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Jenny Skene
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· Apr 6
I am very very convinced that the phrase “creative person” is completely tautologous. My evidence is only that I have met quite a lot of people.
I’m sparing the Leader of the Opposition the embarrassment of me having heard another of her GCSE performances. I‘m sure she’ll thank me one day
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I’m sparing the Leader of the Opposition the embarrassment of me having heard another of her GCSE performances. I‘m sure she’ll thank me one day
Why didn’t they call the knitting programme The Great British Cast Off?
(I’m not watching it I don’t think time peril is a good addition to working with your hands)
(I’m not watching it I don’t think time peril is a good addition to working with your hands)
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Why didn’t they call the knitting programme The Great British Cast Off?
(I’m not watching it I don’t think time peril is a good addition to working with your hands)
(I’m not watching it I don’t think time peril is a good addition to working with your hands)
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Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...
#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...
#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
!["Dans la langue, il n'y a que des différences sans termes positifs [=In a language, there are only differences and no positive terms.]" (Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linnguistique générale, p. 166)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6wjosgpmompi6hot3pbmyj2/bafkreicxbh6gr7vxtgn63slt6va5sdqvishbb7byqxx5ya2ykb7sa3ctdm@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...
#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p...
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...
#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
Are all current TV thrillers about evil cuckoos from the servant class? Do we maybe want to have a look at that?
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Are all current TV thrillers about evil cuckoos from the servant class? Do we maybe want to have a look at that?
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The great actor, director & playwright Jack Shepherd has died. An important figure at the Court in the 60s, later with Bill Bryden's company @ the National - an actor of startling quicksilver intelligence, physical force & grace. His play IN LAMBETH - about Blake meeting Thomas Paine -
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The great actor, director & playwright Jack Shepherd has died. An important figure at the Court in the 60s, later with Bill Bryden's company @ the National - an actor of startling quicksilver intelligence, physical force & grace. His play IN LAMBETH - about Blake meeting Thomas Paine -
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A massive THANK YOU to @ianvisits.co.uk for featuring us in his excellent blog. There are lots of great gift ideas too, for Londonphiles and beyond. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/14-...
14 gift ideas for Londonphilles this Christmas
What do you buy for the Londoner who probably has everything there is to do with London already? Here's a selection of what you might want to buy for them.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A massive THANK YOU to @ianvisits.co.uk for featuring us in his excellent blog. There are lots of great gift ideas too, for Londonphiles and beyond. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/14-...
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Meet the Herbal Woman of Old St Thomas`s on the 12th and 19th December!
For more information, please visit our website: oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...
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#OldOpTheatre #HerbGarret #OldStThomasHospital #AtLondonBridge #OldOperatingTheatre
For more information, please visit our website: oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...
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#OldOpTheatre #HerbGarret #OldStThomasHospital #AtLondonBridge #OldOperatingTheatre
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Meet the Herbal Woman of Old St Thomas`s on the 12th and 19th December!
For more information, please visit our website: oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...
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#OldOpTheatre #HerbGarret #OldStThomasHospital #AtLondonBridge #OldOperatingTheatre
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We hope the learnings from this report will go some way in ensuring health conditions such as epilepsy are better understood and cared for in custody, and that further future deaths are prevented.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
Revealed: The inmates dying needlessly in Britain’s prisons
Exclusive: Epileptic prisoners are dying in their cells without receiving the care they are entitled to
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We hope the learnings from this report will go some way in ensuring health conditions such as epilepsy are better understood and cared for in custody, and that further future deaths are prevented.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/epilepsy-prison-deaths-ombudsman-warning-b2869319.html
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Name the translator!!!
I mean, they could have at least *mentioned* my name...
Uketsu’s ‘Strange Pictures’ Shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year
Uketsu’s horror-mystery novel Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year.
www.billboard.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Name the translator!!!
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So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
Today (24 November) marks the passing of Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. He remains regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music.
📷 Getty
📷 Getty
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
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Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
Good Gifts 2025
Use your Secret Santa or present giving to support charities, museums and small businesses.
madlinblog.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
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He saved the Home, but could not return to it
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
He saved the Home, but could not return to it
I am angry about this because I feel so powerless about it. As a patient NHS institutions put me and staff in so many unsafe situations for no good reason at all and gaslit us about it, trying to make us complicit and often succeeding
The worst thing?We as a society have not learned anything. As institutions we would not be any better prepared this time round. We still don’t talk about how to prevent airborne infections, we still talk things down rather than being open. all this loss and trauma has not made us learn a thing
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I am angry about this because I feel so powerless about it. As a patient NHS institutions put me and staff in so many unsafe situations for no good reason at all and gaslit us about it, trying to make us complicit and often succeeding
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"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?"
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
Why does nationality matter, anyway?
Deciding someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is a bit weird
www.newstatesman.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?"
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.
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Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
Today I am thinking about massive telllies
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Today I am thinking about massive telllies
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Insomniacs! I learned a sleep method this week that actually *works*. And it has bona fides: a friend’s cognitive sci mate at Imperial has researched it.
1) Pick a letter of the alphabet (I rolled my eyes here. I knew this trick, I said. It doesn’t work for me. But this one’s different)
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1) Pick a letter of the alphabet (I rolled my eyes here. I knew this trick, I said. It doesn’t work for me. But this one’s different)
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November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Insomniacs! I learned a sleep method this week that actually *works*. And it has bona fides: a friend’s cognitive sci mate at Imperial has researched it.
1) Pick a letter of the alphabet (I rolled my eyes here. I knew this trick, I said. It doesn’t work for me. But this one’s different)
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1) Pick a letter of the alphabet (I rolled my eyes here. I knew this trick, I said. It doesn’t work for me. But this one’s different)
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Er, your email finds me with a bit of a tickly cough actually. Why exactly do you need to know?
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Er, your email finds me with a bit of a tickly cough actually. Why exactly do you need to know?
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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oh no CRITICAL THEORISTS RUN
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
oh no CRITICAL THEORISTS RUN
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Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
‘The world thinks Palestinians don’t need help any more,’ aid organiser says, despite desperate need as winter nears
Fundraisers collecting for Palestinian civilians in Gaza are seeing a “catastrophic” drop-off in donations since the ceasefire was announced in October.
Donations collected by volunteers and funnelled to needy families living in temporary shelters and struggling with illness, hunger and malnutrition have been harder to raise since then, according to organisers, many of whom have been running volunteer initiatives for Palestinians in Gaza on third-party crowdfunding platforms over the past two years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire
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At a BMA conference 15+ years ago a junior doctor stood at the podium, looked straight at a bunch of journalists in their 20s and asked how we'd feel if we were "only" paid a wage more than any of us were on by quite a distance. They deserved good money! But that... didn't help.
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
At a BMA conference 15+ years ago a junior doctor stood at the podium, looked straight at a bunch of journalists in their 20s and asked how we'd feel if we were "only" paid a wage more than any of us were on by quite a distance. They deserved good money! But that... didn't help.
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I mean, yeah, maybe it is a bit rude to disrupt people's lives, but that's not something you want to make ARRESTABLE, now is it?
You know what causes a lot more disruption? Climate crisis. I mean, wow. Slow walking, sure, pain in the rear, but flooding and high winds? Drought? Little bit worse.
You know what causes a lot more disruption? Climate crisis. I mean, wow. Slow walking, sure, pain in the rear, but flooding and high winds? Drought? Little bit worse.
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I mean, yeah, maybe it is a bit rude to disrupt people's lives, but that's not something you want to make ARRESTABLE, now is it?
You know what causes a lot more disruption? Climate crisis. I mean, wow. Slow walking, sure, pain in the rear, but flooding and high winds? Drought? Little bit worse.
You know what causes a lot more disruption? Climate crisis. I mean, wow. Slow walking, sure, pain in the rear, but flooding and high winds? Drought? Little bit worse.
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Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Pre-announcing my Jubensha Convention
Come to my Jubensha convention in London on 8-9th May 2026!
mssv.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!