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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

*NEW POST* This week on rising misogyny & classical music "Not taking active steps to redress historical imbalance sends a message ... that classical music is a space where varying degrees of sexism and misogyny are tolerated." open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...

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No, misogyny isn't a thing of the past

If it feels like feminism has achieved its goals, you’re not paying enough attention.

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Maybe they hadn’t realised the copyright lapsed in 2015 and were trying to avoid being sued

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

can we go one day in this country without a new moral panic about the youth

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The guarded language being used regarding cops purposely shooting at journalists is only strange if you're very very stupid.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Entirely this: I’d add that being serious about climate change is a hygiene factor for many voters. In not a single UK constituency does concern about climate drop below 50% - hitting 68% in Clacton. There’s a debate on the ‘how’ and particularly how to do it fairly but much less on the principle.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

To be clear, the centre ground on net zero is that the public are broadly supportive - even if there is some conditionality to that support. The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My view: The “interim update” from the EHRC, and doubtless the actual “guidance” when it is produced, will try and obscure the fact that any exclusion of trans people is not compulsory, it is a choice. If anyone is excluding trans people from anywhere they are choosing to be transphobic, they… 1/8

Following the Supreme Court decision, if you are excluding trans people you are choosing to do so. You do not HAVE to, you are doing it because you WANT to. You are not defining trans people, you are telling the world who YOU are.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The argument that actually punishing Le Pen and her cronies for their crimes will only make them stronger in the long run is a little hard to swallow when we have a prominent example of a right-wing authoritarian who was very much not punished for his crimes and is now wrecking everything in sight.

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

People say attention spans are short now, but theatrical playbills from the olden days are like: ᴍʀ ᴡᴀʀʙᴏʏs ᴡɪʟʟ ᴘᴇʀғᴏʀᴍ ONELY THE GOOD BITS FROM - 𝕁 𝕌 𝕃 𝕀 𝕌 𝕊 ℂ 𝔼 𝔸 𝕊 𝔸 ℝ - ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ʟɪɴᴇs ғʀᴏᴍ - 𝕆 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕃 𝕃 𝕆 - ᴡʜᴇʀᴇᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴍʀs sᴀᴍsᴏɴ ᴡɪʟʟ 𝙱 𝚁 𝙴 𝙰 𝙺 𝙳 𝙰 𝙽 𝙲 𝙴

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

but what if scholarly opinion has shifted in the intervening time??? What then???

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

the fact that none of these ai dorks seem to realize that humans are capable of thought or introspection—perhaps implying they cannot do this themselves—does kind of explain a lot www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...

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Opinion | AI Can Work for Us (Gift Article)

A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

it really says something that there’s not only one person this tweet could have applied to

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

it’s December 9th somewhere probably

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

look I just heard it but I thought it was December 9th today is that such a crime

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I said “before,” not “without”…

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Made it to December 9th before getting Whammed. Is that a record?

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Going to eat a bunch of magnets just to see if that's anything

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Interstellar is just an adaption of the Queen song ‘39, right?

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

been thinking long and hard about how I can perform less serious music and more high victorian camp in the manner of come into the garden maud and suchlike suggestions welcome

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Large Cultural Institutions — such as opera companies — want to support innovation in ways that do not challenge their primacy. As long as "opera" can be definitionally limited to things that only opera companies can do, they are relevant and superior. Open the gates too wide and the game is over.

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Yeah it’s definitely even more explicitly classed in the US given that under 1% of pupils go to private school; but I think because the figure is somewhere between 7 and 12% in the UK they manage to be a much bigger and more detrimental part of the national conversation and policy planning

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

the incoming government has tried to do one very minor policy to begin to redress this imbalance away from private schools and the amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth with which it has been met is absolutely astounding

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

to be clear you are totally right about the industry as a whole, but basically there are so many structural problems with the divide in school education in the UK that they affect absolutely every facet of people’s lives from a very young age but especially as wider arts funding is gutted

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

- once people are able to get into higher education, the differences narrow, but the way higher education is subject specialised in the UK at the point of application means that in “creative” subjects private school kids already have a massive advantage of even getting into those uni courses

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I think this is one of those UK/US differences - they’re using “education” here primarily to refer to private K-12 schooling, not college/university. Here the differences are already opening up much too widely before kids even get to places you can “choose” your own education

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The study showed that a BAFTA-nominated actor is five times more likely to have attended a private school, while 43% of prominent classical musicians went to an independent school, six times greater than average.

Alongside class inequalities in creative workers, researchers’ findings highlighted the importance of higher education as a route into that workforce. While 20% of UK working-class individuals in any employment have a degree, working-class people in creative jobs were three times as likely to have been to university.

Over two-thirds of those in key creative occupations, such as actors, dancers, artists and writers, were found to have a degree, compared to 26% of the entire workforce, which researchers said reinforced an indication of inequalities in the pipeline for the creative sector.

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

waiting room huddle chat books phones tablets laptops half an hour slips by #didcothaiku

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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Crisp autumnal sun Long noon shadows skim the rails Dull under live wires #didcothaiku

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