Very Terry π₯
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Publisher. Of books - critical/creative/cultural management and the like. Once known as @RoutledgeEditor on the other place. From Southport to London, via Cardiff. YNWA.
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Very Terry π₯
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Β· Sep 18
What's that? You'd prefer a one page visualisation of what an academic & professional publisher needs to see in your book proposal? Here's one I made earlier.
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Huda Ammori: "This is a.. victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain & in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history"
February 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Huda Ammori: "This is a.. victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain & in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history"
Me in 2011. Never looked back.
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Me in 2011. Never looked back.
The word "deserve" has (next to) no place in football punditry. Discuss.
February 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM
The word "deserve" has (next to) no place in football punditry. Discuss.
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Corporate Bullshit: "a semantically empty and often confusing style of communication in organizational contexts that leverages abstruse corporate buzzwords and jargon in a functionally misleading way."
π§΅Happy to announce, "The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes" is now published! ππ₯³ (see replies below for more info)
Official version: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Open-access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Official version: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Open-access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes
From boardrooms and brown bags to emails and earnings calls, business culture often seems overrun by βcorporate bullshit,β a semantically empty and ofβ¦
www.sciencedirect.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Corporate Bullshit: "a semantically empty and often confusing style of communication in organizational contexts that leverages abstruse corporate buzzwords and jargon in a functionally misleading way."
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the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
MY KIDS: so why are there muppets in the AUDIENCE
ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!
ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!
February 8, 2026 at 6:22 AM
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
His behaviour on Gaza Genocide and rights to protest in the UK is enough, easily, to explain this before you get to what platform he stood on to get Labour Leadership, which was followed by factional warfare to deliver policy preferences of his rich donor base.
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
His behaviour on Gaza Genocide and rights to protest in the UK is enough, easily, to explain this before you get to what platform he stood on to get Labour Leadership, which was followed by factional warfare to deliver policy preferences of his rich donor base.
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This is from Bloomberg/Alex Wickham's 'read out' of Starmer's weak position: The whole point of the Starmer "project" was to do stuff like cutting disabled people's benefits, without putting it in the manifesto: cuts + lying was the plan , now its crashed www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 8, 2026 at 10:37 PM
This is from Bloomberg/Alex Wickham's 'read out' of Starmer's weak position: The whole point of the Starmer "project" was to do stuff like cutting disabled people's benefits, without putting it in the manifesto: cuts + lying was the plan , now its crashed www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....
February 5, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....
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Liverpool hitting new levels of "sometimes it is just not your year."
Feel bad for Slot. Still think he's pretty good. Not sure what he's supposed to do about his best player becoming his worst player + a beloved locker room glue guy dying in an accident + losing every single dice roll.
Feel bad for Slot. Still think he's pretty good. Not sure what he's supposed to do about his best player becoming his worst player + a beloved locker room glue guy dying in an accident + losing every single dice roll.
February 8, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Liverpool hitting new levels of "sometimes it is just not your year."
Feel bad for Slot. Still think he's pretty good. Not sure what he's supposed to do about his best player becoming his worst player + a beloved locker room glue guy dying in an accident + losing every single dice roll.
Feel bad for Slot. Still think he's pretty good. Not sure what he's supposed to do about his best player becoming his worst player + a beloved locker room glue guy dying in an accident + losing every single dice roll.
Options on the bench are not screaming goals. Absolute Daniel Beddingfield of a season.
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Options on the bench are not screaming goals. Absolute Daniel Beddingfield of a season.
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Welcome to todayβs episode of βDefenders Can Do What They Want Against Mo Salahβ
February 8, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Welcome to todayβs episode of βDefenders Can Do What They Want Against Mo Salahβ
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He's not running the post like it's Amazon, he's using the idea of "data" to offload responsibility for his own politically motivated decisions onto readers
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
He's not running the post like it's Amazon, he's using the idea of "data" to offload responsibility for his own politically motivated decisions onto readers
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There is an even sadder six-word story.
February 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
There is an even sadder six-word story.
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A million things to love about "Marquee Moon" of course, but the little drop Smith adds when everything breaks down into a million pieces is genius β like a boat going over Niagara Falls
February 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A million things to love about "Marquee Moon" of course, but the little drop Smith adds when everything breaks down into a million pieces is genius β like a boat going over Niagara Falls
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"My Jeffrey Epstein-branded sweatshirt has people asking a lot of questions which, now I come to think of it, are entirely reasonable."
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 PM
"My Jeffrey Epstein-branded sweatshirt has people asking a lot of questions which, now I come to think of it, are entirely reasonable."
They could already do it during the ball towelling long throw breaks in the PL.
February 4, 2026 at 8:43 PM
They could already do it during the ball towelling long throw breaks in the PL.
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Is it acceptable to use the term βDirectorβ in a job title?
December 4, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Is it acceptable to use the term βDirectorβ in a job title?
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βHow can you have a city without a university?β he asks. βItβs shocking.β
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
βIf I think about what this means, I want to cryβ: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex Universityβs Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a βleft behindβ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:53 AM
βHow can you have a city without a university?β he asks. βItβs shocking.β
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
The version with Allen Toussaint and John Grant is magical youtu.be/1wULJgK8is0?...
James Dean Bradfield - If You Tolerate This
YouTube video by MLIN20
youtu.be
February 4, 2026 at 5:57 AM
The version with Allen Toussaint and John Grant is magical youtu.be/1wULJgK8is0?...
Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" holds a World Records as the UK number one single with the longest title without brackets.
Deleted a post about βwhatβs your least favorite songβ because the vibes are bad enough already.
Instead: whatβs your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: βElderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Townβ (Pearl Jam)
Instead: whatβs your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: βElderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Townβ (Pearl Jam)
February 4, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Manic Street Preachers' "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" holds a World Records as the UK number one single with the longest title without brackets.
π΅we all dream of a team of Jeremysπ΅
February 3, 2026 at 7:46 AM
π΅we all dream of a team of Jeremysπ΅
The fella I shared an office with on my pre-internet "year in industry" at BNFL insisted he'd seen a porn film where the sax solo from Baker Street was the soundtrack to the denouement sex scene.
February 3, 2026 at 7:29 AM
The fella I shared an office with on my pre-internet "year in industry" at BNFL insisted he'd seen a porn film where the sax solo from Baker Street was the soundtrack to the denouement sex scene.
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I love these Chris Calkins photos of the late, great Elaine Stritch with Bebe Neuwirth.
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February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I love these Chris Calkins photos of the late, great Elaine Stritch with Bebe Neuwirth.
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