Lieven Vandelanotte
@lieven.bsky.social
English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now https://www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot
Pinned
Call for papers: "𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚" (deadline: 31 January 2026)
Theme session as part of the @essenglish.bsky.social conference in Santiago de Compostela (31 Aug-4 Sept), co-convened with Anna Piata. Full details & submissions via metasocial.unamur.be
Theme session as part of the @essenglish.bsky.social conference in Santiago de Compostela (31 Aug-4 Sept), co-convened with Anna Piata. Full details & submissions via metasocial.unamur.be
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Love the return of the Thick of It
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Love the return of the Thick of It
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Thank goodness it wasn’t permenantly closed for ever
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thank goodness it wasn’t permenantly closed for ever
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Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?
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The submission deadline for next year's #CADS conference has been extended to December 19th 2025! So, three more weeks to get abstracts in - nice!
wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...
wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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lectureship in applied linguistics in my department. lovely city, lovely department, lovely colleagues 🌸 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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🌏 The British have lost their American colonies... whereto next for English?
📚 Coming up in Babel No53!
Cartoon by @mjcartoons.bsky.social
📚 Coming up in Babel No53!
Cartoon by @mjcartoons.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
🌏 The British have lost their American colonies... whereto next for English?
📚 Coming up in Babel No53!
Cartoon by @mjcartoons.bsky.social
📚 Coming up in Babel No53!
Cartoon by @mjcartoons.bsky.social
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
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The Times is The S*n in a ballroom gown.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The Times is The S*n in a ballroom gown.
? Saving the Great British Economy one selfie at a time?
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
? Saving the Great British Economy one selfie at a time?
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‘Get someone from Linguistics down here!’
Happy World Linguistics Day!
Happy World Linguistics Day!
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
‘Get someone from Linguistics down here!’
Happy World Linguistics Day!
Happy World Linguistics Day!
Have a little drama (at Cathédrale Saint-Nazaire in Béziers last weekend)
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Have a little drama (at Cathédrale Saint-Nazaire in Béziers last weekend)
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Smoke in the woods
like someone walking in a silent film
beside the tracks…
—John Burnside, “Signal Stop, Near Horsley”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Cape, 2006)
#poem #poetry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400...
like someone walking in a silent film
beside the tracks…
—John Burnside, “Signal Stop, Near Horsley”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Cape, 2006)
#poem #poetry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400...
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Smoke in the woods
like someone walking in a silent film
beside the tracks…
—John Burnside, “Signal Stop, Near Horsley”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Cape, 2006)
#poem #poetry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400...
like someone walking in a silent film
beside the tracks…
—John Burnside, “Signal Stop, Near Horsley”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Cape, 2006)
#poem #poetry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400...
Who dear me dear middle class dear? How very dare you.
Featuring an original @texceptional.bsky.social Christmas tree in the fourth picture 🎄🎅🥰
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Who dear me dear middle class dear? How very dare you.
Time to get serious.
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Time to get serious.
Take note, American Sparkites. Sparkettes? Sparkles.
Great big news!
My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is coming to America! I'm so pleased that @princetonupress.bsky.social will be publishing my strange, slippery take on Spark's life and work. It'll be out in spring!
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My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is coming to America! I'm so pleased that @princetonupress.bsky.social will be publishing my strange, slippery take on Spark's life and work. It'll be out in spring!
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November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Take note, American Sparkites. Sparkettes? Sparkles.
I have partaken, and I approve
Makes you proud, doesn't it (at the most Belgian of supermarkets, Colruyt)
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have partaken, and I approve
Makes you proud, doesn't it (at the most Belgian of supermarkets, Colruyt)
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Makes you proud, doesn't it (at the most Belgian of supermarkets, Colruyt)
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Weird thing about Nick Cave is how he wrote an acerbic self-aware song about being a doomed embodiment of violent trad-colonial whiteness afraid of the modern world ('White Elephant' on 'Carnage') then pals around publicly with an apologist for Trump and Orbán etc like he's x10 stupider than he is
just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Weird thing about Nick Cave is how he wrote an acerbic self-aware song about being a doomed embodiment of violent trad-colonial whiteness afraid of the modern world ('White Elephant' on 'Carnage') then pals around publicly with an apologist for Trump and Orbán etc like he's x10 stupider than he is
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Weet ge nog, die fiscale hervorming van Van Peteghem die eindelijk zou beginnen die fiscale koterijen af te breken en de btw-tarieven zou uniformeren? Toch goed mee gelachen.
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Weet ge nog, die fiscale hervorming van Van Peteghem die eindelijk zou beginnen die fiscale koterijen af te breken en de btw-tarieven zou uniformeren? Toch goed mee gelachen.
It's the most 🎶 beautiful time 🎶 of the year 🎶🎶🎶🚂
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It's the most 🎶 beautiful time 🎶 of the year 🎶🎶🎶🚂
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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I think the original Beavis and Butthead were better
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I think the original Beavis and Butthead were better
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Jon Stone was very wise here
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Jon Stone was very wise here
Confessions of a social media user
I also may not have seen every post.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Confessions of a social media user
I think the original Beavis and Butthead were better
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I think the original Beavis and Butthead were better