Doc Paperback
@docpaperback.bsky.social
Not the former drummer with Roxy Music.
Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews.
Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?'
Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews.
Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?'
Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
Pinned
How the hell can this happen? How can we not simply tell these oligarchs who decide a country owes it money because it passes a law they don't like to f*** off? If someone in a boat tells me I owe them tuppence they can pog mo thoin. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
How the hell can this happen? How can we not simply tell these oligarchs who decide a country owes it money because it passes a law they don't like to f*** off? If someone in a boat tells me I owe them tuppence they can pog mo thoin. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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It was 1963. I was 13, listening to Radio Luxembourg. Suddenly 'Green Onions' was playing, and Steve Cropper's unearthly guitar solo changed my life, my listening habits, and my record buying.
Telecaster of celestial harp - "Play it, Steve!"
It was 1963. I was 13, listening to Radio Luxembourg. Suddenly 'Green Onions' was playing, and Steve Cropper's unearthly guitar solo changed my life, my listening habits, and my record buying.
Telecaster of celestial harp - "Play it, Steve!"
December 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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It was 1963. I was 13, listening to Radio Luxembourg. Suddenly 'Green Onions' was playing, and Steve Cropper's unearthly guitar solo changed my life, my listening habits, and my record buying.
Telecaster of celestial harp - "Play it, Steve!"
It was 1963. I was 13, listening to Radio Luxembourg. Suddenly 'Green Onions' was playing, and Steve Cropper's unearthly guitar solo changed my life, my listening habits, and my record buying.
Telecaster of celestial harp - "Play it, Steve!"
This, from the man who made life psychologically worse for transgender youngsters. You could not make this up!
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This, from the man who made life psychologically worse for transgender youngsters. You could not make this up!
I mentioned this to someone and now it's my earworm. So I thought I would share it.
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TALKING HEADS • City of Dreams •True Stories OST version (1986)
YouTube video by mmmcomfy
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December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I mentioned this to someone and now it's my earworm. So I thought I would share it.
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Proof that we need both the Sciences and the Humanities.
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Proof that we need both the Sciences and the Humanities.
Your Party will always struggle.
A conference speaker was reprimanded for using the word "transphobe."
Someone needs to remind YP that it takes longer to say "wooden-handled, metallic oblong-bladed, horticultural implement designed for digging" than "spade."
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A conference speaker was reprimanded for using the word "transphobe."
Someone needs to remind YP that it takes longer to say "wooden-handled, metallic oblong-bladed, horticultural implement designed for digging" than "spade."
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Your Party's antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time | Owen Jones
Legal spats, public denunciations and an obsession with internal process must be consigned to the past, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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December 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Your Party will always struggle.
A conference speaker was reprimanded for using the word "transphobe."
Someone needs to remind YP that it takes longer to say "wooden-handled, metallic oblong-bladed, horticultural implement designed for digging" than "spade."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A conference speaker was reprimanded for using the word "transphobe."
Someone needs to remind YP that it takes longer to say "wooden-handled, metallic oblong-bladed, horticultural implement designed for digging" than "spade."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I recently watched 'The Stringer' on Netflix, a documentary that investigates who took the famous #NapalmGirl photograph. I can recommend it.
#Vietnam #VietnamWar
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#Vietnam #VietnamWar
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“Napalm Girl” 3: The Stringer. [CW: nudity, distress]
This post revisits the “Napalm Girl” photographs taken at Tràng Bàng on June 8th 1972. The content includes an image of a nine-year-old girl who has torn off her burning clothes. Her ge…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I recently watched 'The Stringer' on Netflix, a documentary that investigates who took the famous #NapalmGirl photograph. I can recommend it.
#Vietnam #VietnamWar
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#Vietnam #VietnamWar
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As someone brought up listening to Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and the MJQ, but who eventually bought and listened enthralled to the double album 'An Evening with Ornette Coleman', I know that you have to work at listening to and appreciating free jazz.
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‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?
Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind
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December 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
As someone brought up listening to Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and the MJQ, but who eventually bought and listened enthralled to the double album 'An Evening with Ornette Coleman', I know that you have to work at listening to and appreciating free jazz.
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Yesterday's sunset from a moving car. I just like the textures.
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Yesterday's sunset from a moving car. I just like the textures.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
A great loss.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
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November 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A great loss.
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How El0n Mu$k routinely gags left-wing people and supporters of LGBTQ+ people.
[No, I won't leave. I'm there for academic networking, and to support the courageous left-wing and LGBTQ+ people who have stayed there to confront the bad faith actors.]
[No, I won't leave. I'm there for academic networking, and to support the courageous left-wing and LGBTQ+ people who have stayed there to confront the bad faith actors.]
November 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
How El0n Mu$k routinely gags left-wing people and supporters of LGBTQ+ people.
[No, I won't leave. I'm there for academic networking, and to support the courageous left-wing and LGBTQ+ people who have stayed there to confront the bad faith actors.]
[No, I won't leave. I'm there for academic networking, and to support the courageous left-wing and LGBTQ+ people who have stayed there to confront the bad faith actors.]
Apparently it could actually be against the law to say that designating Palestine Action a terrorist organisation was wrong. So if anyone asks you, I haven't said that designating Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was wrong. Got that? Thank you.
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Apparently it could actually be against the law to say that designating Palestine Action a terrorist organisation was wrong. So if anyone asks you, I haven't said that designating Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was wrong. Got that? Thank you.
I take it they mean the line about the First Felon being “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” Okay, well I'll make a note not to call him “the most openly corrupt president in American history" myself. I'll never use word like "openly corrupt" about him again.
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I take it they mean the line about the First Felon being “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” Okay, well I'll make a note not to call him “the most openly corrupt president in American history" myself. I'll never use word like "openly corrupt" about him again.
Can the UK get any sh¡ttier?
[Yes, actually. In 2029 we could have a Reform government. But you know what I mean.]
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
[Yes, actually. In 2029 we could have a Reform government. But you know what I mean.]
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UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
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November 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Can the UK get any sh¡ttier?
[Yes, actually. In 2029 we could have a Reform government. But you know what I mean.]
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
[Yes, actually. In 2029 we could have a Reform government. But you know what I mean.]
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Heute gibt's Oomph! mit Sandmann.
#NeueDeutscheHärte #NDH #DanceMetal #Rock #ArmesDeutschland #Sandmann
(Morgen vielleicht 'Sehnsucht', Rammstein)
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#NeueDeutscheHärte #NDH #DanceMetal #Rock #ArmesDeutschland #Sandmann
(Morgen vielleicht 'Sehnsucht', Rammstein)
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Oomph! - Sandmann (Videoclip)
YouTube video by OomphVEVO
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November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Heute gibt's Oomph! mit Sandmann.
#NeueDeutscheHärte #NDH #DanceMetal #Rock #ArmesDeutschland #Sandmann
(Morgen vielleicht 'Sehnsucht', Rammstein)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4X...
#NeueDeutscheHärte #NDH #DanceMetal #Rock #ArmesDeutschland #Sandmann
(Morgen vielleicht 'Sehnsucht', Rammstein)
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US to sever ties with civilization.
Marco Rubio 🤮
adjective
1. So weak, cruel, or pitiful that it provokes a sharp mix of disappointment and contempt.
adjective
1. So weak, cruel, or pitiful that it provokes a sharp mix of disappointment and contempt.
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
US to sever ties with civilization.
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"What we need as a society right now is more Renaissance people. More people who are able to think through multiple discourses."
"[W]here philosophical questions inform scientific questions, and scientific knowledge affects how we understand art and society."
"[W]here philosophical questions inform scientific questions, and scientific knowledge affects how we understand art and society."
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"What we need as a society right now is more Renaissance people. More people who are able to think through multiple discourses."
"[W]here philosophical questions inform scientific questions, and scientific knowledge affects how we understand art and society."
"[W]here philosophical questions inform scientific questions, and scientific knowledge affects how we understand art and society."
The wee nyaff needs to learn the difference between causation and correlation.
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Is Farage right to claim that racism allegations are response to a dislike of his politics?
Reform UK leader has again denied allegations about his behaviour as a schoolboy but what are the facts?
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November 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The wee nyaff needs to learn the difference between causation and correlation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When I was a postgrad rep I argued (hard but unsuccessfully) for more preparation time. I was lucky in that I only taught people who wanted to be there and enjoyed the subject. Fixed or zero hour contracts ARE driving underpaid lecturers to AI. This is not on!
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Why university lecturers are turning to AI in classes | Letters
Letter: Dr Talia Hussain says there is no incentive for lecturers to invest hours preparing a module they may teach only once
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November 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
When I was a postgrad rep I argued (hard but unsuccessfully) for more preparation time. I was lucky in that I only taught people who wanted to be there and enjoyed the subject. Fixed or zero hour contracts ARE driving underpaid lecturers to AI. This is not on!
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Today's pick - the Beach Boys with 'Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring'.
#BeachBoys #Harmony
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#BeachBoys #Harmony
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The Beach Boys Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring 1966
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Today's pick - the Beach Boys with 'Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring'.
#BeachBoys #Harmony
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#BeachBoys #Harmony
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The Byrds - Eight Miles High (Audio)
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November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Which critic first noted the "giveaway," in a man's writing from a woman's perspective, of the protagonist checking herself out in the mirror?
#literature #feminism #criticism
#literature #feminism #criticism
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Which critic first noted the "giveaway," in a man's writing from a woman's perspective, of the protagonist checking herself out in the mirror?
#literature #feminism #criticism
#literature #feminism #criticism
Which is why so many people are content (even if they grumble) to live under Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, et al, and why they will cheerfully vote for Farage or fall in step and march behind Tommy Robinson. We are like the optimist who fell from a skyscraper window. "Not too bad so far..."
“Some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny, either to exercise it themselves or – much more mysteriously – to submit to it.” Jean-François Revel
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Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
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November 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Which is why so many people are content (even if they grumble) to live under Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, et al, and why they will cheerfully vote for Farage or fall in step and march behind Tommy Robinson. We are like the optimist who fell from a skyscraper window. "Not too bad so far..."
“Some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny, either to exercise it themselves or – much more mysteriously – to submit to it.” Jean-François Revel
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“Some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny, either to exercise it themselves or – much more mysteriously – to submit to it.” Jean-François Revel
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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