Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of University College Buckland, which operated briefly in the 1960s and 1970s, offering courses leading to University of London degrees If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

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I might have seen the rapture while out walking this evening, or maybe I just slipped into a scene from Days of Heaven in one of those ‘la vie comme texte’ moments that Barthes told us about:

This is what made me a dog person ❤️

Back from pizza in Naples with my friend Gennaro and his family. Now some Proust before bed

This is a shock. I didn’t know Jonathan Lear well but he was a truly original and insightful voice, bringing something different to Philosophy.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

Always with the apposite word - thank you, @susiedent.com

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

Yes everyone stop what you're doing and just watch it trust me www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5...

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

Yet another of Hookland's infamous knockers. This one at 14 Pope Joan Street in Ashcourt is apparently possessed by a mind or a spirit of its own. In the summer of 1976, BBC Nationwide's cameras caught it briefly rapping on the door without any obvious human interaction.

It is Hookland. There is no ‘spooky season’. Spooky is the county’s default setting because it is the English gothic, the English strange. The weird is not a costume to be warn only once a year.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Bob Jones University, South Carolina Is this still the "World's Most Unusual University"? Let me know what you think! If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Blackboard on student mental health in Naples - generated from students

Louise Richardson and @pfvelasco.bsky.social's paper 'Ecological Grief as a Shared Emotion' is now published in Emotion Review! The paper assesses (and ultimately endorses) the claim that grief felt in relation to ecological losses is a shared emotion. doi.org/10.1177/1754.... #philsky

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Every election is a sort of collective entrance exam into the future. It occasionally happens that populations fail the exam. But for the US to fail essentially a resit of its 2016 exam, featuring the same questions, having studied the answers for eight years, is much rarer and pretty unforgivable.

Today’s système de la mode is le discours amoureux:

My translation (EN - PT) for the Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology project is finally out // Minha tradução saiu, oh glória. @matthewbroome.bsky.social @ljspencer.bsky.social many many thanks 🙏🏻 periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/art...

Really not sure about the BBC leading U.K. news with Trump's autism crap. Why?

The career that never was — Roland Barthes, psychiatrist:

Katja Diefenbach, Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy: Speculative Materialism - trans. Gerrit Jackson, @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

at last he loses his identity

If you’re looking for words for your new t-shirt/coffee mug/tattoo/tea towel/bumper sticker, everything you need is here:

Regret to inform you that heresy is, apparently on the march in East London.

At least BBC did not carry it live. Just summed it up, with a doctor present, to say "do not listen to this". Sky News are currently still showing live this melted-Mr-Potatohead-rescued-from-a-house-fire giving health advice. Live and unedited.

Old school teaching in Naples

he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion

Wow. Just come across the concept of an ‘enhanced annuity’ where if, for example you’re a smoker and drinker, or have had a stroke, you get a higher income because they expect you to die younger. (And for an annuity you forfeit the capital on death.)

Back in Naples. A beautiful, vibrant city

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we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world

Latest from me: last week was a big one for our fight for educational rights. Here's why www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So as a bit of an FCDO website nerd, I can confirm Palestine has been added to the list of countries. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Visited Liberty Island today, sad how the values she embodies are so imperiled

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it

Very much enjoyed discovering the book club episodes of @theresthistory.bsky.social today on driving my son back to university - great work Dominic and Tabby, loved the episodes on The Hobbit and In Cold Blood

at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally

A lovely review of my biography of Henri Bergson in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by @lefebvrealex.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/when...

Aware quite a bit of discussion around Labour leadership and I’m surprised not to see Wes Streeting mentioned? Is there a reason for this? Remember there being a time when he was thought to be post-Starmer leader

Our Saturday read is on Andy Burnham, the man who would be king. Allies say he is prepared to run, he is just waiting for the right opportunity. Plus, how his time in Manchester changed him and the uneasy coalition in the PLP. With @pippacrerar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships

10 great German horror films www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...