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Dinah Roe
@preraphsrule.bsky.social
C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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'More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.' 1/2
The procession of university language closures will trip up UK diplomacy
The government needs to signal its demand for elite foreign language skills before more universities leave provision to inferior alternatives, says Ian Proud
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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“Authoritarian governments view culture as a threat because in the writing+ music +acting, you can sometimes glimpse alternatives to the current reality. We live in a timeline that says AI domination is inevitable, there will be no future except constant war.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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unlikeliest tho it is, this account is now always chicago pope o'clock
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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The recently reopened Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum and Gallery featuring plenty of favourites from the collection #art #paintings
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Yes. But. I think these American writers are missing some important British cultural contexts regarding this garment.
www.vulture.com/article/im-b...
www.thecut.com/article/wick...
I’m Being Driven Insane by Wicked: For Good’s Sex Cardigan
Help.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
Tech critic Corey Doctorow explains why for so many the internet – from Amazon to Google to Instagram – seems to be getting worse
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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A great essay w/ lots of images by @dianetucker.bsky.social of the Fra Angelico art exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi & the Convent of San Marco—thru Jan 25.

A great preparation for both visitors & armchair travellers!

🗃️ #arthistory #art #museums #skystorians

theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/11/15/e...
Fra Angelico: The devil is in the details
See how artist Fra Angelico led a revolution in Italian painting that profoundly shifted the focus from religious dogma to human potential.
theshymuseumgoer.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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My current source of outrage is everyone thinking Oz started in 1939.

Schwartz is talking about another movie to “expand the Oz franchise” like L.Frank Baum and subsequent writers Ruth Plumly Thompson, John R. Neill, Jack Snow, and Eloise Jarvis McGraw haven’t already written 40 books about Oz.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I am happy to live in a world where it's someone's job to play the triangle.
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:

Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin

A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Anirudh’s Sridhar’s Agon: Poetry’s Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality, has just been published by OUP, a monograph derived from the doctoral thesis he wrote under my supervision from October 2017 to April 2020.

Congratulations, Anirudh!
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Window in London Street. (Fitzroy Street) | Sir William Orpen
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer, born on this day in 1904
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM