Hwaet
@cog1.bsky.social
English Literature PhD candidate. Interested in all aspects of religious belief in speculative fiction.
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There’s good evidence of this in professions like teaching, medicine, vet med, too.
When the gender balance of occupations swing equal or female-dominated, they become perceived as inherently lower value, feminised, feeling-not-thinking professions.
When the gender balance of occupations swing equal or female-dominated, they become perceived as inherently lower value, feminised, feeling-not-thinking professions.
Not exactly — editing lost its prestige when women became editors, in exactly the way every position gets devalued by society when women become dominant in it. It wasn’t women being in charge, it was society getting again saying “if women are doing it, it must not be important work”.
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There’s good evidence of this in professions like teaching, medicine, vet med, too.
When the gender balance of occupations swing equal or female-dominated, they become perceived as inherently lower value, feminised, feeling-not-thinking professions.
When the gender balance of occupations swing equal or female-dominated, they become perceived as inherently lower value, feminised, feeling-not-thinking professions.
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Yes. Do it. This has gone on long enough.
Exclusive:
UK ministers plan to ban the resale of tickets for live events above their original cost, in an aggressive crackdown on touts and resellers who sharply increase the price of admission to concerts and sports events.
www.ft.com/content/e76d...
UK ministers plan to ban the resale of tickets for live events above their original cost, in an aggressive crackdown on touts and resellers who sharply increase the price of admission to concerts and sports events.
www.ft.com/content/e76d...
UK to ban resale of tickets above face value for live events
Aggressive crackdown on touts comes after backlash over cost of watching live music and sport
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Yes. Do it. This has gone on long enough.
JFC that’s it, this year I’m insisting we eat goose
FFS, turkeys are literally American not British. These assclowns are confused
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
JFC that’s it, this year I’m insisting we eat goose
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how the fuck is the home office even going to turn those valuables into currency? they just going to nip down cash converters? melt them down? auction them off in job lots?
what an absolutely fucking ridiculous state of affairs.
what an absolutely fucking ridiculous state of affairs.
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
how the fuck is the home office even going to turn those valuables into currency? they just going to nip down cash converters? melt them down? auction them off in job lots?
what an absolutely fucking ridiculous state of affairs.
what an absolutely fucking ridiculous state of affairs.
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The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
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"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
I have the schadenfreude. My deranged travelling companions have spent the last week gleefully buying plastic straws because in Florida they haven’t been outlawed. Then they spent all yesterday evening performatively coughing because neither has smoking in bars.
Yep. That’s civil liberties for ya 😁
Yep. That’s civil liberties for ya 😁
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I have the schadenfreude. My deranged travelling companions have spent the last week gleefully buying plastic straws because in Florida they haven’t been outlawed. Then they spent all yesterday evening performatively coughing because neither has smoking in bars.
Yep. That’s civil liberties for ya 😁
Yep. That’s civil liberties for ya 😁
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Ladybird wisdom, 1975
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ladybird wisdom, 1975
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
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Review someone's migration status every couple of years FOREVER? Who has the energy??? How can anyone think this is cost effective or efficient? Stupidity is so painless
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Review someone's migration status every couple of years FOREVER? Who has the energy??? How can anyone think this is cost effective or efficient? Stupidity is so painless
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Anne Wood, the veteran children’s producer ... and other figures in children’s TV shared their concerns that the algorithmic and endless scroll functionalities on YouTube did not prioritise high-quality content for children in the same way that public service broadcasters could... 1/2
Teletubbies creator warns parents over ‘empty’ YouTube programmes for children
Anne Wood says algorithms bypass ‘the responsibility of art’ and have failed to support high-quality children’s content
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Anne Wood, the veteran children’s producer ... and other figures in children’s TV shared their concerns that the algorithmic and endless scroll functionalities on YouTube did not prioritise high-quality content for children in the same way that public service broadcasters could... 1/2
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Thoughts about the construction of the so-called epic cycle (which I think is a product of scholarly imagination)
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/16/l...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/16/l...
Long Ago, Far Away: The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate …
sententiaeantiquae.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Thoughts about the construction of the so-called epic cycle (which I think is a product of scholarly imagination)
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/16/l...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/16/l...
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As De Beauvoir observed; the nost virulent misogynists are insecure men fearing competition.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
As De Beauvoir observed; the nost virulent misogynists are insecure men fearing competition.
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"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
I have attained peak America
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I have attained peak America
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It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
This is good advice for the most part, I think.
It doesn’t help much when you’re stuck in a room with people who see GBeebies as their single source of truth, but then point 12 “don’t get into pointless arguments” works. As does, I’m finding, “going for a walk” and “having a good book on hand”.
It doesn’t help much when you’re stuck in a room with people who see GBeebies as their single source of truth, but then point 12 “don’t get into pointless arguments” works. As does, I’m finding, “going for a walk” and “having a good book on hand”.
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is good advice for the most part, I think.
It doesn’t help much when you’re stuck in a room with people who see GBeebies as their single source of truth, but then point 12 “don’t get into pointless arguments” works. As does, I’m finding, “going for a walk” and “having a good book on hand”.
It doesn’t help much when you’re stuck in a room with people who see GBeebies as their single source of truth, but then point 12 “don’t get into pointless arguments” works. As does, I’m finding, “going for a walk” and “having a good book on hand”.
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'Once again, the lack of regulation in the university sector has thrown up the risk of creating disciplinary “cold spots”; if the proposals are adopted, students in the East Midlands will no longer have a local opportunity to develop an integrated knowledge of languages and cultures.' 3/3
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'Once again, the lack of regulation in the university sector has thrown up the risk of creating disciplinary “cold spots”; if the proposals are adopted, students in the East Midlands will no longer have a local opportunity to develop an integrated knowledge of languages and cultures.' 3/3
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The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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“The working-class comedy novel is a rarer thing still... Working-class domestic humour – i.e., comedy both for and about working-class families – is a knowledge gap in scholarly literature, with such discussion as there is tending to be limited to the anecdotal.”
thebeemagazine.com/a-guide-to-t...
thebeemagazine.com/a-guide-to-t...
A Guide to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Georgia Poplett’s introduction to the plot, characters and historical background of Sue Townsend’s novel about a young working-class intellectual in 1980s Leicester.
thebeemagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“The working-class comedy novel is a rarer thing still... Working-class domestic humour – i.e., comedy both for and about working-class families – is a knowledge gap in scholarly literature, with such discussion as there is tending to be limited to the anecdotal.”
thebeemagazine.com/a-guide-to-t...
thebeemagazine.com/a-guide-to-t...
Healthcare free at the point of use is a human right.
Schools and universities are not employment training schemes
Schools and universities are not employment training schemes
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Healthcare free at the point of use is a human right.
Schools and universities are not employment training schemes
Schools and universities are not employment training schemes
Just started reading The Long Earth. I have new Pratchett and this makes me happy
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Just started reading The Long Earth. I have new Pratchett and this makes me happy
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The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a door with a cartoon character on it .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a door with a cartoon character on it .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
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This is excellent news. You cannot have democratic accountability when nobody knows who the candidates are, what they stand for, what the job involves or how to measure their success.
Police and crime commissioners to be abolished, government to announce
Police and crime commissioners to be abolished, government to announce
System introduced in 2012 across England and Wales has faced criticism from police chiefs
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UK politics live – latest updates
The controversial system of police and crime commissioners is to be abolished by the government, the Guardian has learned.
Under the system, introduced under the Conservatives, all 43 police forces covering local areas across England and Wales had to answer to an elected official. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is excellent news. You cannot have democratic accountability when nobody knows who the candidates are, what they stand for, what the job involves or how to measure their success.
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