Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social‬

In less depressing news, I’d like to thank everyone who has been listening and sending lovely feedback to me & the brilliant @davidolusoga.bsky.social on our new podcast @throughtimepod.bsky.social. Thanks to you we hit No. 1 within a day of launching! We’re thrilled with the response. Thank you! 🥳
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Teaching Fellow in Philosophy (x2)
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD456/teaching-fellow-in-philosophy-x2
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Assistant Professor in Turkish Cultural #History- Yunus Emre Enstitüsü - School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRC705/assistant-professor-in-turkish-cultural-history
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PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/phd-studentship-kings-college-londons-leverhulme-centre-for-research-on-slavery-in-war-crsw-doctoral-studentships
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I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
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Lecturer - History and Politics
HRUC ´skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRC698/lecturer-history-and-politics
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Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.
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Otherwise this is just misrepresentation or false advertising. It shouldn't matter whether someone's using a tech tool to commit fraud. Fraud it fraud. Congress should deal with this right now, before it's too late.
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The most egregious thing that happened in this exchange, however, is that I was obviously lied to. If I ask "are you an AI" the tool fails to give me a true answer, that should be against the law. Its deployer or maker should be held to account.
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Possibly I'm feeling a little punchy, given ... all this *waves arms generally*
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Accidentally hit all caps writing an email and something about the image of excitedly shouting HI JASON in response to someone I don't know very well has just made me laugh and laugh.
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something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder"

I hate it here!
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So the same Islamic ruling class in Iran now gets to put a toll on a Strait that was open and free before America intervened in the first place. Masterful gambit, sir
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God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.
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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
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The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability

The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now
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Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
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🔔 Postdoc vacancies 🔔

A project co-led by our academic, Udit Bhatia, is advertising for two postdocs (four-year positions).

➡️ A third post will be advertised in 2027. The positions will assist with work on popular government in the Global South

popgovproject.wordpress.com/postdoc-positions/
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'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines.

And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3
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The entire world is looking at America like WTF and most Americans still have no idea anything is wrong.

Here's why, open access:

🚨Democracy on Autopilot
America expanded the right to vote without building the civic culture democracy requires open.substack.com/pub/thecycle/p/democracy-on-autopilot?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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attending the fancy televised gala with a pouty face pocket square so everyone knows i disapprove of the fancy televised gala i'm attending. rsvp and don't show up. better, walk out en masse. don't be cute about it, he is a fascist who wants you dead
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Animal Farm, but with cake. 🧁
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Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.
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Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?
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Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.
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“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
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Seems to me if you think you have divine sanction for your warmongering when it goes badly you have to consider the opposite proposition but they never seem to!
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The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
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