Ben Cartlidge
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Classics. Languages. Cat. Violin.
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"there is always an oligarchy" - words of Ronald Syme I never forget
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3 months ago
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Someone is excited that it's
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"there is always an oligarchy" - words of Ronald Syme I never forget
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Jolyon Maugham KC
3 months ago
Then and now the focus on individuals - Peter Mandelson and Michelle Mone - diverts attention from the real point. Our institutions, which should protect the public, just nod along with what is a kind of theft by the privileged. No one goes to prison, no one is ever held accountable.
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Where could the cat be?
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Be cat, do climbs; then nest and be cosy.
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She also got a new perch for Christmas
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Who says black cats don't photograph well?
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OCTOPUS!!!
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4 months ago
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The darkness brooded on the arms of the chair
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Neville Morley
4 months ago
Four hundred oligarchs, Fear, honour and interest, A bipolar conflict And a ĪŗĻįæĪ¼Ī¬ į¼Ļ αἰεὶ.
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Neville Morley
4 months ago
On the ninth day of Christmas, Thucydides sent to me Nine IR Realists Eight toiling triremes Seven sorry Spartans Six truest causes Tragic irony!
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the Mountain Goats
4 months ago
because for me while yes pleasure is central to the effort, itās a complex pleasure that can be transformative if I allow it to be, and ābe less ignorantā is a yearly, endlessly renewable goal
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Nyx ruling Christmas
4 months ago
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Being nursed back to health by Nyx and the power of sleepies
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Recent Nyx, featuring help on academic tasks; sleepies; independent study of philosophy; and pure joyful posing
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Krittika
5 months ago
*enters the room, cloak flapping* āThis opuscule appears to me utterly remissā *leaves*
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James Chalmers
5 months ago
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
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I read the stuff academics wrote and knew I could do the same or better.
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The reckless joy of the addict
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This was terrific fun - sharing my own 'bit', but do watch the whole thing!
www.youtube.com/live/T7x5syH...
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Overboard! 2025
YouTube video by Classics for All
https://www.youtube.com/live/T7x5syHvlSY?si=V54VbpySpHmJ32dx&t=2460
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New Nyx furniture
6 months ago
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As always, Nyx is grateful to
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for telling her papa to get silvervine
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trouteyes
6 months ago
Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.
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John Gallagher
6 months ago
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.
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It was Black Cat Day yesterday and we missed it! Sorry Nyx.
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#Caturday
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Schattenfroh + Schatten
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It was the curry best of times. It was the Currywurst of times.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows
7 months ago
Compulsory Greek & Latin course for medical students propose
punchng.com/don-seeks-co...
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Don seeks compulsory Greek, Latin course for medical students
A Professor of Classics at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Olakunbi Olasope, has urged the introduction of a compulsory course in Greek and Latin roots of
https://punchng.com/don-seeks-compulsory-greek-latin-course-for-medical-students/
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Margot Finn
8 months ago
'universities are not companies...their leaders do not play a direct role in fulfilling the academic mission. Their role is twofold: to ensure the financial solvency of the institution, and to create the conditions in which academic staff and students can pursue excellence. Both are essential.' 1/2
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Leaders and academics must rebuild trust ā or risk losing excellence
Threat of financial collapse is causing universities to double down on an officious management style that is sapping academic morale, undermining excellence and damaging collegiality between academiaā...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/leaders-and-academics-must-rebuild-trust-or-risk-losing-excellence
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madeline odent
8 months ago
thereās an essay here about when the joke starts in the U.K. it just gets an extra long day by rolling west but if it starts in the states when Australia is awake we can all keep it going indefinitely
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Ra Ra Rasputna, Lover of the orange tsar There was a cat that really was gone!
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9 months ago
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Sam Spinner
9 months ago
Personally, I wonāt even say hello to A.I. Just a death stare.
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Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/humanities-college-ai.html
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Tonight Nyx listened to Ethel Smyth and learned about feminism.
9 months ago
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Some recent Nyx pics
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Margot Finn
9 months ago
A well known, longstanding and important problem gets another look in a new HEPI report this week. Link to the HEPI report is:
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/t...
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Students in England shun foreign languages at A-level, report finds
Ofqual figures show a sharp fall in pupils taking exams in French and German
https://www.ft.com/content/b138178c-e741-45fe-b053-05420713c04f
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GONZO the Ca'at
11 months ago
Hallo lett me intorduce myselve I am Gonzo Ca'at I will bite yore enomys fore a smol cashmonie fee or perhabs a treet of pupperpony
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Then again, I might use this next time I need an example of a false dichotomy
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11 months ago
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This isn't a drinking game, this is downing a bottle of vodka through a straw.
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11 months ago
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"Damn you, curtain, why must you oppose my will?"
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Nyx clearly wants something and I can't figure out what. (I'm aware the answer is almost certainly dreamies...) but she seems more insistent than usual.
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Irina Dumitrescu
12 months ago
Quoted here: my earlier piece for
@thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-writ...
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Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? Universities Arenāt Ready for the Answer | The Walrus
AI is here to stay. Itās up to educators to articulate why writing still matters
https://thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-writing/
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Irina Dumitrescu
12 months ago
I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it
open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
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What makes me mad about AI in education
How to crush a generation and tell them they're winning
https://open.substack.com/pub/irinadumitrescu/p/what-makes-me-mad-about-ai-in-education?r=5sjf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Omg
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12 months ago
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I don't want to be cynical, he lied, but is it possible Trump talked to Zelensky in the Vatican just so the story would be about him?
12 months ago
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One of those things that's actually completely obvious when you think about it but still seems bizarre.
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Meeting them, and briefly wondering if I might be one.
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about 1 year ago
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Tyler, from the Internet
about 1 year ago
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Intertextual links between commentaries on epigram and The Proclaimers
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