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Pernille Strande-Sørensen
@spstrande.bsky.social
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18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.onlineå
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Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social · Nov 11
My academic trajectory was a bit all over the place. My B.A. was English lit(major) & folkloristics (minor). My masters was in medieval lit and languages, so my PhD tried to mix all that: what happens in terms of txt/genre/value when oral txts are written down.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h
Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.
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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 21h
Checking out the Viking-Age hall reconstruction in Lejre, Denmark
A 60m-long Viking-Age wooden hall reconstruction in Lejre, in green surroundings A 60m-long Viking-Age wooden hall reconstruction in Lejre, in green surroundings A decorated internal archway in the Viking-Age wooden hall reconstruction in Lejre The main internal space in the Viking-Age wooden hall reconstruction in Lejre, with various furnishing surrounding a central firepit.
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 2d
🎓 PhD Researchers! Apply for a 3-month paid internship with @sgsah.bsky.social exploring the Alasdair Gray archive. Creative, flexible, self-directed. Deadline: 31 Oct 2025. Open to SGSAH PhDs. www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/202...
The Alasdair Gray Archive
Archival Immersion: A Self-Directed Project at The Alasdair Gray Archive
www.sgsah.ac.uk
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d
Absolutely wild to me that William Blake illustrations get flagged as adult content
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d
I mean-
Blake’s Vitruvian going full frontal
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 3d
Good morning and Happy #BookshopDay.

Please do support Indy Bookshops.

They pay their full taxes and don't splurge their money on rockets to Mars.

@babooksellers.bsky.social
@thebookseller.com

And thank you team Bookcase Hebden for promoting
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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d
i’ll never get over this
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 4d
periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 7d
Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 6d
In today’s National (Scotland), you can find a feature article celebrating thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre. And about their recent ‘Lost Villages’ project, recording memories of community and deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire. 🎤📼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 7d
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 7d
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 7d
In the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast, Graeme Macrae Burnet discusses his new novella BENBECULA, the #gothic tradition, how #historicalfiction speaks to the present day, & how BENBECULA links to HIS BLOODY PROJECT, Graeme’s Booker-shortlisted 2016 novel
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Dark Isle: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Graeme Macrae Burnet...
For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to returning guest Graeme Macrae Burnet about his new book Benbecula, which is the next entry in Polygon Books' excellent Darkland Tales series of nove...
www.scotswhayhae.com
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d
Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad.

I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI.

It’s destructive to the environment.

It’s destructive to artists.

It’s destructive to humanity.

It steals from us and churns out slop.

Just stop.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7d
🧵 I think it would help if people stopped ‘feeling’ whether or not a person or party is/was extreme or far right.

There’s actually a fairly respected definition. Let me take you through it & then you can decide if someone meets the definition. This is aimed, in particular, at journos [1]
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 8d
Love is all you need: Remembering The Kingis Quair

Alan Riach discusses The Kingis Quair – a poem attributed to King James I of Scots (1394–1437), & described by C.S. Lewis as “the first modern book of love”
#Scotstober #medievalsky #poetry
www.thenational.scot/news/1737200...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 9d
All of these IPs beinge recycled and an Elric of Melniboné filme ys still not yn productioun
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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 10d
#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

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Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11d
ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 11d
Holy shit. Russ Vought is 49. I seriously thought this mutherfucker was in his late 60s. Further proof that being a monster will age you hard.
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 12d
Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay
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NPR @npr.org · 21d
Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy
Wary of changes under Trump, 'citizen historians' are documenting the Smithsonian
Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12d
The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 12d
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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