This is important. I learnt stuff. I sobbed. Please watch it. You will not regret it. Thanks @lindsayellis.bsky.social Still got my Team Lindsay pin.

Forgot I had a linktree linktr.ee/jdhdoveton

They really should separate baby health and safety guidance into: • Bad habits to get into, that are fine to do once or twice but have longterm risks, and • Things that might kill your baby if you do them even once. I understand that people still wouldnt be able to discern the difference, tho.

When my partner was pregnant the midwife told them to not eat mangoes because they are unhealthy. Fresh fruit is unhealthy.

Joy, including: Joy, Sadness and Sadness. Anger, including: Sadsad

See how easy it is to say the right things about Palestine? Turns out you don't need 20 months to write an agonizing wishy washy essay. Or 12 months to make a video essay.

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is like: First half: fun boys adventure story with a gothic mansion, kidnapped on a ship, fighting pirates, surviving on an island, hiding from the English, trekking the Highlands. Second half: homoerotic fan fiction about a historical Jacobite soldier.

From @jdhdoveton.bsky.social, a useful insight to keep in mind whenever a columnist claims a paradoxical indulgence while condemning it, which is quite a lot

So if anyone here is reading this and has similar feelings I'm begging you to go and find local leftist groups that you fit in with and help them, because if you think the left has done nothing but be online and complain then you simply don't know what the left is doing right now.

reactionary centrists have a totally incoherent theory of politics whose primary upshot is that they validate and legitimize the far right

This is extremely disappointing. When you've just admitted that a genocide is happening, it's bizarre to spend the rest of your post criticizing the manners and motives of the people trying to stop it.

"Vote for the slow and gentle genocide party, or you're a fuckin traitor!" Beyond satire.

Mmmm nice I haven't had a long Sunday nap since... the last Dune film came out!

I don't know why I was surprised by Death Comes to Pemberley being fanfic. It's a fan fiction.

@benlitherland.bsky.social Hi Ben. Would you consider doing an episode of your podcast on so-called "aspirational media" and its supposed effects?

I have a new post on my blog, which started out as a letterboxd review of The Creator (2023) and expanded out into a diatribe about men who don't seem to understand science fiction. jdhdoveton.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/o...

Agree. I count as the dad under such laws so I was only entitled to 2 weeks, and it sucks. 2 weeks is nothing. Eurgh.

Every term my university slaps me in the face by inviting me to submit my work to a competition an arts researcher will never win.

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

If I went back to school now I'd be one of the students who gets extra time. It's funny, I was sent to learning support a few times because they couldn't understand why someone who got As in their coursework was getting Cs in exams. I was only getting through 1/3rd of the paper. Extra time helps!

This is the British Medical Association 👇

Chat GPT really stepped up for those people who always dreamed of being a literary fraud, but couldn't be bothered to put work into the grift.

Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l

Fantasy scholars help me out. There's a lot of talk of "the fantastic" and fantasy-as-mode in the literature. There's a lot of writing on fantasy as "more than a genre". There's a lot of speculating about what fantasy is, what it does, how it is experienced as a form...

Omg u guys just realised the copy and paste is FUUUUCKED on this thing

So funny to me when British people go abroad and 'worry' about 'being ripped off' when this country is one big rip off. Sales are fake. I've never seen a genuine sale in my life. Charity shops charge more than primark. Clubcard price is literally just the real price. Pubs charge £6 for 6 chips.

If you're appalled at the government's treatment of disabled people, in work, out of work, on PIP, off PIP; you should have been paying attention to the switch to individualised and occupational models of care introduced at the turn of the millennium.

New podcast. This about how far right talking points distract us from eliminating the state violence of neoliberal capitalism open.spotify.com/episode/2wmH...

Google Scholar, which has desperately needed an update for about ten years, has finally added a new feature - a PDF reader. Sounds good, except they've only added it to show off an AI summary bot - summarising each PDF each time you open it.

Could be a good moment to reflect that the paramilitary & carceral apparutus of "border security" isn't designed to mitigate crimes but to restrain and violate people. Inventing an idea of "illegal people" in your head might help you hide from that point, but the weapon is purpose built to harm you.

What people don't understand about benefits like PIP, Universal Credit (Jobseekers) and Access to Work is they are propping up a private sector that does not want to pay a living wage, doesn't want to hire disabled people, people with care responsibilities, etc.

@fcoppa.bsky.social wake up, the corporate accounts have discovered vidding.

I am devastated that I missed all the memos on this. 😭

I've got an extra copy to give away of Authenticity and Adaptation! If you repost this, I'll pick from one of the reposters next Thursday (20th) and mail it out. 💀📖

I'm going to start off my Bsky journey by plugging my blog. By plugging my blog I hope that I will be motivated to write on my blog. jdhdoveton.wordpress.com

Hello! I hope to rebuild my network of academics/filmmakers/writers/educators on here so please follow if you are any of those!