Let's play a new game: check how many people in the #Epstein files have published a book/spoke up against so-called #cancelculture.

Diamond Life@diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 22h ago

The @splcenter.org 's latest "Year in Hate and Extremism" report has classical columns on the cover. They're more apt for this report than even the report's authors know. curtisdozier.substack.com/p/classical-...

Classical Symbolism and American Identity

The cover of the SPLC's latest Hate and Extremism Report is even more apt than its authors know

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"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Glastonbury will return in 2027. Rod Liddle, won't

Marx totally had ADHD. The dude hardly ever finished anything, and his critique of capitalism is basically "don't make us do things that don't give us dopamine hits".

anecdotally, everyone I know who has managed to get an ADHD diagnosis - all of whom have had to scrape the money together to go privately because the waiting list is 18 years or some shit - have found the diagnosis and the meds generally life-changing. huge improvements in quality of life

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · 3d ago

can't stress enough this assault on neurodivergent people is fucking grim because of how difficult it is to get any kind of support if you're an adult. and that's not even including the hoops you have to jump through and frankly how western-centric it all is.

Turns out it's been quite difficult to move it leftward even on PicsArt

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

hi, social scientist here. assigning a label of "ADHD" to a pattern of genetic markers, behavior, and response to medication is a process of social construction. the switch from calling it ADD to ADHD? redefining the criteria to catch it more in girls? both products of social (re)construction.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

anyway, the question being posed is something more akin to "is ADHD defined too broadly, such that everyone gets a diagnosis, treatment, and accommodations even if I don't think they deserve them?" and the answer to *that* is a hearty "fuck you."

I created this page for the flat earth people like the Daily Scientologist, oops the BBC. Multiple studies showing the Clinical Evidence of The Existence of ADHD as a Real Condition addcoach4u.com/does-adhd-re...

Does ADHD Really Exist?

Does ADHD Really Exist? Ammunition to deal with the scientifically illiterate flat earth people who deny ADHD is a real condition

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If it had been a Muslim who blew up a UNESCO site you’d all be crying about the fall of western civilisation and loading explosives into American fighter jets 🤢

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 5d ago

💥 700 tons of explosives. Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night. A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

Those of us who sent the letter here ( royalhollowayucu.org/2026/06/26/r...) received the exact same empty stock response as the one in the post. It's a disgrace.

Geoffrey Hughes@geofffhughes.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am also in this faculty and, reader, it shows. UK unis are in their bullshit jobs era now: "In my faculty, six administrators support ten managerial roles at faculty level while another six administrators support departments with their 900 FTE academic staff who teach 10,000 students."

I am also in this faculty and, reader, it shows. UK unis are in their bullshit jobs era now: "In my faculty, six administrators support ten managerial roles at faculty level while another six administrators support departments with their 900 FTE academic staff who teach 10,000 students."

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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Just a few minutes away from my hometown (where I am now). Remember the site perfectly as I went there often as a kid (with our little "pattino" boat) and explored it. Such an exciting discovery!

Matthias Hoernes@matthiashoernes.bsky.social · 2w ago

The incredible Villanovan lake-dwelling settlement of Gran Carro has yielded parts of a vertical, warp-weighted loom, a new textile fragment, and a basket that was used for producing cheese or other milk products. #AncientBluesky 🏺 www.storicang.it/a/piu-antico...

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

1 2/3 modules (6-8 contact hours) 2. When I can/must (urgency/panic mode) 3. After 5 pm (both because of ADHD and office hours) 4. ADMIN (and pastoral care) 5. Better consistency than a day a week (but I'm not super successful at this)

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 4d ago

Academics who write during term (i.e. while teaching): 1. How many classes do you teach per term? 2. How often do you write (e.g. once/wk, when you can, etc.)? 3. When do you write (e.g. weekend, morning, at night, etc.)? 4. What's the biggest barrier(s) to you writing? 5. Do you have any tips?

Is it unintentional? Or is shrinking HE actually the plan, given the incoming demographic dip? Either way, just another thing in which Starmer's government has been much closer to the hard right than to a (tepid) Center-center-center-left.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d ago

He's not pulling his punches. Good to see the arguments in the public domain. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The EU is such a painfully racist endeavour

I tried to make a joke about Kurt Vile but it was too offensive

Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 5d ago

I tried to make a joke about cake fondant but it was too hard to mold.

Going to be difficult to make good telly by repeating "yes, yes, it is" for one hour

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

This is what I mean by technoptimism

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 6d ago

our age of bros is collapsing

Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.

Very interesting thread from Nick Harkaway below. For me, what jumps out, is that this identical direction is taken by the #Education ministry Giuseppe Valditara in the Italian far right government. Gramsci's points about the introduction of the Gentile reform in Fascist Italy can help us think - a🧵

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last wk.

I don’t have anything close to a knowledge base that would allow me to evaluate this from and education pov. BUT I am fascinated by one aspect. 1/n www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The debate about ZP's collab on here today is a helpful reminder that liberals will always take the bait. Self-victimisation is a crucial part of fascists' current political strategy (see Meloni), while they advocate for racially-motivated riots, arsons, attacks, and even remigration.

I don’t have anything close to a knowledge base that would allow me to evaluate this from and education pov. BUT I am fascinated by one aspect. 1/n www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs

PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market

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Last Spring I met a scholar who had been collecting references to ancient Greece and Rome in the Epstein files. There's a lot there and I invited them to write it up for Pharos. Content warnings apply. pharos.vassarspaces.net/2026/07/27/j...

Ancient Greece and Rome in the Epstein Files

The Epstein files reveal Epstein's deep fascination with Greco-Roman antiquity, making this notorious sex criminal a sobering illustration of how easily the prestige of

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But yes, despite the disagreements, still very much worth reading and thinking with.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Somehow it was the most irritating part for me. Despite loving her translation, this is not the only point I seem to disagree with in her review.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

9. By far my favorite thing in the film is Robert Pattinson's hilarious and sexy Antinous. If anyone ever wants to make a spin off TV series with Antinous risen from the dead to mess with other mythical households, I would be so there for it.

And @luxmea.bsky.social has an important article on this as well. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine - Volume 1

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If you are a @theguardian.com reader you wouldn’t know that the largest ever gathering of trans people in history yesterday was protesting against the Burnham government’s transphobic hate-policies. It had an article about making an omelette though.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.