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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

@petermcphee.bsky.social @mlinton.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @ser-1789.bsky.social I think I recognise the young gentleman wearing heart-shaped spectacles on the banner on bottom R…

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

I have the fridge magnet of the one on L.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

They look as if they're dancing!

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6h

The easiest way to ‘bring the UK closer to Europe’? Rejoin the EU.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

Yes! I don't understand current obsession with forcing history & literature to be 'relevant', to fit contemporary fixations, or idea that you have to 'be able to see yrself' in something to make it matter. It's a kind of narcissism. I love exploring the past *bcos it's different/not like or abt me*.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

I hope the French police deal with them firmly… might distract them from schoolkids.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

V popular in my gaming group at university: it inspired an FRP game written by one of my friends.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

A lot of things. Village shop with a bigger room stocking guns & ammunition than the one with standard groceries & supplies. The fact the only UK news I saw on TV during fortnight I was there was a feature on a village 'cheese-rolling competition'. The fixations on religion & colour.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

Some of my most lasting friendships have been with men, without any romantic overtones (they had girlfriends; I'm A, which has been respected).

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

I felt more culturally alien visiting the US (despite language) than I have anywhere else – and that includes Gorbachev-era USSR.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent as the Captain in 'The Last Valley', 1 of the few major films set in the 30 Yrs War.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

No, but I rlly like the one on R! (Not a fan of Empire line, as it makes wearer look fat or pregnant if not thin.)

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 1h

Faculties and Schools are used interchangeably here in UK. The Oxbridge colleges are different to most other places – they're not residential elsewhere.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 2h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 8: Animal Cat resting on headstone at Lister Lane Cemetery. 🐈

The image shows a tabby-and-white cat perched on a weathered headstone.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Right… Ours are in pre-existing towns/cities. The oldest – Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow & Aberdeen – are pre-Reformation, originally with ecclesiastical foundation; Edinburgh a late 16C civic foundation. The rest are all from within the last 200 yrs or so.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Well, we have those Schools, but Colleges are different: they were originally separate foundations in 15-16C. (Oxford & Cambridge have loads of them.)

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

I think a 'WTF?!' wd be even more accurate…

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

It's interesting that there was been some recent complaints re: change of culture in St Andrews due to social dominance of wealthy US students, who have become the biggest single o/s nationality. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism

Online comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduates

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Not as far as I'm aware. Even the old polytechnics used to have postgrads.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

I didn't realise that they had ones that didn't teach postgrads.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

A university may be made up of colleges. If physically separate, a college may have its degrees awarded by a university. As Arts & Humanities undergrad at St Andrews University, I was student of United College & did divinity course within St Mary's College. As postgrad, was in St Leonard's College.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

US terminology confuses me a bit. Here in UK, schools are what children attend; & universities contain subject-based Schools (say, School of Law, School of Divinity, School of Science & Englineering, Business School, & c) or Faculties, but we never refer to university as 'school'.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Do you mean a school (under 18s) or a university (over 18)? Private universities are v thin on the ground here in UK: I can only think of Buckingham.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Yes. St Andrews has grossly overexpanded for the size of the town. The cleaners now have to be bussed in from Glenrothes as they can no longer afford to live locally.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

St Andrews is v much dominated by the university (& golf tourism). It's over-expanded in past few decades. I miss how it was in 1980s-early 90s.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

My old Undergraduate Hall of Residence: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers... I was 2 yrs in Lumsden Wing (modern towerblock bit), 2 yrs in Old Wing (the original 1890s part).

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University Hall (University of St Andrews) - Wikipedia

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

I lived in one of the North Street annexes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deans_C...

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Deans Court - Wikipedia

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

A lot of ppl wd move out to live in flatshares, but I didn't fancy that. It was a small town, & in my day we didn't have to pay tuition fees & we had a maintenance grant (means tested) that covered rent & most living expenses.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Shinty clubs, too, in Scotland. They cd be quite loud in the pub in St Andrews in 1980s.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 2h

That's changed since my day (1980s). I stayed in a hall of residence for all 4 yrs of undergrad (Scottish MA Hons is 4 yrs), & then 3 yrs in a postgrad hall for 1st 3 yrs of PhD.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. I used to go to the FRP-gaming society.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. I was, frankly, baffled by what Americans told me abt their home campuses.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 3h

Yes: this struck me as really bizarre. Any crimes committed at university are dealt with by the local police force. Universities don't have their own police.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 18h

It needs to have pest control called in…

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today in why your librarian is stressed: academic journals increase in cost about 5% every single year while our funding continues to, at best, stagnate. And that's just the things we already purchase, much less the new acquisitions our patrons need or want.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22h

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) in LEGO

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 21h

If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia

Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 21h

Something I recall from a lot of hero tales & epics is that opposing characters don't *have to be* depicted as 'good vs evil'; that they're evenly matched & you cd tell the story as easily from either's pov. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Cruel torment, depraved violence, evil turns: where did TV’s real baddies go?

From Carrie’s bullies to Cathy Ames, sympathetic backstories have made villains boring. It’s time to bring back truly awful villains – in all their deliciously sinful glory

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