Dr Sarah J Young
@sarahjyoung.bsky.social
Russophone culture & history, prison/gulag writing, and C19 literature. Also cats. And needlework. Author/translator of Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 https://uclpress.co.uk/products/173021
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Dr Sarah J Young
@sarahjyoung.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Writing Resistance
In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorism and revolutionary activity were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortress near St Petersburg. The regime of indet...
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Greetings to new followers! One of the things I’m going to be using this account for is posting about the revolutionary populists imprisoned in Shlissel’burg Fortress from 1884-1906, the subject of my open access @uclpress.bsky.social book Writing Resistance uclpress.co.uk/book/writing...
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Centuries before Virginia Woolf dreamed of a “room of one’s own,” Li Qingzhao(1084 – ca. 1155) already claimed hers in the Song Dynasty. While most women were bound to the household, she built a library of 4,000 volumes and wrote with a voice both lyrical and defiant. 1/2
#poem
#poem
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Centuries before Virginia Woolf dreamed of a “room of one’s own,” Li Qingzhao(1084 – ca. 1155) already claimed hers in the Song Dynasty. While most women were bound to the household, she built a library of 4,000 volumes and wrote with a voice both lyrical and defiant. 1/2
#poem
#poem
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What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering.
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering.
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO
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Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx
AI absolutely nailed by the brilliant @stephencollins.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
AI absolutely nailed by the brilliant @stephencollins.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
This really is horrendous news. I did my PhD at Nottingham and the whole school of modern languages was an important and vibrant contributor to arts and humanities. It’s taken a few knocks since then, but this move is beyond shortsighted. Really feel for colleagues there. This has to be fought.
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This really is horrendous news. I did my PhD at Nottingham and the whole school of modern languages was an important and vibrant contributor to arts and humanities. It’s taken a few knocks since then, but this move is beyond shortsighted. Really feel for colleagues there. This has to be fought.
Late reposting for #Caturday
Victor and Serge doing their cover of “Knowing me, knowing you” #CatsOfBluesky
November 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Late reposting for #Caturday
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So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it.
Advanced copies available thru
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc
Advanced copies available thru
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it.
Advanced copies available thru
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc
Advanced copies available thru
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc
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This piece has been simmering inside me for a while. I’d like it to be the final text I write about my cancer journey, but, of course, the end is never truly the end. Thanks for reading. If you know someone undergoing treatment, please consider sharing it with them. open.substack.com/pub/olesyakh...
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This piece has been simmering inside me for a while. I’d like it to be the final text I write about my cancer journey, but, of course, the end is never truly the end. Thanks for reading. If you know someone undergoing treatment, please consider sharing it with them. open.substack.com/pub/olesyakh...
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Would that be Stalin’s forced displacement of thousands of citizens to make way for Moscow’s skyscrapers or the forced labour?
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Would that be Stalin’s forced displacement of thousands of citizens to make way for Moscow’s skyscrapers or the forced labour?
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Today, @sarahhudspith.bsky.social reflects on Dostoevsky Now and the preservation of its content on Bloggers Karamazov: “The full joining of Dostoevsky Now to its big brother Bloggers Karamazov feels to me like the most natural, organic solution.”
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/10/27/a...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/10/27/a...
A Retrospective on the Website Dostoevsky Now
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. by Sarah Hud…
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October 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Today, @sarahhudspith.bsky.social reflects on Dostoevsky Now and the preservation of its content on Bloggers Karamazov: “The full joining of Dostoevsky Now to its big brother Bloggers Karamazov feels to me like the most natural, organic solution.”
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/10/27/a...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/10/27/a...
The response of a significant proportion of the left to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ranging from studied indifference to actively opposing support for Ukraine, has been deeply troubling, and exposes their moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The response of a significant proportion of the left to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ranging from studied indifference to actively opposing support for Ukraine, has been deeply troubling, and exposes their moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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Victor and Serge doing their cover of “Knowing me, knowing you” #CatsOfBluesky
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Victor and Serge doing their cover of “Knowing me, knowing you” #CatsOfBluesky
Victor and Serge doing their cover of “Knowing me, knowing you” #CatsOfBluesky
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Victor and Serge doing their cover of “Knowing me, knowing you” #CatsOfBluesky
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'AI shows great potential to help deliver swifter, fairer, and more accessible justice for all - reducing court backlogs, increasing prison capacity and improving rehabilitation outcomes as well as victim services.'
Jesus fucking christ will this dangerous nonsense never end?
Jesus fucking christ will this dangerous nonsense never end?
AI action plan for justice
www.gov.uk
October 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'AI shows great potential to help deliver swifter, fairer, and more accessible justice for all - reducing court backlogs, increasing prison capacity and improving rehabilitation outcomes as well as victim services.'
Jesus fucking christ will this dangerous nonsense never end?
Jesus fucking christ will this dangerous nonsense never end?
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”the slow death of Kupiansk, dragged out over two years and more, is a metaphor for the cities of Ukraine’s frontline, ground in the teeth of Russia’s slow-moving combine of violence.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘There is no life’: Kupiansk’s slow demise reflects the fate of cities on Ukraine’s frontline
After more than two years of attacks, much of the population has left and the remaining soldiers are stuck in a war ‘going nowhere’
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
”the slow death of Kupiansk, dragged out over two years and more, is a metaphor for the cities of Ukraine’s frontline, ground in the teeth of Russia’s slow-moving combine of violence.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian.
[Scene is BBC BREAKFAST with two presenters and a guest on the sofa].
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PRESENTER:
Now - some disturbing new research has shown
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PRESENTER:
that as many as 10 non-Reform political parties may currently operating ‘under the radar’ across the UK.
[Show on screen logos for Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives
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PRESENTER:
In the studio to discuss this, Nigel Farage
[We see the guest on the sofa is indeed Nigel Farage]
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PRESENTER:
Nigel, what’s your view?
FARAGE:
Well I think this very worrying.
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FARAGE:
And just another reason why we should ban all immigration.
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PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
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PRESENTER:
Funnily enough, this is what your new show’s about, isn’t it?
FARAGE:
Oop - plug time!
PRESENTER:
Ha ha
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FARAGE:
Yes it’s a 12-part BBC documentary called ‘In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One’.
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[Show on the TV screen Farage presenting a documentary series titled In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One. He is wearing his farmer's getup and looking dreamily at the UK from hillsides, visiting pubs and chatting with the locals, etc]
FARAGE:
It’s a really emotional journey
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FARAGE:
with lots of dreamy footage of me looking relatable...
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FARAGE:
as I answer the question:
*Am I the only option for Britain?*
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[Cut back to studio]
PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidseyojvyqngmitl76iafvvbvgg4a3i7a26642c2c3gacoi7pwtbi@jpeg)
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My dispatch from an underground hospital in eastern Ukraine, with extraordinary photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Six metres below ground: inside the secret hospital treating Ukrainian soldiers injured by Russian drones
Doctors at the secret facility are able to perform amputations while others monitor zigzagging drones overhead
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My dispatch from an underground hospital in eastern Ukraine, with extraordinary photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
”the slow death of Kupiansk, dragged out over two years and more, is a metaphor for the cities of Ukraine’s frontline, ground in the teeth of Russia’s slow-moving combine of violence.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘There is no life’: Kupiansk’s slow demise reflects the fate of cities on Ukraine’s frontline
After more than two years of attacks, much of the population has left and the remaining soldiers are stuck in a war ‘going nowhere’
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
”the slow death of Kupiansk, dragged out over two years and more, is a metaphor for the cities of Ukraine’s frontline, ground in the teeth of Russia’s slow-moving combine of violence.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt
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So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.