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Karl Clemens Kübler @irnbrubeck.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah sex is cool but have you ever als Literaturwissenschaftler ein Datenbankproblem gelöst, während andere Leute zuschauen

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've seen a lot of commentary on this case and I think it's obvious that AfD have terrible reasons for opposing Stolpersteine, *but* I think the current discussion misses important context. Stolpersteine have always been controversial, including/especially among descendents of the Nazis' victims...

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 25/09/2026

Bluesky has got to be the quietest social network I've ever used. I don't get much engagement here, but I always find something interesting, often intellectually engaging, and occasionally something soulful. Unlearning my social media expectations might be the whole ball game.

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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like this has the potential to make all the anti-AI and all the anti-Wittgenstein crowd happy, and this is basically 100% of the philosophy population.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This clip will make a great little artifact for future historians of the AI grift

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Ustindorff @ustinoff.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

"I'm so ill, I will die at this place." "No, you shall live on here and thrive." "Let's call the place Livonia!"

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why is there a Livonia, Michigan? (Wrong answers only)

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's the beginning of a new term and we're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our Autumn/Winter Lecture Series 2026! 🍂 1/3

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join my students and I for a #BHM26 event exploring the life & writing of Ignatius Sancho, including his letters to Laurence Sterne. 12 October 2026, 6–7.15pm Free to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist... The first 20 to book get a free printed copy of our edition. #18c #18thCentury

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This looks like a cool queer history conference!

Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.

Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
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Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
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Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
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The response of rural communities to queer relationships
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Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
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The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look, Jacob Rees-Mogg is a loathsome hypocrite who treats real people like props in his Victorian LARP, but "99% Hitler" is fully unhinged and only makes us look like assholes

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Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Call for papers! “Reading Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Religion and Politics: Marginalia and Manuscripts” @rorymaclellan.bsky.social and I are putting together a panel for next year’s SRS conference in London. Deadline for 200 word abstracts is tomorrow Please get in touch and repost!

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You know this is about *race* specifically rather than some vague notion of "ethnicity and culture" because basically nobody* who meets me would say I'm not English, even though I wasn't born in England and only one of my grandparents is English. *except the most rabid antisemites, of course

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And now people on here are being ratioed for the perfectly reasonable point that it is better that JRM opposes a racial definition of nationality than that he supports it. Some are even being called fascist apologists.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 24/09/2026

It's always May 2016 (or perhaps 1996) in the British discourse on Europe.

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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Might be a necessary read for all medievalists

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah, with those famous opening lines: "Tƿa hīredas, bēġen gelīce on āre, On fæġere Verona, þǣr wē settan ūre scene, Fram ealdum niðe ābrecan tō nīƿum unrōte, Þǣr burglic blōd dēþ burglic handa unclǣne."

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So, I received my ballot to vote in Missouri but, having not lived there since I was a toddler, I'm not sure what the better/lesser-evil options are. I presume I should vote straight Dem is the lesser evil for representatives, but the referenda are more complex. Can anyone offer some guidance?

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My Yom Kippur resolutions are to be more visibly Jewish, left-wing, and pro-LGBTQ, especially while I'm living in East Germany.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Hey! Don't call me a Tankie! I just think that... [the most Tankie shit you have ever read in your entire life]."

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And the winner of the biennial book prize is 🥁 🥁 🥁 Chloe Ireton and her book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic! 🎉 Congratulations @chloeireton.bsky.social!! Find authors’ videos and our judges’ comments for all shortlisted books here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Rigorously researched, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is a model for how to excavate the archive and how to find and reanimate the lives and hidden voices latent in letters, trials and petitions. It uncovers the rich and varied experiences of those whom European legal codes racialised as Black in the Iberian world. Ireton attends sensitively to the violence and trauma of the history of slavery while unearthing how those with African heritage negotiated the legal ecologies of enslavement and liberation in Spain, its colonies, and other Atlantic colonised spaces. The book brilliantly uncovers a conceptual and intellectual history of Black thought in the evidence of these legal and logistical documents. Its command of materials is impeccable and its blueprint for approaching archival research will be felt across disciplines for many years to come. The committee were unanimous in its decision to award this book the prize.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Catholic Church: we've made a few ...changes

Simpsons scene with Catholic women cleaning a car sexually and the line "The Church: we've made a few ...changes"

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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Has anyone collected the evidence for non-Latin and non-Greek cognomina in epigraphic evidence for Roman freed persons?

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So I'm watching For All Mankind and really enjoying it (besides the on-the-nose Americanism), but it's hard not to feel that pseudo-realistic science fiction like this feeds into the tech bro grifts of Musk et al.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Longtermism": saying the absolute worst thing you can think of in a way that makes tech bros think you're smart and moral

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is with great sadness that I announce I will not be performing on Ed Sheeran's tour. I was booked at last minute to perform my 2021 article "From Atheists to Empiricists: Reinterpreting the Stoics in the German Enlightenment" in full, but feel it is instead my duty to take a stand.

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This will be amazing - I love Jackie Kay's writing and she is also a phenomenally good and funny speaker. She's talking about responding creatively to the challenges we face, a very important topic that she'll have tremendous insight on

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ditto pretending all art made by bad people is bad art. When we claim, for example, that Wagner simply was not good at music, all we do is make ourselves look silly.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/09/2026

Hey do we know anyone in bury st Edmund’s??

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I resigned from my government position in the Kingdom of Bohemia today. I spent the last three years defending the House of Habsburg from the Utraquist Estates. Neither is acting responsibly. The Habsburgs are racing to suppress Protestantism while the Peace of Augsburg crumbles. More below.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My girlfriend wanted to watch a creepy movie so we watched Obsession and now she regrets it, which is quite fitting really. One of the most genuinely unsettling films I've seen in a long time.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why, yes, your email did indeed find me well, unusually well, in fact, because you see I have recently come into possession of a very fine cask of amontillado wine. If you would kindly reserve your place on the outlook calendar to come and view it in my unorthodox cellar arrangement…

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/09/2026

These people are all over UK institutions. In many cases they are running them. bsky.app/profile/writ...

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did the DUP pay for this? Hard to imagine Trump's backing will spur a wave of Northern Irish republicanism

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It is entirely fair and reasonable to point out the hypocrisy of people who think racist abuse is only for other people, but I do think this also reflects the very real impossibility of stable fascist politics: it will always be locked in a death spiral pursuit of absolute purity.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Harry Spillane @harryspillane.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW: 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25 A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller, charting the innovations, errors, rivalries and bankruptcies behind the 'book of books' Coming September 2026 tinyurl.com/2p3cdmwp

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Suddenly Tim @3shirts.co.uk · 10/09/2026

A gang of middle-aged white men descending on Dover to welcome immigrants with baklava is a world I'd much rather live in.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Proclaimers come out swinging for Graham Linehan" is such a UK 2026 news story. His wife left him, nobody will hire him, he spends all his waking hours accusing teenagers of being terrorists and groomers online, but at least he's got two blokes with one song from 1988 in his corner.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just in time for Christmas for the most conventioval-on-the-surface goth in your life! (new Machen bio next, anyone?)

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Elon Musk supported the rising neo-Nazi party in Germany. He’s the number one funder of Republicans in the midterms. He’s supporting fascist agitators in England. It’s long past time for anyone who supports democracy to leave his propaganda website. It’s time to boycott X.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does anyone have any tips for housing in Halle (Saale)? I'm looking to move in either December or February. Something small/temporary is also fine as I'll be moving around and don't mind small places, the main thing is to a fixed residence for Anmeldung/application for Aufenthaltserlaubnis.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is the kind of thing you say if your knowledge of Germany is entirely based on pseudo-centrist blogs like Unherd. Absolutely nobody who has spent time in Germany could say this. I've lived in 4 German states in the last 4 years and in each one the talk of immigration has been incessant.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Look I'm going to be honest that Paul Krugman piece doing the rounds comparing AfD with MAGA is, imo, rubbish and based on a completely confused understanding of East Germany and its relationship to the rest of the country.

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