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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jul 23

Bloody Hell Warwick, WTAF

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Tone Of Voice - Warwick University

Find out about our key pillars and traits and how to write in our tone of voice — the Voice of Beyond.

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jul 3

Another day, another moron telling us we support genocide

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Jul 3

Tim Davie staff email:

"I deeply regret that such offensive and deplorable behaviour appeared on the BBC and want to say sorry – to our audience and to all of you, but in particular to Jewish colleagues and the Jewish community."

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jul 3

Delighted to see this finally announced!
Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards
Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!

Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · Jul 3

Congratulations to two University projects that have have received AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards funding, including Crafting Care, building on the work of Centre for Health, Arts, Society & Environment (CHASE) to explore how care is co-produced across communities news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/07/03/a...

A floating glass globe reflecting its forest surroundings

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · Jun 25

*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The UK government's plan to extend terrorism laws is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. Join us in opposing this repressive move. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jun 24

A) BOSS Pets: A merseyside pet shop whose name plays on the Liverpool word meaning "very good"
B) Hugo BOSS: A clothes company founded by an actual Nazi; made the uniforms for the SS using forced labour.

And yet it's B suing A to protect their brand. Wild.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hugo Boss tells Liverpool owner of Boss Pets to take down company website

Small business latest to be targeted by fashion house over use of word boss, slang for ‘great’ in Merseyside

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jun 22

yet another reason Val is the queen of crime and she-who-shall-not-be-named will only every be a derivative, unloved and unloving pretender.

The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · Jun 21

Author Val McDermid and her wife, geography professor Jo Sharp, take part in the Pride parade through Edinburgh city centre on Saturday afternoon

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jun 22

although THIS might actually be an even better appropriation of Boots than 28 Years Later www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVoi...

BOOTS - poem by Rudyard Kipling, but synthwave & with giant cartoon monsters

YouTube video by Ruairi Robinson

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jun 22

TBH using Kipling in a film about a small, rage-fuelled island caught up myths of militarism is a bit of a tonic. Because every time if I hear "the nation's favourite poem" is bloody "IF" I die a little inside. 2

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jun 22

I can't get the absolutely harrowing recording of Kipling's poem "Boots" in 28 Years Later out of my head as it goes from metronomic to hysterical 1

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28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jun 20

Nah
First half of 28 Weeks: tense and clever take on military-industrial context.
Second half: "what happens if a helicopter fights a zombie"

The Neverending Watchlist - Movie Podcast @neverendingwl.bsky.social · Jun 19

Ahem

After the rewatches I can confirm that for me……… 28 Weeks Later is superior to 28 Days Later.

#filmSky

a man is laughing in a field with a group of people running in the background .

ALT: a man is laughing in a field with a group of people running in the background .

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Jun 9

My wife thinks she drives because I am a danger to myself and others who can't check his left-hand mirror without swerving...little does she know she's just my beard

Dan Emerson @danemers.bsky.social · Jun 8

Fellas, is it gay to have a wife who drives a car?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jun 8

Difficult to express the contempt I feel for this.

No, not all Jews think "Yes, there is a genocide happening right now and children are being burnt alive, but on the other hand some of those protesting really are antisemites, which is bad, so who knows what to do?"

archive.ph/E1vxH

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · May 2

The trouble with having so many MPs from two certain universities is that they seem to think every other university a) is worthless b) is not the cornerstone of many local economies

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · Apr 30

god this man's ideas would be more disastrous for local economies than mephedrone and spice put together

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Apr 11

as ever our excellent PhD students doing typically excellent things

The Bibliography @thebibliopod.bsky.social · Apr 11

For the Poems for Peace Project, a collection of poems were written by various writers, each thinking about different facets of peace and conflict. In our latest episode, staff members from @livunienglish.bsky.social interview the writers on their work open.spotify.com/episode/07Vd...

Poems Promoting Peace and Addressing Conflict

The Bibliography · Episode

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Mar 26

Famous Scientists Discover New Formula for Pusillanimity

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk

Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Mar 13

We have never been human;
but I'll try anything once

Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · Mar 12

🤵Are you human? Of course you are, this isn't 'the other place'. So that means you've got a month left to apply to join this year's Being Human festival, celebrating all that's good about the humanities: www.beinghumanfestival.org/news/apply-t...

Apply to take part in Being Human Festival 2025!

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Mar 10

Have you heard the good news is the bad news?

Westie @westie1.bsky.social · Nov 6

Exit polls found that 81% of white evangelicals backed Trump. It’s virtually identical to 2016 and 2020. They haven’t changed. They’re not ashamed of him. They have no problem having their faith defined by his actions. (And we shouldn’t hesitate in connecting those dots.)

Friendly Atheist

Chart showing that White evangelical/born-again Christians account for 22% of voters.
They voted 17% Harris 81% Trump.
All other voters 78% voted 58% Harris 39% Trump

Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Mar 6

Every time an editor says 'kill your darlings' a demon child dies

(only to be reborn, louder, slimier and screaming for more delicious headspace about 3 weeks later)

Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Mar 6

And just like that, my brain generated yet another idea for a novel. To join all the other ideas for novels I'll never write.

All screaming to be written.

My half born demon children.

They sing so sweetly.

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Mar 5

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨

Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social

So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

Department of English at the University of Liverpool @livunienglish.bsky.social · Mar 4

Are you a recent recipient of a doctorate? Come work with us! This post is designed to provide experience in teaching and teaching-related administration in a world class university environment. The post is tenable for one year only from September 2025.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD111/a...

Alan Frederick Price Memorial - Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Apply now for the Alan Frederick Price Memorial - Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in English Literature - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Feb 28

"He's Not the Messiah He's a Very Naughty Boy"

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Feb 28

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

Keir Starmer speaks in Washington: 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Feb 28

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Feb 27

As it happens am teaching Larissa Sansour's 2012 film Nation Estate today -- which imagines Gaza as a skyscraper Ballardian nightmare -- so it's going to be interesting to see the students discuss how this has gone from SF-dystopia to policy plan in a decade larissasansour.com/Nation-Estat...

Nation Estate (2012) — Larissa Sansour

The Nation Estate project consists of a 9-minute sci-fi short film and a photo series offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in...

larissasansour.com

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Feb 27

My Eye Movement?

Rapid.

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Feb 27

My chip?

Hot.

Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · Feb 27

My club?

Culture.

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Feb 27

It made me want to split your skull with my proboscis and suck your delicious brains out

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · Feb 27

Universities: students, the main problem with AI is that not declaring you use it might affect your marks.

AI: Hi kids, make ethnic cleansing fun again!

edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/w...

‘Trump Gaza is finally here!’: US president promotes Gaza plan in AI video | CNN

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted a video on his Truth Social account, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like re...

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