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Anna Walsh

@annaannawalsh.bsky.social

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Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · Dec 3

Just signed contracts on my book, Narratives of Irish Leeds. Due January ´26 with Liverpool University Press. I hope this picture will be the cover! Let me know if you want to hear about it! (Also please send good writing vibes)

On a bright morning, people watch the St Patrick’s parade pass the Leeds City Museum. A ‘Plantforce’ machine tows a float topped with a vernacular country cottage.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody help me, my electoral system, he is very sick

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New YouGov Westminster poll:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place @livuniheseltine.bsky.social · 1d

Just 2 weeks to go until our 2025 annual lecture! Join us for a fascinating discussion on football's relationship with Liverpool, its economy and its people, featuring Keiran Maguire (Associate Professor in football finance) at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heseltine-...

Heseltine Institute Annual Lecture 2025: Football and the City

Exploring the role of football clubs in driving regeneration, uplifting communities and sustaining our connection to place.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 3d

Blur, Modern Life Is Rubbish, For Tomorrow

Discogs @discogsofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Which album has the best opening track of all time?

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 4d

Joël Matip wears a t shirt showing Virgil Van Dijk holding a t shirt bearing Matip’s likeness

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CMJohnston @cmjohnston.bsky.social · 4d

Your timeline is hereby thoroughly cleansed.

Daniel O’D with t-shirt with a photo of CMAT wearing a t-shirt with his face on it!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8d

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 8d

I'm glad Keir Starmer is finally stepping up the fight against Nigel Farage, and I hope this will mark the end of his government parroting Farage and copying his divisive politics.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 9d

... all we get are insults and hate because the major parties have decided their immigration policies are best shaped by extremists. This began with Brexit and now we are where we are with Reform as a result. I accept that the UK's media landscape does not help, but the problem is more fundamental.

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 9d

Announcing the launch of new exhibition “Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” at Kilmainham Gaol, showcasing the precious things that refugees have brought with them to Ireland, and the moving stories of courage, resilience, love and hope that these objects have to tell.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 9d

Ian McShane is 83
On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm:
‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever.
He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’
‘Why?’
‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’
youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...

Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (HQ)

YouTube video by Oxygene 80

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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 10d

var can never do what fans thought it would do: make their team win more

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10d

Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10d

*wanking motion*

MIGRANTS will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary.

Shabana Mahmood has indicated that she is looking to toughen up the rules around claiming indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in Britain.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10d

Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10d

One paradox of our fragmented politics is that Labour going directly after Reform may make defeat to Reform more likely, if such a strategy alienates progressives who have exit options but doesn’t win any reform voters, who will generally prefer OG Farage to a half-hearted tribute act

Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 10d

By going after Labour>Reform voters, Labour is essentially trying to 'unwind the realignment' - arguably a much harder task, and win voters lost over many elections. True even of Labour's voters in Leave voting constituencies.

But Labour IS losing more voters on the left and to undecided.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 11d

Didn’t enjoy that

a woman is sitting on a couch and saying i have tasted my own medicine and it is bitter

Alt: Phoebe Buffay is sitting on a couch and saying i have tasted my own medicine and it is bitter

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 11d

6. I should have known this from my own work on liberalism in the C19 British Empire. Liberal paternalists often recorded views that seemed progressive in the context of their times, but were are entirely at odds with the racist effect of their actions:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Ruling the World

Cambridge Core - Global History - Ruling the World

www.cambridge.org

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 11d

Have to say that sounds absolutely awesome

Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 11d

a close up of a cat holding a pixel art object .

Alt: a close up of a cat waving a pixel art hand

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 11d

You're right, but it's not just exam culture, it's the whole way we talk about education now - as a means to an end, a product. Your chosen degree being measured against other subjects in league tables of earning potential. The incentive to actually explore ideas, grow intellectually, shrinks.

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Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social · 11d

Happy #caturday from Sinéad

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 11d

spending my weekend apologising to AI for getting in the way and ruining the holistic view

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 11d

Oh hoho no. No no no no no.

Screenshot from article "A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by Al analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way.
The Badminton version is an astonishing painting. It takes your breath away when you see it."

The part about ai being objective is highlighted

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13d

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

www.independent.co.uk

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