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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

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Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 34m

Omg yes

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 36m

tbh if there is such thing as a Vera Stanhope action doll I will be getting one

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 37m

This and the Jessica Fletcher action doll 👌

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 46m

Came here to tag you Rob but obviously

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 49m

I’m a socialist! But I also hate people and any sort of sense of community!

Jesus fuck. Listen to yourself.

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 50m

Worst thing about Sundays is I have to endure them once a week. Hate crime.

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 58m

That’s exactly what it is and it gets right up my nose.

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly this

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting how Ministers think minorities with a protected characteristic should be protected & from what.
It’s unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus.
Yet this doesn’t apply to Trans students & Gender Critical people who attack their right to exist 🤔

Phillipson: Universities must tackle antisemitism
Bridget Phillipson says it's unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 1h

People are so shitty about small talk (partly to do with Extremely Online Misanthropy Masked As Introvertism Culture). I like it, I think I am good at it and it does serve a purpose. And I’m AuDHD. 🤷‍♀️

Ian Randall @epinicion.bsky.social · 1h

I've always liked small talk, and this really gets to the core of it.

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 2h

That’s not to say, btw, that he didn’t do some stupid or shitty things in his time. Nobody is perfect.

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 3h

Keith Flint was a genuinely lovely guy and we are truly the poorer for having lost him in such a cruel and preventable way.

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 3h

Lmao

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 3h

Daphne Lightfoot had been a servant for the Wandesford and then Thornton families for many years. The context of the letter is that she had taken one of Thornton's first manuscript books to Lady Wyvill, at a time when rumours were spreading about Thornton, her daughter and Thomas Comber. 📚 📜

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 3h

12 Oct. 1668 #otd Thornton received a letter from Lady Wyvill, consoling her on the death of her husband: 'Lady Wyvill's most Christian letter to me after Mr Thornton's death and that she had sent for Daphne to acquaint her of my abuses and that Daphne had told her of my sad condition'. (Bk3) 🗃️

17th-century painting of a woman with a large white ruff around her neck looking down at a book in her hand.

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 3h

Today in middle class injuries, I burnt my hand on our panino toaster

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 3h

'Held at Boston Spa'

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4h

This was debunked decades ago

Thomas Barker @wifeofmatlockbath.bsky.social · 17h

I wish an actual historian of witchcraft and indeed cunning folk had been properly consulted because the narrative on witchcraft provided by the exhibition is essentially "the alleged witches were mostly folk healers"

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4h

ARGH

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4d

Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4h

Would have worked well for me because I work 100% better with active rather than passive engagement.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 5h

(Autumn not the selfie lol)

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks I hate it

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 6h

‘Presented by Alice Roberts’

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 9h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 9h

"The chancellor approved it"

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 6h

One hundred percent this. Transmisogyny is misogyny.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6h

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 18h

2/2 witch trial documentaries... Attempts to “lighten” a deadly topic. And presenting exceptional trials as the norm. It requires the nuance, knowledge, and introspection that contemporary television now lacks.

Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 18h

Documentaries about the witch trials are rarely successful. Unable to deal with the complexities due to the format, simplification just makes things worse. Too much “story board” steer from the film makers/presenters & not the experts. (1/2)

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly it’s so obvious I could scream