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Ruth Holliday

@ruthholliday.bsky.social

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Professor of Gender and Culture. Interested in taste, bodies, intimacies, low-fertility cultures and East-Asia. #MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 8h

Beautiful!

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 BREAKING | Greens hit 10% in poll average for the very first time, an all-time high for the party.

This is the first time in the party's history that they have hit double-digits in polls, and comes as the party stands within touching distance of 100,000 members.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 13h

Mice I can understand

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 16h

Yes!!! Absolutely this!!

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 16h

Well, well, well... Glasgow and, my own alma mater, Heriot-Watt

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 17h

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 18h

Is there anyone left that doesn’t know that cutting taxes for wealthier people means cutting services for everyone else?

Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference
Leader announces tax cut plan in policy-heavy speech aimed at boosting beleaguered party's fiscal credibility

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 22h

Reform, Tories and Labour compete over who can be the most racist

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Opinion | I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain — The Guardian

The shadow justice secretary complained of a lack of integration in an area that has shown, time and time again, that it is for everyone, says Nazia Parveen, an assistant managing editor at the Guardi...

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 23h

Lol it shows what a £200m gift from the Blackstone group can do.
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Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 22h

People need homes where they work🤷‍♀️

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 22h

So the aim of AI is to take the pleasure out of everything?

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 22h

One thing we *won’t* have to worry about as the Tories will never again be in power.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

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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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 22h

Ragdoll Bros 😂

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

Student number controls should be about the *distribution* of students between universities to end the recruitment chaos, not limiting places to elites 😡

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

I can think of better ways to express love 😂

Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

From the garden. Hoping my pot plants aren’t full of worms!

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

Poor kitty!

Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

Ragdoll!

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

True. At least it stayed put.

Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 23h

The worm is for their fishing line? 🤣