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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · Jul 1

So: the new book's going well.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks for sharing Steve

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 4h

What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations!

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 19h

What if they want to live and work in Wales?

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 22h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21h

Erm…quite small…

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21h

Very cultlike behaviour

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21h

Hahaha

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sure my little sense of honour would allow me to go to reception. Better I keep it locked in the bathroom and I’ll just have to wet myself. Honour protected.

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I see academics say this stuff, I physically wince knowing the environmental, ethical, and moral impact generative AI has. Academics using LLMs essentially validate the theft of colleagues’ work, condone its disastrous energy usage, and undermine the benchmark for academic integrity.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT IF IT DOESNT

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

A large noisy insect suddenly emerged in my hotel room, causing me to run around screaming whilst attacking it with a pillow. I’ve got it trapped in the bathroom. Now I can’t use the bathroom. Not thought this through.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Darl from Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying was *not* crazy.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Thankfully no

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

On the train up to campus, where a student with a chronic cough is spluttering next to me and there’s a sneezer and sniffler behind him. I’m in trouble, aren’t I?

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

NAME DROP!!

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

A bit debatable - certainly Ahmadnagar Sultanate under Malik Ambar counts?

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

“Statues we like are HISTORY, statues we don’t like - Karl Marx, Lenin, Saddam Hussein - well, they’re quite different, aren’t they?”

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 2d

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
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Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

How much!

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

I can't read the news at the moment. It's crowded with Western heads of state heading to Egypt in triumph and articles about Israeli relief at the hostages' return - and hardly a mention of the Palestinians whose world has been decimated by the wickedness of Israel and its allies.

Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 2d

'There is an Arabic expression, hameeha harameeha – meaning “its protector is its thief”, that comes to mind as those who have plied Israel with weaponry gather to figure out how to achieve peace in Gaza.'

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

Back atchya!

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

We’re big fans of the show in our house! The quality declines after the first couple seasons and its very ‘of its time’ but still enjoyable.