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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

yet another reason Val is the queen of crime and she-who-shall-not-be-named will only every be a derivative, unloved and unloving pretender.

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I can't get the absolutely harrowing recording of Kipling's poem "Boots" in 28 Years Later out of my head as it goes from metronomic to hysterical 1 youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...

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28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Nah First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context. Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My wife thinks she drives because I am a danger to myself and others who can't check his left-hand mirror without swerving...little does she know she's just my beard

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this. No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?" archive.ph/E1vxH

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The trouble with having so many MPs from two certain universities is that they seem to think every other university a) is worthless b) is not the cornerstone of many local economies

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

as ever our excellent PhD students doing typically excellent things

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We have never been human; but I'll try anything once

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Have you heard the good news is the bad news?

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Every time an editor says 'kill your darlings' a demon child dies (only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨 Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"He's Not the Messiah He's a Very Naughty Boy"

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

Keir Starmer speaks in Washington: 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just finished @rrrahul.bsky.social's amazing translation of this neon nightmare of a book by Michel Nieva which was just as thrillingly weird and wonderful as the cover suggests and totally gross in all the best ways serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...

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Dengue Boy - Serpent's Tail

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

As I begin wading through the whirlwind of semi-colons that signals the beginning of marking season I am going to keep murmuring this to myself for comfort...

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

My niece, bemused at me getting weepy while we were watching the end of Paddington 3: "are you crying because they have to eat marmalade forever now"

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Have now been thinking about monometric sonnets all day and remembered this total banger...which is also very @bsky.app appropriate

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Slightly taken aback by the amount of poetry-geek glee reading a 3-in-1 anapestics sonnet generated in me

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Farage fetishizing "Judeo-Christian" civilisation is a) an Islamophobic dog-whistle b) a way of ignoring centuries of Christian antisemitism c) pretty rich coming from someone whose schoolmate accused him of singing Neo-Nazi ditty “gas ‘em all, gas ‘em all” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nigel Farage calls for reindustrialisation of Britain and higher birthrates

Reform leader tells ARC conference the UK needs ‘some sense of optimism’ and praises ‘Judeo-Christian culture’

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

To do list for Tuesday: 1. Book Dentist 2. Finish marking late assessments 3. POISON ALL MY UNDERGRADS' MINDS WITH POEMS THEN LAUGH MANIACALLY

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I can't even curse them to further spursy decades of trophyless irrelevance because we all know that's going to happen anyway

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How I think I look when teaching/How I actually look

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

well this looks like it'll be amazeballs

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in cows...

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I sometimes imagine an alternate timeline where the wonder that is Teen Vogue existed in the late 90s and saved older milennials from ourselves...

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

📢 Actual paid publishing job at world's sexiest academic press (for any fellow academics who also have undergrads asking them how to get into publishing)

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Unsure whether one of my local Labour MP's complaints about "progressive politics" harming communities and "Churches" (?!?!?!?!) is an instance of a) Racism b) Stupidity b) Cynical careerism d) All of the above www.politicshome.com/news/article...

politicshome.com

Blue Labour v Reform: The Pro-Worker, Anti-Woke Plan To Beat Farage

With Reform riding high in the polls, many new Labour MPs are deeply anxious about the threat posed by Nigel Farage. To fight him off, Keir Starmer...

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

THIS So much of the hand-wringing about GenAI in universities revolves around plagiarism and marking (ie not being able to fairly/accurately rank students). The real worry should be how it (often) disrupts what students are actually learning -- how to think and communicate complex thoughts

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I am starting to suspect that Oxford nurturing the Bullingdon Club, Dominic Cummings, Sunak and Liz Bloody Truss was all a cunning plan to eventually bankrupt other universities via Brexit/Visa crisis and thereby keep them in sherry for another 1000 years.

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

1. Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds (3 of the 5 biggest urban areas in the UK) - 72 miles 2. Shenfied to Reading (ie the Elizabeth Line; 78 miles) 3. Oxford-Cambridge; with less than 10% of the population of 1 (85 Miles) FFS

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I dunno, MAYBE fast, functioning and cheap East-West Travel across the cities and universities of the North of England would drive growth faster than Reeve's latest tech unicorn solution.

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Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge

Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances