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We Rule the School Belle and Sebastian · Tigermilk · Song · 1996

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Astrolabe The New Eves · The New Eve Is Rising · Song · 2025

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I still have boxes of videos, CDs, DVDs, vinyl, cassettes and kids tell me to keep!

Yup. When we moved a couple of years ago we gave all the DVDs to Oxfam. Hooge mistake. Lots of stuff is not easily available on streaming services. Or is distributed all over the place.

Good reason to get old tech - have unitary function

I would - a lot of films not on streaming plus I hear people worry about streamed films being edited

Was a big admirer of the cheap Folio series on a recent trip

Keith Ansell Pearson’s photo is magnificent

If I claim the demi-god then, why not the prophet?

Oh yes! Your philosophy publishing career! You were great at that!

I worked on that book at Routledge! It was my job to email people weekly until they sent me their photos. 😆

I just think your barber was more zealous then

In 2025 Chaosium turns 50, making us the oldest ongoing roleplaying publisher in the industry. We're delighted to have a special display cabinet at #Gen_Con, celebrating the games that have captivated gamers, readers and mythic adventurers worldwide for the past half-century.

@jowolff.bsky.social your post made me think of this nice book of interviews from 2002

best wishes on your retirement - very much enjoyed reading your work and your posts over the years

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real

Staff ‘demoralised’ by lack of career progression amid cost cuts Promotion freezes at UK universities exacerbate frustrations caused by mass redundancies and low pay rises, with academics warning it could force more people out of the sector

A lack of career progression within UK universities is “demoralising” staff and threatening to push people out of the sector, it has been warned, as institutions respond to the financial crisis by freezing promotions and concentrating hiring on lower-level positions
#academicsky #edusky

Foreign-Student Enrollments Could Nosedive This Fall Estimates suggest 150,000 fewer new students could be awarded U.S. visas. International-ed groups are urging the State Dept. to deal with the backlog.

Red alert for student visas: Education groups warn that new international enrollments at American colleges could fall by more than 30 percent unless the State Department deals with a serious bottleneck. chroni.cl/41ikMAn

Ozzy Osbourne: Fans gather to watch cortege's public procession through Birmingham A cortege for the Black Sabbath frontman will be driven through Birmingham so fans can say goodbye.

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Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Sounds nice though! I do get some that are things like ‘90s Britpop’

@lastpositivist.bsky.social

I’m surprised it’s only on Tuesday evenings

Oh ffs guys. Philosophy, are you okay? Blink twice if you're in trouble.

i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm trying to stop

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Fantastic!

Excited to be returning to the Star Trek universe as Captain Sulu in the new original podcast series, Star Trek: Khan! Star Trek: Khan premieres on Star Trek Day, September 8. Follow the series wherever you get your podcasts today! link.podtrac.com/star-trek-khan

have fun and safe travels