Thought for the day: On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).

The other hero of this story is clearly his mom, Félicité Garzon Delvaux: '“Art and museums are living spaces,” she said. “Life without art is not life.”'

I just donated. Oxford people, join if you can.

I was just teaching Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind', and autumn leaves started blowing into the classroom through the windows, right on cue. At these moments, I don't care that I'm a bajillion dollars in debt for my education. Worth it. ❤️✊ www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45134/...

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

Even I thought this was one of mine!

"Hello wall" Such a simply device but so powerful for anyone that's ever felt unheard. RIP Pauline Collins

Fellow writer/media types: I'm writing a Wuthering Heights essay pegged to the forthcoming Emerald Fennell adaptation and need a Warner Brothers contact so that I can either procure a screener or attend a press screening. Can someone help me? Signal boosts appreciated!

Put simply, this government’s policy seems to be ‘who needs education?’. I predict this is going to lead to some problems.

Admittedly I haven't seen the show, but I loathe this genre (educated, ambitious city-dwelling woman brought down to earth / humbled by men in her hometown). 🙄

See also 'Ozymandias'. Other Shelley poems are available. 😬

WHO WANTS A HUG 🤗🌳

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.

UK to launch pilot scheme that helps homeless people access banking Five biggest banks take part in programme that will also help domestic abuse victims recover their credit score www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What.

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Breaking news: US stocks have dropped as jitters over highly elevated valuations for many artificial intelligence companies intensified and top Wall Street executives said markets were vulnerable to a pullback. on.ft.com/4hIMmhj

From Gutenburg to Morris. A detail of the facade of Everard's printing works, Broad Street, Bristol for #TilesOnTuesday. It was by William James Neatby, chief designer for Doulton & Co, 1901.

A total and utter hero

Angel Clare. Next question?

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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

“There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us.

In the US in 2025, “Should politics affect relationships?” is a gutless, poorly veiled way of asking “Should disagreements about which kinds of people should count as human affect relationships?”, which is a question that only someone trying to limit the kinds of people who count as human would ask.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Are you an American in the UK worried about those back home losing SNAP benefits? Visit your (USA) County webpage - a lot of them are listing recommended links for donations & local support.

Can somebody please point me in the direction of a GOOD audio recording of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem? I'm trying to persuade someone that he's wildly original & modern, but every reader I've come across so far sounds like Gielgud doing a parody of Olivier. 😬

He's not kidding. Astonishing.

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Christina Rossetti would have been pleased, I think. Here is her memorial sonnet for John Henry Newman, who 'Chose love not in the shallows, but the deep'. 🏳️‍🌈

'O’Neill had found and photographed the likely location of Anna Maria’s plot in the churchyard of St Andrew’s...while doing her A-levels in 1977'. Wish the article would tell us how an A-level student's research ended up in 'Cambridge’s Magdalene College archive' www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

“For one child to go missing represents an abject failure of the state to protect the most fragile and abused in their care. These numbers are in the hundreds.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So far, several toddlers: 'tank oooo'; my kid's friends from school: 'we don't know you, weird lady!'; costumed adults accompanying their kids: 'this is how we always dress, actually' & a gaggle of teenage boys: 'cool pumpkin!' (it's Totoro). I ♥️ Halloween. 🦇🎃👻

A one-thousand-percent increase in 3 years, ENTIRELY based on the premise that "AI" systems currently being given away for free will eventually force hundreds of millions of people to pay subscriptions to be able to live their daily lives. Just say no.

One reason the US lacks public investment in paid sick, family, and parental leaves is because of a tacit assumption that women will continue to do this work. www.forbes.com/sites/adiaha...

Tell me again how literature isn't relevant in today's world, etc. 👑

Chef's kiss for the last post in this particular thread. Bravo. ✊

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

'Gas Lamp, Goodwin's Court, Bedfordbury End' by Jack Russell jackrussell.co.uk

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

'Within 28 days it found an increase in cells in the blood – called T regulatory cells – that protect the body from autoimmune diseases. Other research showed that in just two weeks children’s immune system regulation could be improved by playing in a sandpit enriched with garden soil.'

ChatGPT: "Hello Ozymandias, Kynge of Kynges. Ich wolde love to make a colossal statue of you, just you, and how wondirful you are!"

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Some Emily Dickinson street art seen in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

'Proposals to reform assessment and the way teaching quality is measured risk standardising university curricula and treating institutions like big schools, critics have warned.' 'Big schools' does rather appear to sum up DfS's conception of universities, sadly. 1/3