docpaperback.bsky.social
Not the former drummer with Roxy Music.
Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews.
Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?' www.tinyurl/ThomPulp
Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
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Ooh, this was Soul before anyone put the "Northern" tag on it.
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I was about to tell you that!
It was one of the Soul tracks played over and over at clubs in NW England in the 1960s. Soul became the musical wallpaper of urban, white, British youth of that era. We loved it.
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Beware of the Bull.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PG6...
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I go and look at this every time I'm in Sauchiehall Street!
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Exactly where I meet any Glaswegian friend when I come over for lunch and shopping!
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Creating the palaeontology of the future!
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I hear you. But to the younger scholars with whom I associate it is precisely that. There have been so many changes in politics, in culture, in W.H.Y. that we are in a different world to the one I knew as a child. My philosophy, given how quickly things can change, is even yesterday is history.
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It's okay, I found it. 😊👍
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They were needed to boost the majority in Congress.
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Superb!
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I once attended a public Q&A with Brian Cox. It was pretty cool.
I would love to do the same with the other Brian Cox too.
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I think certain elements of Musk's family might not be too enthusiastic about it. And who could blame them.
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... and farewell speeches in the Commons that one enjoys giving. Low bar I know, but that was Margaret Thatcher at her best!
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Sorry, didn't mean to bring you down.
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I'm trying to "buy or rent" it on YouTube with no luck. The "buy or rent" button isn't active, and no search of YouTube brings up the full moive.
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Yeah, but the rest of us elsewhere in the world didn't.
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I don't know so much. It's a feckin bitter day for some of my best friends.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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What I want to hear is:
SHOW YOUR FACE!
SHOW YOUR FACE!
SHOW YOUR FACE!
SHOW YOUR FACE!
SHOW YOUR FACE!
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Except that each, in his petulant thrashing about, is capable of doing so much collateral damage.
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I can't wait for someone to sub me a pot of paint so I can blank out letters until it says "TRUMP IS GAY." I mean he'd love that, right?
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I appreciate what you're trying to say, but you picked a pretty bad analogy.
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Been saying that for years. But whom am I? Just some bod with three degrees in Eng Lit. 🤣
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I love the distress signal - stars & stripes upside down.
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Seconded.
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Spem in allium.
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Don't blink!
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As can I. 🤝
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I think we're splitting hairs here.
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Sharing is not imposition. Use of your talents is not dictatorship. TBH I think you're erring towards ageism.
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So you would rule yourself out, even if you (or others) knew you were the right person for the job?
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No, but I would be teaching a younger generation. Just as responsible a position!
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No, I'm sorry to say I missed them both! 🙁
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Again a caveat. You have long known you are owned by corporations, yet you regularly vote for one of two pro-capitalist parties. You got used to this. Beware of getting used to Nazis in the White House. Citizens of the Weimar Republic quickly got used to theirs!
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I'm not decrying that determination. However, I am sure that many decent people in the Weimar Republic felt the same. I offer that as a caveat, not as a point of cynicism.
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What about if you apply that principal to all professions? I will be 75 next month and am trying to get my first university position. I am actively involved in academic research, writing, reviewing, and editing. I'm capable, compos mentis, and will be for many years.
Would you ban me from politics?
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You realise I can never unsee that image?
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History is:
1] a catalogue of villainy and stupidity (and unfortunately they are usually indistinguishable);
2] A progression of different kinds of awful (and unfortunately one doesn't realise just how awful until it's too late);
3] A temptation to forget that there never was a golden age.
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It's a game. It's playing with numbers. I recommend Don DeLillo's novel 'Cosmopolis' as a study.
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The problem is that a political career involves people who get older. As we all do. It means the inevitability of a gerontocracy, but whatcha gonna do?
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I think he nailed it there. But the riposte is "Does Donald Trump care? Do his fanatical followers care? Will the GOP majority kow-tow enough to make the USA a dictatorship with what power he has left? If that comes to pass, will 'ordinary' Americans take to the streets as the Trumpists did?"
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Extend that principle to women, and you have the current situation.
As for the system(s), it's/they're as arcane as that/those of the Republic of Venice under the Doges.
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The key is that the US went to war with itself over the right to own slaves.
Slaves were 'emancipated' in 1863.
100 years later the US still needed the Civil Rights movement.
50 years after that, the US still needed Black Lives Matter.
The US kids itself it's 'free'. Freedom ≠ liberation.