Plashing Vole
@plashingvole.bsky.social
Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
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University of Mordor.
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University of Mordor.
Easily done. I only know because I read a LOT of papers regularly. UK papers do it too, especially comment pieces that first appear in small periodicals etc.
January 20, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Easily done. I only know because I read a LOT of papers regularly. UK papers do it too, especially comment pieces that first appear in small periodicals etc.
Um, newspapers buy in pieces from other newspapers a lot, especially when they don’t have staff in that place or an expert on something. The Irish Times often buys Guardian articles too. It’s normal practice. The copyright notice isn’t there by accident: it acknowledges the source.
January 20, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Um, newspapers buy in pieces from other newspapers a lot, especially when they don’t have staff in that place or an expert on something. The Irish Times often buys Guardian articles too. It’s normal practice. The copyright notice isn’t there by accident: it acknowledges the source.
Very much hope so. Thanks!
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Very much hope so. Thanks!
I really want one but my council isn’t doing it. Those people are very very weird.
January 20, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I really want one but my council isn’t doing it. Those people are very very weird.
refugees might fit post-Brexit exhausted Britain, or work as a plea for immigration, kindness and fluidity (of identity and collective purpose). Profoundly humane, liberal and quite moving.
January 20, 2026 at 12:45 PM
refugees might fit post-Brexit exhausted Britain, or work as a plea for immigration, kindness and fluidity (of identity and collective purpose). Profoundly humane, liberal and quite moving.
There’s a LOT of exposition, using the framework of a visiting alien historian/anthropologist, but it asks a lot of questions relevant to us - as travellers on a broken-down ship or our own. It does economics, politics and social science, but also philosophy. Its depiction of ragged, suspicious…
January 20, 2026 at 12:45 PM
There’s a LOT of exposition, using the framework of a visiting alien historian/anthropologist, but it asks a lot of questions relevant to us - as travellers on a broken-down ship or our own. It does economics, politics and social science, but also philosophy. Its depiction of ragged, suspicious…
So soon after Logan and Raworth’s books about how to cope culturally and socially with fairly distributing resources on a finite, struggling planet/ship, my next read was Becky Chambers’ Record of a Spaceborn Few, set on a generational ship crewed by people wondering what to do next.
January 20, 2026 at 12:45 PM
So soon after Logan and Raworth’s books about how to cope culturally and socially with fairly distributing resources on a finite, struggling planet/ship, my next read was Becky Chambers’ Record of a Spaceborn Few, set on a generational ship crewed by people wondering what to do next.
Spot on. Recently I enjoyed this one:
Them: let’s go to Mauritius
Me: not again
Them: what?
Me: it ended with a corruption enquiry, a public scandal and massive losses, all before your time.
Them: let’s go to Mauritius!
Them: let’s go to Mauritius
Me: not again
Them: what?
Me: it ended with a corruption enquiry, a public scandal and massive losses, all before your time.
Them: let’s go to Mauritius!
January 20, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Spot on. Recently I enjoyed this one:
Them: let’s go to Mauritius
Me: not again
Them: what?
Me: it ended with a corruption enquiry, a public scandal and massive losses, all before your time.
Them: let’s go to Mauritius!
Them: let’s go to Mauritius
Me: not again
Them: what?
Me: it ended with a corruption enquiry, a public scandal and massive losses, all before your time.
Them: let’s go to Mauritius!
Totally with you.
January 20, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Totally with you.
The stuff I sat through as a governor last week was both terrifying and terrifyingly stupid. I keep telling my colleagues that the hostility to academic and professional staff can’t be overstated. They speak of us as the enemy and act accordingly.
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The stuff I sat through as a governor last week was both terrifying and terrifyingly stupid. I keep telling my colleagues that the hostility to academic and professional staff can’t be overstated. They speak of us as the enemy and act accordingly.
So much for the ‘Labour is quietly working away to fix things’ narrative.
January 20, 2026 at 9:36 AM
So much for the ‘Labour is quietly working away to fix things’ narrative.
Hard to imagine why people perceive Today as a rightwing propaganda machine.
January 20, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Hard to imagine why people perceive Today as a rightwing propaganda machine.
They’re a cartel. Like the Economic League etc - just a conspiracy against a whole profession.
January 19, 2026 at 8:54 PM
They’re a cartel. Like the Economic League etc - just a conspiracy against a whole profession.
3. You don’t reschedule what you missed: that’s not striking, it’s rescheduling.
Why none of this has gone to court yet I just don’t know.
Why none of this has gone to court yet I just don’t know.
January 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM
3. You don’t reschedule what you missed: that’s not striking, it’s rescheduling.
Why none of this has gone to court yet I just don’t know.
Why none of this has gone to court yet I just don’t know.
Bastards. They tried it here but couldn’t work out how to do it. They also wouldn’t understand that withdrawing your labour and postponing your labour are different things.
January 19, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Bastards. They tried it here but couldn’t work out how to do it. They also wouldn’t understand that withdrawing your labour and postponing your labour are different things.
Thanks Sean. I’ll get used to the panels and battery then start saving for the heat pump next year
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Thanks Sean. I’ll get used to the panels and battery then start saving for the heat pump next year
Annexation of. Sigh.
January 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Annexation of. Sigh.
I got it at Conradh na Gaeilge’s shop on Harcourt St which seems to have moved somewhere else.
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I got it at Conradh na Gaeilge’s shop on Harcourt St which seems to have moved somewhere else.