Tommaso Sabbatini
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Tommaso Sabbatini
@tommsabb.bsky.social
Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté.
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
I mean, reactionaries (including those with a red rosette) already think universities are for effete rootless cosmopolitan ‘anywheres’, whether UK-born or international: the boosterist rhetoric about int'l students only flatters their prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Great that you're pushing back against this far-right rubbish and wishing you luck, but I'm afraid wearing the same rosette as its proponents is going to hamper your efforts.
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Amazing, thanks!
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
C'è l'imbarazzo della scelta, ma per campanilismo sono tenuto a dire che quelle di Birmingham e dintorni non hanno eguali.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Magari non sanno di essere gongoozler, ma è incredibile come gente di ogni età e di ogni origine si fermi incantata a guardare le barche passare nelle chiuse, o addirittura le segua. (E ovviamente a quel punto glielo spieghiamo, che questo fa di loro dei gongoozler).
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
L'inglese britannico ha il meraviglioso termine gongoozler, che sta ai canali come l'umarell sta ai cantieri. E proprio come per l'umarellismo, da volontario su un canale vedo lo spirito del gongoozler accendersi nelle persone più insospettabili.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I suppose all Bark-shire jokes have already been made, haven't they.
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yeah. Thinking of how Britain revoked Shamima Begum's citizenship with the argument that she was supposedly *eligible* for another nationality…
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Not only it doesn't work, it is evil.
Not only it doesn't work, it is evil.
Not only it doesn't work, it is evil.
Not only it doesn't work, it is evil.
Not only it doesn't work, it is evil.
Not only it doesn't work, it is evil.
Not only it doesn't work, it is evil.
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Magari sono pessimista io che non ci ho mai creduto, ma forse non occorreva aspettare tre anni? Non bastava lo spettacolo delle Europee, gente di sinistra e gente di destra che si presenta sotto lo stesso simbolo, nessuno sa più perché, ma ormai si usa così?
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
You're being unfair: he broke some promises before the GE, and also broke those made after the GE.
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So infuriating.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Love that! Will they be added to the georeferenced map viewer?
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM