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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 7h

British Iron Dome — the contraceptive recently bolted on to Boris Johnson

Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s at this time of night that the horrible new office block at Liverpool St most obviously looks from our angle like an opened milk carton

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It won’t be a smokeless bonfire, either, will it, because that would be woke

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Signing this beautiful limited edition of Le Fanu’s Carmilla I was involved in — but how am I supposed to compete with this amazing stylised signature!!?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Honoured, of course, to have number 13! Also comes with whistle. What could go wrong?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of my most treasured moments recently was my partner’s epic and glorious meltdown at the labyrinthine stupidity of these new lockers to some poor sod employed to soak up visitor rage all day.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Christ, what will happen if Xi finds out that H P Lovecraft was a bit racist?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Topics Kemi BadEnoch might well up about in her conference speech: - no bail for RNLI boat-slashing Danny Tommo - lower number of heat exhaustion deaths than hoped for this summer - more legal routes for asylum claims from refugees from war zones - Grant Shapps's face pressed up against conf window

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is high-powered professing: I mostly fail to log on to things and Try Again Later

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I lost interest in this community event when it turned out that the ‘free face painting’ only applied to yourself, you couldnt just go up to council officials and add whiskers or turn them into orcas

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Delighted to discover belatedly that earlier this year the American Analog Set put out an EP of even longer, even dronier versions of songs from their 2005 disbanding album Set Free.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

6.33am I woke up from a horrible nightmare which involved time running backwards. The next time I looked at the clock, though, it was 3.20am which completely freaked me out. News headlines when I finally fully woke up all seem to be from the racist 1970s, so this all seems to track.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ok which of you bastards put acid in my tea?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first thing you see on the new Quick Student Guide on AI and Academic Integrity document is an option to ‘get an AI summary of this PDF’

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I believe the correct technical term for this is: fucked

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another attempt at vocational qualifications, a noble and ongoing struggle since the origins of state education in the 19thC and one where any hoped for equality of academic/vocational strands can only ever be really solved by abolishing the class system.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I find Boris Johnson’s post-political career quite bewildering

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On this form I must write a detailed report of the meeting, and then underneath, just below, where you always forget it, is the question 'Did this meeting take place?' which requires a yes/no answer but I want a dialogue box so I can put 'do meetings ever, really, *take place* as such, though?'

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is this backed up with a pledge that each pensioner will get a gift of a couple of million from a cryptoloon so that they can buy as many Ferraris as they like?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't know about you, but we now get a daily 'workflow reminder' which essentially reads 'Workflow diagnosis: you seem quite constipated and we will be issuing an enema order within the next 48 hours.'

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We’ll turn now to the thoughts of Chief Political Correspondent Chris Mason — although it may be just the sounds a balloon makes if you rib it up and down on your jumper, you decide”

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Will Reform UK have done enough background checks on their new leader in Wales?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hmm, something not quite right about this Monday morning's emergency fluffy kitten

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Unexpectedly really great series

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lord Summerisle does a very good rotisserie dinner I’m told

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lurkers around the soon-to-be-ready rotisserie chickens in Waitrose. Bit late this morning. Statistically this contest is the highest cause of violent death in the English middle classes, we’ve all read the research, wish me luck

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

DO YOU MIND IF I JUST SIT HERE AND BELLOW SOME LIFE COACHING BANALITIES INTO MY LAPTOP?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

DO YOU MIND IF I SIT HERE AND BELLOW INTO MY PHONE ABOUT MY DRAMATURGICAL PRACTICE?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How about housing them at Balliol or maybe St John’s? Good housing conditions and good PR for uni on widening access? Fellows could insist that refugees can’t go to college dinners in term time unless they secure permanent right to remain?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Was in Paris for the 8 days straight above 30C, often not dropping below 25C at night

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You have to admire human persistence in sending along Excel spreadsheets, even though only 2.37% of humans actually know how to use it properly because it has the worst interface ever invented

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Appalling. As a 0.6FT, coming out of a round of 'voluntary' redundancies 2 yrs ago, I can say you start to take a very close interest in the hours that you do. All my time is student-focused teaching and teaching prep now, because they no longer pay me for time to attend meetings as well.

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How did we get to the point where a train driver saying ‘I will be detraining everyone at Acton’ is a sentence that not only exists but is also immediately understood?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Emails from Labour HQ campaigning to match that donation. With this kind of majority they did have a a chance to shore up key elements of the democratic state by banning this shit, but it's now too late. Frustrated by liberal trust that democratic institutions will just sort themselves out somehow

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Must be about twenty years ago on a blustery, rainy day in Normandy in late September when we and about 5 other people had the Bayeux Tapestry pretty much to ourselves for a couple of hours

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watched 9/11 unfold on a scratchy, ghostly black and white TV in a rental in remote village of Achiltibuie overlooking the Summer Isles — which felt at once immensely safe and entirely sawn off from the new dispensation

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here is an emergency fluffy kitten for Friday morning

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