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Dr Andrew McInnes

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Hopeless Romanticist, cat lover, and coffee addict.

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This delights me too!

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Delighted to find that poet Dennis Lee, whose Civil Elegies poem contains the couplet which inspired this maxim, also wrote the lyrics for Fraggle Rock.

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A beautiful #Roman glass bowl, in bands of vivid blue, yellow & colourless. It was found in the area around #Vesuvius, & was buried in the AD 79 erruption - fortunately, it was later found & put back together, giving us another lovely example of #AncientGlass!

#Archaeology 🏺AncientBlueSky

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Simon Kane's avatar Simon Kane @slepkane.bsky.social
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It's exactly these kind of electoral images which give me hope that fash's whole taking-on-the-parliamentary-establishment narrative won't catch fire here like in the US.

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FFS 6music now playing that Truss interview - arguing that it was the Tories not trashing Human Rights and not say her actual trashing of the economy to blame for the smashing of what should have been her very safe majority.

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Now THAT election is over - hurray! - please consider voting in THIS @bars.bsky.social election!

Details on joining BARS (JOIN US!) and various manifestos (including mine) in reskeets below.

Care! Community! Karaoke!

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Alex Prichard's avatar Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social
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1) Labour got fewer votes under Starmer than under Corbyn, but secured a landslide 2)Great to see the Greens quadruple their seats, and take two from the Tories! 3)All regional nationalist parties did as well or better than Reform (except SDLP) and all left leaning. 4) fuck off Mogg! 🥳

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What an awful, crass, horrible woman!

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I’m imagining a Vic Reeves nightclub singer style thing

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Ah ha ha I already corrected it from Frans once!

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Wilbur contemplates the first day of his life not under a Tory government

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Turned off Truss spouting off against human rights and turned on 6music playing Frank Ferdinand ‘Do You Want To’: Lucky lucky, you’re so lucky yeah

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Abigail's avatar Abigail @abigail.bsky.social
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Wait a minute! The Green party has 4 MPs!? This is amazing!

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Anna James's avatar Anna James @superteadrinker.bsky.social
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Today's important international news: Kit is 3. Happy birthday to the best of cats.

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Pete Birkinshaw's avatar Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social
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It's almost as if a certain huge controversial issue dominating the media is actually not a huge controversial issue in real life, hmm

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Martin Nutbeem's avatar Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social
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Awww not only did Carla Denyer get a descent result for the Green Party in central Bristol, more importantly Kellie-Jay Keen got less than 200 votes in total and so has lost their deposit.

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Just seen Elmo congratulating Kier Starmer and now you should see it too

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Worst ever result for the Tories ✅ Great night for the Greens ✅ Good night for the Lib Dems 2 ✅ Farage a fly in the ointment 🪰💩

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Liz Truss leaving with all the dignity we have come to expect of her. Wouldn’t get on the platform until she was slow-handclapped, then left without a single word.

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Mark Crail's avatar Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social
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Farewell Jacob Rees Mogg, Liam Fox, Therese Coffey, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Gillian Keegan, Mark Harper, Douglas Ross, Johnny Mercer, and now LIZ TRUSS!!!

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John Walton's avatar John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social
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Well, good morning Britain!

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes

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Perhaps perversely, woke up with Alasdair Gray’s maxim in mind:

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Abbi: Oh, I’ve just realised that says 24! Me: Oh my god, I just thought it was a random pattern. Good morning!

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Tim Watson's avatar Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social
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tomorrow's Guardian first edition front page: Labour landslide

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Claire Hopkin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿's avatar Claire Hopkin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @clairehopkin.bsky.social
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WALES is a TORY free zone. Cool Cymru returns. Fucking love my little country. Well done my people, whether you voted Plaid, Labour or Lib Dems..

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Paula Clarke Bain's avatar Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org
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Good morning.

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What an absolute fucking clown - next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Michael Shallcross 's avatar Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social
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Just to prove that the parodic devil always pops up at moments of national transition, Sunak as Satan in today's TLS.

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Matthew L Reznicek's avatar Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social
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Flights to DC for #NASSR booked, baby! Here's to Romanticism in the swampy DC humidity

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EUP cheekily promoting me as an apology for forgetting to send me a book to review in March!

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Cassie Ulph's avatar Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social
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I am stepping down as Treasurer after [*mumbles in covid-era*] years on the BARS exec, and the wonderful Anthony Mandal will be stepping down as President. VOTE VOTE VOTE for our replacements! ...Just as soon as you've voted to replace some other incumbents, that is (do that one first 🗳️)

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Voting now open to members!

If you have an interest in Romantic Studies, please consider joining our wonderful society! www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

New members can vote in the election if you join before end of Friday 5th July. Voting for us stays open til the 10th.

VOTE VOTE VOTE

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READ READ READ VOTE VOTE VOTE ✊✊✊✊✊✊

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Make elections eighteenth-century again

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