Joseph McHardy
@josephmchardy.bsky.social
PhDing at Nottingham Uni - Lusitano, C16th Blackness, mixedness; how European Classical music talks about it (📷Nick Rutter) 🏴🇨🇩he/him
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October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Is anyone out there familiar with humdrum, or familiar with someone who is familiar with it? I am all at sea. 🌊
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Is anyone out there familiar with humdrum, or familiar with someone who is familiar with it? I am all at sea. 🌊
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
There’s nothing incoherent or ironic about the f*r r*ght guy eating Indian food. That’s precisely the latitude that wh*te s*premacy gives him.
September 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There’s nothing incoherent or ironic about the f*r r*ght guy eating Indian food. That’s precisely the latitude that wh*te s*premacy gives him.
There is nothing not glorious about this story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There is nothing not glorious about this story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The way this person was only too happy to use her own identity to discredit anti racist efforts.
August 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The way this person was only too happy to use her own identity to discredit anti racist efforts.
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“I'm only asking for a piece of bread... that's all," a 17-year-old boy at al-Shifa hospital tells the BBC, as food security body the IPC warns more than 1.5 million Gazans are at risk of severe malnutrition/ starvation.
Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”
Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”
July 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“I'm only asking for a piece of bread... that's all," a 17-year-old boy at al-Shifa hospital tells the BBC, as food security body the IPC warns more than 1.5 million Gazans are at risk of severe malnutrition/ starvation.
Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”
Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”
Second day of having to spend ££ on taxis b/c the rail infrastructure is so decrepit. Having to plan and replan travel is just exhausting.
July 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Second day of having to spend ££ on taxis b/c the rail infrastructure is so decrepit. Having to plan and replan travel is just exhausting.
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You can skip straight to the final question if you don't have the time or energy. There is a free box at the end you can fill in.
June 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
You can skip straight to the final question if you don't have the time or energy. There is a free box at the end you can fill in.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D
June 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D
White pertains to racial markers, and British pertains to statehood. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.
'the white British share of the population – defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent' 😂😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
June 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
White pertains to racial markers, and British pertains to statehood. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
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They’re Quakers. They’re nice people. This isn’t hard
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
They’re Quakers. They’re nice people. This isn’t hard
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5 yrs since we witnessed George Floyd's murder. Lots of us have felt pain & racial injustice but this watershed moment had urgency for our tomorrow. Racial justice continues to be struggle that feels out of reach.
But we continue for our loved ones, each other & for a just tomorrow. RIP Mr Floyd.
But we continue for our loved ones, each other & for a just tomorrow. RIP Mr Floyd.
May 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
5 yrs since we witnessed George Floyd's murder. Lots of us have felt pain & racial injustice but this watershed moment had urgency for our tomorrow. Racial justice continues to be struggle that feels out of reach.
But we continue for our loved ones, each other & for a just tomorrow. RIP Mr Floyd.
But we continue for our loved ones, each other & for a just tomorrow. RIP Mr Floyd.
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Four of the five main political parties at Holyrood have written to the Presiding Officer protesting her unlawful and (believed to be) transphobic guidance
goodlawproject.org/open-letter-...
Four of the five main political parties at Holyrood have written to the Presiding Officer protesting her unlawful and (believed to be) transphobic guidance
goodlawproject.org/open-letter-...
Open letter: Scottish Parliament urged to change its transphobic toilet rules | Good Law Project
New guidelines issued by the Corporate Body of the Scottish Parliament are exclusionary for trans people and based in a misinterpretation of the law. We, along with a cross-party group of MSPs and par...
goodlawproject.org
May 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Four of the five main political parties at Holyrood have written to the Presiding Officer protesting her unlawful and (believed to be) transphobic guidance
goodlawproject.org/open-letter-...
Four of the five main political parties at Holyrood have written to the Presiding Officer protesting her unlawful and (believed to be) transphobic guidance
goodlawproject.org/open-letter-...
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One of two paintings recently discovered in Beirut by an art historian which are believed to be the work of Artemisia Gentileschi #womensart
May 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
One of two paintings recently discovered in Beirut by an art historian which are believed to be the work of Artemisia Gentileschi #womensart
Good God.
If you thought the PM’s speech was punchy, his foreword to the immigration white paper says high net migration has done “incalculable damage” to the country.
That is a serious shift in tone for a Labour government/party.
That is a serious shift in tone for a Labour government/party.
May 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Good God.
Great day to chat Mozart Coronation Mass recordings for BBC Radio 3 Record Review www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
May 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Great day to chat Mozart Coronation Mass recordings for BBC Radio 3 Record Review www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Brilliant lecture by Dom Broomfield McHugh. Free to watch, and with some archival discoveries that became available just weeks before the lecture was given! youtu.be/QYlG8IZrXK0?...
The LGBT+ Showstopper: ‘I Am What I Am’ - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
YouTube video by Gresham College
youtu.be
April 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Brilliant lecture by Dom Broomfield McHugh. Free to watch, and with some archival discoveries that became available just weeks before the lecture was given! youtu.be/QYlG8IZrXK0?...
It’s really worth a watch!
Ryan Coogler’s ‘SINNERS’ is outperforming almost every single horror movie from the past decade, earning $71M domestically already.
Projected to pass $100M domestic by Sunday.
Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF
Projected to pass $100M domestic by Sunday.
Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF
April 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
It’s really worth a watch!
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Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
April 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
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April 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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