of hell.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why are grown adults consenting to referring to somebody as ‘Danny Tommo’? It sounds like either a bad kids’ TV character or a middle-class fantasy of a working class name. Either way enough.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The pub at which we held our UCU social just now was rammed with freshers and became 1-in-1-out soon after we arrived. I felt cooler than I have in years.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Didn’t Catholics get the memo that Matthew the apostle and ‘Matthew’ the evangelist are pretty much certainly distinct people? The continued elision is weird and doesn’t speak well of the reception of biblical scholarship.

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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When Plato derides the teaching of dialectics to young men lest it inadvertently lead to lawlessness (Res Publica VII 537c-539d) was he prophesizing the rise of right wing podcast bros just asking questions?

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My but these people are tedious.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Looking at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s latest bellicose pronouncement reminds me of one of my more surprising views: you cannot have a duty to a nation - nations are simply not the right sort of thing to legitimately have a claim to duties.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading around the continuity or otherwise between the Tractatus and the Investigations. This matters wrt the legitimacy of my deploying both in my book on Wittgenstein and theology.

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Simon Hewitt @leedshewitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is notable that economic justice doesn’t get a mention here. Thus centrism,

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can we make a comparison to deindustrailisation now? The slashing of wages, the redundancies, the subordination of learning to profit? The intellectual impoverishment of communities and generations, not to mention the literal impoverishment through unemployment and shrinking of local economies?

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