Blue skies over Goose Fair!
28.09.2025 16:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@fuggbug.bsky.social
James Barrow Professor of French and Head of Department of Languages, Cultures and Film @liverpooluni.bsky.social Co-founder http://ilesmondes.wordpress.com To be found somewhere between the prison and the beach.
Blue skies over Goose Fair!
28.09.2025 16:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reading Vidocq while putting a load of laundry on
04.08.2025 16:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Between the Roman prison and the pool!
16.07.2025 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0After almost a year in Liverpool we finally made it to the beach!
13.07.2025 17:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dreyfusβ spectacles from his time on Devilβs Island
29.06.2025 13:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2025/07/TRAC... by my excellent friend Samuel Tracol
26.06.2025 19:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New club med spotted in Provence!
26.06.2025 07:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Marseille vibes
22.06.2025 11:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Little trip to Paris to work on a chapter of my book looking at the clinical-carceral gaze so seems fitting to be staying round the corner from rue Charcot - the gaze to end all gazes
19.06.2025 17:23 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mount Fuji
Todayβs view.
16.04.2025 04:59 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."
20.02.2025 17:28 β π 774 π 262 π¬ 21 π 17"In my old neighborhood, $300 could get you drugs, alcohol, tattoos, even a used handgun. Feeling guilty for disappointing my family by going to prison, there was no way Iβd burden them by asking for money for textbooks."
07.02.2025 22:16 β π 57 π 10 π¬ 3 π 1"[B]est of all, though, is the food. Fans go all out, with buddies pooling their resources for weeks to collect ingredients from the canteen. Some turn to the black market for onions, cheese or spices stolen from the kitchen β whatever it takes to build a meal ... Nachos are a perennial favorite."
12.02.2025 00:33 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0After Writing About Prison Censorship, I Got Blocked From Messaging My Sources
21.01.2025 01:10 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 0 π 4βEssentialβ: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires.
11.01.2025 12:28 β π 27 π 7 π¬ 1 π 3π£CALL FOR PAPERS π£
Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at CeΓ²las (South Uist) and online.
DL for proposals 15 Jan.
For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W
French humour.
Vaut mieux en rire, qu'en ... Rire !
First swim of 2025 and thereβs nobody else hereβ¦
02.01.2025 04:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0district 7 going all out with the karaoke tonight
01.01.2025 12:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Spotted in HCMC - a birthday cake for Serge Gainsbourg
26.12.2024 12:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All I want for Christmas is to pull a loose book from a bookshelf and finally, at long last, find that it opens a hidden door.
24.12.2024 11:53 β π 10518 π 892 π¬ 256 π 64checking out of a hotel and somebody actually came
to reception to pick up a fax
Today in HCMC am reminded of @arohelmet.bsky.social βs point that only the streets named after
doctors kept their French names after Vietnamese independence
Congratulations to Bilbaoβs House of the Basque Language, Euskararen Etxea, on winning the Council of Europe Museum Prize π
The prize honours museums that make βsignificant contribution to the understanding of European cultural heritageβ.
In the sensory overload of HCMC at Xmas, itβs a tough job trying to stand out but Notre Dame might be this yearβs winnerβ¦
18.12.2024 11:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Le 40e anniversaire du discours de FΓ©lix Tiouka Γ Awala #Guyane pour les droits des peuples autochtones. Un texte dβHΓ©lene Ferrarini.
12.12.2024 05:24 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
The Beckett Advent calendar by the inimitable @tomgauld.bsky.social
"Senegalese President Diomaye Bassirou Faye, evoking the 80th anniversary of the massacre by French soldiers of Senegalese troops recently freed from German prisoner-of-war camps...told Le Monde that βsoon there will be no more French soldiers in Senegal.β
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