Wie ich eure Timeline betrete.

I will be co-hosting this LGBT History Month event in Leeds, 18th Feb (next week!) A brief legal history of gay rights, queer wrongs, lesbian laws, trans panics, bisexual grey areas, and the long (and continuing) fight for freedom! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

Now playing: The Modern Lovers, Road Runner www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy88...

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It has been raining since early January. The ground is oversaturated. The mind is, too.

Cognitive dissonance from looking at LinkedIn first and then reading a text by Sara Ahmed on Substack.

AfD-Abgeordnete konsequent traditionalistisch. Die Regeln einer ausdifferenzierten parlamentarischen Demokratie bleiben ihnen fremd.

Unfassbar gut.

Wäre hilfreich. 👍

🔴 Das ist eine richtig gute Nachricht: Der erste Impfstoff gegen die gesamte SARS-Virusfamilie geht in die klinische Prüfung. Er soll vor COVID-19 schützen, aber auch vor anderen Coronaviren – einschließlich einiger, die noch nicht auf Menschen übergesprungen sind. ➡️ www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

Last week on Wonkhe: Though the numbers involved are small, last year saw a sharp rise in international recruitment to non-PhD research degrees. Mark Bennett asks what is going on

superb owl:

#litwiss Hat jemand “Am Nullpunkt der Literatur” von Roland Barthes als PDF? Danke.

So. Ich hätte dann TikTok durchgespielt.

heute frisst er kreide morgen die geisslein

quality duck (quack)

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

Jetzt im Portrait: Tino - ein Faschist wie du und ich.

Warum ich gerade an Dieter Glawischnig denken musste, weiß auch niemand.

CFP The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Fairy Tale 1–2 May, free online Presentations invited on any aspect of #sciencefiction, #fantasy, or #fairytale in the Long #C19 as well as modern reinterpretations of the #C19 in literature & media docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Content notice: suicide

Es könnte alles noch schlimmer werden. Stellt euch vor, Quantenphysik beweist, dass Homöopathie funktioniert!

The other morning I woke up at 4.30 thinking about a rather interesting academic paper I could write about Kleist’s influence on Brecht and Heiner Müller. Over the next two days I read older papers I have published on Kleist until I found one of mine published in German Life and Letters.

Post a ship that‘s not #StarTrek or #StarWars

Auf die Frage, warum er schreibe, antwortete der Autor (Thomas Bernhard) zu Lebzeiten: »Ausstrahlen! Und das nicht nur weltweit, sondern universell. Jedes Wort ein Treffer. Jedes Kapitel eine Weltanklage. Und alles zusammen eine totale Weltrevolution bis zur totalen Auslöschung.« Danke, Suhrkamp.

Verrückter Plan, alle meine wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen in einem Rutsch wiederzulesen, um in den BESITZ DER SPRACHE zu kommen, meiner selbst habhaft werden.

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Best performance poetry you’ll hear today: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRDs4Dsw/

"neben Gedichten auch noch Schulden zu haben, ist nicht ausdenkbar" Ingeborg Bachmann an Heinrich Böll, 16. Jänner 1957

Just because something wasn’t talked about when you were in school in 1972 does not mean that it did not exist.

Call for papers. 🌈🎓

It is the second of February and the rain has finally stopped. To mark this occasion, I am reposting this: I am looking for a job. It should be meaningful (values driven), in a supportive environment (mindful of people’s needs), and ideally open-ended. 1

I had forgotten that Toby Young is a life peer. Hey ho.

Sehr beeindruckend, dass ihr euch an die Titel der Lehrveranstaltungen erinnern könnt. Oder habt ihr euer Studienbuch zur Hand? Woran kann ich mich ohne Spicken erinnern? Parzival Feministische Litwiss Frankreich im Mittelalter Luhmanns Soziale Systeme Ror Wolf Comicforschung Hexen

An excerpt from Sophie Gilbert’s review of the new Melania movie: "Melania shows off her custom-made inauguration gown, stark white with black ribbons overlaying it, a dress that now looks unavoidably like the redacted Epstein files."

We need to take this in:

Une vulgarisatrice scientifique. Don’t you just love languages— and false friends!

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The suspicion that there is so much noise generated in the public sphere in order to overwhelm us and to distract us from the Epstein KOMPROMAT. The suspicion that the Epstein KOMPROMAT is being released to distract us from the tech-oligarchy’s take-over of state functions.

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A metaphor for the Belgian state: as long as there are the right proportions of Flemish, Wallonian, German, Catholic and Protestant windows, we are happy enough.

Oh. Great. Another day of heavy rain.

At my mum’s house: -20 to -30 degrees C for weeks. At our house: heavy rain for weeks. I know which one I’d prefer.

Ask yourself:

If you are considering writing and publishing a book on any aspect of contemporary writing: just a reminder that I am a series editor of the New Horizons in Contemporary Writing series at Bloomsbury. We'd love to have your submissions and books!

Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

Hol schon ‘mal den Wagen, Harry!

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