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Dr. Alicia Matz @duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social · 15h

If anyone has a collection of scholars criticizing Sulpicia’s poetry that you’ve collected for teaching or research purposes and are willing to share, I would be most grateful.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"more students have to work, more of them are working more hours– taking jobs young non-students used to get. That shows up as young non-students out of work, which the government counts as a problem with young people, measured by a survey that can't see the students." wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

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Student poverty is feeding the NEETs crisis

Over on the Post-18 Project, Director John Blake has some reflections on what he’s seen and heard here in Liverpool.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know, researchers since the 1980s have found that men can tell when they don’t have consent. They just choose to continue anyway because they prioritize consent as less important than power, domination, and sexual gratification.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But why? Why would you need to do that if what you're claiming to the world is true? If you're engaged in a just war against an equal opponent as opposed to a genocide against a largely defenceless population and imperial aggression against another sovereign nation?

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again:

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'This year, more than 81,000 UK 18-year-olds said in their accepted university application they intended to live at home, according to Ucas figures.' That's nearly a third of the new intake.

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Kent 'commuter students' are swapping residential halls for home

Some young people are staying at home while attending university as they cannot afford to move.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The other side of this argument - showing his supporters that it's OK to break the law and terrorise people as they wish because no one will stop them - is never part of the discussion.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1)how to create an illicit fags & booze economy run by spivs that'll deprive the Treasury of tax revenue 2)you don't get people "back to work" by making their lives impossible (note cut of a third to long-term benefits). It makes the problem worse 3)you bastards

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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's Welcome Week in Leeds and we can't wait to meet our new students over the next few days, and to welcome back our returning students too! We're especially excited about the start of our *new MA* in Classics and Ancient History! For more details, please visit: courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...

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Classics and Ancient History MA | University of Leeds

The Classics and Ancient History MA is unique to Leeds and explores the ancient Mediterranean world, spanning literature, history, philosophy, religion and material culture.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A few years ago we were actively working to dismantle systemic racism which is discreet, complicated and takes a lot to understand and legislate against. We had taken the conversation to a very sophisticated place. Now we're back asking the state to enforce the fucking law, which is easy!!

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Successive governments' complete disinterest in clipping the wings of our awful press has led to ordinary people genuinely fearing for their well-being in time of low crime and peace. It's been one pact with the devil after another. The current lot being arguably the most cowardly so far.

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Richard G Clegg @richardclegg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My name is Ozymandias king of kings. Look upon my works ye mighty and despair. For example these vast and *trunked* legs of stone, got my full body and face too. Lots of complete statues of me exist. I am frustrated by this trunkless legs narrative.

Statue of Ramses II in Cairo museum. His legs are vast but not trunkless.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'll just add that multiple modules starting next week are unstaffed, while others will be staffed by hourly-paid lecturers who've been sourced this week. But apparently there isn't enough work to keep me on.

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we need an army on lifestyle influencers who say stuff like “hey chat you gotta turn your phone off at the cinema, say thank you to waiting staff, take your glasses back to the bar too if poss“

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 17/09/2026

Racist, violent, thugs have been verbally & physically abusing RNLI volunteers. The situation got so bad that Portsmouth Lifeboat station was closed. 1/6 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests

RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 17/09/2026

LLM summaries of social science & humanistic inquiry suck. I know this because the Association of Computing Machinery recently started providing AI summaries of a bunch of my own publications in the ACM Digital Library & they're TERRIBLE! They collapse difficult, complex ideas into simplistic boxes.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026

Having worked on a similar decision tree process **twenty years*** ago, let me just say that the first step in addressing toxicity is to not give bad actors the benefit of the doubt. This starts by not allowing Nazis and anti-trans bigots on the platform at all.

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I heard that newspapers particularly hate people working from home because it means they don’t buy a paper at the station.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hope when they write the epitaph of our society they won't say "people didn't know, people didn't want change." I hope they will recognise the downfall was above all due to how representative democracy failed to channel this awareness into political action.

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Helen Belcher @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Cass is being weaponised to try to remove trans healthcare, for adults as well as under 18s. The Supreme Court ruling is being used to try to erase intersex people, and any form of gender diversity. The EHRC Code is being used to try to remove trans people's access to public spaces.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In’t it though?

Paul Whitehouse as his “Brilliant” character from sketch show The Fast Show.

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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Eternally grateful I get to do this and for our students in the Greek warfare lecture this morning. Didn’t even have to weaponize long, awkward pauses to get volunteer hoplites!

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

David's tragedy here is a lesson for us all. If you're planning on going to a thing where you know there'll be no trouble getting in, BUY A TICKET. The number of stories I've heard of events cancelled due to lack of interest, and then a load of people pop up to say "Oh I meant to book that!"

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Dr. Jennifer Krueckeberg @jkrueckeberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do you know what will actually kill us? Fucking climate change! How about you care about that rather than this doomerism marketing ploy that the tech bros deploy to make their shitty products look intelligent. This is tiring. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030

One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanity

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026

"Oh, you're criticising data centres? But you USED A DATA CENTRE to publish your post??? Hypocritical much????" Time to put this fossil fuel PR inspired talking point to bed forever. Why the 'Mr Gotcha' gambit is wrong in two very important ways:

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of the best of the BBC's Play for Today, 1974 folk horror/ecological/queer classic Penda's Fen is on BBC4 tonight. If you don't have the channel or need immediate pastoral weirdness it's also on YouTube. A total classic. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IBZ8...

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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s wonderful to see our research finally out. It shows that the amazing Devil’s Arrows in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire were transported 18km from Brimham Rocks (not Plumpton!) to the site. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article/4…

Two tall tapering megaliths forming the Devil’s Arrows.

A massive grey megalith with blue sky behind.

One of the more squat megaliths with a sunburst behind it.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ok, either the police in britain cannot police a credible threat of mass racial intimidation, in which case the home secretary needs firing, or the police in britain does not care about it, in which case the home secretary needs firing

Police were told the night before far-right agitators blocked roads into Dover that those involved had converged on a village 18 miles away and planned to use it as a launchpad, it has emerged.

People in Preston-next-Wingham told of how hundreds of men had started to arrive in the village of just over 920 residents on Friday afternoon and in effect “took over” the village.

At least one person is understood to have sought to pass on details to counter-terrorism police after people heard the far-right activists boasting in the local pub that they intended to go to Dover and “attack Muslims”.

The information was passed on to police but little or no interest was shown in the tipoff, according to the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate, who spoke to the person. Others reported careless and illegal parking to the police but no action was said to have been taken.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026

I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures

Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture

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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Emerging that Government will this afternoon announce plans to pause the process of English local government reorganisation pending a review. So where are councils now?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just idly imagining if, just as an example, a group of Muslims had functionally occupied a major British port. Do we think they’d be handled with kids gloves, or summarily executed by The Royal War Crimes Brigade?

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I can’t *believe* we had to, still have to, listen to all that talk about how competent and ruthless Shabana Mahmood is, and then we get a day like today and we don’t have a Home Secretary

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026

Unarrested fascists on the street only ever leads to more fascists on the streets and things being set on fire.

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Tom King @tallgeekychap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is sadly the reality. So many conversations about politics now start from the priors of the far right. We cannot imagine a world in which generosity and compassion are the driving force of policy, and where abuse - though never acceptable - is understood to be the hallmark of liberty.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"You can't ask about the investigation until it is over but there's no reason to investigate and the guys who quit didn't do anything but they quit anyway because the thing they did was totally ok and legal, if they did it, but they didn't but we have to wait for the unnecessary investigation"

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The polling company JL Partners featured in tonights Channel 4 News Exposé on Reform is the same one used by Sex Matters and LGB Alliance . JLP are linked to American Christian investors that hope to shape UK policy.

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