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18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
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Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

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Historian Stephan Pigeon just gave a wonderful talk at an rs4vp.bsky.social digital event, on the 19th-c debates over who should count as a bona fide (or "professional") journalist. Fascinating question that he'll be exploring in his upcoming book. The discussion was terrific. #C19

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The folks at @wired.com are doing amazing journalism, consistently breaking stories about the new administration. If you're not subscribed, go subscribe. They have the sources and they're providing the coverage that others are frankly afraid to. They need your support.

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Delighted to announce that we at @sahavoice.bsky.social are co-hosting a Tartan Day event & reception @royalsoced.bsky.social on 10 April in collaboration with the US Consulate and Consul General. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tartan-day...

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Who was Robert Fergusson—poet, prodigal son, or tavern rat? 🤔 Watch Rhona Brown's lecture on Scotland’s "unofficial poet laureate" at the National Galleries. 🎥 Recording available now!

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #scotland

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Marx began his work in an era before limited-liability companies were common. "Capitalists" risked personal bankruptcy, disgrace and "ruin" every day. Many killed themselves in shame. Capitalism has spent 200 years making it easier on itself.

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“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.” —Janice Galloway, writing in 2002 #GrayDay www.theguardian.com/books/2002/o...

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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity” —author @rodgeglass.bsky.social & the International @anthonyburgess.bsky.social Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK #GrayDay www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

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“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.” —Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality” #GrayDay stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/l...

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Dear artists, comedians, and satirists: None of us can do the work we're doing without y'all helping to keep us sane. Please keep bringing the laughter amidst the pain. I am so grateful to you.

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Just stumbled on this tribute to David Graeber by colleagues in anthropology - and the book they’ve put together (“As if Already Free”) is great too: www.sapiens.org/culture/davi...

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I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...

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Plese repost & share widelye: open access, free, scholar-produced resource for studyinge & teachinge *The Canterburye Tales* at the university level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu

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25 Feb, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum – free The perception of the city & its people as vulnerable to being forgotten or erased inspired Gray’s lifelong commitment to explore, preserve, & reassert Glasgow’s identity across his visual & literary works www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/2/talk...

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I'm so late to the party that the lights are off and the hosts have gone to bed but GOD DAMN

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Fuck me there's an awful lot of "Cheer up you miserable bastards it could be worse" going around. How about all the people trying to police other people's emotions in the midst of a global polycrisis offer one practical suggestion for action instead?

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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True story: the last thing I did as Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism was solicit this *very timely* forum on Transromanticsm - it has now been published in the current issue - and is OPEN ACCESS for 1 month. Thrilled to receive the issue in the mail too muse.jhu.edu/journal/754

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On BBC’s Word of Mouth podcast, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and I discuss Old English and life in early medieval England. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... If you want more Old English, check out my books, follow me, & download the free app (more info on oldenglishwordhord.com).

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No movie has mastered the tight ninety-minute film like The Princess Bride. Just a truly perfect movie.

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It means Europe must move away from all American enablers. Including GPS. The mind boggles. The scale of change required is very large. But it must be done.

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Wordle 1.344 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I take my wins where I find them 😀

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Online exhibition alert! 🌐 Rewriting the Script: The Works and Words of Esther Inglis is live, bringing her manuscripts, calligraphy & self-portraits to the world. Curated by Anna Nadine Pike at Edinburgh University. Check it out!

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Happy Anthropology Day! This #AnthroDay check out some of our newest titles in anthropology. dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/w...

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When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, Orkney & Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472 NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/nort...

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"History was written by the winners, and the winners were assholes." --THEY KNEW (2022)

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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I would like all the people who sneered at the idea that the world would be ended by pure, unadulterated human stupidity to apologise.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

my brain keeps replacing LLM with MLM and I am fine with this

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

It's done! Just sent the manuscript of Fairies: A History to my publisher - hitting in 2026! 🧚‍♀️🪄📚

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It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

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The world is careening too quickly to Hell in a handcart, so here is an old photo of two majestic chunks on a trunk.

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We've arrived at the point where most predictions in THEY KNEW have come true and folks can respond to "But no one could have known!" by waving THEY KNEW in their face

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The world is careening too quickly to Hell in a handcart, so here is an old photo of two majestic chunks on a trunk.

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Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $394.2 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $241.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $254.1 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

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ALLES SO OSSIAN HIER: Ich kann es kaum erwarten, die Ausstellung zum "Klopstockkult & Ossianfieber" in der Wiener Akademie der bildenden Künste zu sehen. 7.3. bis 25.5.2025. Bin gespannt, wie diffuse Nebelträume kuratiert werden. #Romanticism #Ossian #Wien

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Two further opportunities to pursue a PhD degree in history, both at Stockholm University.

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Dear U.S. Scientists, Researchers, & even Archivists/Historians - When Canada had a Prime Minister (Harper) that was scouring away studies, work, & information to try & keep people from knowing the effects of climate change, you guys allowed us to make an... off-site backup... down on your servers.

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Eminent law professor Eyal Benvenisti explains we may be reverting, at least for now, to an era of imperial rule. But history has demonstrated that international law has a long memory. How can lawyers & historians preserve the rule of law? #UkraineWar #Gaza #UNCharter

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Stop pretending we’re all at the same career stage at x years post PhD. We haven’t all had Leverhulmes.

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This is a fascinating moment to be reading anarchist responses to Louis Napoleon's 1852 coup d'état. Some of Proudhon's observations could have been written in the US in the last few days. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...

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Do please remember, as you debate exactly how bad it might be, that there's a global scientific consensus - as there has been for four decades - that human civilisation is on course for extinction unless we change more, faster, and better, than we've ever changed anything before. And we're not.

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Alright, BlueSky, I need your help. I’m looking for people to talk to about my Master’s Thesis. Particularly anyone who’s a subject matter expert in regional policy/advocacy for heritage preservation or environmental conservation. Please help a brotha out!

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Corporations want control over your digital books, ending the concept of ownership www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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