Dr Andrew McInnes
@drbeard79.bsky.social
Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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Teaching Wollstonecraft is truly wild right now
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Teaching Wollstonecraft is truly wild right now
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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Meet my newest creation: Jasper the Festive Moth of Doom! I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered him. Jasper fervently believes that just because he's a moth of doom doesn't mean that he can't also be a fun and celebratory fellow.
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Meet my newest creation: Jasper the Festive Moth of Doom! I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered him. Jasper fervently believes that just because he's a moth of doom doesn't mean that he can't also be a fun and celebratory fellow.
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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🎧 Did you catch our special anniversary broadcast on BBC Radio 4?
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Jodrell Bank at 80
Brilliant stories told using archive from the BBC and beyond
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎧 Did you catch our special anniversary broadcast on BBC Radio 4?
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy!
Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO
#JodrellBank
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Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
I am going through it finishing re-reading Northanger Abbey today to teach it this week (for the first time, mind you). I had just had enough of this silly business but now the romance is over, I’m crying and laughing on literally each page. The writer you are Jane Austen.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
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Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
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The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
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i must say, the whole “frankenstein is actually the dr”/“no he was actually an undergrad” thing is very relatable to me as an undergraduate who spends all my time cosplaying as an academic and then having to tell people i’m actually 20 and degree-less
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
i must say, the whole “frankenstein is actually the dr”/“no he was actually an undergrad” thing is very relatable to me as an undergraduate who spends all my time cosplaying as an academic and then having to tell people i’m actually 20 and degree-less
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"This country’s taste for self-harm seemed to reach its zenith with the Brexit referendum, but maybe not." A good wrap up by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social 👇
If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"This country’s taste for self-harm seemed to reach its zenith with the Brexit referendum, but maybe not." A good wrap up by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social 👇
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* Radio 3 Late Junction back to two hours, three times a week, starting at 11pm.
* New prime time series in which Matt Berry and Tom Baker visit a different pub each week, and it’s just two hours of them talking about whatever they want.
* New prime time series in which Matt Berry and Tom Baker visit a different pub each week, and it’s just two hours of them talking about whatever they want.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
* Radio 3 Late Junction back to two hours, three times a week, starting at 11pm.
* New prime time series in which Matt Berry and Tom Baker visit a different pub each week, and it’s just two hours of them talking about whatever they want.
* New prime time series in which Matt Berry and Tom Baker visit a different pub each week, and it’s just two hours of them talking about whatever they want.
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My vision as BBC Director General:
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
Am willing to be BBC DG but only if they let me bring back Moviedrome.
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My vision as BBC Director General:
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
* More Jonathan Meades documentaries.
* 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica.
* Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously).
* Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news.
* No Chris Mason.
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Apparently, the problem with the Panorama edit is that it connected Trump's statement of walking to the Capitol with a incitement to fight made an hour later. I can see how that would be misleading, if Trump hadn't referred to walking to the Capitol only 35 seconds *after* talking about fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Apparently, the problem with the Panorama edit is that it connected Trump's statement of walking to the Capitol with a incitement to fight made an hour later. I can see how that would be misleading, if Trump hadn't referred to walking to the Capitol only 35 seconds *after* talking about fighting.
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I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it.
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Tips for the next DG:
1 - Don't stake your future on impartiality. Perfect impartiality is impossible. Focus on accuracy and accountability. Let journalists and producers do their job. If they get it badly wrong, sack them.
2 - Reverse the deliberate, prolonged cut to arts programming.
1 - Don't stake your future on impartiality. Perfect impartiality is impossible. Focus on accuracy and accountability. Let journalists and producers do their job. If they get it badly wrong, sack them.
2 - Reverse the deliberate, prolonged cut to arts programming.
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Tips for the next DG:
1 - Don't stake your future on impartiality. Perfect impartiality is impossible. Focus on accuracy and accountability. Let journalists and producers do their job. If they get it badly wrong, sack them.
2 - Reverse the deliberate, prolonged cut to arts programming.
1 - Don't stake your future on impartiality. Perfect impartiality is impossible. Focus on accuracy and accountability. Let journalists and producers do their job. If they get it badly wrong, sack them.
2 - Reverse the deliberate, prolonged cut to arts programming.
#ReasonsToSupportTheBBC
The BBC makes radio like Unclassified - unclassifiable music presented with grace and expertise by the ever-listenable-to Elizabeth Alker
The BBC makes radio like Unclassified - unclassifiable music presented with grace and expertise by the ever-listenable-to Elizabeth Alker
Unclassified - Unclassified Live at The Trades Club - BBC Sounds
Elizabeth Alker with a special edition of Unclassified from Hebden Bridges Trades Club.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#ReasonsToSupportTheBBC
The BBC makes radio like Unclassified - unclassifiable music presented with grace and expertise by the ever-listenable-to Elizabeth Alker
The BBC makes radio like Unclassified - unclassifiable music presented with grace and expertise by the ever-listenable-to Elizabeth Alker
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Regardless of how you feel about the new Frankenstein adaptation, I think we can all agree it is a rousing success at producing meme-content, and, in that alone, is well worth existing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Regardless of how you feel about the new Frankenstein adaptation, I think we can all agree it is a rousing success at producing meme-content, and, in that alone, is well worth existing.
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I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
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*me, trying to get the school to pay for food and drinks at events
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
*me, trying to get the school to pay for food and drinks at events
Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤
![Oscar Isaac as Victor hugging little William goodbye with subtitle reading: And there [University of Edinburgh], for decades, I tried to…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreihz26ynv2kde7ykates45ogplauscvqc5nhifhcn7wokntl42ycs4@jpeg)
![Present day Victor with beard and bandages, perfectly poised in front of a porthole and two windows letting in Arctic light, finished his sentence ‘[I tried to] expand the narrow limits of academia’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreic3jrkh2zysifm4xjzcqo6mvbf7hoemqzxp4lg2pei3mudu2x3coe@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤
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Very pleased to have been elected a Fellow of the Finnish Historical Society from today! /// Suuri kiitos Suomen Historialliselle Seuralle kutsusta tutkijajäseneksi!
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Very pleased to have been elected a Fellow of the Finnish Historical Society from today! /// Suuri kiitos Suomen Historialliselle Seuralle kutsusta tutkijajäseneksi!
This is a great piece on a great film 🖤
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is a great piece on a great film 🖤
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There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate