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Zora
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Anthropologist in London.

"All that glitters is not gold"
Cambridge never disappoints. A cheeky one for our Christmas reading list!
🚨New podcast interview🚨

Check out "Bitch" author, Karen Stollznow, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in conversation with Miranda Melcher

Hear the full discussion https://cup.org/3LSUcJc

#BookPodcast #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 📚💙
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Catch up on the news this week (turtles and all) with these Venn diagrams.
This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
We’re currently nestled in the period between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays, when time acts strangely and the calendar never behaves like it’s supposed to. It’s the perfect…
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December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I’m continuing to catch up. Theory of Water is a beautiful book. This episode is also deeply beautiful and reminds me I need to put some requests in (besides my first 3D whistle print — which I did this morning).

Also, you might cry. I all the ways.

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December 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The feeling is bleak: they will go on fighting, and they will drag everyone else into it.
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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When empires grow, they gladly take everyone in; they expand.
When empires die, they begin to push people out.
In East Africa I was told: “Of course the West is dying — it simply doesn’t have enough people anymore.”
This must be the most outrageous example of Farage's racist bullying. A 17-year-old Farage bullying a 9-year-old lad – NINE – for being black, and even waiting at the school gate to heap more abuse on the little lad.

What an absolute f***ing scumbag.

Deeply shocking, even by 1970s standards.
Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
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December 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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An incredible, iconic song, those apocalyptic lyrics still feel relevant.

The video was directed by Don Letts. Filmed on a boat on the Thames near Battersea Park on a cold, rain lashed night, it’s a great part of London Calling’s legend.
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#TheClash #MusicSky #DonLetts
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December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss? | Marina Hyde
The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss? | Marina Hyde
Everyone’s favourite former PM is back! Her mission? To save Britain from its current ‘doomloop’ with, you guessed it, a YouTube talkshow, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies | Bernadette Atuahene
Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies | Bernadette Atuahene
Seventy years after the Montgomery bus boycott, policies hiding in plain sight continue to ravage the Black community
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December 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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‘One of the most breathtaking cathedrals in the world’: readers’ favourite churches in Europe
‘One of the most breathtaking cathedrals in the world’: readers’ favourite churches in Europe
Wonderful art, mysterious history, amazing design and beautiful locations have drawn our tipsters to these shrines from Norway to Bulgaria
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December 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Venice 2025: 'The Tale of Sylian' is One of the Best Docs of the Year
Venice 2025: 'The Tale of Sylian' is One of the Best Docs of the Year
This is the story of a man and a bird. But it is also a story about a family and their farm; about a town and the people who live there; about storks and humans; about nature and men and their synergy; about how the world is changing (for the worse); about how we must reconnect with nature to heal the planet again. It is a film about how humanity is trashing this planet, ruining the world, and how we really need learn to go back and reconnect with the earth and appreciate all life on this planet again. The Tale of Sylian is the latest documentary creation by the acclaimed North Macedonian filmmaker Tamara Kotevska, following her first feature film Honeyland (which was nominated for two Oscars back in 2020). This time her focus is on a humble farmer living in a small village in the south of North Macedonia, a place which also has one of the largest white stork populations in Europe. These giant birds have established themselves as residents of this town and the locals live in harmony with them. But it is also the inspiring story of a man named Nikola who befriends a stork after his family moves away in hopes of earning more money and finding a better life. // Continue Reading ›
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August 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Listen. When I was a teenager I was absolutely reprehensible. Ask me to apologise for something I did then I'll just do it, I won't even ask what it was.

The problem with this shitbag Farage is not that he was a racist then. He is a racist now.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
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December 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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It’s good to read how Farage is being called out for his fascist past. The Putin apologist. The bully. The guy who (allegedly) did the gas hissing sounds at Jewish classmates.
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
On the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s death: In a world obsessed with authenticity Arendt offered something far more demanding, and far more liberating: ‘the will’. Not willpower, but the inner tension of choosing who we become, moment by moment.⁠
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What Hannah Arendt proposed as an alternative to authenticity | Aeon Essays
In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves
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December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The One Where Alex Loses It Over Dungeons & Dragons
🆕 What's past is prologue 🆕

🇪🇺 Brexit's back alright
🗳️ lessons from 2024 GE
📰 media's Reeves derangement
🧌 Dungeons & Dragons

@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social & guest @samfr.bsky.social put the world to rights.

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What's past is prologue
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 04/12/2025 · 1h 10m
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December 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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IAS Book Launch: Critical Games
2 Dec, 6:30-8pm
Please join @timb-m.bsky.social Tim Beasley-Murray for the launch of his new book Critical games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life.
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IAS Book Launch: Critical Games
Please join Tim Beasley-Murray for the launch of his new book Critical games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Ethnohistory reflects the wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition around the world, but with a particular emphasis on the Americas. Issue 72:4 is now available, view the TOC: buff.ly/KqXXW9h
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“'If you’re excited to read great canonized fiction, then awesome,' says [Andrew] Cunningham [yes, our Andrew Cunningham]. 'But if you’re excited to read an enemies-to-lovers romance or a book where people ride dragons, that’s what you should read.'”

We enjoyed chatting for this article!
In a reading rut? How to get back into reading for fun
In a world full of distractions, it can be difficult to form a habit that needs attention. Experts advise on getting out of the rut
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November 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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There you go.

Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM