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Civil Soc Analyst
Loves myth, literature, kitchen gardens, mist-pooled valleys, stinky cheese & 3,000yo dead guys
@workingclassicists contributor
Goldfinch Novel Award LL
Yeovil Lit Prize LL
TRYING to #write
Sleepy yet woke
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Ready salted, as everyone knows, is the king of crisp flavours. 👑
Family, though, demand more variety, insisting that I buy the variety packs before eating ALL of the ready salted and leaving me with second-rate flavours.
Family, though, demand more variety, insisting that I buy the variety packs before eating ALL of the ready salted and leaving me with second-rate flavours.
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ready salted, as everyone knows, is the king of crisp flavours. 👑
Family, though, demand more variety, insisting that I buy the variety packs before eating ALL of the ready salted and leaving me with second-rate flavours.
Family, though, demand more variety, insisting that I buy the variety packs before eating ALL of the ready salted and leaving me with second-rate flavours.
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OK! I am in the final leg of the present shopping which means it's small gifts and stocking stuffers time. #ShopSmallUK
If you are, or love, a small, independent, UK maker of something, please drop the link below - no promises but I'll click on every link!
If you are, or love, a small, independent, UK maker of something, please drop the link below - no promises but I'll click on every link!
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OK! I am in the final leg of the present shopping which means it's small gifts and stocking stuffers time. #ShopSmallUK
If you are, or love, a small, independent, UK maker of something, please drop the link below - no promises but I'll click on every link!
If you are, or love, a small, independent, UK maker of something, please drop the link below - no promises but I'll click on every link!
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Mold's Bronze Age treasure goes on display in new Liverpool exhibition
A remarkable Bronze Age discovery from Mold has taken pride of place in a major new exhibition in Liverpool.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The rest of the UK chats a lot of shit about scousers, but I can confirm (after prolonged evidence gathering) that it is 100% more likely that you will end an evening +1 Malteser than
minus literally anything else.
minus literally anything else.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The rest of the UK chats a lot of shit about scousers, but I can confirm (after prolonged evidence gathering) that it is 100% more likely that you will end an evening +1 Malteser than
minus literally anything else.
minus literally anything else.
Goodness. The billionaires must be sweating. Imagine if net migration dropped to negligible. Who would they have to pit us against then....? 🤔
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates - BBC News
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates - BBC News
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
The Office for National Statistics says the fall is driven by fewer non-EU nationals arriving for work and study, and a
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November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Goodness. The billionaires must be sweating. Imagine if net migration dropped to negligible. Who would they have to pit us against then....? 🤔
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates - BBC News
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates - BBC News
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Publication day! I spent so long building a mahoosive dataset and GIS that it would be a waste not to share the results. The Greeks didn't build many amphitheatres, but gladiatorial epigraphy has been found on huge numbers. Where did eastern gladiators fight?
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Venues for Spectacle in the Greek East: Architectural Adaptation and Cultural Adoption
PDF | The scarcity of canonical amphitheatres in the culturally Greek eastern parts of the Roman empire has been used as evidence to suggest a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Publication day! I spent so long building a mahoosive dataset and GIS that it would be a waste not to share the results. The Greeks didn't build many amphitheatres, but gladiatorial epigraphy has been found on huge numbers. Where did eastern gladiators fight?
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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"The controversial US and Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has ended its operations in the strip saying it has succeeded in its mission"
Thousands murdered while waiting for food. People starving to death. Famine declared. For the US and Israel this was success.
Thousands murdered while waiting for food. People starving to death. Famine declared. For the US and Israel this was success.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"The controversial US and Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has ended its operations in the strip saying it has succeeded in its mission"
Thousands murdered while waiting for food. People starving to death. Famine declared. For the US and Israel this was success.
Thousands murdered while waiting for food. People starving to death. Famine declared. For the US and Israel this was success.
Poets: cybersecurity threats
"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
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"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
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Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Poets: cybersecurity threats
"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
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"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
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BOY PARTS x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA
Selene is a curator hollowed by grief for a vanished artist. Her devotion rots into obsession, blurring the line between archivist and art, self and subject until she becomes something stranger: a ghost in the living.
#questpit #LF #H #Q
Selene is a curator hollowed by grief for a vanished artist. Her devotion rots into obsession, blurring the line between archivist and art, self and subject until she becomes something stranger: a ghost in the living.
#questpit #LF #H #Q
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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You can find the full list of our shortlisted and long-listed writers for our 2025 competition here! Congratulations to all of these wonderful writers!
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Names of All Our Listed Writers 2025 — Cheshire Novel Prize
Full names of listed writers 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
You can find the full list of our shortlisted and long-listed writers for our 2025 competition here! Congratulations to all of these wonderful writers!
cheshirenovelprize.com/writing-tips...
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“The international community cannot stay silent on the genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people...the absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity.”
But the report has not brought the response she expected, nor hoped for. Inaction, she says, still rules.
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But the report has not brought the response she expected, nor hoped for. Inaction, she says, still rules.
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A single shell, fired by the IDF at a fertility clinic: peace prize recipient explains what lies behind her genocide finding
Former UN inquiry chair Navi Pillay says ‘what’s so unusual about this genocide’ is that ‘we are all witnesses to it’
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November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“The international community cannot stay silent on the genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people...the absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity.”
But the report has not brought the response she expected, nor hoped for. Inaction, she says, still rules.
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But the report has not brought the response she expected, nor hoped for. Inaction, she says, still rules.
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The last #QuestPit of the year starts tomorrow!
See the rules at questpit.carrd.co!
#WriteSky #WriterSky #Writers #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents #WritingCommunity
See the rules at questpit.carrd.co!
#WriteSky #WriterSky #Writers #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents #WritingCommunity
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The last #QuestPit of the year starts tomorrow!
See the rules at questpit.carrd.co!
#WriteSky #WriterSky #Writers #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents #WritingCommunity
See the rules at questpit.carrd.co!
#WriteSky #WriterSky #Writers #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents #WritingCommunity
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#WIPPIT is coming up on November 23rd!
Follow @wippit.bsky.social for more information!
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WriteSky
Follow @wippit.bsky.social for more information!
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WriteSky
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
#WIPPIT is coming up on November 23rd!
Follow @wippit.bsky.social for more information!
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WriteSky
Follow @wippit.bsky.social for more information!
#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WriteSky
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Hello #WritingCommunity! I'm interested in starting a pitch event with the hashtag #MuslimPit dedicated to uplifting the voices of Muslim writers who are at any stage with their manuscripts. As an #amquerying writer myself, I am passionate about expressing my religious identity through my work!
October 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Hello #WritingCommunity! I'm interested in starting a pitch event with the hashtag #MuslimPit dedicated to uplifting the voices of Muslim writers who are at any stage with their manuscripts. As an #amquerying writer myself, I am passionate about expressing my religious identity through my work!
Considering it is just an elaborate game of Wink Murder, my 7-11 year old Brownies are doing a far better job than the #celebrity #traitors
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Alt: White woman with dark hair doing an exaggerated wink, then giving a big grin.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Considering it is just an elaborate game of Wink Murder, my 7-11 year old Brownies are doing a far better job than the #celebrity #traitors
Well, blow me down with a teeny-tiny feather!
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
Brexit will have a negative impact on the UK's economic growth "for the foreseeable future," the UK's most senior banker has warned.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Well, blow me down with a teeny-tiny feather!
I beg your pardon, sorry, what now?? This is vile and insidious.
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation | Manchester | The Guardian share.google/hzAkqNtPQFhq...
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation | Manchester | The Guardian share.google/hzAkqNtPQFhq...
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society
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October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I beg your pardon, sorry, what now?? This is vile and insidious.
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation | Manchester | The Guardian share.google/hzAkqNtPQFhq...
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation | Manchester | The Guardian share.google/hzAkqNtPQFhq...
"Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate"
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AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham
Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back
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October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate"
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It's a grim world out there when even charities are facing violence and abuse.
Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Charities | The Guardian share.google/ya3nYZWjz5ex...
Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Charities | The Guardian share.google/ya3nYZWjz5ex...
Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Letter
Letter: Mark Simms says the Charity Commission will support trustees in efforts to keep themselves, their staff and volunteers safe from harm
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October 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It's a grim world out there when even charities are facing violence and abuse.
Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Charities | The Guardian share.google/ya3nYZWjz5ex...
Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Charities | The Guardian share.google/ya3nYZWjz5ex...
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Talking monsters in Dundee in a week or so 👹
Why not pop by and say hello 👋
Why not pop by and say hello 👋
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Talking monsters in Dundee in a week or so 👹
Why not pop by and say hello 👋
Why not pop by and say hello 👋
After a warm reception at Dorchester, I've been invited to give my Women of the Roman Arena talk again. This time I'm headed to the Grovesnor Museum in Chester. If anyone is nearby on the 15th of January, I'd love to see you there!
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Women of the Roman Arena
Join ancient historian Alexandra Sills as she uncovers the forgotten story of female gladiators in Rome's most masculine arena.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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From granting Birkenhead Park UNESCO World Heritage Status to discovering New Brighton’s secret World War II munitions factory, this upcoming @heritageinstitute.bsky.social event on local heritage initiatives looks fascinating. Come along on 21 Oct.
The Heritage Institute: Seminar Series - A Local Initiative
Marie Le Devehat and Cathy Roberts provide talks on their local heritage initiatives.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
From granting Birkenhead Park UNESCO World Heritage Status to discovering New Brighton’s secret World War II munitions factory, this upcoming @heritageinstitute.bsky.social event on local heritage initiatives looks fascinating. Come along on 21 Oct.