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Laura Ashe

@lauraashe.bsky.social

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Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused. Never knowingly underdressed. New book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 1d

I wish this had a picture of Jilly Cooper. Missed opportunity there

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Long before “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf wrote a trio of fairy tales about a woman named Violet.

This early experimental fiction, rediscovered in 2018, is now being published for the first time, showing Woolf in a startling new light.

A lost work by Virginia Woolf will be published for the first time

The author’s early fiction, written in tribute to her friend Mary Violet Dickinson, shows her in a startling new light.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 1d

I had to do a whole online course about ergonomic workplace health and I can tell you this is one of the pictures that's "wrong" (because of the height of the chair, curvature of the spine, and the relative position of eyes and laptop)

Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 1d

Posture checkpoint!

📸 BAREThisInMind

A cat lying partly over a laptop computer on a desk.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 1d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 1d

Not wanting kids has been possibly the single most emancipating thing in my life. Which is ... really very bad

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent new graffiti in Jericho boatyard

Sunny view across the canal; blue canal boat; wild blue and yellow graffiti on the back of a garage; tower of St Barnabas' Church to the right, terraced houses to the left. Perfect reflection in the water

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Christ Church meadow this morning

Sunlit field surrounded by mature trees; cattle grazing

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 3d

Well I did cry all the way home and I have mentioned it to a lot of people... But I'M FINE 🤣

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 3d

I sat through a whole Ford lecture on my work in which the lecturer glowingly name-checked about twenty people, but not me. I literally wrote the books on the topics she discussed.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 4d

I was once hungover at Heathrow, after an unplanned night of excess that included inexplicably watching the World Darts Championship. In the horrible pub in departures at 7am was the guy who came second, chain-downing pints of lager. I wanted to sympathize but I know nothing at all about darts so

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 4d

In memoriam...

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 6d

I'm in exactly the opposite situation (so at least some exciting new anatomical knowledge has resulted from this 🤣) but mostly I am baffled (not baffled) at men's need to specify how breasts are involved in a gesture that in no sense involves them

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 6d

*also no need to specify*

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 6d

Could someone explain to all male
authors that if a woman has her arms crossed there really is no, repeat no, need to specify that this is "under her breasts"

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 7d

This is a very beautiful thread. The feeling of other minds.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 9d

An all time classic

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 9d

Merrill: "This is comfy"
Wyatt: "... help?"

A gorgeous apricot coloured cat appears to be asleep on top of a gorgeous brown cat who is looking at us with slightly panicky and pleading eyes

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 9d

Relatable

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 9d

Phrases you didn't expect to need to use before owning a cat, no. 8537: "Why are you standing on the toaster?"

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 12d

Fun in Malaga

I'm standing on a street corner smiling; you can see it's a pretty narrow street with lovely old buildings above

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 12d

The view you ideally want from your conference drinks reception

View over Calle Alcazabilla in Malaga from the rooftop of Hermandad del Sepulcro

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 13d

Malaga was keeping it classy this morning

Morning view of the Alcazaba and Roman amphitheatre ruins beneath

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 14d

I'm sure this is cosy and it is also quite pretty but at first glance it does look like a knitted representation of some terrible body horror hand injury

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 14d

Arrived in Madrid airport and have already witnessed my first potato-omelette-baguette of the visit. You have to admire it. I guess the Scots would deep-fry it but still

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 14d

This reminds me of the post I once read on the hellsite saying that a woman walking home alone wearing a short skirt was 'like leaving the keys in your car for someone to take' and ....