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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك

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More moustache than man. Former flâneur in the Middle East. #ActuallyAutistic Now a Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/people/academic… One of 'those' followers of walterpater.com

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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This novel is just so whacky as to be fabulous and we're definitely going to do it on my new module from January, 'Exploring Egypt in British Literature and Culture', @qmul.bsky.social @c19qmul.bsky.social #Egypt #Cleopatra #RiderHaggard
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's good that the London Library's signage involves clear spiritual direction
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Six Napoleons (20th August 1986). Lestrade pays Holmes a fulsome tribute.
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Annual reminder that readers interested in weird people like H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes, and Robert E. Howard might find my Twentieth-Century Literature article on 'Decadent Dinosaurs' relevant to their interests: read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-ce....
read.dukeupress.edu
Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s
Despite paying concerted attention to evolutionary mechanisms, literary scholars have rarely focused on forms of “directed evolution” like orthogenesis (evolution along a linear track) and phylogeront...
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
From Frances Hodgson Burnett's fantastic novel 'That Lass O'Lowries' (1877), the brutal reality of working class conditions and the situation of unmarried mothers. A really great read #booksky
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I wish news organisations, and yes, you too @theguardian.com , would stop showing videos of missiles hitting their targets. You're just feeding a lurid, man-child horror excitement need there (and doing PR work for those who fired them). People are probably dying in those videos. Please stop this.
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trying to look up references to Queen Boudicca and the area around Tiptree and all crappy #GoogleAI is constantly desperate to tell me about is the 'Tiptree Jam Visitors' Experience' and tea rooms.
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Is John Craven immortal? He seems to have been on telly forever... #countryfile
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Musical fly tipping. Someone has left a boxed set of junior bagpipes in our street. Luckily for my neighbours, I didn't possess the puff this morning
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Priory School (16th July 1986). Lord Saltire (the ten-year-old son of the Duke of Holdernesse) has disappeared. But Holmes is soon on the trail.
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#LifeGoals When my final moments come I hope I'm also able to sing an extempore 'Life Song' or 'Lay' before I expire. I tell you, it's gonna be epic.... From the death of Hallmund in the saga of 'Grettir the Outlaw' #Norse #NorseSagas #Iceland #Vikings #death
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The repetition & lack of creativity in adverts for Ai products is rather telling if you ask me
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Dinosaurs are looking mighty fine today
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This makes shocking reading. Over half of adults with learning difficulties do not live longer than 65. 'For the general population, that figure is 15%' #autism #Neurodiversity #actuallyautistic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Over half of adults with learning difficulties do not live past 65, report says
The government says the findings are stark, while a campaign group says they should be "headline news".
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is the world of AI s**t we're descending into. NO, AI-driven bookseller, this is NOT a book that gives 'a compelling exploration of the biblical Exodus story'. It's a Victorian historical novel set in the French Revolution. Wrong subject, wrong AI-Generated picture... #booksky #AIslop
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excellent review of Critical Texts vol. 74, a critical edition of George Chapman's The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense, in the latest issue of British and American Studies: bas-journal.ro/bas-32/
Pages from the edition. The book is open in the middle of the text of 'The Shadows of Night'
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Very happy to say that I'm now on study leave and finally I can get down to doing this!
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today's second-hand bookshop booty...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🔊 New volume in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament. Selected Short Stories', edited by Valerie Fehlbaum 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You gotta love football commentary: "He gets the ball and then he just keeps going!!!" Well, yeah, you'd hope so....
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Lovely visit to this small gem in Palma de Mallorca, Banys Arabs
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
'They used to rule the waves you know': said by a Spanish border official to his colleague (and to me) as he pointed at the hundreds of hapless Brits struck in a 2 hour passport queue at Palma airport yesterday. He stamped my passport and said, 'this is Brexit' #Brexit #britsonholiday
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
the coastline of Pembrokeshire is often beautifully, weirdly strange #Wales #Pembrokeshire #StDavids
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
For me one of the most perfect places in the world: St Davids #Wales
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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I had the best time at @humanists.uk‘s Festival of Humanism sharing the poetry of historical humanists, hearing about the power of poetry for humanists today & showing this unique scrapbook from @conwayhall.bsky.social‘s archive! Support Conway Hall: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/conway-hall
A photo of an open book crammed with overlapping cuttings of poetry taken from nineteenth century radical newspapers. Caption reads J. M. Wheeler, Freethought 
Readings and Secular Songs 
(1892), 828 WHE. Conway Hall Library. Plus a QR code to support Conway Hall via a crowdfunder
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Eeyore of the sea. A lonesome seal spotted this morning near Porthclais
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This devil crow either wants my soul or my lunch. Probably the former. It's been watching me like this for the best part of an hour.
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Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Welcome to BlueSky Walter Pater! @walterpatersociety.bsky.social
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Be an aesthete! Join the Walter Pater Society by subscribing to 'Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism'. Am slowly updating/changing the IWPS website... www.walterpater.com #walterpater
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
How about a computer-free day at work each week? What a release that would be... www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
The London school that has screen-free days for pupils, teachers – and parents
Holy Family Catholic primary school says enthusiastic response from parents has been biggest surprise
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Vertigo is a problem on the higher floors of the London library...
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A Very Peculiar Practice is on BBC iPlayer at the moment. Worth watching if you work at a university....eek
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Always a refuge, Tate Britain just after it opens on a weekday morning
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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
That AI isn't yet "good enough" to mark students' essays ought to be beside the point. Outsourcing such tasks to AI is fundamentally incompatible with the intellectual engagement between student and professor that should be central to higher education. /1 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u...
cam.ac.uk
AI not yet good enough to mark university essays, rewarding ‘style over substance’
Top AI systems show bias towards rewarding overly complex prose styles and only match human examiners for grade bands around half the time, research finds.
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There's so much I could say in agreement with this article. The world will end in eternal sameness... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yes, I'm not sure why people I know are still on X or Twitter or whatever it's called now? iSewer? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why? | Jonathan Liew
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"night and day the door of gloomy Diss stands open; but to recall one’s steps and pass out to the upper air, this is the task, this the toil!" #Virgil, Aeneid, book vi #poetry
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI
The reaction underscores a growing anxiety among students over AI's impact on jobs and their future careers.
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 13/05/2026
Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.
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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Naval Treaty (8th May 1984). "What a lovely thing a rose is".
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
An Amazon listing for Dinah Craik's John Halifax Gentleman, which looks convincing but the quotations at the 'Look inside' section do NOT appear in the text, and the rest of the blurb is AI gush with lots of mistakes. This is the crap we are descending into. www.amazon.co.uk/John-Halifax...
amazon.co.uk
John Halifax, Gentleman: Victorian Moral Romantic Realism
John Halifax, Gentleman: Victorian Moral Romantic Realism : Mulock Craik, Dinah Maria, Publishing, Jon Daniels: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Mersea Island folk horror... #MerseaIsland #Mersea #MehalahCountry
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
MSOffice has become so desperately needy in its attempts to get my attention whilst also trying to replace my brain with itself that I've decided to move to libreoffice for personal day-to-day work.
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A morning ramble down to Rye Harbour
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In Henry James's garden
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I've just used E.F. Benson and Henry James's loo
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Good morning' from Sappho, who's anxious here to get out of this antique shop. #Sappho
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
My entire life has been spent doing this: thinking 'no, no, no' when I've been asked to do something, but my lips then contradicting me by saying 'yes', and usually adding a smile when a grimace would have been better #CharlotteBrontë #Villette
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Holiday reading but also reading for my sabbatical project. How much I'm looking forward to re-reading this!
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
'The Village Fete', the first episode of Mapp and Lucia, was originally broadcast on this day in 1985. Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales and Nigel Hawthorne headed the cast.
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