iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

And if you say that these are not by "the state" - well what are police? They are the gatekeepers of the state.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Really delighted to see that my introduction to a Literature & Theology special forum on how we engage with fascist thinkers in the field is now available on advanced access: academic.oup.com/litthe/advan...

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Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology

Abstract. The introduction to the special forum on Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology reviews the history of the journal's engagement with the

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

**early modern spectacle**

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’ve put together a fall syllabus drawn from more than five decades of scholarship in the Journal of Palestine Studies & our digital encyclopedia, PalQuest. Use it to build a course, anchor a thesis, or simply read more deeply this semester. #BackToSchoolWithIPS

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remembering that there’s at least two direct lines between James Orr and an overtly fascist bookshop (how, precisely, did Roger Scruton’s personal library end up there? Who controls the Roger Scruton Trust? How did Orr end up giving a lecture on its premises?)

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great thread on what looks like a great paper. To paraphrase Public Enemy, “damn right I’m polarized! I got a right to be polarized!”

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Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been working on this for a while about pastors who see the racism and antisemitism of America's past as a feature, not a bug. Meet the Jim Crow Theobros religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...

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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"EirGrid is pausing elements of the work required to change operational policy which is necessary to integrate more renewables on the electricity system." CRU clearly stating that data centre demand on the grid is directing capacity away from decarbonisation (and cheaper household bills).

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Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! 2 Research Fellows to investigate the power of religion in extractive industry struggles - focusing on Brazil or the USA, as part of RAIDS Application deadline Nov 5th, 2026 Full information: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/soci...

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Religious Authority in Extractive Industry Struggles (RAIDS)

The global rush for minerals often overlooks religious authority, which is a hidden force shaping local resistance and corporate power. The ERC-funded RAIDS project aims to explore how religion serves...

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking forward to this conference on Ecologies of the Afterlife in Bloemfontein, 4-6 November:

Conference poster: Conference: "Ecologies of the Afterlife: Perspectives from Theology and Philosophy"
Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Religion, Community and Ecologies (CIRRCE) and the Department of Philosophy and Classics.
🗓 Date: 4–6 November
📍 Location: HMS10, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein Campus
Engage with leading scholars as they delve into the intersections of theology, ecology, and philosophy and their relevance for the study of the afterlife.
Spaces are limited, so be sure to secure your spot by emailing: ullrichcd@ufs.ac.za.

There remains a significant lacuna in contemporary afterlife studies. Academic discussions of “the beyond” are too often constrained by scientism and physicalism, leaving little space for other ways of knowing and imagining. It is time for the humanities and theology – with their distinct methods, histories, and ecological sensibilities – to loosen this paradigm and engage more fully with questions of the afterlife, finitude, and the more-than-human world.

This call to broaden the conversation is not intended to oppose scientific inquiry; indeed, all renewed attention to the afterlife and to life’s limits is to be welcomed. Rather, our aim is to move beyond the conceptual blinkers imposed by narrowly materialist frameworks, and to open the field to a plurality of perspectives. The study of the beyond – understood cosmologically, theologically, or ecologically – is not the property of any single discipline. Multiple approaches can and should coexist, intersect, and enrich one another.

We therefore invite theologians, philosophers, historians, literary scholars, and researchers across the humanities to re-appropriate and reimagine the afterlife and the beyond as vital sites for philosophical, theological, and eco-critical reflection. Contributions that explore the intersections of theology, ecology, and the more-than-human world are especially welcome, as are those that reconsider how notions of life, death, and renewal might be understood within broader cosmic, cultural, or spiritual contexts.

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Basically it's just straight up Christian triumphalism but conveyed in a way that makes it seem lovely and appealing instead of domineering and universalizing

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is it with Oxford historians and wild misreadings of Edward Said (from Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads and Noel Malcolm's Useful enemies) (don't worry I know what it is)

Screenshot of text which reads: "In part, this is because of what has been called ‘orientalism’ – the strident and overwhelmingly negative view of the east as undeveloped and inferior to the west, and therefore unworthy of serious study"

Screenshot of text: "Again and again, what they show is active—even,
creative—engagement with their Islamic or Ottoman subject matter as part of a larger pursuit of religious and political arguments within their own culture. The Eastern material was not there to be beaten down, as Said imagined, into conformity with complacent Western attitudes; often it was used to shake things up, to provoke, to shame, to galvanize."

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pink is a good word but it's sad that we lost 'incarnate'

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*tearing my own hair out* the word satellite is older than the COLOUR PINK in the english language

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dan Simmons have hated Islam but his novels clearly express the longing for a Catholic-Shia alliance which will save us from ourselves. In this essay I will

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Emmytation @emmytation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

recently reading the Infancy Gospel of Thomas because I couldn't remember all of Little Kid Jesus's curses:

. And the teacher flattered him, brought him into the school, and Zacchaeus wrote the alphabet for him and began to teach him, saying the same letter frequently. But the child didn’t answer him.

And the teacher became irritated and struck him on the head.

And the child became irritated and said to him, “I want to teach you rather than be taught by you, since I know the letters you’re teaching more accurately. To me these things are like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal that don’t bring out the sound, nor the glory, nor the power of understanding.”

(9) When the child’s anger ceased, he said all the letters by himself, from the alpha to the omega, very skillfully. And looking straight at the teacher he said, “If you don’t know the nature of the alpha, how can you teach another the beta? Hypocrite! If you know, first teach me the alpha, and then I will trust you to speak of the beta.” Then he began to teach the teacher about the first element. And he couldn’t say anything to him.

10) While many listened, he said to the teacher, “Listen, Teacher, and understand the arrangement of the first element. Now, notice how it has sharp lines and a middle stroke, which you see pointing, standing with legs apart, coming together, going out, dragging behind, lifting up, dancing around, <…>, in triple rhythm, two-cornered, of the same form, of the same thickness, of the same family, raised, balanced, isometric, of equal proportions. These are the lines of the alpha.”

Chapter 7: Zacchaeus’ Lament

(1) When the teacher heard such good familiarity (and) such lines of the first letter Jesus talked about, he was baffled by such teaching and his defense. And the teacher said, “Woe is me! Woe is me! I’ve been baffled and am miserable. I’ve brought shame on myself, taking on this child.

(2) “Take (him) away from me, brother

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Myself, Seán Fearon and Pat Brodie have published a report today examining the exaggerated benefits and significant costs of data centres to Ireland. Below is a short thread on some of the key takeaways. Read the full report here: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21... 1/6

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 22/09/2026

Andy Burnham is set to support Saudi Arabia's barbaric bombing campaign in Yemen. Yemen has already faced one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with famine, cholera outbreaks and the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. This is a shameful decision.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*horrific racist fascist blackshirt actions* UK gov official: first of all, they are correct in their beliefs, however they should trust us to enact the violence and racism, can’t they see how good we are at it Burnham on tiktok : hey kids check out this barm! What am i like eyy up

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

ME: i just feel like you're always bringing your work home with you GUARD WHO TELLS ONLY LIES: no I'm not

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there is no sensible reason why a 5 year spouse visa cost us a little over fourteen grand. none whatsoever. and that's before you break it down to the addition of renewals every 30 months, the health surcharge, the endless price hikes, the final kick in the teeth for ILR (three grand! to settle!)

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The Good Road" by Carlota McAllister situates Guatemala’s early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/5rm5G8l

over of The Good Road: A K’iche’ Revolutionary Theopolitics by Carlota McAllister. The cover features a mural of a red truck carrying a group of people with two people behind it pushing. The title is in white serif letters across the center. A red background fades upward into the photograph. The subtitle is in smaller white serif text beneath the title, below is a dotted line then the author’s name in pale yellow italics.

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divyabot @thedivyabot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bet on Palestinian life. This is a quick way to give to the most stagnant fund I host. Everything is documented transparently. tiny.cc/divyafunds @divyampersaud.com

An artistic graphic decorated with paint brushstrokes and stickers of roses, with the text Stagnant Fund Support and tiny.cc/divyafunds

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 17/09/2026

having to know about the sex lives of the worst and most annoying people to understand why computer discourse bad is just one of the great indignities of our times

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reading about Janissaries who seem to have been a really odd hybrid of slaves and public school kids; slavery without social death?

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majsaleh @majsaleh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Troubles, but both sides are the loyalists.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us

Painting of snaking flowering brown tendrils of human hairs with blue human eyes stashed on the unfinished head of a figure with only the eyes and brows partially painted in, the rest of the face sketched out in pale pencil but almost invisible

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A pattern i've noticed since working on opening a radical bookshop: Troskyites get in touch to donate books while Stalinists get in touch to sell you books.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

White British people are going to be really surprised when it turns out that the Perfidious Turk can fill in the forms required to register for this and this doesn't magically turn every barber white.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Shocking development from a European leader who has never seen a genocidal regime indiscriminately slaughtering Muslims that she didn’t love

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seldondance.bsky.social @seldondance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hallucinated citations don't just err — they route credit to names that already carry it. Confabulation reproduces hierarchy. Verification is how the periphery gets heard. #machinelearning #ai seldondance.substack.com/p/the-conj…

The Conjecture Engine — Seldondance essay card (The AI Existentialist series)

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

at this weird age (43) where everyone in their 20s looks like a child and everyone my age is middle-aged. except me, i’m normal age

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Manchester Cathedral @mancathedral.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A message from the Dean: I am saddened to inform you that Canon Andrew Shanks passed away yesterday after a short illness. He served as our distinguished Canon Theologian for many years at Manchester Cathedral 1/2

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Extremely funny article, Lammy probably doesn't even realise how revealing statements like this are about the taken-for-granted born-to-rule attitude of the Labour Party towards their constituents www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ve been dabbling in Rowan Williams recently and increasingly suspect that he’s as evil as Milbank but much more dangerous precisely because he doesn’t sound so evil

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