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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Earlier this year, I had job interviews at unis in different European countries, and they all noted the increase in applicants from Britain. I am now happily employed in Denmark, together with several UK colleagues who are also glad to be out of the country. But it is a sad development.

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah, it's hard work when events run away from you/your research. All the best with it!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think from a discourse perspective, both PMs are very interesting to look at. Especially in a multimodal study. Burnham possibly sounds more upbeat and positive in comparison to Starmer. Body language different too?

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Any way it can be turned into a retrospective, a look at why he failed etc and how Burnham may be different or how he needs to be to succeed?

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah, that's a big blow for player and club. Upto 3 months out?

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What's perhaps most impressive is that they're still able to edit it post-death. Journalism is brutal!

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The Sweeper Podcast @sweeperpod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🗣️ We are really proud to be the only football podcast out there that covers EVERY country in the entire world, bringing you stories from all 211 FIFA member nations and beyond. And we’re now making two free episodes a week! If you haven’t tuned in yet, give us a try! ⤵️

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Perhaps. Would passengers prefer riding an autonomous bus to one driven by a foreign bus driver? 🤔 I do wonder!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's a tough one alright. Especially in J League, where it is accepted practice for bigger clubs to nab a player doing well after only 6-12 months. Just look at Kumamoto. Feels like small clubs are being punished for bringing through lots of talented players. :(

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

...but I don't feel too bad about the moves because they're a bit older now and we managed to keep them for 2-3 years. I assume we got a transfer fee for both too. It also helps that we didn't lose 4 or 5 other key players in the same window! (We play each other this weekend. 😱)

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Iwaki's strategy as a club is laudable but it does seem like you need to be an Ōmiya with rich owners to be able to hold onto your bright prospects and add a few older gamechangers/foreigners. Akita have just lost Morooka (29) to Kyoto & Sato (27) to Iwata...

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd probably advise against pulling a float that fast around a bend but what do I know...🤔😳

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What would be a close translation, I wonder. "Excuse me"? Still a bit weird! 😅

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tokyo is the new Akita. 😆 Weirdly, we have had a lot more sunny days in the past 18 months than usual. It hasn't rained/snowed as much either.

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh nigh on impossible unless you're a tiny institution with fewer than a hundred students. 😅

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Foreign babies were 2% of all newborns in 2018. In 2025, the figure rose to 3.3%. The prefectures with the highest rates of foreign newborns are Gunma (7.5%), Aichi (5.3%), Chiba (5.2%), Saitama (5.2%) and Gifu (5.2%). www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Graphic accompanying Nikkei article. Top is a map of Japan, with prefectures coloured according to the percentage of foreign babies among newborns. Four categories are over 5%, 3-5%, 1-3% and less than 1%.

Lower left is the breakdown of nationalities in the foreign population as of 2024, showing the main four. Chinese top at 25.4, followed by 16.8 Vietnamese, 11.5% Korean and 9.1% Filipino. Remainder is all other nationalities.

Lower right is the graph showing percentage of foreign babies among newborns along with the annual totals.

Percentage of newborns by prefecture. Gunma easily top at 7.5%, Aomori bottom at 0.3%

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE SHOOT MAN AND LEAVE HIM LYING IN THE STREET Does that work? 🧐 Fairly tragic the kind of hedging they engage in when it shouldn't matter whether it was "mistaken" or not. They shot someone.

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Didn't record labels often pay them to run around screaming, crying etc? It happened in Sinatra's early days with the bobby-soxers. Some were genuine but it was also common practice to hire a few girls to draw attention to acts.

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Does make me chuckle (darkly) when people say they're worried about a rise in foreigners as they won't understand Japan's laws/rules. I see several drivers break numerous laws every day. Looking at their phones while driving, going through a red light, speeding....🤔🧐

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think Akita have had this strategy for the last few seasons. We have just about the smallest wage budget in J2 so can't have a bloated squad without it being JFL level. 😆 2nd/3rd-choice keeper is a loan from a bigger club etc.

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excellent work! Sorry if I've missed this but when will it be out?

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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies has been submitted. This edition has 44 chapters, plus the introduction. [Phew] My chapter on Fascist Discourse is thoroughly rewritten (partly to reflect the last 10 years...) with Prof. Cinzia Padovani.

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes I see guys flick a couple of fingers under the tap then walk off. Like, what's the point?! You may as well just wash them properly if you're gunna go to the trouble of pretending??? Baffling behaviour.

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Jim Rion・ライオンジミー @jimrion.com · 18/09/2026

😭😭😭 "Uketsu also credited American translator Jim Rion with helping the English edition find success. "I think the excellent quality of Jim Rion's translation also played a part in the success of the English edition and its selection as a Dagger finalist," he said."

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Mystery man Uketsu reflects on Dagger shortlist, early life in Britain - The Mainichi

LONDON (Kyodo) -- If you've ever seen Japanese horror novelist Uketsu -- who wears a stark white mask and full black bodysuit -- chances are you'd nev

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Pascual Pérez-Paredes @perez-paredes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excited to have recorded a new episode for the TELSIG podcast, University of York. It's been so much fun to talk about corpus linguistics against the backdrop of AI. Thanks Phil Martin for having me in your podcast. Out soon. #corpuslinguistics #AI #language #technology

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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

open.spotify.com/episode/4Vke... This week I welcomed Dr. Christopher Nicklin to @in_citations podcast to talk about mixed effects models in vocabulary research. Other topics: Chris’ upcoming stats textbook Oil painting Coordinating at Temple University It was a fun conversation 1/3

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#205 - Nicklin, C., McLean, S., & Vitta, J. P. (2026). Contrasting fixed- and mixed-effects modeling in vocabulary research. Language Learning, 76(1), 211–248.

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Dr Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lovely Tuesday morning news - new paper accepted in Journal of Gender Studies with @alexiconartist.bsky.social, @veronikakoller.bsky.social & @markmcglashan.com about how the metaphor of "the wall" is used and contested in and around the manosphere. Watch this space!

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A rare bit of monolingual Japanese signage in the university campus #LinguisticLandscape of Seoul, with this message welcoming visitors from a Japanese university, I believe!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Students from Tokushima Prefecture (on the island of Shikoku). Funnily enough, I watched my football team Blaublitz Akita beat their team 4-1 last Saturday night. 😂

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ahhh, we have the same in Akita. 😅 Cruise tourism has exploded in the past few years. We could do with a lot more mind!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let's hope he can do better than that selfish effort at the end when others were better placed to have a go. I think there's a big gap between J1 and J2 that often gets ignored. Look at how Nagasaki and S Pulse are also pretty low down. They were filthy rich in J2!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shimane! I lived in Tsuwano for three years a couple of decades ago. A lovely place that I think has increased tourist numbers since I left but it must be challenging maintaining a tourist industry with a swiftly-falling working population.

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hi! It was great to finally meet you after a few years online. Really enjoyed the conference and hope to see you at another one in future. Good luck with your research!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who could have guessed that wanting to increase tourists by multiple millions while not improving the infrastructure could lead to problems...😳🙄

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

High quality foreign forwards playing against (often) local defenders of lower quality so fouls more likely in the box? 🤔

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J2審判・スタメン情報【β版】 @j2referee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

【J2第6節】秋田x徳島ソユースタジアム (18:00KO) 主審：上原直人副審：川崎秋仁／宮原一也四審：阿部将茂監督：【秋田】吉田謙【徳島】吉本岳史 DAZN：【実況】飛世直樹【解説】柴村直弥【リポーター】太田碧 #秋田徳島 www.jleague.jp/match/j2/2026/091209

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sounds like a gangster threat 😅 Hope he does well for you. You've had really bad luck with injuries. It seems ominous but you never know!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's a professional footballer with legs. Be grateful for what you can get! 😆

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At the APCLC2026 conference in Toyama. Enjoyed presenting my pilot study into immigration in the Japanese press yesterday. #corpuslinguistics #pressdiscourse #immigration #toyama

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My advice? Stick with the penguin! Surely they can afford the licensing fees...

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh great. See you there! Enjoy Kitakyushu. I love Kyushu and want to explore more of it!

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Martin Spivey @martintesol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Are you heading to APCLC next week in Toyama? I'll be giving a poster presentation.

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