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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Ten years to the day since I published my first monograph with @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social about Authenticity and English as a Global Language.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Yesterday, I was made a full Professor. I went for a walk under the cherry trees in the rain to celebrate. I didn't say anything yesterday as I thought people might (understandably) assume it was an April Fool's joke.🎓

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"I tried to string a load of oxymorons together but they looked stupid." - Stephen Prime

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A year since the publication of my first Novel, The Bad Boys in The Attic today! To celebrate, Hungry Wolf Press will be promoting the book and having special discounts until the end of the year! The book looks the same but I have lost some of my hair! #novel #publishing #author #writing

A man holds a book that he wrote with a vague look of pride and embarrassment.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If #Cthulhu were to massage your brain it would not be done with tentacles, but with psalms of wet geometry, whispered through lattices of non-Euclidean cartilage—each syllable a surgical caress unravelling the cortex like overripe fruit beneath an alien sun. That's what I think anyway, just imo.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Just fact-checking this - it is a fairly accurate paraphrase, though not direct quote, here is what Einstein actually said: From an essay titled "Why Socialism?" in Monthly Review. (1949) (monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...)

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Monthly Review | Why Socialism?

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.… Clarity about the aims and…

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

There is irony, but this some gilded level psycho irony going on right here. I genuinely think he believes his own bullshit too... so what is that? Bullshitrony?

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Been watching too much news. I was trying to remember whose theory was the Zone of Proximal Development and all I could come up with was Zelensky. (it was of course Vygotsky).

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Rediscover ‘Moloch’: A Poetic Dialogue Between Man and Machine A collection of Flarf poems before Translation software was good... some hilarious results.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Earlier this week we had our first official meeting for the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project headed by @emaushioda.bsky.social "Navigating the ethical complexities of using generative AI for academic writing", with @salconsoli.bsky.social and ‪‪‪@marianna-patrick.bsky.social‬

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

It's true - reading does increase your empathic powers. I should know, I love everybody all the time

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

When Trump denounces actual news as Fake News, he is deliberately attacking the free press and their right to tell the truth, even when he doesn't like it.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I just taught a great lesson on English language and cultural capital. One student said it was the best lesson they had so far this year! I get back to my office happy, until I notice my flies were down the whole time!

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Get ready, Shakespeare geeks! 🎭 We're dropping a brand new project, #BARD409, on April 23rd for the Bard's birthday! 🎉 Can you decipher this quote from emojis back to the original? ➡️ ⚠️➡️👑➡️😠➡️👁️🟢👾➡️🎭➡️🥩➡️😋#Shakespeare #NewRelease #LiteraryProject #HungryWolfPress #StayTuned 🐺📖

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Can you translate this Shakespeare quote from emojis back to the original? ➡️ 🗓️➡️🗓️➡️🗓️➡️🐌➡️🚶‍♀️➡️➡️🗓️➡️🔚➡️⏰️📜➡️⬅️🗓️➡️💡➡️🤡 #BARD409

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Maybe we will! www.hungrywolf.net/fiction/bard... To mark the 409th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and to celebrate his birthday, we are releasing a new series; BARD409. Two new novels. One immortal voice. Releasing on April 23rd. More details to come.

A glitchy image of Shakespeare to promote a new series blending old and new.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

💔➡️🍬➡️😭 What bittersweet Shakespearean moment is this? 🤔 Translate the emojis! 👇 #ShakespeareInEmojis #LanguageLovers #LiteraryTeaser #HungryWolfPress is cooking up something special for the Bard's birthday! #BARD409 🗓️ 4/23 @shakespeare.lol

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Chomsky said "If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are." I have been using this quote for 10 years in my teacher training courses.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Needed to find Sir Ken Branagh on socials, tell him how he inspired my reading in my upcoming #Shakespeare #Audiobook. Couldn't find him on X because they are ALL fake accounts. What's the world coming to when you can't even make genuine contact with an extremely famous person you've never even met?

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy #WorldBookDay2025!! If you are in #Skipton, you can get signed hardback copies of my novel from the wonderful Oxfam Books on the High Street. Limited stocks so hurry on down! Oxfam Great Britain #WorldBookDay #books

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Greg Andree @gregandree71.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I am re-sharing this because I came up with this and I think it's funny and deserves at least a few more likes. To be fair, when I posted it initially I had 0 followers.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We are very excited to be getting funding from @leverhulme.bsky.social to research the #ethics of #AI and #authorship! Let's hope many new papers and articles to follow on this fascinating topic!

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Rickrolled my class of 100 students because this weeks' lesson is about Trolls. I have been waiting all semester for this moment. And, hey I am not trying to be cool here, I know rickrolling is like watching an episode of Friends. But it's classic gentle comedy! We delve into more serious stuff too

an email and a picture of rick astley next to it

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Thanks to all the new followers! Much nicer over here at bluesky. However, I've not got much to say, other than the fact that meditating on the busy Tokyo commute is a good way to ensure people give you some space. Eyes closed, deep breaths. Maybe they thought I was about to explode.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Setting up a micropublisher is really hard, actually. Especially when teaching a lot more than others in my department, being editor of an academic journal, having an additional part time job and having to work all weekend doing interviews. Thank fuck for red wine and ice-cream

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Everyone I know seems to be busy

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Let's all come together and try to agree on stuff, yeah?

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is both the best of posts and the worst of posts, a post of wisdom, a post of foolishness. Try not to get your head chopped off in France!

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I agree. But I think the rot is faster if you only play mobile games. Some of them are pure brain rot. No Man's Sky on the other hand... I found it to expand my horizons in many ways (whilst rotting my brain)

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

someone came to my office and obviously wanted to give me a message but they couldn't tell me because there was no chalk so they gave up their original message to tell me I have no chalk somehow, despite their ingenuity, I feel they wasted an opportunity here

a blackboard with the words "chalk?" scrawled in chalk dust by finger

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In light of the mass exodus from Twitter to BlueSky, I am sharing this quote on here. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Gandhi. There is no evidence Gandhi actually ever said this, of course. Misinformation is why we left Twitter. However, the sentiment is true... you cannot fight fire

This quote is from Gandhi says and eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind, but we are not sure Gandhi really said this either.

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Now that I've quit Twitter, where will I get all my misinformation from? - Stephen Prime

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"The next four years will be terrifying for anyone interested in truth. I want to read publications whose leaders are not afraid to call a fascist a fucking fascist. I worry what @laurahelmuth.bsky.social's loss means for Scientific American, and for anyone doing and covering science."

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The Earth is neither flat nor round. It's an oblate spheroid, you idiots. ;)

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R.S. Pinner @uniliterate.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.” ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman Used this yesterday in my lit class on feminism. I don't know much about feminism tbh except that I am one and so is anybody who believes in equality.

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