THIS BABY DEFEATED MESSI

Once again for all of FIFA’s money they’ve still spectacularly failed to match the grandeur of the 2014 World Bowls Championship.

[guy who’s only watched yesterday’s game] why is nobody scoring

Just accidentally called him Ringo Spice, as if the other three are John Spice, George Spice, and Paul Spice

look if you are going to write an article on how ai is bad for academic publishing (which it is), maybe don’t use chatgpt as a search engine when writing it. sounds wild i know

The Google Books preview of the Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment is online early. I have a chapter in here on Water and Waste in Palestinian Literature, which discusses speculative fiction and nature writing as new genres in this context. books.google.co.uk/books?id=HxD...

@emer.bsky.social wrote a beautiful, brilliant book & I'm so excited for you all to read it!

beyond honoured and delighted to receive this blurb for IRISH SHAKESPEARES from @norajw.bsky.social 💚

what if helen of troy left agamemnon bc she was going on love island

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

let him do ‘and they were roommates’

whenever jk rowling is in the news

The difference in my feed between the death yesterday and the death today is a powerful example of how the way we live influences the way we’re remembered. Rest in peace Sam.

RIP to Sam Neill, a brilliant actor who said what needed to be said about the excesses of Big Salted Caramel

this makes me so sad. literally no one did it like sam neill did it. could anyone else do possession, hunt for the wilderpeople, & the most delightful instagram account

one of us ❤️

must be nice to be a MCR fan. none of this toe-curling shame of being a former amanda palmer or arcade fire fan

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

*taps microphone* are we getting a 40th anniversary re-release of something wild this year or not

My Bonnie Tyler-related story: years ago, in the "literal music video" era, my friend posted the one for Total Eclipse of the Heart on Facebook, and his mom made one of the funniest comments I've ever read: "This is only funny to people who have never experienced a real total eclipse of the heart."

‼️ The deadline to apply for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship is fast approaching. Applications must be submitted by 15 July 2026.   Full details and the application portal can be found on our website: rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

Gold Tooth Song for Sally is up today at Poetry Northwest! for da irish legend herself www.poetrynw.org/poetry/gold-...

hello there! i’m getting back into the copyediting/indexing game after a few years’ away. do you need a copyeditor/indexer in the next few months? send me a DM and let’s chat 💌

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

'Tis I! Scroll down the thread for archival recordings of performances and access to scripts from A Two Woman Hamlet 💀💐👑

saw these up-and-comers tonight, look out for them they’ll go far i think x

hiddleswift was ten years ago

Fanon:

you don’t know the woodchuck and his ways

folks i think the next stage of 90s/early 00s nostalgia should be bringing back music video channels. bring back the *real* MTV, The Box, Scuzz, all of it

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty, my one intellectual equal Moriarty: Holmes, my one nemesis, for you alone can match my genius Sherlock Holmes: let us settle this great game, this contest of wills, in the only way it is appropriate *two drunks kick each other in the stomach by a waterfall*

here’s my entry: eyes wide shut is an essential christmas movie

Does anyone know anyone with Hindi and Irish, even a bit of Irish? Have been speaking to a family who recently moved from India, and while the kid is entitled to an exemption they would like to learn some Irish. No comfortable in English yet, so someone to intro it with Hindi would be ideal.

FRASIER: Cornetto, Niles?

FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him THE MUFFIN MAN THE MUFFIN MAN Who's there? FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. THE MUFFIN MAN Long live the king! FRANCISCO The Muffin Man? THE MUFFIN MAN He.

At last. Justice for two very brave women. We now need our society and all institutions to look again at how it can meaningfully respect and protect girls and women and listen to them when they speak up. We believe them.

@jaycoyle.bsky.social me and @lockdownbookclub.bsky.social were reminiscing yesterday about your give me a film and I’ll say if it’s DOGSHIT or not posts. Bring them back!!!!

Look how they massacred my boy... It really bothers me

Imagine if Jabba wasn't so bent on turning the "rancor pit" into a monster's lair. It could have been a really fun space

Jeremy irons was born to play the identical twins in Dead Ringers. He is the spitting image of himself

have texted multiple friends ‘Yet Another Person In Their Mid 30s Who Listens to Olivia Rodrigo and Needs to Let People Know’ today. i’m in this picture and i don’t like it

The answer is always Jack-Ass x

Carmen commissioned me to write a programme note for the Scottish Opera once and she is a really good editor! Not just saying that bc she’s my friend. But if you need someone to copyedit for u she’s the gal to do it