David Fearn
@davidfearn.bsky.social
HoD & Professor of Greek, Classics & AH, University of Warwick
– lyric poetics esp.:
https://tinyurl.com/5bzbk5xu
Here for the intellectual serendipity.
When I can, large-format 🎞 photographer:
https://t.co/B4aSZJlSiM
– lyric poetics esp.:
https://tinyurl.com/5bzbk5xu
Here for the intellectual serendipity.
When I can, large-format 🎞 photographer:
https://t.co/B4aSZJlSiM
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David Fearn
@davidfearn.bsky.social
· Jan 20
This handmade print is in a frame on an easel in my office at work.
It is there to remind me of beauty, nature & calm when the rest of the world seems like a different kind of wild outside.
Peony Argyrotype
Full details in alt text.
#believeinfilm #largeformatfilmphotography #10x8 #8x10
It is there to remind me of beauty, nature & calm when the rest of the world seems like a different kind of wild outside.
Peony Argyrotype
Full details in alt text.
#believeinfilm #largeformatfilmphotography #10x8 #8x10
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Still think about my Latin professor who 5 weeks into the semester realized that the class didn’t know English grammar well enough for him to be able to explain Latin, so the class suddenly became a simultaneous English grammar & Latin class
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Still think about my Latin professor who 5 weeks into the semester realized that the class didn’t know English grammar well enough for him to be able to explain Latin, so the class suddenly became a simultaneous English grammar & Latin class
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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It may well be the case that small, independent presses are the lifeblood of literature, and a vital feature of our cultural landscape, providing an essential service in a complex ecosystem, like wrasses or shrimps. What is undeniably the case is that we have sold a total of five books this month.
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It may well be the case that small, independent presses are the lifeblood of literature, and a vital feature of our cultural landscape, providing an essential service in a complex ecosystem, like wrasses or shrimps. What is undeniably the case is that we have sold a total of five books this month.
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If this really is what is being proposed, I think adding the jewellery confiscation policy + the 20 year policy could kick off the kind of PLP revolt that (without rapid u-turn) could entirely destabilise a struggling government that risks falling over on every front
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
Small boat migrants to have jewellery & assets seized to pay for accommodation
ILLEGAL migrants’ valuables such as jewellery and watches will be seized and sold to pay towards their accommodation costs, The Sun can reveal today. Necklaces and chains — but not wedding rings — …
www.thesun.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
If this really is what is being proposed, I think adding the jewellery confiscation policy + the 20 year policy could kick off the kind of PLP revolt that (without rapid u-turn) could entirely destabilise a struggling government that risks falling over on every front
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
Yes. I hate them with a passion on migration, but it's not clear that there is a coherent strategy on it driven by anything other than panic at opponents / state of the Home Office.
Anyway, it's the absence of clear narration that I think is really damaging the Starmer government, above all else.
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Yes. I hate them with a passion on migration, but it's not clear that there is a coherent strategy on it driven by anything other than panic at opponents / state of the Home Office.
Important very cool book; serendipitous purchase today.
#WalkerEvans #photography #GreatDepression #FDR
#WalkerEvans #photography #GreatDepression #FDR
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Important very cool book; serendipitous purchase today.
#WalkerEvans #photography #GreatDepression #FDR
#WalkerEvans #photography #GreatDepression #FDR
Write to your (Labour) MP, now.
More Labour MPs starting to express public unease at these proposals. Lots more saying so privately...
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Write to your (Labour) MP, now.
What do I detest more: generative AI, or this government's ultra-rightwing hatred of foreigners? Answers on a postcard.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
What do I detest more: generative AI, or this government's ultra-rightwing hatred of foreigners? Answers on a postcard.
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Good lord this man is an idiot
it's fascinating to think what Blue Labour's ideal Britain looks like
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Good lord this man is an idiot
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The humanities get attacked because they make you and the system uncomfortable. They make you think about power, history, and yourself in ways profit-driven tech can’t.
November 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The humanities get attacked because they make you and the system uncomfortable. They make you think about power, history, and yourself in ways profit-driven tech can’t.
Glasshouse Sunset
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Glasshouse Sunset
Traces of blue sunset
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Traces of blue sunset
Bracken Mysteries
One from late this afternoon.
One from late this afternoon.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Bracken Mysteries
One from late this afternoon.
One from late this afternoon.
Oh my...!
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Oh my...!
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
But why is govt news management so abjectly shit??
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
But why is govt news management so abjectly shit??
I may be in a minority here, but today's BBC crisis could be the making of it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I may be in a minority here, but today's BBC crisis could be the making of it.
Newsagents pod rather unmissable today for reasons obvs.
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Newsagents pod rather unmissable today for reasons obvs.
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A beautiful Morpho butterfly from Bolivia today - a different kind of 'Monday blues'!
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A beautiful Morpho butterfly from Bolivia today - a different kind of 'Monday blues'!
“Whenever we do something really well in this country we always rubbish it.”
Chris Patten on the BBC News just now about public-service broadcasting.
Chris Patten on the BBC News just now about public-service broadcasting.
“No university wants to get put in the polytechnic box by abandoning the breadth of provision that you associate with a university” #AcademicSky #highered
Read our latest in-depth on the UK skills White Paper: https://ow.ly/6f7450XovmZ
Read our latest in-depth on the UK skills White Paper: https://ow.ly/6f7450XovmZ
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“Whenever we do something really well in this country we always rubbish it.”
Chris Patten on the BBC News just now about public-service broadcasting.
Chris Patten on the BBC News just now about public-service broadcasting.
Want to strenghen critical thinking in the Humanities? Start by doing our jobs, not by drinking the toxic Kool-Aid.
Want to strengthen critical thinking in your classes? Start by partnering with GenAI instead of pushing back: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/genai-and-critical-thinking-can-and-should-work-together #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky #CriticalThinking
‘GenAI and critical thinking can – and should – work together’
Find out how to encourage critical thinking in the university classroom by working with GenAI tools, rather than against them
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Want to strenghen critical thinking in the Humanities? Start by doing our jobs, not by drinking the toxic Kool-Aid.
Reposting for those at the back.
My natural incredulity at AI’s metanarratives is now reduced to a state of enraged boredom.
Intellectual creativity is the response, but the feeling of being ensnared is difficult to escape.
Intellectual creativity is the response, but the feeling of being ensnared is difficult to escape.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposting for those at the back.
"One BILLION dollars..."
a small man with a ring on his finger
ALT: a small man with a ring on his finger
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"One BILLION dollars..."
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone