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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 GOOGLE COMRADE DELTA
@hagenilda.bsky.social
casualised historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | 🐕 | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons

https://joanneedge.co.uk

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Happy Hallowe’en! #UKHE
@plashingvole.bsky.social if anyone has a copy it'll be you – do you have a copy of Tony Curtis (ed.), Poetry of Pembrokeshire (1989)?
December 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hi! If you've never struggled with your weight I don't need to hear your views on how miserable my diet sounds! Thanks!
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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You only have to go back a few generations in my family to find Irish people forced to leave their homeland because British colonialism manufactured a famine and made it impossible to stay. It destroyed the region I descend from.

It's the literal reason I'm English.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Sigh
My fellow USAians: before you launch into your next Neville Chamberlain analogy, please do take a look at the Wikipedia section on his legacy & reputation. In my little corner of England, we were aware of the “revisionist school” in … 1991.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville...
Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Scottie dogs can be wee cunts in fairness
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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This. “Businesses” get destroyed by bad decisions, changes in consumer fashion, hostile takeovers, or just plain bad luck.

Business is about risk. Institutions need to be about stability, otherwise everything is at risk, all the way down.
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.

hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The home secretary is fucking disgusting there is no ‘seamless” way of inflicting the violence of deporting children to a country they’ve never been to
The Home Office hopes the deportation of UK-born children will be seamless', a minister has said
Labour minister wants 'seamless' deportation of UK-born children
www.thenational.scot
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Margaret Thatcher still gets an erection in her tomb every time she knows people are having a despicable and expensive time using privatised services
Well, don’t think I will be getting on the 2309 from Euston
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Trans ban: Good Law Project fights back with legal action against bullies

The Good Law Project is warning that organisations’ decisions to exclude trans women could actually be unlawful (ahem, Girlguiding and Women’s Institute). It has now decided to challenge the trans ban. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Trans ban: Good Law Project fights back with legal action against bullies
The Good Law Project launches legal action against the UK’s growing trans ban—because the only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them
www.thecanary.co
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Genuinely excellent work from the @ourmoh.bsky.social crew. And the doggos too, obvs.
The street dog show was so much fun. The dachshund won best costume and the beagle won best bark. Excellently delightful. @rotster.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The street dog show was so much fun. The dachshund won best costume and the beagle won best bark. Excellently delightful. @rotster.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Not the Socialist worker busy defaming UCU staff and officers!
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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100% with you on that- translating or transcribing everything rather than looking for the relevant bits gives you a much richer picture. And then the material is available for others to use too, which stimulates the conversations.
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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100% with you on that- translating or transcribing everything rather than looking for the relevant bits gives you a much richer picture. And then the material is available for others to use too, which stimulates the conversations.
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The process of transcribing documents and doing that sort of deep work is essential to the process of scholarship. (I get that when you’re working with big datasets some sort of AI is helpful ofc).

But a hill I’ll die on is that transcribing, checking and sorting is essential to understanding.
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Looks like everybody's favourite Tory said a load of bad stuff at private school too.
December 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
No shit Spotify
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Here for the economist beef doing the rounds 👀
December 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today: Japanese food and street dog show with @rotster.bsky.social; popping into a Christmas concert; @genwilliams.bsky.social usual Christmas party overcatering nonsense. Feeling festive despite my best efforts at grumping.
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
YESSS
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM