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“Side with the child over the gun, no matter whose gun or whose child.”

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Williams College - Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies

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Assistant Professor of English Bowdoin College’s Department of English invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2026, in the long eighteenth century i...

18th c people!!!! Check out this TT job in the long 18th c in Bowdoin’s English department. We could be #C18 buddies!!!!!

Time travel works

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

I might have to rewatch

I watched I Will Destroy You at the time and didn’t need to watch anything else.

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Yuki Kihara's acclaimed Paradise Camp, including new work Darwin Drag, will next be exhibited at the Whitworth in Manchester. Well worth seeing! 🌊🐠🌈

3 October 2025 - 1 March 2026

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#art #artist #exhibition #queer #Manchester #Darwin 🗃️

Lecturer (Education) in Modern European History at Queen's University Belfast Apply now for the Lecturer (Education) in Modern European History role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

A proper 12-month replacement post with decent salary (for UKHE, at least) in modern European history. Belfast is a decent place to live - relatively affordable apart from extortionate pint prices - and I can personally vouch for what a great & friendly School we have.
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* I mean Irish as shorthand for anyone with direct experience of the Celtic Tiger in this case.

If you’re Irish this is a very interesting and strangely satisfying (I don’t know why?) thread.

Beat me to it!

The (largely) female super models used for promotional photo shoots and model culture often linked to TV3.

Real change is coming.

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We only went on one holiday abroad.

Totally. And never changes.

It’ll be heart breaking - once again - when we inevitably find out that the programme is full of posh people masquerading as working class. Because that always happens.

‘I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do’ - James Baldwin

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a man with a blue sticker on his face is hugging another man in front of a building Alt: a man with a blue sticker on his face is hugging another man in front of a building

Watched a Curzon screening of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ (1985) and never felt more in 2025. Thatcher’s Britain as portrayed in the film feels very present. Watch it or rewatch.

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

Very exciting opportunity, Assistant Keeper, in Irish Antiquities Division, National Museum of Ireland

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In Ireland people stay quiet during a film. Well at any rate that was my experience and frame of reference up until NYC.

2006 NYC screening of The Devil Wear’s Prada. I’d never attended a film screening in the US before so wasn’t used to audience interaction with a film. Lots of quips and hollering at Meryl Streep for even just appearing on screen. I thought the interaction was wild. A paratext of sorts.

Covid inquiry hears of ‘huge rollback’ in rights and support since pandemic Disabled people have undergone a “huge rollback” in their rights and social security support since the pandemic, a disability rights campaigner and adviser has told the Covid inquiry. Despite polit…

Disabled people have undergone a “huge rollback” in their rights and social security support since the pandemic, a disability rights campaigner and adviser has told the Covid inquiry.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/covid-inquir...

Pamela Anderson embracing Liam Nelson- poster of The Naked Gun.

The Naked Gun was exactly what it needed to be. A film.

Wanted to share this exciting new CfP for a Trans Studies special issue in @early-am-lit.bsky.social ! 📜

With Clearing inching closer on the horizon, a vortex I’ll be sucked into for a few weeks, I think I’ll just read for kicks this weekend …

I can tell you that in the 17th and 18th century when Britain was inventing the fossil fueled economy, and when people called their society a patriarchy and meant it as a compliment, no one said this kind of thing.