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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 7h

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 7h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 1d

This is just such a no-brainer win for everybody that I hope that it gets rolled out in a much bigger way.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social · 1d

I still believe a better life is possible.

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 1d

Cursory look at my Apple Music:

Don’t Go Puttin Wishes In My Head; Pick Up That Knife; Tell me I never knew that; Feed Me; Bless Me; I’m Not Going Anywhere; Take A Sexy Picture of Me; Lord, Let That Tesla Crash; I Want You Here; Headphones On; Shut Up Kiss Me

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 1d

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...

Stop EU Chat Control

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will...

action.uplift.ie

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 1d

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire

bcrw.barnard.edu

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 1d

I have ceramic ones from next, they’re great and easy to clean too

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 1d

YES

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 1d

it’s our duty Jay!!!!!

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 1d

friends fear she’s making plans to see one battle after another again

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 1d

there’ll come a point where you realise that you need to mind your body and its limits and it will be the most liberating thing in the world! also drink kombucha every day

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 2d

Precisely!!!!!

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 2d

❤️
booksupstairs.ie

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 2d

Throwing trans people under the bus for political gain that’s for sure

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 2d

Do we get to say #JimGavinIsOverParty or is that something we left over on The Other Website. Anyway this is quite funny

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · May 28

Mike.
@dumbmike.bsky.social
TEENS: (walk into medical exam room)
ME: This room is empty except for me.
DOCTOR: (behind glass) Fascinating.
He's teenblind. He is effectively blind to the physical presence of teens.
ME: The show Scooby Doo is about a scared dog who lives alone in a car.
October 1, 2024 at 10:32 PM

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 5d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 3d

Best Actor goes to Leo’s wee hat

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 3d

Personally Benicio should get it for ‘a few small beers’ alone

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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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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 4d

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 4d

he’s just like me 🤧

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 4d

archives rule!!!!!

Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 CORMAC NEWS 🚨

Cormac McCarthy brother, Dennis, is giving 18,000 volumes from Cormac’s personal library to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This collection will be available to scholars in the spring of 2026. (Photo of Cormac’s library below).