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When I still did research, it was on Reformation drama. Now I teach EngLit and try to write some, too. I like kissing stories and history, preferably in one package. Pseudonymous. Vegan. Introvert. - No unsolicited DMs, please.
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Copper Script is out today! Get your morally conflicted policeman / chaos graphologist romance here. All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript Out in pb too, audio on its way.

„Grenzkontrollen kosten mehr als 50 Millionen – in einem halben Jahr“, aber für die Unterstützung der Kommunen war zuletzt sei kein Geld da. Das Beispiel zeigt gut, wie die „Migrationskrise“ eben keine Tatsache ist, sondern das Ergebnis einer ausgrenzenden Politik. Am Geld fehlt es jedenfalls nicht

Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity

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What it looks like walking out the door in remote northern Alaska…

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

Everything is shit, but I made some porcelain tile cookies🌀

When A President Isn’t A Criminal Propped Up By A Corrupt Supreme Court…

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Saw this exhibit yesterday. Oof. It is really well done www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exh...

Sky puppies!!

We need to make Bluesky & platforms like it (not just #PoemsAbout) a true home for online poetry. In times like these, it's vital to build spaces where we can connect, mobilise, & be heard, without being silenced by algorithms.

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

The Trump administration’s coercive tactics to defund Harvard unless it adopts ideologically driven reforms reveal a broader strategy: transforming education into a tool of state propaganda, at the expense of academic freedom and institutional autonomy.

Thank you Harvard! Please keep this energy going.

Deporting people means a judge signs a final deportation order, and the person is returned to their own country. What we are doing is kidnapping a person off the street and paying for them to be held indefinitely in concentration camps outside US courts' jurisdiction. 100% deliberately extralegal.

Kurt Vonnegut man

I think it’s important to say you should also not kidnap people with criminal records and send them to torture facilities in other countries.

Oh, god, WHY?!?!? Is everyone feeling encouraged to drop their facades of decency just bc the USA is ruled by callous, avaricious sociopaths??? Shame on you, Brittany Ferries!!!! #animalcruelty #BrittanyFerries

If you peek into the backyard of the Museum of Natural History, you will see a large skeleton on view. These bones belong to the North Atlantic right whale, a critically endangered species with less than 400 individuals remaining in the North Atlantic. Blog: museum.novascotia.ca/blog/whale

Team work makes the dream work. 🐱

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Dankbarkeit, die: Ein Mann rennt mit dem Messer und tötet in Aschaffenburg wahllos Menschen. Ein anderer, Ahmed M. Odowaa, hilft ohne Rücksicht auf die Gefahr in die er sich bringt, diesen zu fassen. Dafür erhält er von Söder ein Dankschreiben, sein Asylantrag wird abgelehnt, er wird abgeschoben.

Sehr gute Einordnung der Vorfälle hier von @ingahofmann.bsky.social im @tagesspiegel.de ⬇️ Hier werden auch nochmal richtige und wichtige Fragen aufgeworfen. Denn dass es so lange keine Reaktion auf den Vorfall gab, hat tiefsitzende, strukturelle Gründe.

oh, Edinburgh! Please go and beam very enthusiastically at Alex Walsham when she's giving the Gifford lectures in May! She's talking about Motion & Emotion in #EarlyModern Christianity, and is bound to be brilliant. Blurb and booking here: cahss.ed.ac.uk/20242025-pro... #SkyStorians #EarlyModern

Behavioural diversity in animals threatened by #biodiversity decline. In @science.org, @ammiekalan.bsky.social @uvic.ca & Lydia Luncz @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social emphasise the urgent need to develop strategies for preserving animal cultural #behaviour. tinyurl.com/569u66sv & doi.org/10.1126/scie...

I want to sincerely thank every single one of my Senate Democratic colleagues who came to the floor, not to just support me, but to share incredibly powerful stories and ask important questions their constituents want answers to.

This was….five months ago

UK govt, like idiots worldwide, committing to spending billions to support an AI "industry" that just steals and destroys the output of other industries.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

"The power of learning to write is not the written product itself but the process of learning to write. Ultimately, AI short circuits that process and in so doing breaches the entire educational contract." YES!! Exactly!! Except students don't care that they're short-changed. #AI #education

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

"Lager sind Orte für Massen, für Kollektive. Ein Lager drückt aus, dass es nicht darum geht, was jemand getan hat (und sei es nur: politischen Widerspruch gewagt), sondern darum wer jemand ist. Im Lager geht der einzelne Mensch verloren."