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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 11h

The traditional angry German chicken

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Germany.
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Oh god.....

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 11h

Follow up: “Shall we get another meeting in the diary for next month?”

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 13h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 13h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

That is so impressive!!

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Well now I simply must know what ingredient the non-vegan tampons contain

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

My local university and former employer, Lancaster, is opening a new campus in India *at the same time* as threatening UK staff with redundancies. How will the overseas campus work? How will the fees structure work? This can't be about anything other than money, and it smells very colonialist.

University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 1d

During his visit to India this week UK PM Keir Starmer confirmed 2 more universities received approval to open new campuses there - a major expansion of UK #highered footprint in India, Brendan O'Malley reports
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Major expansion of UK universities’ footprint in India

United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that two more universities have been given approval to open new campuses in India, under ...

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

My issue with Dubai isn’t that I “don’t super love it”, it’s that I have an aversion to risking imprisonment in another country just for being gay.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Also seems notable that it is a country that say, gay people, are very much advised not to travel to so even the option to take up a job there is only for a select few

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 2d

Mum and Dad reached Reeth today in their Coast to Coast challenge and are now officially over halfway!

Map showing the Coast to Coast route in the Buck Hotel, Reeth, with a star indicating 'you are here'

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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so happy that this is now live. We have a new book series, edited by Henrique Carvalho, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Daniel Matthews and I.

Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals

criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/n...

New Book Series: Law, Culture and Justice (Bristol Uni Press)

We are delighted to announce a new series to foster critical, theoretically and methodologically innovative, culturally informed work on law and justice.

criticallegalthinking.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

Have started rewatching Xena warrior princess and wow boy did all the sexual innuendo go over my head as a teenager! Was not prepared for contract negotiations as sex joke

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Emily Jones @emilyjones.bsky.social · 3d

Join us on the 22nd October 2025 from 1-2pm UK time for this talk by Professor Susan Marks (LSE) on: 'If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?' This event will be held online and in person and all are welcome. To register, please go to: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

See I’ve gone in the exact opposite direction and generally try everything at least once…and then get horribly told off by my physio who has to reassemble my shredded soft tissue! I just draw the line at doing it in a work context.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

“Having sky tv is working class” really stuck with me!

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Jana Stern @schlechteidee.bsky.social · 3d

What an opener to an academic text: "I have written this grudgingly... So I asked myself: Apart from lack of care and thought, what is she doing that leads to her systematic misreading?" - Dorothy Smith on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited" (1997)

Beginning of Dorothy Smith's comment on Hekman (Signs 22, 2. 1997) "I HAVE WRITTEN THIS grudgingly. Susan Hekman's (in this
issue) interpretation of my work is so systematically out to lunch
that it is difficult to write a response that does not involve a replica-
tion of what I have already said, at length and in various versions,
elsewhere. But that would interest neither me nor readers. So I have asked
myself: Apart from lack of care and thought, what is she doing that leads to her systematic misreading? And what might be systematic about other
mistakes such as the chronology of "standpoint theory"'s development (a work published in 1979 is attributed to the decade following, 1983), or
that its roots were in Marxism (Where's the women's movement?), or that
it is less used and interesting currently (speak for your own discipline,
Susan; in sociology it flourishes), or that feminist standpoint theory has
become identified with "object-relations" theory (news to me)."

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

Reading Kate Fox’s Watching the English shortly after moving to the UK was such an eye opener about an endless array of wrong things one can call a living room.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3d

That's 84 units a week, give or take, which these days would have your doctor contemplating an intervention...

American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 3d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 3d

Applications open for PGCert course in meeting the medical needs of adults with learning disability. Relevant for any clinical specialty, and to doctors, senior nurses and AHPs. Fully funded for applicants from England

#MedSky #LearningDisability

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Training programme to meet the medical needs of adults with a learning disability

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

Had to restrain myself from adding at the bottom: NOW SEND US YOUR PIECE SANDRA ;)

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 3d

My piece for UKCLA on how much of the debate concerning human rights in the UK is about vibes... and wrestling. #ECHR #HRA
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Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

We would be very happy to add further contributions to the special section. Please do get in touch if you are interested in writing something for this!

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 3d

These consider among other issues the role of legal documents, how history figures in the judgement, sports inclusion, the relationship to EU law, the connection to intersex issues, the question of legal personhood and two different feminist analyses of the decision.

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