abbi
@abbis.bsky.social
UCL Arts & Humanities Digital Education Manager #SCMALT
Vintage bookshop owner: prudenceandthecrow.com @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social
Caffeinated bodybuilder. Highly talkative. Enthusiastic gig-goer, long-term internetter. Chaotic dropspinner. Any/any.
Vintage bookshop owner: prudenceandthecrow.com @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social
Caffeinated bodybuilder. Highly talkative. Enthusiastic gig-goer, long-term internetter. Chaotic dropspinner. Any/any.
This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.
Skunk Anansie supporting My Chemical Romance, whilst feeling like something that should in a sense be the other way around, would still be an absolutely cracking night out
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Skunk Anansie supporting My Chemical Romance, whilst feeling like something that should in a sense be the other way around, would still be an absolutely cracking night out
Update: stopped at 8am on the dot. @silverthorpe.bsky.social pointed out that you have to remember the amount of witches that live here...
Glastonbury's Frost Fayre today, with outside stalls and stages across the town, and it is the worst possible driving rain and gusty winds this morning. Events know about weather here, obviously, this is a marsh town, but still, I feel for everyone.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Update: stopped at 8am on the dot. @silverthorpe.bsky.social pointed out that you have to remember the amount of witches that live here...
Glastonbury's Frost Fayre today, with outside stalls and stages across the town, and it is the worst possible driving rain and gusty winds this morning. Events know about weather here, obviously, this is a marsh town, but still, I feel for everyone.
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Glastonbury's Frost Fayre today, with outside stalls and stages across the town, and it is the worst possible driving rain and gusty winds this morning. Events know about weather here, obviously, this is a marsh town, but still, I feel for everyone.
Watching Withnail and I for the first time in about four years and I probably say every line of this film at some point at least weekly, it is ridiculous how quotable this is.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Watching Withnail and I for the first time in about four years and I probably say every line of this film at some point at least weekly, it is ridiculous how quotable this is.
Green Party continuing to win bits of my affection, and again, it's not an affection contest, but I LIKE feeling affectionate towards politics, instead of steaming biliousness.
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Green Party continuing to win bits of my affection, and again, it's not an affection contest, but I LIKE feeling affectionate towards politics, instead of steaming biliousness.
Completed #StrangerThings - I very much like the way it is up front, transformative work with its references, it is a great example of building with cultural building blocks, rather than just chucking them at the audience and shouting REMEMBER THIS?
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Completed #StrangerThings - I very much like the way it is up front, transformative work with its references, it is a great example of building with cultural building blocks, rather than just chucking them at the audience and shouting REMEMBER THIS?
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This year I actually checked and Clea DuVall IS an only child which explains a lot about why this film is so so good at some hyper-specific things
It is officially time for the only holiday film to welcome in the festive times: The Happiest Season! Which means it is also time to check once more, why on earth hasn't Clea DuVall yet updated us as to when we can have the sequel to this perfect, perfect film I must have more of?
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This year I actually checked and Clea DuVall IS an only child which explains a lot about why this film is so so good at some hyper-specific things
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
“The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law” details how feelings shape conflicts over LGBT rights and possibilities of using law to repair inequality.
Download for free: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
“The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law” details how feelings shape conflicts over LGBT rights and possibilities of using law to repair inequality.
Download for free: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
“The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law” details how feelings shape conflicts over LGBT rights and possibilities of using law to repair inequality.
Download for free: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
“The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law” details how feelings shape conflicts over LGBT rights and possibilities of using law to repair inequality.
Download for free: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
annual caveat that it is NOT WEIRD to bring your friend/roommate/stray only child/anyone to your family Christmas, it is LOVELY and such a wonderful kindness and just really really not weird
It is officially time for the only holiday film to welcome in the festive times: The Happiest Season! Which means it is also time to check once more, why on earth hasn't Clea DuVall yet updated us as to when we can have the sequel to this perfect, perfect film I must have more of?
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
annual caveat that it is NOT WEIRD to bring your friend/roommate/stray only child/anyone to your family Christmas, it is LOVELY and such a wonderful kindness and just really really not weird
It is officially time for the only holiday film to welcome in the festive times: The Happiest Season! Which means it is also time to check once more, why on earth hasn't Clea DuVall yet updated us as to when we can have the sequel to this perfect, perfect film I must have more of?
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It is officially time for the only holiday film to welcome in the festive times: The Happiest Season! Which means it is also time to check once more, why on earth hasn't Clea DuVall yet updated us as to when we can have the sequel to this perfect, perfect film I must have more of?
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The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Update: things went okay! Phew.
Anyway, I've got some stuff I'm really not looking forward to today and so I for one would like to thank Netflix for making this Happy Stranger Things day, appreciated. Episode 1 before work, Episode 2 with lunch...
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Update: things went okay! Phew.
Anyway, I've got some stuff I'm really not looking forward to today and so I for one would like to thank Netflix for making this Happy Stranger Things day, appreciated. Episode 1 before work, Episode 2 with lunch...
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Anyway, I've got some stuff I'm really not looking forward to today and so I for one would like to thank Netflix for making this Happy Stranger Things day, appreciated. Episode 1 before work, Episode 2 with lunch...
The Etsy ads are so grim, I know they aren't interested in fostering a positive shopping from small makers/artist culture any more, but I do find it a depressing indication of the State of Things.
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The Etsy ads are so grim, I know they aren't interested in fostering a positive shopping from small makers/artist culture any more, but I do find it a depressing indication of the State of Things.
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It’s so revealing that the media seems to be more outraged by the mansion tax than freezing the income tax thresholds.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s so revealing that the media seems to be more outraged by the mansion tax than freezing the income tax thresholds.
(to be clear, I think absolutely everyone should pay for the roads, and I don't think EVs should be overweight juggernauts that smash up roads and car parks, I just would like to know how they're going to go about this and think that it penalises rural drivers with zero public transport options)
I don't even have an electric car and I feel like that is a true madness, an utter madness
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
(to be clear, I think absolutely everyone should pay for the roads, and I don't think EVs should be overweight juggernauts that smash up roads and car parks, I just would like to know how they're going to go about this and think that it penalises rural drivers with zero public transport options)
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Valued how, and by whom, and based on what information?
🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨
"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."
"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Valued how, and by whom, and based on what information?
I don't even have an electric car and I feel like that is a true madness, an utter madness
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I don't even have an electric car and I feel like that is a true madness, an utter madness
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Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
have the BBC changed their fonts or is it just a very long time since I watched live TV
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
have the BBC changed their fonts or is it just a very long time since I watched live TV
I remember when the Budget was such a civilised, normal, informative piece of TV that even P used to put it on and watch. This is so tiresome.
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I remember when the Budget was such a civilised, normal, informative piece of TV that even P used to put it on and watch. This is so tiresome.
I think I need to admit I am actually unwell, I am very bad at this, but the heart rate stats don't lie, this is some sort of flu.
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I think I need to admit I am actually unwell, I am very bad at this, but the heart rate stats don't lie, this is some sort of flu.
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.