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rob witts (undead era)

@robwitts.bsky.social
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a guy who hangs around universities and opera houses

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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 7h
today's mood:
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 7h
Thank you!
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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 8h
Still think they should put a monkey on the £50 notes to confuse cockneys.
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 7h
is there anything written about the radical history of the OU? feels like there must be
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h
TBF “everything would be great and peaceful if it wasn’t for all the loud and uncouth troublemakers who say mean things about our columnists” is pretty much pure, refined Guardianium
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 9h
he's not balding, he's wearing a kippah
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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 10h
If you are reposting that uncredited joan of arc pic that's been going round, be careful. It's being used to draw traffic to pretty dubious looking accounts (eg aussie with mysterious interest in eastern Europe). This is where it's nicked from I think. bsky.app/profile/hntd...
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
solar panels: good. everything else: good lord
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
also put some trousers on ffs
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Matt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Aw man, Sir Prime Minister Andrew "Kieth" Starmer QC was JUST about to adopt every single Green party policy but then the vile Polanski decided to say that zionism is racism so now Mr Starmer will have to build another £20 billion worth of data centres and it's all Polanski's fault 😡😡😡
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS
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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Werner Herzog speech bubble
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this whole thread has greatly enhanced my evening, ty
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Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just to acknowledge that there is an addendum to the Vanderbilt anti-woke humanities report that focuses on music, written by a very distinguished musicologist, and it is unsurprisingly both malicious and poorly-reasoned. I'm torn; I don't want to give it oxygen, but also find it quite toxic.
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely, I was just unable to resist the chance to be facetious because the magazine title is so enraging. I do read FT journalism since we got access via my work and much of it is good.
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the trouble with a newspaper having a supplement called 'How To Spend It' is that it does create a particular image of your readership
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Philip Larkin's search history
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pretty grim to read the daily news about the bulldozing of the UK HE sector and then to get emails inviting me to advance and enhance my career through professional development schemes -- these things are not going to save us now
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
three, it's the magic number
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
no....no!!!!!
lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When did it become so normalised to describe often far right thugs attacking people as "scuffles" but make out anyone just trying to seek safety is a threat to national security?
The Guardian

Anti-migrant protesters scuffle with police in Gosport after Channel rescue

5 hours ago

BBC

Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast

16 hours ago

BBC

Protesters Scuffle With Police as Migrants Brought Ashore

8 hours ago

The i Paper

Three arrested at Portsmouth anti-migrant protest as scuffles break out

3 weeks ago
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the boomerbomber, is this anything
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please enjoy this very normal cottage :) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
rightmove.co.uk
Check out this 1 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
1 bedroom detached house for sale in The Wellhouse, 3 Machpelah Yard, Hebden Bridge, HX7 for £250,000. Marketed by EweMove, Covering Yorkshire
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
one of these things is not like the other ones
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
literally this mf
the myrka from the 1984 Doctor Who serial Warriors of the Deep, absolutely terrifying to a 5yo in the ep2 cliffhanger but on closer inspection sadly revealed to be a pantomime horse with eyes made from ping pong balls put together on a budget of £2.87
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
listening to a colleague complaining about their nightmare with flights back from their weekend in paris. like, why are you flying to paris, don't do that!
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These are the ‘British values’ I celebrate.
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you've got this!
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
well done! first week's the hardest
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 03/10/2026
The pope holding a baseball bat in front of a burning data centre with the text "I like the pope, the pope smokes (dope crossed out) data centres".

Because he said ai art is shit
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s so much extremism in this demographic they literally wouldn’t know where to begin. Seriously - if calls for the drownings of children & public executions of politicians were taken as seriously Islamic extremism, you’d be talking about a terrorist movement of a half a million in the UK alone.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*Jonathan himself* is glaring proof his argument is bunk. He’s been noisily doing “Last chance to save Israel from itself” the entire 25 years I’ve known who he was; nothing that happened in that time altered his opinion one inch, he is a relentless opponent of any attempt to mitigate the horrors.
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's gonna rain
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's October 3rd.
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I looked, and I regret it
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
many happy returnsss
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
how had i never seen this before, i'm crying
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we went a few years back and you would be surprised at how chill the experience was (except for my three smallish children but that's another story)
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the dream team!
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
tiny, wailing robert jenrick
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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of my brothers passed this outstanding sign today
Road sign: 
Brentwood 
Chipping Ongar
Industrial Estates
*Secret Nuclear Bunker*
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Dan @danielorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember when the big brain columnists queued up to pooh pooh the idea that you could plant more than one tree at a time and in multiple places at once?
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i solved infinite personalized music by reading John Cage, guess we're built different
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
amazing! well done to her (and you)
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
why would you do this
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i love everything about this except that the backing track is in the wrong key for the snippet of singing & that would have been an easy fix
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rob witts (undead era) @robwitts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we need, we deserve a supercut of nigella shovelling cake
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