was everyone aware that errol flynn was an enthusiastic supporter of the cuban revolution

this film is genuinely amazing in that literally none of the academic stuff makes any sense whatsoever

🔊 Reminder: Abstracts for the UK American Studies Against the Genocide symposium are due by 6th February. We are also hoping to extend this into a broader network of scholars committed to organising against the genocide in the field. Please share widely + follow the below account.

thinking about the bit in THE TERMINATOR where sarah connor stops at a gas station, stares at her phrasebook, and then looks up and says "gasolina, por favor"

Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??

treacherous times on the ISS during christmas shutdown

the last time I read persuasion I was younger than 27 and now I (41) have to read about how by then the years will have destroyed your youth and bloom

do you think they stopped calling tiny tim tiny when he got a bit older or was he stuck with that for life

"The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticise every rebellion, couldn’t metabolise Palestine. It still can’t."

so much journalism this days is just coming up with different ways to refer to jeffrey epstein

okay!

the guardian wants me to pay to read articles on its app when I can just read them for free in a browser??? lol

repotted my peace lily and now it hates my guts. merry xmas

this recent genAI discourse is at least helping to identify the non-serious scholars. like if your point is to use it to help you find things or summarize things or weed out things that might not be relevant, you are not a serious scholar. and if you can't see why that is, you are a bad scholar :)

friends i am going to make The Pie

david walliams eh

Don't stop talking about the hunger strikers. The government treatment of them should be an enormous national scandal

a thing about EMILY IN PARIS is that more than half of the episodes are directed by the guy who directed THE CRAFT

If you have never applied for a British Academy fellowship before, let me just say that you will need a lot of onboarding and the institution will have internal deadlines, so you should get in touch with your proposed partner institution/faculty mentor no later than end of January.

if you order my book from this link you can support your local UK bookshop and also give me a little commission 🫣 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cine...

ryanair...... no one understands me like you

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

every line reading in when harry met sally... is perfect

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is amazing and hillariously written

Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

anyway enjoy scms lol

have some respect for anne v coates, editor son!!!

need more decoration for my living room and what I would really like is an I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! poster but why do none that I can find do justice to how beautiful it is

not éireann making me want to re-read a christmas carol?!?!

I love the Casablanca franchise.

The AHA, perpetually keeping its power dry for a battle it will never fight. Reupping this because the AHA will always disappoint in this regard. It's a country club, not a union, and when people accept this and opt for something else they'll be happier.

trying to sort out my notes app and there's one that just says this

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Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space. Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex

has a swan ever actually irl had someone's arm off

I'm going to repeat my request that any of my current or former colleagues in the UK think about being more outspoken about this.

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

"I learned about close reading when I asked them to take their own thinking seriously—to take themselves seriously. Doing so, I found, forced me to take my job more seriously." Loved this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

whenever I refer to jim coffee people are always like ?????? but they also always know who I mean. noting this for Science

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!

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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...