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Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); non-canonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.

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These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

06.03.2026 18:46 👍 4955 🔁 1057 💬 64 📌 9

This is really disgraceful. A Labour government should be ashamed of this happening on their watch. They probably won't be though.

06.03.2026 11:02 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Teaching this on Monday, on my World at War module... Somehow it's timely every year.

05.03.2026 17:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe also I Love Dick?

05.03.2026 17:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you're open to translation, Yagisawa's Days at the Morisaki Bookshop might go well. Yellowface might cover some of these boxes too, depending on your angle - I think it would teach well for intro classes.

05.03.2026 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

And I'll be dragging myself out of bed for this in the morning: bsky.app/profile/eisu...

05.03.2026 01:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Through the door 1.53am, thanks for your concern one and all!

05.03.2026 01:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Mornington Crescent!

I mean, Edinburgh Waverley.

Or, the absolutely worst part of it to be dropped at 1.10am (Market St)

05.03.2026 01:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hello East Craigs

05.03.2026 00:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hello Linlithgow

05.03.2026 00:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hello Bellshill

05.03.2026 00:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The laptop is off, I repeat, the laptop is off

05.03.2026 00:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hello to anyone who's in Lesmahagow, where we're currently passing

04.03.2026 23:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It is 5 minutes to midnight and the woman is still working on a presentation. It is called "Unlocking Complexity" #BuzzwordBingo

04.03.2026 23:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

#AccidentalPartridge

04.03.2026 23:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And the bus is going all the way up the M74 and down the M8, rather than cutting off time and distance up the A702

04.03.2026 23:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The bus lights have now been turned off, so the massive square of white light is now even more headache-inducing. Luckily nothing from the feet

04.03.2026 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yeeeeikes! Hope you're soon safely home.

04.03.2026 23:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There is a woman with an incredibly bright laptop screen who has also just taken her boots off

04.03.2026 23:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There's an Aberdour team, too.

04.03.2026 22:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don't worry, I'm in Carlisle for the bus only ten minutes after I should've been at Waverley. What's that? Yes, infrastructure in this country is broken

04.03.2026 22:34 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Preview
Misery & Company, by Withered Hand from the album How To Love (Album,2023)

witheredhand.bandcamp.com/track/misery...

04.03.2026 22:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bus replacement from Carlisle 😭

04.03.2026 21:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Did we wait for nearly half an hour at Preston, why, yes, yes we did

04.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Will we get to Glasgow Central in time to get to Queen Street to get the last train to Edinburgh, looks unlikely...

04.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Some absolute savage doesn't have the keyboard noises turned off on their phone, when the rozzers come for me please let them know that the murder was justified

04.03.2026 20:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also on some medication which gives me a pulsing headache, so it's shaping up to be a fun evening

04.03.2026 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

On a train to Edinburgh that is now scheduled to terminate at Preston, pray for me

04.03.2026 20:05 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reminder that this will mark our 10th currently scheduled strike day (there will be more as university management isn't coming back to the table with any changed position). If you're in Edinburgh it'd be great if you'd come along in support.

04.03.2026 09:33 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Birmingham's Midland Hotel hosted the Conservative MP Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 but, earlier than this, Labour's Oswald Mosley broke the Chamberlains' grip on power in 1929 before creating his new fascist party. By 1931, Birmingham people had violently driven him out of the city.

04.03.2026 09:13 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0