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Bookhoarder. Soi-disant intellectual of the outer suburbs.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · Apr 15

PSA: this is a personal account. None of my posts are official, few are academic, and you will learn little if anything of value here. I have LinkedIn for that. Here I - rather infrequently - witter on about music, books and people who annoy me on my commute. TYVM. Carry on.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 16m

Very fine!

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 17m

Delighted to be donating a signed copy of Wildly Different as part of this year's Children in Read auction, with all proceeds going to BBC Children in Need. Bid for an author-signed copy of your favourite books. Something for everyone here:

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Children in Read 2025

'The Largest Signed Book Auction In The World'Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds a...

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 34m

Today is National Coming Out Day!

Here's a collection of my drawings and paintings of famous LGBTQ+ folk. If you do decide to take the plunge, these are part of your new family!

barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...

#NationalComingOutDay

Barnaby Edwards | ART (LGBTQ HEROES)

LGBTQ HEROES Portraits of queer icons (10% of all sales from this gallery goes to LGBTQ+ charities)

barnabyedwards.co.uk

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 34m

I need more Holger Czukay in my life.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 1d

I am a Dean, and I am allowed to make this truly awful joke. And if you want a Dean who makes truly awful jokes…

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 1d

<sings> “Hello? Is it Dean you’re looking for?”

Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

I'm co-chairing the search committee for the new Dean. Anybody want to be Dean?

In all seriousness, to anybody who has done this before, got any advice?

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

I'm co-chairing the search committee for the new Dean. Anybody want to be Dean?

In all seriousness, to anybody who has done this before, got any advice?

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 2d

Which circle?

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 8d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 14d

The Man always works hard but this weekend he is working MEGA hard, so please check out what he's up to on our account @lonelytower.bsky.social and give it a follow if you're feeling kind 😇

a woman in a yellow shirt wipes her forehead with a towel and the words it 's hard work are on the bottom

Alt: a woman in a yellow shirt wipes her forehead with a towel and the words it 's hard work are on the bottom

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Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social · 12d

Ta dah! 😃😃😃

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 13d

I can't stop thinking about this @lrb.co.uk piece, thinking about how satisfying nuance in criticism is for readers and revisiting Another Green World. Mostly, I wonder what Eno makes of it.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno

At his best, Eno is a model of how to inhabit this role with verve and mischief; at other times you may wonder how...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13d

The sadness of the end of the season. #cricket

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13d

Schumpeterian meme.

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 200th birthday to the modern locomotive railway!

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 17d

Struck by this saying of Goethe: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18d

In a very Hüsker Dü mood.

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18d

There’s always a welcome in the hillsides of <checks notes> Camden Town.

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 18d

Sorry, but if they didn‘t do it in Brythonic, it doesn’t count.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 24d

That’s where they sent my father and his brother, so it’s not impossible they knew your partner’s grandfather.

Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 25d

My dad was a schoolboy in Newcastle at the time. He and his friends were evacuated. It was never something he talked about much. The picture reminds me of what he lived through.

Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 25d

Overnight, London was again the primary target, with staggered waves of bombers causing heavy damage in several boroughs. There was also scattered bombing elsewhere in several towns and cities including Newcastle (pictured, High Heaton area), Coventry and Birmingham.
📷 IWM HU 106079
🧵4/4

ARP personnel sifting through the rubble of several semi-detached houses on a residential street.

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · 26d

I note that there is a Jamaican sprinter called Oblique Seville, and if you’d asked me before who or what that was I’d have said a typeface. Very quick out of the blocks…

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 9

Northern Netherlands painter Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), Festoon with flowers, 1682 #womensart

Painting featuring a bouquet of flowers against a dark background

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Richard @ashcroftethics.bsky.social · Sep 7

11/11.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 5

The average American got 7 out of 11 questions correct on this @pewresearch.org science 🧪 quiz. Let us know how you compare!

Quiz: How much do you know about science?

Test your knowledge of science facts and applications of scientific principles by taking our 11-question quiz, then compare your answers to the average American and across demographic groups.

www.pewresearch.org

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