Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Plashing Vole

@plashingvole.bsky.social

4.6K followers 3.2K following 4K posts

Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun. Read books; join unions; block cookies.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 7m

Beautiful.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1h

Brilliant. Well done!

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 4h

One of the finest things about my little department is that if a colleague is free and likes the sound of your class they’ll come along. It was lovely to have @daisyeblack.bsky.social in my Austen class and I’m sure the students enjoyed having her there too.

a woman in a grey dress is hugging another woman in a brown jacket

ALT: a woman in a grey dress is hugging another woman in a brown jacket

media.tenor.com

1 13

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

Plenty more where that came from.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

Fine fine work.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

So was I, having struggled through it.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

YES! What constitutes cheeking in their world?

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

Tonight’s MA class was devoted to paperback books and design. Tomorrow starts with Hollywood and Austen. Main feature is Clueless but we’ll take in the awful 1940 P+P along the way.

a man is sitting at a desk with his legs crossed and the words `` two enthusiastic thumbs up '' .

ALT: a man is sitting at a desk with his legs crossed and the words `` two enthusiastic thumbs up '' .

media.tenor.com

1 11

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

I could also cite Edwina Currie whose novel The Ambassador describes how a future EU genetically modified a permanent Nordic ruling class to exclude Jews and other minority groups. The heroine has a Jamaican ally. His name is Winston, he smokes weed and he gets killed very quickly.

1 3

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

All the stuff they could have got me on and they chose that…

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Yet more proof that despite our romantic idealisation of universities, in practice they are run by people who volunteer to call the cops on their own students and staff. I say this as someone given a written warning for a tweet about what seagulls and managers have in common.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

1 7 16

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Land of Lost Content in Shropshire. Closed in 2023.

1 2

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

That's the one. It could be worse: a certain museum I visited had collected all the racist objects they had (like Robinson's promotional tat) into one glass case and marked it 'Black History Month'.

2 1

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

It's a commercial commission. The golly likes marmalade. That's it.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

One of my (very slow) projects is on politicians who've written creatively. The downside of this is that I have several hundred of their novels/plays/poetry collections and many of them are somewhat devoid of literary worth.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Lots more of that stuff from the Cupboard of Tory Fiction.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what a previous generation of Tory MPs think of Jenrick’s race-baiting.

Let’s ask Gyles Brandreth… (warning for offensive image).

5 8

Reposted by Plashing Vole

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer announces that he will go harder and faster in delivering patriotic renewal by detonating tactical nukes underneath every university library library’s 800 shelfmark section.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

3 11 22

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Tired: stealing is wrong
Wired: we should buy a bunch of politicians to ensure that stealing isn’t wrong *for us*.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think so.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Tories: get out of your ghetto and integrate!
BME people: we’re moving to Wiltshire/Cotswolds/etc!
Tories: NOT LIKE THAT.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Same in English. We’re being forced to replace subject content with employability modules despite not having an employability problem.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

No, I totally got what you meant and was maintaining the satirical tone!

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

How on earth has one badly-run industry been allowed to become a structural threat to the world’s biggest economy?

1 1

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

So true!