Sam Solnick

Bloody Hell Warwick, WTAF

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Another day, another moron telling us we support genocide

Delighted to see this finally announced!
Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards
Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!

*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The UK government's plan to extend terrorism laws is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. Join us in opposing this repressive move. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...

Hugo Boss tells Liverpool owner of Boss Pets to take down company website Small business latest to be targeted by fashion house over use of word boss, slang for ‘great’ in Merseyside

A) BOSS Pets: A merseyside pet shop whose name plays on the Liverpool word meaning "very good"
B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour.

And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild.

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yet another reason Val is the queen of crime and she-who-shall-not-be-named will only every be a derivative, unloved and unloving pretender.

YouTube video by Ruairi Robinson BOOTS - poem by Rudyard Kipling, but synthwave & with giant cartoon monsters

although THIS might actually be an even better appropriation of Boots than 28 Years Later www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVoi...

TBH using Kipling in a film about a small, rage-fuelled island caught up myths of militarism is a bit of a tonic. Because every time if I hear "the nation's favourite poem" is bloody "IF" I die a little inside. 2

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment 28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)

I can't get the absolutely harrowing recording of Kipling's poem "Boots" in 28 Years Later out of my head as it goes from metronomic to hysterical 1

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Nah
First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context.
Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"

My wife thinks she drives because I am a danger to myself and others who can't check his left-hand mirror without swerving...little does she know she's just my beard

Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this.

No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?"

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The trouble with having so many MPs from two certain universities is that they seem to think every other university a) is worthless b) is not the cornerstone of many local economies

as ever our excellent PhD students doing typically excellent things

Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’

Famous Scientists Discover New Formula for Pusillanimity

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We have never been human;
but I'll try anything once

Have you heard the good news is the bad news?

Every time an editor says 'kill your darlings' a demon child dies

(only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨

Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social

So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

"He's Not the Messiah He's a Very Naughty Boy"

Keir Starmer speaks in Washington: 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

Nation Estate (2012) — Larissa Sansour The Nation Estate project consists of a 9-minute sci-fi short film and a photo series offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in...

As it happens am teaching Larissa Sansour's 2012 film Nation Estate today -- which imagines Gaza as a skyscraper Ballardian nightmare -- so it's going to be interesting to see the students discuss how this has gone from SF-dystopia to policy plan in a decade larissasansour.com/Nation-Estat...

My Eye Movement?

Rapid.

It made me want to split your skull with my proboscis and suck your delicious brains out

‘Trump Gaza is finally here!’: US president promotes Gaza plan in AI video | CNN US President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted a video on his Truth Social account, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like re...

Universities: students, the main problem with AI is that not declaring you use it might affect your marks.

AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again!

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Sending love mate; and well said. Am so sorry ❤️

Dengue Boy - Serpent's Tail

Just finished @rrrahul.bsky.social's amazing translation of this neon nightmare of a book by Michel Nieva which was just as thrillingly weird and wonderful as the cover suggests and totally gross in all the best ways
serpentstail.com/work/dengue-...

As I begin wading through the whirlwind of semi-colons that signals the beginning of marking season I am going to keep murmuring this to myself for comfort...

My niece, bemused at me getting weepy while we were watching the end of Paddington 3: "are you crying because they have to eat marmalade forever now"

Nasa: Asteroid 2024 YR4 less likely to hit Earth than thought Following new calculations, the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has been slashed by half

Quite something that this is the most positive headline I've read in 2025
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