Doc Paperback
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Not the former drummer with Roxy Music. Freelance researcher & writer with an award-winning PhD from St Andrews. Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?' Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
One of these days Egon Toast will be history, but we'll still have the junk he left behind. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
SpaceX rocket about to crash into the moon in unintentional collision
Piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket weighing four tonnes will hit the lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles per hour
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The purpose of life is NOT 'to die with the most toys'.
There's actually a very interesting YouTube video by @mrjamesob.bsky.social in which he examines the pros and cons of redemption in cases like this. Made me think. Go looking for it on the @lbc.co.uk channel.
Doc Paperback@docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d agoYou simply could not make this stuff up.
An era and a cultural movement that I have studied and loved. Some of the most vital and valuable expressions in 20c history and culture.
250 to 250@250to250.bsky.social · 5d agoDr. Dianne Johnson-Feelings is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Johnson-Feelings explores the Harlem Renaissance, the explosion of Black art, music, and literature that reshaped American culture in the early twentieth century. #WeAreAmerica250
The intrinsic value of work ≠ the monetary value of work.
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 3d agoA sadde thinge that we have to worke arounde alwayes ys that the quiet, steadye, patient labor and kyndenesse required to holde up the worlde and keepe us all goinge ys nevir a newes item. Unshowye, ordinarye, hard-won skill at the job you must do for othirs to get on. The greatest honor ys there.
Chatgpt ys the opposite of educacioun. It ys rustinge and dulling our skilles, draininge the knowledge from ower heades lyke sap from trees, makinge us clayme pieces of writinge as our owne when thei are the plagiarism spoor of a nastye heart-free machyne.
Usually you'll find me campaigning for funding for the humanities, but today it's the sciences - both are invaluable. So if you really want the UK to be more of a 3rd rate banana republic with no bananas than it already is, by all means de-fund Jodrell Bank. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Don’t let Jodrell Bank Observatory become another industrial museum | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to reports that the world-famous big dish is facing closure due to spending cuts by UK Research and Innovation
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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.
Q: What is a phenomenologist's favourite Disco track? A: Do the Husserl.
So I get excited by an email telling me of a vacancy as a 'teaching associate' at the University of Cambridge. I click on the link to find that they want someone who can teach Swahili. Hiyo ipo nje ya ujuzi wangu!
Yn a worlde where the humanityes are being systematicallye defunded by both the righte and the lefte, the internet ys one big seminar about the meaninge of *The Odyssey.* Ther ys a lesson yn thys somewher. And the lesson ys: funde the humanityes.
A couple of months ago you couldn't keep Zack Polanski out of the news. Then it all went quiet - were media told to stop giving him publicity? Then today, suddenly he's back! Oh... wait... It's a story that makes him appear in a bad light. Oh what a surprise! 🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Police make inquiries after Farage reports Polanski post for ‘inciting murder’
Green party leader shared picture of man wearing T-shirt with words ‘we’re only making plans for Nigel’ alongside a guillotine
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When I'm alone I get out my favourite ornaments and gaze at them. I'm keeping my shelf to my shelf.
Sean Connery as Henry Jones Sr. Smug Smile
ALT: Sean Connery as Henry Jones Sr. Smug Smile
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I used to tell youngsters who sneered at iambic pentameter that it was based on everyday speech. Illustration, a mother finding her son stripping down a motorcycle engine in the living room: "I've told you time and time and time again, I will not have that bloody thing in here!"
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat do we wante? Iambic pentameter! When do we wante it? "Tell me about a complicated man"
That reminds me - my membership lapsed!
This Is My Glasgow@thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 2w agoSilent Agitator by Ruth Ewan outside Glasgow University's ARC building. It's design is based on US stickers from 1917 which were produced for the Industrial Workers of the World union that bore the words 'What time is it? Time to organize'. Cont./ #glasgow #publicart #sculpture #glasgowuniversity
DO NOT SCROLL PAST THIS! Collapse of ecosystems is a SECURITY threat. Re-post it.
Paul Behrens@profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 2w agoAn ex-general Richard Nugee and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social on why the people who assess threats for a living now count ecosystem collapse as one of them. Ep 1 of @carolinelucas.bsky.social new 4-part series on The Rest Is Politics I'm in ep 2 out Fri www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJUK...
In his 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, historian Robert Paxton identified the passions that had animated fascistic political cultures over the previous 80 years. These may sound familiar.
Here thou hast it!
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2w agoMiddel Englisshe Verb Tyme: The verbe 'to haven' yn Middle Englisshe • Ich have • Thou hast • Thei {sing} / He / She / It hath • Ye have(n), han • We have(n), han • Thei {plur.} have(n), han Fun note: Ne (negatif) + hath kan be combyned: She nath quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
Good news - Wes Streeting is no longer Minister of Health. Bad news - Expect any minute that he will say that trans people can only enlist in the services under the name on their birth certificates. Yeah, I'm being cynical, but still.
Everyone associated with @thespectator1828.bsky.social should hang their heads and weep with shame. It has become a twopenny-ha'penny little hate-rag on which I would not wipe mo thoin. 😡 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia? | Nesrine Malik
A report on the Spectator’s coverage of Muslims makes for grim reading. Conservatism is now focused on this minority to the exclusion of everything else, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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