Pernille Strande-Sørensen
@spstrande.bsky.social
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18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.onlineå
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spstrande.bsky.social
My academic trajectory was a bit all over the place. My B.A. was English lit(major) & folkloristics (minor). My masters was in medieval lit and languages, so my PhD tried to mix all that: what happens in terms of txt/genre/value when oral txts are written down.
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
Absolutely wild to me that William Blake illustrations get flagged as adult content
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.
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ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Good morning and Happy #BookshopDay.

Please do support Indy Bookshops.

They pay their full taxes and don't splurge their money on rockets to Mars.

@babooksellers.bsky.social
@thebookseller.com

And thank you team Bookcase Hebden for promoting
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
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junlper.beer
i’ll never get over this
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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thefritobanditoo.bsky.social
Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.
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charlielynch.bsky.social
In today’s National (Scotland), you can find a feature article celebrating thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre. And about their recent ‘Lost Villages’ project, recording memories of community and deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire. 🎤📼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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rhi.bsky.social
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
paulhaine.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
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asls.org.uk
In the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast, Graeme Macrae Burnet discusses his new novella BENBECULA, the #gothic tradition, how #historicalfiction speaks to the present day, & how BENBECULA links to HIS BLOODY PROJECT, Graeme’s Booker-shortlisted 2016 novel
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Dark Isle: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Graeme Macrae Burnet...
For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to returning guest Graeme Macrae Burnet about his new book Benbecula, which is the next entry in Polygon Books' excellent Darkland Tales series of nove...
www.scotswhayhae.com
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad.

I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI.

It’s destructive to the environment.

It’s destructive to artists.

It’s destructive to humanity.

It steals from us and churns out slop.

Just stop.
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robertbohan.bsky.social
🧵 I think it would help if people stopped ‘feeling’ whether or not a person or party is/was extreme or far right.

There’s actually a fairly respected definition. Let me take you through it & then you can decide if someone meets the definition. This is aimed, in particular, at journos [1]
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asls.org.uk
Love is all you need: Remembering The Kingis Quair

Alan Riach discusses The Kingis Quair – a poem attributed to King James I of Scots (1394–1437), & described by C.S. Lewis as “the first modern book of love”
#Scotstober #medievalsky #poetry
www.thenational.scot/news/1737200...
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levostregc.bsky.social
All of these IPs beinge recycled and an Elric of Melniboné filme ys still not yn productioun
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hagenilda.bsky.social
#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
joanneedge.co.uk
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georgehahn.com
Holy shit. Russ Vought is 49. I seriously thought this mutherfucker was in his late 60s. Further proof that being a monster will age you hard.
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britishlibrary.bsky.social
Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay
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bencollins.bsky.social
The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
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colindickey.com
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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locusmag.bsky.social
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locus cartoon from the 70's, a man in an apple tree
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agrayarchive.bsky.social
📢 New resource LIVE! “Memoir & Biography Writing” Explore how personal stories can inspire inclusive research. Made with @sgsah.bsky.social @sorchadallas.bsky.social @rodgeglass.bsky.social & Lucy Lauder, design by Abby Carter thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...
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spstrande.bsky.social
Also, (my experience with ER as post-menopausal & chronically ill, is that everything hurts anyway, so waste hospital resources on x-rays. Which was how I ended tending my fractured fibula shaft with sports tape for 3 months, despite seeking medical help once a week.