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Cats, cake and kpop
Teacher, student, artist
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romgothsam.bsky.social
I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.
romgothsam.bsky.social Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 8h
I wish there was more emphasis on access to education disentangled from employability and focusing instead on enrichment because people who engage with education (or have the ability to) as enrichment interact with it differently. (And that's a whole society thing, not an in-uni thing) 7/7
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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doomsmoker.bsky.social
*DANGER Quicksand sign*
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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oddeye.bsky.social
Gorgeous
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
Just out of interest... what have people gone on to do inspired by a Romancing the Gothic class or event?

I know people have done podcast episodes, started research projects, gone to do courses, written short stories and books, written blogs, read a frankly ridiculous amount...

I'd love to know!
romgothsam.bsky.social Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 8h
I wish there was more emphasis on access to education disentangled from employability and focusing instead on enrichment because people who engage with education (or have the ability to) as enrichment interact with it differently. (And that's a whole society thing, not an in-uni thing) 7/7
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Yeah, those blue velvet trousers have got to go. He cannot be trusted in them 🙈
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
Minor Threat

A fantastic, great band with a far too quick ending.

Minor Threat - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
If you're in and around Manchester today, come say hello and buy some books and badges from us as you browse the market!

#BookSky #Manchester
Trading at Manchester queer art christmas market. Saturday 29th november, 2pm to 5pm. Over 20+ queer artist stalls. Manchester proud place, sidney street (just off oxford road)
November 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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rosezhanzhan.bsky.social
taemin once again proving why he's the idol of idols 🙏🏻🔥
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Ok but why do they look like they were never in the same room together??
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
It was 1988, I was 16, a British kid in the US. I ended up being friends with the weird kids (surprise!), and one of them dubbed me a copy of Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. I didn't yet understand the language of punk, but I knew it was important 🔥
punkrockhistory.bsky.social Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 2d
At 15, I listened to rock, hard rock, and glam rock.

Then I heard "Young, Loud and Snotty," the debut album by The Dead Boys, at a friend's house.

Listen → buy → forever in my heart

Found the path to punk 😍

#punk #punks #punkrock #punkvinyl #thedeadboys #punkrockhistory
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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tkingfisher.com
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
jilliandavid.bsky.social Jillian David @jilliandavid.bsky.social · 3d
TAPS SCREEN

For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
caradelaney.bsky.social Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 4d
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.

It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Judgemental Eric is judgemental
A large ginger cat sits on the end of a coffee table, glaring furiously at the camera with slightly narrowed eyes
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
If you're interested in folklore, Romancing the Gothic has talks on folklore in lots of countries: from Scotland, Ireland and England to Appalachia, Hawaii, Pakistan, India and more!

Check out our playlist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nz...
Northern Folklore - Icy Sedgwick
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November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
If you missed this week's Romancing the Gothic talk, you can catch it here.

It was an absolutely fantastic exploration. Highly recommended.

youtu.be/bgmV4Sz1AC8
‘Thakumar Jhuli’ – The Ghost Stories of Bengali Folklore with Arya Ray
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Yippee! Top 50! It can't be any sodding worse than 2025, which, with a small number of exceptions, was an absolute shitshow 🤯
wwxwashere.bsky.social wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 6d
the japanese luck calendar is out, how lucky is your 2026 based on your birthday? 👀
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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sillysyntax.bsky.social
I have said the drama class kids, and art weirdos along with the band kids and writing club are on the front lines here.
jamesbluecat.bsky.social James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 6d
Reading about AI being subverted by adversarial poetry and Russian drones' navigation systems jammed by Ukranian folk anthems, which suggests the opening future 'human rebels' scenes of Terminator may now have to be revised.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Just Taeminning the feed up a bit
Taemin in t-pose, wearing a tight long sleeved black top, a blue light shining from above and the background with abstract pink shapes forming a halo around him
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
Released 33 years ago

Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name

Live at Pinkpop 1993

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #RATM #crossover #history #punkrockhistory
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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cmrosens.com
Did anyone enjoy the stories I wrote for the AScareADay challenge in October? If so I rewrote the 4-part necromancy one a bit, and it's now a Ko-Fi exclusive short story.

#QueerAdultSFF #Fantasy #BookSky 🌈📚💙

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Bone Puppets - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop
Dark Fantasy Short Story. Two amateur necromancers decide to raise the most powerful necromancer of their world's history to defend their lands from...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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24hrs left for this sale!!
Get the eBook at £1.99 until Sunday night, 23/Nov (UK time).
Then it goes back to £4.99.
Audiobook is £6.99, on Ko-Fi only.
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cmrosens.com C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 18d
SALE ON NOW!

Get #Gothic Dark #Fantasy YELEN & YELENA for £1.99 only on my Ko-Fi < ko-fi.com/s/ba50309fc2 > (DRM-free ePub and PDF files).

Queer, aro, bi, and sapphic rep.
Monster fuckery.
Lush, dark worldbuilding.

Listen free on Eldritch Girl Podcast S04.
Audio mp3 files available: £6.99 🌈📚💙
Yelen & Yelena - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop
Dark Gothic Fantasy novel - aromantic, queer, Beauty and the Beast retelling with a sapphic Orpheus and Eurydice subplot. ONCE UPON A TIME... In a ru...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lindsayplum.bsky.social
Hello @sentimentbot.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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mjpcuervo.bsky.social
I just know that some of my best pals and I would have had an amazing time had we lived together in a Medieval monastery: singing Dies Irae, translating philosophers, preparing illuminated manuscripts, growing a herb garden, reading about demons.
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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happy mens day to dudes
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow   When I was 13, I visited a Nazi concentration camp for the first time, confronting my country’s dark history always—and rightly—a bedrock in my growing up.    One image from that visit has stayed with me ever since: a display of prisoners’ personal possessions.    It revealed a world in which those imprisoned were stripped not only of their freedom but of the last tangible traces of their humanity. That systematic erasure was the most important precondition for murdering millions.   Now, as a historian, I know that history does not flow into the present in a straight line, and direct comparisons are rarely appropriate. They certainly are not here.   But history is the one compass humanity has. Too often we choose to ignore it.    The Home Secretary’s proposals for changes to the UK’s asylum system represent such a moment of failure.    Yet the most troubling aspect of Labour’s frantic efforts to appear tough on immigration is not even the historical echoes that taking refugees’ possessions invokes. It is that cost recovery is not the real purpose of the rationale behind it.    The true aim is to appeal to a particular audience—those who take satisfaction in seeing people seeking refuge deprived of what little they have. It is hard to imagine a more troubling approach to policymaking, and that becomes even clearer when we consider the Home Secretary’s proposals in context.   As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. Around 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.   It is unconscionable that such a small and vulnerable population can be targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised for assumed political gain.   And that is all this will ever be. The core miscalculation is believing that adopting these positions will neutralise Reform.    Both historical knowledge and current research show the opposite. Mainstreaming extremist policies legitimises them further and aids only the original. Each step towards Reform’s territory simply gives Reform more power.   But our political discourse has been so degraded over the last decade that many no longer even recognise policies—or the language that frames them—as extreme.    That is how the Home Secretary can speak so casually of desperate people seeking sanctuary as recipients of a ‘golden ticket’ as though the context is Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory rather than countries torn apart by war and starved by famine. Speak of her ‘moral mission’ to withdraw support, alleging that ‘illegal migration is tearing our country apart.’ And warn of ‘dark forces stirring up anger,’ oblivious to her own role: from the use of blurry, dehumanising images of refugees to spread falsehoods about their impact on communities, to the equally false description of refugee movements as illegal migration.    I suggest the Home Secretary find a mirror if she is keen to understand who is helping turn anger into hate.   Because it is the mainstreaming of far-right talking points that the Home Secretary’s proposals represent that is really tearing our country apart.   For when a policy looks like the far right, speaks to the far right and is hailed by the far right as being far right, it is far right. There is a reason Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is jubilant and speaks of ‘the Overton window having been obliterated.’   This makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s recent comments on the urgent need to tackle racism. But it also raises alarming questions about the impact this will have on communities around the country, many of which are already deeply divided.    The proposed policies will do nothing for these struggling communities, because their problems simply do not stem from people seeking sanctuary with us. In fact: for as long as politicians focus on immigrants and refugees as the cause of our problems, they will fail to deliver for the British people.   But it is important to grasp the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposals as they carry broader consequences for all of us. Suggestions for changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied are particularly concerning. Requiring judges to prioritise ‘public safety’—falsely implying refugees pose a threat—would qualify human rights for a specific group.   And once one accepts that human rights can be qualified for one group, one creates tools that can be used against anyone.   So what these proposals really mean goes far beyond asylum policy. This is about the kind of country we will have in the future. If human rights are no longer universal, they become a means for exclusion and control.    That is why stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all our rights tomorrow.    And that is why our historical compass matters and why we have to use it now. Because that compass tells us without doubt that when first they come for one group that is never where it ends. 
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM