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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t send any of those nuncios of more grave aspect - they’re not up to it

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Keywords was published 50 years ago. A great book that really opened my eyes to the complexities of language.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

A note on the TLS website saying that an essay entiled 'AI and the crisi of the author' by Anchit Sathi has been removed because AI 'was used in its preparation'. TLS editorial guidlines prohibit the use of AI in writing and editing, although the author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 22/09/2026

"Well" Beowulf, 2002 Louis J. Rodrigues 🇬🇧

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In "Modern Fiction", Woolf raves about Chekhov's story "Gusev" ("as the eyes accustom themselves to twilight and discern the shapes of things in a room we see how complete the story is, how profound"). And she's right, it's an absolute banger. With the most absurd and moving death in all literature.

Gusev goes back to the sick bay and lies down on his cot. As before he suffers from some vague yearning, and he cannot figure out what he wants. There is a weight on his chest, a throbbing in his head, his mouth is so dry that he can hardly move his tongue. He dozes and mutters and, tormented by nightmares, coughing, and stuffiness, falls fast asleep towards morning. He dreams that they have just taken the bread out of the oven in the barracks, and he gets into the oven and has a steambath, lashing himself with birch branches. He sleeps for two days, and on the third day two sailors come from topside and carry him out of the sick bay. He is sewn up in canvas and, to weight him down, two iron bars are put in with him. Sewn up in canvas, he comes to resemble a carrot or a black radish, wide at the head, narrow towards the foot. . . Before sunset he is taken out on deck and laid on a plank; one end of the plank rests on the rail, the other on a box placed on a stool. Discharged soldiers and the ship's crew stand around him with their hats off.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An AI slop account on Facebook called "English Literature Gems" posted this version of "In a Station of the Metro" with new hallucinated lines (and breathtaking rhymes)

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

These faces that I see
Inspire me with the desire
Of tender smiles that I may never see.

Not one of all the women that I see
Will interest me.

No, not one of all the millions
Will interest me.

And in the midst of this
I feel there is not one
To whom I can turn.

For these I have seen
Faces that I dream of all my life,
Faces that haunt me when I close my eyes.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One again I have to read "In a Station of the Metro" in public, and once again my brain will panic and glitch when I reach the word "bough" (bough? bough? bow? bow?)

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Flashback to that time I gave my students extra credit for plastering Annie Dillard quotes all over campus in preparation for the eclipse.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, to every isthmus and every lake I want to be like Sir Francis Drake www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8V...

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Buy Me a Zeppelin

YouTube video by Macbeth the Great - Topic

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our Proust reading group is still REELING from Swann’s death being reported as an aside in half a sentence

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Uncanny that Mary Shelley, at 18, knew how hard it was for adult men to make a new friend

… I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavor to regulate my mind.
Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

T minus 435 days, and counting down.

Opening sequence of the movie Children of Men, with the date: 16th November 2027

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Instead of a group discussion or a tutor teaching you, it’s a class activity done with a robot,” the student said. “I feel like I’m teaching this robot how to take jobs away from my teachers.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Macquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects

University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and the loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’

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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sound up for enthusiastic morning birdsong.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism 🙏

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Research by an IQ scientist who signed the Cofnas petition is exactly what you'd imagine it to be

Research Articles
August 07, 2026 CDT
Bright People Know More About Wine
Maximilian Krolo, Timothy C. Bates

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A relative was throwing out this (apparently notorious?) charity record covering every song on Sgt Pepper, featuring Wet Wet Wet and a British rap version of the title track, but also somehow Sonic Youth, The Fall, The Wedding Present, and The Triffids. How bad can it be … ?

Back cover of LP, Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father, with a tracklist:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Three Wize Men
With a Little Help from My Friends – Wet Wet Wet
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – The Christians
Getting Better – The Wedding Present with Amelia Fletcher
Fixing a Hole – Hue & Cry
She’s Leaving Home – Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! – Frank Sidebottom
Within You Without You – Sonic Youth
When I'm Sixty-Four – Courtney Pine Quartet
Lovely Rita – Michelle Shocked
Good Morning Good Morning – The Triffids
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) – The Three Wize Men
A Day in the Life – The Fall

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bitterly angry and distraught at how they destroyed this man

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This feels very nipaluna/Hobart-coded - why hasn’t anyone here thought of high-end schnitties

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This trailer should really have a close up on knitting needles with a deep brrrraaam and strobe effect www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf4s...

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A Tale of Two Cities (MGM+ 2026 Series) Official Trailer

YouTube video by MGM+

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This review now out from behind the paywall I see if you couldn't access it earlier this month...definitely one of the most celebrated OZ novels of the year this one

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have no truck with their Austin Powers look, but full support for their guitar and organ sound youtu.be/upfVKtAVjFI?...

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The Time Of The Year Is Sunset

YouTube video by The New Colony Six - Topic

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

How to spot a villain in Proust: when they think Debussy is bad

From Sodom et Gomorrhe (trans. Moncrieff): "even in the presence of the narrowest of provincial ladies she could not remain for five minutes without feeling the need to confess them. When a noble dame of Avranches, who would have been incapable of distinguishing between Mozart and Wagner, said in Mme. de Cambremer's hearing: "We saw nothing of any interest while we were in Paris, we went once to the Opéra-Comique, they were doing Pelléas et Mélisande, it's dreadful stuff," Mme. de Cambremer not only boiled with rage but felt obliged to exclaim: "Not at all, it's a little gem," and to 'argue the point.' It was perhaps a Combray habit which she had picked up from my grandmother's sisters, who called it 'fighting in the good cause,' and loved the dinner-parties at which they knew all through the week that they would have to defend their idols against the Philistines."

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I have not had time to see The Odyssey but I participate in the Emily Wilson discourse. We exist.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The mid-80s were the salad days of oboes in pop culture. The Dream Academy and The Go-Betweens had full-time oboists; Madonna and A-ha were dabbling. Teens wore double reeds as accessories on silver chains. Parents named their children after Léon Goossens. Quite a time.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The stuff in here about Musk’s apartheid South Africa as a fortified technofascist enclave is illuminating and horrible

Front cover of MUSKISM: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Coleridge imagining British imperialism as a cloud of pestilence (from "Fears In Solitude. Written In April, 1798, During The Alarm Of An Invasion")

Even now, perchance, and in his native isle:
Carnage and groans beneath this blessed sun!
We have offended, oh! my countrymen!
We have offended very grievously,
And been most tyrannous. From east to west
A groan of accusation pierces Heaven!
The wretched plead against us; multitudes
Countless and vehement, the sons of God,
Our brethren! Like a cloud that travels on,
Steamed up from Cairo's swamps of pestilence,
Even so, my countrymen! have we gone forth
And borne to distant tribes slavery and pangs,
And, deadlier far, our vices, whose deep taint
With slow perdition murders the whole man,
His body and his soul!

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In this version, Marcel gets huge

A cheap ebook edition of Proust, which they've called "Cities of Plain", by Musaicum Books. Featuring a painting of a nude hunk (overlaid with an MS Paint pixelated effect)

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

ummm actually the bride of frankenstein is also a doctor. she and viktor met storming out of a conference after realizing the entire panel was in the tank for medical ethics. you're thinking of frankenstein's monster's wife, the frankensteins' monster

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Complementing my cat in Old English

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I read Neuromancer as it's meant to be read: as an audiobook played without pause as I slipped in and out of consciousness on an intercontinental flight

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

[to the tune of Farewell Transmission] wine dark bluuuuuues

Headline: Christopher Nolan couldn't escape 'despair'. So he made 'The Odyssey.'

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

football commentator 🤝 crew of the HMS Terror "there are fresh legs on the table"

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The sheer depravity of this — whatever has been or will be done to the statues of Lachlan Macquarie — it will never be enough. From Barry Corr's Surveying the Wild Abyss (2026)

The final enactment of Macquarie's triumph took place in the yard of St John's church at Parramatta on 28 December 1816. The Gazette provided a particularly unctuous account of this pioneering model of social engineering. The structure of the feast revolved around gender, hierarchies and a free meal. Aboriginal people, broken into subjects and chiefs, formed a passive foil to the Governor and his entourage. These divisions were reinforced with the awarding of brass plates to the 'chiefs' and presents to the various guides. Mrs Macquarie played an appropriate second fiddle to her husband, arriving to see the stolen and hostage children from the Native Institution paraded before the 'chiefs'. The Governor and his wife were no doubt suitably touched by the tears of Aboriginal women 'at seeing the infant and helpless offspring of their deceased friends, so happily sheltered and protected by British benevolence'.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Started as a joke, now I’m doing the reading

Cover of Matt King’s A History of Goblins

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s weird that “krautrock” is still called “krautrock”

The term "krautrock" was popularised by British music journalists as a pejorative umbrella-label for the diverse German scene, 18) and although many such artists disliked the term, it subsequently fell into standard usage.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This skyline of rooftops crowded with chimneys set against clouds, 1856–59 (photo by Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes, The Met) 🗃️

b&w photo of a skyline with rooftops and clouds

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Job-Ready Graduates joins multiple other barriers to entry for poor and disadvantaged students to tertiary education at a time when inequalities of wealth and access are accelerating rapidly. This is the opposite of what the party of organised labour should stand for — it's a travesty.

theguardian.com

Nearly 20% fewer lower socioeconomic students studying law as Pocock calls to scrap Morrison-era job-ready scheme

Experts say the Morrison-era Job-ready Graduates scheme has instead had a ‘devastating impact’ on the very people higher education needs to serve

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I want to be the guy who describes the music in the subtitles

Subtitle for a scene in a tv show that says "dark, inexorable music"

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What's the theory equivalent of vibe coding

Freud writes: "Why hats and cloaks are used in the same way (ie. as sexual symbols), is certainly difficult to divine, but their symbolic meaning is certainly unquestionable." Later, in his New Introductory Lectures (5), Freud was able to add some explanatory details regarding the symbolism of cloaks, but was still, apparently, unable to cast further light on the symbolism of hats.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Any thoughts/recommendations on translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses?

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