alndix
@alndix.bsky.social
memoir writer, education addict, queer post-theistic christian enjoying island life, and second life
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This is really great from Matthew, and initiatives like this deserve support from those who can do so.
If you fancy any of the stuff from his Arsenal collection here as Christmas presents or just for yourself - www.matthewjiwood.com/arsenal-poster – use the code ARSEBLOG-10 to get 10% off.
If you fancy any of the stuff from his Arsenal collection here as Christmas presents or just for yourself - www.matthewjiwood.com/arsenal-poster – use the code ARSEBLOG-10 to get 10% off.
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is really great from Matthew, and initiatives like this deserve support from those who can do so.
If you fancy any of the stuff from his Arsenal collection here as Christmas presents or just for yourself - www.matthewjiwood.com/arsenal-poster – use the code ARSEBLOG-10 to get 10% off.
If you fancy any of the stuff from his Arsenal collection here as Christmas presents or just for yourself - www.matthewjiwood.com/arsenal-poster – use the code ARSEBLOG-10 to get 10% off.
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The Skye Bridge earlier this morning. The Applecross Peninsula and Torridon Hills in the far distance.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Skye Bridge earlier this morning. The Applecross Peninsula and Torridon Hills in the far distance.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
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I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
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“Why are traumatized people so MISERABLE?”
“Too much disappointment teaches the system that ‘wanting leads to pain,’ and so it stops responding to potential rewards. … Biologically, it’s an adaptive silencing of the very circuits that make us feel alive.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...
“Too much disappointment teaches the system that ‘wanting leads to pain,’ and so it stops responding to potential rewards. … Biologically, it’s an adaptive silencing of the very circuits that make us feel alive.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...
How Chronic Disappointment Rewires the Brain
Chronic disappointment can train the brain to expect pain instead of reward. Restoring hope means reawakening dopamine through small actions, enriched environments, and new desire.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“Why are traumatized people so MISERABLE?”
“Too much disappointment teaches the system that ‘wanting leads to pain,’ and so it stops responding to potential rewards. … Biologically, it’s an adaptive silencing of the very circuits that make us feel alive.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...
“Too much disappointment teaches the system that ‘wanting leads to pain,’ and so it stops responding to potential rewards. … Biologically, it’s an adaptive silencing of the very circuits that make us feel alive.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...
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The tragic remains of the Huly Hill Stone Circle, at Newbridge, West of Edinburgh. A manicured mound and less than a handful of stones, next to two motorways, separated from the huge outlier on the east side of the junction. There are other stones and marked rocks nearby. #StandingStoneSunday
October 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The tragic remains of the Huly Hill Stone Circle, at Newbridge, West of Edinburgh. A manicured mound and less than a handful of stones, next to two motorways, separated from the huge outlier on the east side of the junction. There are other stones and marked rocks nearby. #StandingStoneSunday
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I think this is accurate and I'd expand it further to include the majority of wealthy Americans. Which tend to also be Conservatives. They don't have to be an actual adult until years past the rest of us and they resent that it ever happens.
I think Cory Doctorow really put it best
Conservatives think everything in the past was different from what is really was because they are remembering it from the viewpoint of childhood naïveté
Conservatives think everything in the past was different from what is really was because they are remembering it from the viewpoint of childhood naïveté
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I think this is accurate and I'd expand it further to include the majority of wealthy Americans. Which tend to also be Conservatives. They don't have to be an actual adult until years past the rest of us and they resent that it ever happens.
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A nice observational piece, showing what I learn is a ‘Ferguson Potato Spinner’ in action. Part of a suite of potato machines (mum took turns on this sort of work in the ‘60s - generally women’s labour then), i guess this shows how partial mechanisation was. #Skystorians #TractorCommentary
October 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A nice observational piece, showing what I learn is a ‘Ferguson Potato Spinner’ in action. Part of a suite of potato machines (mum took turns on this sort of work in the ‘60s - generally women’s labour then), i guess this shows how partial mechanisation was. #Skystorians #TractorCommentary
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‘A couple of Tartan queers’ is how the Daily Record described the Two Roberts in 1977. It’s a vile piece: homophobic yet unable to deny their brilliance. This attitude is exactly why they fled to Soho from ‘Puritan Scotland’. I wanted to celebrate their love and talent so wrote The Two Roberts.
August 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
‘A couple of Tartan queers’ is how the Daily Record described the Two Roberts in 1977. It’s a vile piece: homophobic yet unable to deny their brilliance. This attitude is exactly why they fled to Soho from ‘Puritan Scotland’. I wanted to celebrate their love and talent so wrote The Two Roberts.
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I do think that a lot, particularly as I relisten to my two audiobooks on Anglo Saxon history... So many of the people who lord it over of us are basically in place because their distant ancestors were better bullies than those around them. It doesn't seem much of a qualification.
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I do think that a lot, particularly as I relisten to my two audiobooks on Anglo Saxon history... So many of the people who lord it over of us are basically in place because their distant ancestors were better bullies than those around them. It doesn't seem much of a qualification.
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This C9th enamelled copper crosier-head, found at Helgö, Sweden, in 1954, is thought to have been looted from the shrine of St Columba on Iona.📸Swedish History Museum #medievalsky
September 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This C9th enamelled copper crosier-head, found at Helgö, Sweden, in 1954, is thought to have been looted from the shrine of St Columba on Iona.📸Swedish History Museum #medievalsky
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This took me a second.
Oh.
Oh, my.
Oh.
Oh, my.
How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This took me a second.
Oh.
Oh, my.
Oh.
Oh, my.
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I think my most annoying autistic trait is having been unable to figure out for my entire life whether a request I need to make is going to be considered reasonable or unreasonable by neurotypical people and as a result of that learning to be unreasonably self sufficient and masking my needs.
September 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I think my most annoying autistic trait is having been unable to figure out for my entire life whether a request I need to make is going to be considered reasonable or unreasonable by neurotypical people and as a result of that learning to be unreasonably self sufficient and masking my needs.
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Queen
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Queen
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Sept 15: Feast of Mirin (Meadhran) (C7th), abbot. Reputedly a monk and disciple of Comgall (†602) at Bennchor (Bangor, County Down). He founded a monastery at Passeleth (Paisley). A chapel dedicated to him lies in ruins at Inchmurrin, the largest island in Loch Lomond. 📸Colin #medievalsky
September 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Sept 15: Feast of Mirin (Meadhran) (C7th), abbot. Reputedly a monk and disciple of Comgall (†602) at Bennchor (Bangor, County Down). He founded a monastery at Passeleth (Paisley). A chapel dedicated to him lies in ruins at Inchmurrin, the largest island in Loch Lomond. 📸Colin #medievalsky
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Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
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One year on from Scotland's Industrial Strategy launch, we're hosting a workshop tomorrow with Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and the Scottish Government. Building on our new report, we'll discuss how to move from ambitious vision to transformative implementation.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
September 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
One year on from Scotland's Industrial Strategy launch, we're hosting a workshop tomorrow with Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and the Scottish Government. Building on our new report, we'll discuss how to move from ambitious vision to transformative implementation.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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This is revelatory: David Whyte on the relationship between anxiety and intimacy www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/03/d...
David Whyte on the Relationship Between Anxiety and Intimacy
“Intimacy is presence magnified by our vulnerability, magnified by increasing proximity to the fear that underlies that vulnerability.”
www.themarginalian.org
September 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is revelatory: David Whyte on the relationship between anxiety and intimacy www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/03/d...
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Saturday evening legal geography quiz. What does this boundary represent or signify?
September 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Saturday evening legal geography quiz. What does this boundary represent or signify?
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gonna haring post for a bit cause i wrote my senior thesis on him
haring is mostly known for publicly consumable art - murals, subway graffiti, easily affordable stuff at pop shop locations. the art was all about public consumption, with very few exceptions, up until he receives his AIDS diagnosis.
haring is mostly known for publicly consumable art - murals, subway graffiti, easily affordable stuff at pop shop locations. the art was all about public consumption, with very few exceptions, up until he receives his AIDS diagnosis.
“Why can’t Keith Haring just be memorialized as an American artist, instead of a gay one?”
HMM NATE MAYBE BECAUSE AMERICA LEFT HIM TO DIE DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY
HMM NATE MAYBE BECAUSE AMERICA LEFT HIM TO DIE DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY
Okay, now I somehow hate Nate Silver even more than I did before
Dear God, these quotes
Dear God, these quotes
August 29, 2024 at 4:43 PM
gonna haring post for a bit cause i wrote my senior thesis on him
haring is mostly known for publicly consumable art - murals, subway graffiti, easily affordable stuff at pop shop locations. the art was all about public consumption, with very few exceptions, up until he receives his AIDS diagnosis.
haring is mostly known for publicly consumable art - murals, subway graffiti, easily affordable stuff at pop shop locations. the art was all about public consumption, with very few exceptions, up until he receives his AIDS diagnosis.
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Think I'll read this once a week forever.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
August 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Think I'll read this once a week forever.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.