It's good that the London Library's signage involves clear spiritual direction

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Six Napoleons (20th August 1986). Lestrade pays Holmes a fulsome tribute.

Annual reminder that readers interested in weird people like H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes, and Robert E. Howard might find my Twentieth-Century Literature article on 'Decadent Dinosaurs' relevant to their interests: read.dukeupress.edu/twentieth-ce....

Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s

Despite paying concerted attention to evolutionary mechanisms, literary scholars have rarely focused on forms of “directed evolution” like orthogenesis (evolution along a linear track) and phylogeront...

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From Frances Hodgson Burnett's fantastic novel 'That Lass O'Lowries' (1877), the brutal reality of working class conditions and the situation of unmarried mothers. A really great read #booksky

I wish news organisations, and yes, you too @theguardian.com , would stop showing videos of missiles hitting their targets. You're just feeding a lurid, man-child horror excitement need there (and doing PR work for those who fired them). People are probably dying in those videos. Please stop this.

Trying to look up references to Queen Boudicca and the area around Tiptree and all crappy #GoogleAI is constantly desperate to tell me about is the 'Tiptree Jam Visitors' Experience' and tea rooms.

Is John Craven immortal? He seems to have been on telly forever... #countryfile

Musical fly tipping. Someone has left a boxed set of junior bagpipes in our street. Luckily for my neighbours, I didn't possess the puff this morning

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Priory School (16th July 1986). Lord Saltire (the ten-year-old son of the Duke of Holdernesse) has disappeared. But Holmes is soon on the trail.

#LifeGoals When my final moments come I hope I'm also able to sing an extempore 'Life Song' or 'Lay' before I expire. I tell you, it's gonna be epic.... From the death of Hallmund in the saga of 'Grettir the Outlaw' #Norse #NorseSagas #Iceland #Vikings #death

The repetition & lack of creativity in adverts for Ai products is rather telling if you ask me

The Dinosaurs are looking mighty fine today

This makes shocking reading. Over half of adults with learning difficulties do not live longer than 65. 'For the general population, that figure is 15%' #autism #Neurodiversity #actuallyautistic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Over half of adults with learning difficulties do not live past 65, report says

The government says the findings are stark, while a campaign group says they should be "headline news".

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This is the world of AI s**t we're descending into. NO, AI-driven bookseller, this is NOT a book that gives 'a compelling exploration of the biblical Exodus story'. It's a Victorian historical novel set in the French Revolution. Wrong subject, wrong AI-Generated picture... #booksky #AIslop

Excellent review of Critical Texts vol. 74, a critical edition of George Chapman's The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense, in the latest issue of British and American Studies: bas-journal.ro/bas-32/

Very happy to say that I'm now on study leave and finally I can get down to doing this!

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New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series! 'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social) All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Today's second-hand bookshop booty...

🔊 New volume in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament. Selected Short Stories', edited by Valerie Fehlbaum 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

You gotta love football commentary: "He gets the ball and then he just keeps going!!!" Well, yeah, you'd hope so....

Lovely visit to this small gem in Palma de Mallorca, Banys Arabs

'They used to rule the waves you know': said by a Spanish border official to his colleague (and to me) as he pointed at the hundreds of hapless Brits struck in a 2 hour passport queue at Palma airport yesterday. He stamped my passport and said, 'this is Brexit' #Brexit #britsonholiday

the coastline of Pembrokeshire is often beautifully, weirdly strange #Wales #Pembrokeshire #StDavids

For me one of the most perfect places in the world: St Davids #Wales

I had the best time at @humanists.uk‘s Festival of Humanism sharing the poetry of historical humanists, hearing about the power of poetry for humanists today & showing this unique scrapbook from @conwayhall.bsky.social‘s archive! Support Conway Hall: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/conway-hall

The Eeyore of the sea. A lonesome seal spotted this morning near Porthclais

This devil crow either wants my soul or my lunch. Probably the former. It's been watching me like this for the best part of an hour.

Welcome to BlueSky Walter Pater! @walterpatersociety.bsky.social

Be an aesthete! Join the Walter Pater Society by subscribing to 'Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism'. Am slowly updating/changing the IWPS website... www.walterpater.com #walterpater

How about a computer-free day at work each week? What a release that would be... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The London school that has screen-free days for pupils, teachers – and parents

Holy Family Catholic primary school says enthusiastic response from parents has been biggest surprise

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Vertigo is a problem on the higher floors of the London library...