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The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts & All Things Common. he/him/fo.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23h

88. What Does That Nature Say To You (2025), dir. Hong Sang-soo

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 10d

87. Mr. Arkadin (1955), dir. Orson Welles

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 18d

So now I live in Munich - please give me your suggestions for good bars, cinemas, bookshops, arts spaces, cafes, etc etc. It’s a very big city to find your feet in! Even better if you live here and you want to meet up!

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks!

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 18d

So now I live in Munich - please give me your suggestions for good bars, cinemas, bookshops, arts spaces, cafes, etc etc. It’s a very big city to find your feet in! Even better if you live here and you want to meet up!

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 19d

86. Macbeth (1948), dir. Orson Welles

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19d

"on a technicality"

Not really.

A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.

Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out

Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’

www.theguardian.com

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks! It’s only short term but at least it gets me out of the UK got a bit…

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks bbz

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks!

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve been so busy with insecure teaching jobs it has felt like I’ll never finish this book!!!

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23d

Only temporary again but it’s an exciting temporary one

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you! I’m finishing up my second monograph on political violence and political community in the long nineteenth century and doing a little bit of teaching - it’s only a semester but it’s tiding me over given the bin-fire of UK universities just now

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23d

Big life announcement: On my way to Munich where I’ll be working as a Research Associate at Ludwig Maximilian University. Do I know anyone in Munich? I’m going to need some friends and I’m interested in arts and/or academic collaborations!

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 26d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 28d

85. All the President’s Men (1976), dir. Alan J. Pakula

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Sep 13

84. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), dir. Riccardo Freda

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Sep 12

34. Scott was just too huge an omission in my reading which needed fixing. This is also brilliant, on its own terms as an intellectual and artistic achievement, and as a road not taken by the popular novel whose anti-humanism and excess has much to say to the contemporary experimental novel.

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Sep 12

83. Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), dir. Vernon Sewell

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Sep 10

82. Highest 2 Lowest (2025), dir. Spike Lee

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you to you and your friend - this is marvellous!

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm going to Brussels this weekend. What should I do? I'd particularly like to look at something about post/colonial history (and which isn't necessarily the Africa Museum).

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Sep 1

Can't help thinking about Kurt Tuchlosky's Weimar-era satirical poem, Rosen auf den Weg gestreut today, and most days in the UK just now - here in the singer Daniel Kahn's translation

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Aug 20

"ENDGAME WAITING FOR GODOT WATT HAPPY DAYS which means I love you"

tristan @svejky.bsky.social · Aug 20

Really fascinating and interesting to put alongside Wales - I’d be interested to know how the absence of single words corresponding to Yes and No in Welsh changes the process of justice in Wales (the same “issue” is brought up with Irish in this article)

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 20

Two pieces on language in the papers today that got me thinking. First, this opinion piece in the Irish Times about the trial of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh and minority language interpreters in the UK and Irish courts:

Opinion: Kneecap trial spotlights challenges for Irish speakers in British and Irish courts

Many would rather use the language they know best to answer questions on which their liberty or livelihood could depend

www.irishtimes.com