Dr Sasha Garwood
@sashagoblin.bsky.social
Academic, feminist, queer, likes walking, books, & overthinking culture.
Gender, sexuality, food, history of the body, E.F. Benson, the Earl of Rochester, but this will probably be old houses and queer nonsense. Sorry.
Gender, sexuality, food, history of the body, E.F. Benson, the Earl of Rochester, but this will probably be old houses and queer nonsense. Sorry.
Pinned
The great unknown romance of writer E.F. Benson’s life – Fred and George, a love story hidden in letters
The pair were seen as friends but their letters reveal a more intimate life together.
theconversation.com
So, as many of you know, Fred and George have been breaking my heart on the daily for months at this point, so I thought I'd make it everyone else's problem. (Totally writing a book).
theconversation.com/the-great-un...
theconversation.com/the-great-un...
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"AI bailout during shutdown" would turn the Joker into the Joker
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"AI bailout during shutdown" would turn the Joker into the Joker
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
if anyone wants to live where Allo Allo was filmed and be featured in Country Life...
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Thetford IP26 38 bed country house for sale - £3,500,000
Tim Phillips - Basingstoke present this 38 bedroom country house for sale in Thetford IP26
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November 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
if anyone wants to live where Allo Allo was filmed and be featured in Country Life...
share.google/hUz2P7iXCoRJ...
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share.google/hUz2P7iXCoRJ...
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.
DM for pdf!
DM for pdf!
Pleasure and longing
On April 6, 1919, the Mapp and Lucia author, society figure and archbishop’s son E. F. Benson wrote to George Wolfe Plank: “I want you”. Plank had been a “very intimate friend” since introducing himse...
www.the-tls.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.
DM for pdf!
DM for pdf!
okay this is it. THE PERFECT HOUSE. It even has the original Edwardian baths and showers?!?!
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 20 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
20 bedroom detached house for sale in Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, PH43 for £750,000. Marketed by Savills Rural Sales, Edinburgh
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
okay this is it. THE PERFECT HOUSE. It even has the original Edwardian baths and showers?!?!
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.
DM for pdf!
DM for pdf!
Pleasure and longing
On April 6, 1919, the Mapp and Lucia author, society figure and archbishop’s son E. F. Benson wrote to George Wolfe Plank: “I want you”. Plank had been a “very intimate friend” since introducing himse...
www.the-tls.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.
DM for pdf!
DM for pdf!
Sargent's WWI images even veer at times into a soft-focus homoeroticism, as in this watercolor of two young soldiers sleeping side by side on a lush riverbank
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Incredible house. Not convinced by "clean, clear modern lines" in a Victorian Gothic mansion, but look at the reading nook in the topmost tower! www.inigo.com/sales-list/u...
Undercliffe, Lewes, East Sussex | Inigo
An expansive Victorian ‘castle’ hidden among age-old trees
www.inigo.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Incredible house. Not convinced by "clean, clear modern lines" in a Victorian Gothic mansion, but look at the reading nook in the topmost tower! www.inigo.com/sales-list/u...
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This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.
wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social
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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
therumpus.net
October 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.
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Has anyone made this FOI request of the south-west and the London CYP Gender services?
This post ⬇️relates to the north-west service, where not one young person has been offered medical transition since the service was opened over a year ago.
This isn't treatment. It's state sanctioned conversion.
This post ⬇️relates to the north-west service, where not one young person has been offered medical transition since the service was opened over a year ago.
This isn't treatment. It's state sanctioned conversion.
#UK #TransRights An FOI has just confirmed what all of us have feared: for the Youth gender services, since July 2024, not a single patient has been referred to commence HRT. And 22 have been moved from youth to adult services , also without treatment. This is scandalous.
October 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Has anyone made this FOI request of the south-west and the London CYP Gender services?
This post ⬇️relates to the north-west service, where not one young person has been offered medical transition since the service was opened over a year ago.
This isn't treatment. It's state sanctioned conversion.
This post ⬇️relates to the north-west service, where not one young person has been offered medical transition since the service was opened over a year ago.
This isn't treatment. It's state sanctioned conversion.
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We've already seen judges and lawyers being targeted as "enemies of the people". This increases risk of threats/attacks, while undermining judiciary as a whole. Couple it with Tory plans to scrap immigration tribunals and legal aid for people seeking asylum and it shows utter contempt for the law.
October 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We've already seen judges and lawyers being targeted as "enemies of the people". This increases risk of threats/attacks, while undermining judiciary as a whole. Couple it with Tory plans to scrap immigration tribunals and legal aid for people seeking asylum and it shows utter contempt for the law.
Okay I take it back. Is this the perfect house? It might need some redecorating, but there's a coach house and a stream running through the garden! www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
5 bedroom detached house for sale in The Old Mansion, Ewelme, OX10 for £1,500,000. Marketed by Griffith and Partners, Watlington
www.rightmove.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Okay I take it back. Is this the perfect house? It might need some redecorating, but there's a coach house and a stream running through the garden! www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Anyone want to live in an Edwardian novel? This still has the old stables...
Check out this 8 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
8 bedroom detached house for sale in Maldon Road, Bradwell-on-Sea, CM0 for £1,375,000. Marketed by Beresfords, Country and Village
www.rightmove.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Anyone want to live in an Edwardian novel? This still has the old stables...
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(Scientists who claim “AI helped us with this breakthrough!” without making any effort to distinguish their painstakingly designed, well tested and not-new ML algos from slopAI are part of the problem and are tarnishing their own work while astroturfing for predatory fascist tech. Shame on them.)
October 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
(Scientists who claim “AI helped us with this breakthrough!” without making any effort to distinguish their painstakingly designed, well tested and not-new ML algos from slopAI are part of the problem and are tarnishing their own work while astroturfing for predatory fascist tech. Shame on them.)
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The only real use of AI I see at a moment is as yet another tool of oligarchic state control
It is used to control knowledge, destroy education (in its emancipatory understanding) and ultimately curtail democratic imagination at a time when authoritarian measures become the norm
It is used to control knowledge, destroy education (in its emancipatory understanding) and ultimately curtail democratic imagination at a time when authoritarian measures become the norm
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The only real use of AI I see at a moment is as yet another tool of oligarchic state control
It is used to control knowledge, destroy education (in its emancipatory understanding) and ultimately curtail democratic imagination at a time when authoritarian measures become the norm
It is used to control knowledge, destroy education (in its emancipatory understanding) and ultimately curtail democratic imagination at a time when authoritarian measures become the norm
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It's apparent that at least some MPs are listening.
Businesses, too, have pushed back.
In the cold light of day the bigots' segregationist fever dream is being examined by ordinary people and found to be weird, unworkable, cruel and wrong.
Keep writing to your MPs 👍🏻
Businesses, too, have pushed back.
In the cold light of day the bigots' segregationist fever dream is being examined by ordinary people and found to be weird, unworkable, cruel and wrong.
Keep writing to your MPs 👍🏻
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's apparent that at least some MPs are listening.
Businesses, too, have pushed back.
In the cold light of day the bigots' segregationist fever dream is being examined by ordinary people and found to be weird, unworkable, cruel and wrong.
Keep writing to your MPs 👍🏻
Businesses, too, have pushed back.
In the cold light of day the bigots' segregationist fever dream is being examined by ordinary people and found to be weird, unworkable, cruel and wrong.
Keep writing to your MPs 👍🏻
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Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
September 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
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What a fantastic piece, in which @readingtheend.bsky.social absolutely nails what's wrong with publisher-monetised fanfic.
"Let’s not get into the habit of trawling the wriggling, unknowable sea floor that is fandom, only to feed its most palatable morsels into the hungry maw of capitalism."
"Let’s not get into the habit of trawling the wriggling, unknowable sea floor that is fandom, only to feed its most palatable morsels into the hungry maw of capitalism."
"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor
Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.
reactormag.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
What a fantastic piece, in which @readingtheend.bsky.social absolutely nails what's wrong with publisher-monetised fanfic.
"Let’s not get into the habit of trawling the wriggling, unknowable sea floor that is fandom, only to feed its most palatable morsels into the hungry maw of capitalism."
"Let’s not get into the habit of trawling the wriggling, unknowable sea floor that is fandom, only to feed its most palatable morsels into the hungry maw of capitalism."
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"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara
September 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara
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I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
September 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
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I'm losin it at the crow definitely knowing when it won, too, throwing its head back with a smile and struttin like aaaayy das right!
Names for the three-in-a-row game, around the world…
*Tic-tac-toe (US)
*Noughts and crosses (UK)
*Crosses and buns (Denmark)
*Butter, cheese and eggs (Netherlands)
*Sausages (Latvia)
*Cat (Mexico)
*Game of the old lady (Brazil)
*Tripp-trapp-tresko (Norway)
*Pubic louse (France)
*Hobo chess (Sweden)
*Tic-tac-toe (US)
*Noughts and crosses (UK)
*Crosses and buns (Denmark)
*Butter, cheese and eggs (Netherlands)
*Sausages (Latvia)
*Cat (Mexico)
*Game of the old lady (Brazil)
*Tripp-trapp-tresko (Norway)
*Pubic louse (France)
*Hobo chess (Sweden)
September 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm losin it at the crow definitely knowing when it won, too, throwing its head back with a smile and struttin like aaaayy das right!
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Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms
Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high
edmontonjournal.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...