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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 4d

I spent a nice afternoon at the Wallace Collection. Some brilliant Jan Steens and Reynolds portraits, alongside a cabinet of Asante loot and this, um, striking enamel plaque showing the Virgin and child:

An enamel plaque showing the Madonna, with a large domed head and weirdly compacted facial features, and child (ditto), reading a book - hopefully not a Bible, because that would be a bummer for the poor kid.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 11d

Guardian nails it:

Text reads: If there’s one thing in life more boring than hearing a fellow human being describe a dream they had to you in any kind of detail, it’s being forced to listen to somebody talking about their Fantasy Football team.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 12d

A reminder, if anyone needs it, that nearly two million Americans bought this record in 1971: youtu.be/4JoacW7woBY?...

Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 22d

Currently reading Philip Roth's The Plot Against America on my morning commute: at night, Sinclair Lewis's It Couldn't Happen Here. And between those, for zero light relief, the news.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 24d

But in general, just join a club if you can, play games, coach some kids - it's good for the world and for you!

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 24d

But I'm now having deep thoughts about personhood and its dependence on relations with others. I can make a particular case for village cricket as the sport with the greatest capacity for bringing people of different generations, genders and social backgrounds to play together in the same team.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 24d

I was very touched to receive my cricket club's annual 'person of the year' award last night. Not batter of the year, nor bowler, not even close to those.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · 27d

Go work for Rachel!

Rachel Pistol @drpistol.bsky.social · 28d

Come work for me! 👇🏻
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EHRI-UK @ehri-uk.bsky.social · 28d

We're hiring!
EHRI-UK Project Assistant - remote work w/ some travel @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Part time (0.4-0.5FTE depending on candidate). Initially 9 months but anticipating extension. Perfect for #PhD students - spread the word! Closing date 26/09/25
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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Sep 3

Presumably someone finally pointed out that I'd never been invited onto the show. Glad he did the decent thing.

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

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Rachel Pistol @drpistol.bsky.social · Aug 22

My article explaining the disturbing similarities between what happened to Japanese Americans in #WWII & today's #USA
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theconversation.com/why-japanese...

Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025

Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.

theconversation.com

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Aug 17

It's getting late for American democracy. The point is not crime in DC. The point is what else is there.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Aug 17

There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 17

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'm sure this will be life-changing for some, but please, don't ever make my inner voice audible. It's nasal, neurotic and never shuts up.

Image from New York Times of patient using a brain-machine interface, with a headline reading: 'For some patients, the 'inner voice' may soon be audible'.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Aug 4

Judging others = 20% of parenting; mortification/mortifying self-awareness = another 20%. Important to keep things in balance.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Aug 4

Watching American sports on TV and thinking where do parents come up with these first names, and then remembering my own first name

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Aug 2

Some of the orders displayed have/had really metal names: the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary (New York), the Cloistered Sisters of Mary Reparatrix (Detroit), Cloistered Redemptoristine Nun of Ligouri, Missouri...

Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Aug 2

The museum attached to the Cross in the Woods shrine in Indian River, MI. Rooms full of dolls and mannequins dressed in the habits of different Catholic orders, 500+ of them. Quite unsettling.

A museum display case filled with dolls dressed as nuns of different religious orders

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jul 19

Working on it

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · Jul 19

A single Kendrick dis track could destroy ICE

Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · Jul 19

Remember a couple of weeks ago when Border patrol raided McArthur park, LA?
Well yeah, here’s their propaganda video. Using Kendrick as a soundtrack in LA is a choice!

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jul 4

Great thread though

Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jul 4

My American-in-laws, after every Christmas and summer vacation

Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · Jul 3

But apart from some fun spats, things were mostly fine. We sang our songs, we sold our wares, some of us were rich, some of us were poor, some of us tried to sneakily recruit each other, good times.

AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jul 2

My neighbours and I have been schooled in many topics today, whether we wanted to be or not.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jul 2

Lots of very candid, funny, empathetic conversations, carried out at high volume, not intended for others but impossible not to hear, especially if you happen to be tending the BBQ six feet away.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jul 2

Invite twenty or so 20 year olds, mostly girls, into your garden for a day-long celebration of your daughter's birthday, and you start willing deafness upon yourself remarkably swiftly.

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jun 24

Which one is you?

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Kendrick Oliver @koushist.bsky.social · Jun 18

On my way to this. The Midlands go on a bit, don't they?

HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · Jun 18

We are looking forward to kicking things off after lunch for #HOTCUS2025 at Lancaster with our PG/ECR workshop led by Professor Andrew Preston! All the details at hotcus.org.uk/events/annua...

2025 Annual Conference

hotcus.org.uk

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