David Ketelby
@ketelby.bsky.social
science fiction, urban fantasy, (para)politics, (counter)culture * bsfa member * anarchosyndicalist * christ-follower * pronouns: he/him * more content & details at ketelby.blogspot.com * see you at Iridescence (@easterconuk.bsky.social), maybe ..?
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‘It was that prolonged, flat, cheerless week that follows Christmas …’
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
December 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
‘It was that prolonged, flat, cheerless week that follows Christmas …’
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
One of the great passages on the interval between Christmas and New Year from Anthony Powell … #ADTTMOT
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Happy Boxing Day to all, except anyone going on a hunt. You can fox off.
December 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Happy Boxing Day to all, except anyone going on a hunt. You can fox off.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, kind thoughts to any who find this season difficult or upsetting.
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, kind thoughts to any who find this season difficult or upsetting.
Normalizing Panoptic Surveillance Among Children:
‘The Elf on the Shelf' (Laura Pinto and Selena Nemorin)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
‘The Elf on the Shelf' (Laura Pinto and Selena Nemorin)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) 'Elf on the Shelf' and the normalization of surveillance
PDF | On Jan 1, 2015, Laura Elizabeth Pinto and others published 'Elf on the Shelf' and the normalization of surveillance | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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December 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Normalizing Panoptic Surveillance Among Children:
‘The Elf on the Shelf' (Laura Pinto and Selena Nemorin)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
‘The Elf on the Shelf' (Laura Pinto and Selena Nemorin)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I'm enjoying and would recommend Gary Cox's 'Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre.'
It's a short biography, a gallop through the life and times (more scholarly biographies are available; Sartre suits this approach though and this book is perhaps an appetiser).
It's a short biography, a gallop through the life and times (more scholarly biographies are available; Sartre suits this approach though and this book is perhaps an appetiser).
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'm enjoying and would recommend Gary Cox's 'Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre.'
It's a short biography, a gallop through the life and times (more scholarly biographies are available; Sartre suits this approach though and this book is perhaps an appetiser).
It's a short biography, a gallop through the life and times (more scholarly biographies are available; Sartre suits this approach though and this book is perhaps an appetiser).
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What was your favorite book of the year?
December 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
What was your favorite book of the year?
do not unplug the inflatable gingerbread man ... because community matters
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
do not unplug the inflatable gingerbread man ... because community matters
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It's publication day! (In the UK.) @politybooks.bsky.social www.wiley.com/en-ae/Gender...
Gender and Technology: An Introduction
<p>Technology has advanced significantly over the past 200 years, but have ideas about gender and technology also changed over time? Are modern technologies gendered?<br /><br />In this comprehensive ...
www.wiley.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It's publication day! (In the UK.) @politybooks.bsky.social www.wiley.com/en-ae/Gender...
I used to think George Monbiot had a point about Christmas shopping - now I've begun it for another year, I feel differently (as someone afflicted with alcoholism feels differently after their first pint, perhaps. [1/2]
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On the 12th day of Christmas ... your gift will just be junk | George Monbiot
George Monbiot: Every year we splurge on pointless, planet-trashing products, most of which are not wanted. Why not just bake them a cake?
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I used to think George Monbiot had a point about Christmas shopping - now I've begun it for another year, I feel differently (as someone afflicted with alcoholism feels differently after their first pint, perhaps. [1/2]
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sometimes something is a thing in itself until it ceases to be e.g. 'going for a drive' (1950s, 1960s), 'surfing the internet' (1990s).
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Sometimes something is a thing in itself until it ceases to be e.g. 'going for a drive' (1950s, 1960s), 'surfing the internet' (1990s).
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'One of the saddest aspects of where we have reached as a Church, is the erosion of the witness of real lives and a disregard for the fear and distress our LGBTQI+ siblings live with'
Excellent address on loving thy neighbour by +Newcastle
www.newcastle.anglican.org/news/bishop-...
Excellent address on loving thy neighbour by +Newcastle
www.newcastle.anglican.org/news/bishop-...
Bishop Helen-Ann’s Presidential Address to Diocesan Synod - Newcastle Diocese
Over the past couple of months, one question has been something of a guiding light in my daily life and work: who is my neighbour? It’s a question asked of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel. Jesus’ answer comes ...
www.newcastle.anglican.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
'One of the saddest aspects of where we have reached as a Church, is the erosion of the witness of real lives and a disregard for the fear and distress our LGBTQI+ siblings live with'
Excellent address on loving thy neighbour by +Newcastle
www.newcastle.anglican.org/news/bishop-...
Excellent address on loving thy neighbour by +Newcastle
www.newcastle.anglican.org/news/bishop-...
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oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
Fun fact: in the mid-1920s, Oscar Wilde's niece (Dolly Wilde) had a brief affair with Nancy Reagan's godmother (Alla Nazimova).
(Source: Gregory Woods' 'Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World).
(Source: Gregory Woods' 'Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World).
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Fun fact: in the mid-1920s, Oscar Wilde's niece (Dolly Wilde) had a brief affair with Nancy Reagan's godmother (Alla Nazimova).
(Source: Gregory Woods' 'Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World).
(Source: Gregory Woods' 'Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World).
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Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…
80% off ALL ebooks at Pluto Press (@plutopress.bsky.social) for the next day or so.
"This is not a Black Friday deal, this is a red hot literary insurrection."
We believe you, comrade.
www.plutobooks.com
"This is not a Black Friday deal, this is a red hot literary insurrection."
We believe you, comrade.
www.plutobooks.com
Home Page - Pluto Press
An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
80% off ALL ebooks at Pluto Press (@plutopress.bsky.social) for the next day or so.
"This is not a Black Friday deal, this is a red hot literary insurrection."
We believe you, comrade.
www.plutobooks.com
"This is not a Black Friday deal, this is a red hot literary insurrection."
We believe you, comrade.
www.plutobooks.com
Though I hate how you smell, I'd defend to the death your right to smell like it.
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Though I hate how you smell, I'd defend to the death your right to smell like it.
I booked onto the Karl Marx Walking Tour of London next Sunday (30th November) - ticking off something I've been meaning to do for a while now.
www.marxwalks.com
www.marxwalks.com
Karl Marx Walking Tour
www.marxwalks.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I booked onto the Karl Marx Walking Tour of London next Sunday (30th November) - ticking off something I've been meaning to do for a while now.
www.marxwalks.com
www.marxwalks.com
I'm slogging through 'Stranger In A Strange Land' for a book group and - though there are a few good lines - my over-riding reactions are 'what a bore' and also 'thank God for second-wave feminism'. AITA?
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'm slogging through 'Stranger In A Strange Land' for a book group and - though there are a few good lines - my over-riding reactions are 'what a bore' and also 'thank God for second-wave feminism'. AITA?
Having not previously heard of it (until a blink-and-you'd-miss-it mention in SFX), I feel I need to read Rosalind Ashe's 'Moths', recently reissued in Penguin - a 1970s horror novel that Iris Murdoch appears to have blurbed (so at the centre of at least 3 of my Venn diagram interest circles).
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Having not previously heard of it (until a blink-and-you'd-miss-it mention in SFX), I feel I need to read Rosalind Ashe's 'Moths', recently reissued in Penguin - a 1970s horror novel that Iris Murdoch appears to have blurbed (so at the centre of at least 3 of my Venn diagram interest circles).
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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Two new books to make sense of postliberalism. @pjthinker.bsky.social; @mattsleat.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Two new books to make sense of postliberalism. @pjthinker.bsky.social; @mattsleat.bsky.social
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For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation!
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
Cultural Activism & Alternative Politics Reading Group: “Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment” (Graff & Korolczuk, 2022) – BCMCR
bcmcr.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation!
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
I'm looking forward to making new connections at Haunted Futures (@hauntedfutures.bsky.social) hosted by the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork over the next few days.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I'm looking forward to making new connections at Haunted Futures (@hauntedfutures.bsky.social) hosted by the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork over the next few days.
