Benjamin Anderson
PhD Student @ University of Edinburgh: Vermont, Northern Frontier, American Revolution, Localism🌲⛰️. Spare time: wandering with Sully the dug, stressing myself out with the Scotland national team 🏴, learning to deal with AuDHD.
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- I've never contacted my MP until today. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social decision to push through cuts on welfare and push vulnerable people into or further into poverty is simply deplorable. @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social comments yesterday were disgusting, and he is stigmatising mental health.
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- When you're a broke PhD student and discover the uni store room
- Good of the US to follow Britain and also take a sledgehammer to their own economy.
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonThe crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance
- Well worth a listen on the crisis in UK and US universities from @whiskeyrebelpod.bsky.social Q. Does class contribute to uni decline with potentially more lower class students finding it harder to go becos of the costs involved i.e. acc., living, etc. open.spotify.com/episode/2xtQ...
- This is why I love Vermont.
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- With the world in absolute shambles, I'm escaping by retreating into my childhood and listening to Roald Dahl audio books whilst I walk the dug
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- Jesus Christ. What did I just watch in the Oval Office?
- Looking forward to this event tomorrow and taking the first step in pursuing a career in archives!
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- One of the biggest problems with ADHD is the inability to concentrate, which has made it increasingly difficult for me to read a book, especially when doing a PhD makes me feel guilty for not doing PhD work! So, I've set myself a challenge to read one book a month and to use this for accountability!
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonRunning thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk
- Imagine if Biden wrote something as unhinged as this guy.
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- 11 year old nephew entered the room the other day to tell me that Palestinian people were "not nice people" and Donald Trump is "a good man." Jesus Christ. Fair to say he won't be playing his PS5 for a while.
- Globalisation isn't the problem, ya fanny. It's the hoarding of extreme wealth by a minority, who control the media, the modes of production, and government. That's the problem. Immigrants & transgender people aren't the problem, they are the scapegoats to keep people from looking up at the 1%.
- Sully off lead today for the first time in Falkland. Just the 4 different kinds of poo he rolled in behind my back 🤦♂️. Fresh air helping to overcome my current burnout and to stimulate thoughts to get around this writer's block on localism and the Dominion of New Enfland #AmWriting #PhDLife
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- The hypocrisy of the West.
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- Is this trade war like America's sort of Brexit?
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- For a good podcast whilst at the gym or walking the dug, I suggest @whiskeyrebelpod.bsky.social
- This 👇
- Just discovered something called IT Crowd. Thoroughly recommend.
- Going back to try and use a web page that I'm referencing from the National Diplomacy Museum and finding it has disappeared off the face of the Earth. What a riot.
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- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonFor anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
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- Horrible to read this. @vermonthistory.org do an invaluable service for the state. Amazing organisation and amazing people who always went above and beyond to help when I researched there.
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- In admist all of the darkness in academia, having a student from a previous semester requesting feedback on an essay and taking their time to visit reminds me of why I enjoy doing teaching.
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonWas there ever an #EarlyModern TikTok? If so, any of those exiles can rebuild via three starter packs here. I think Facebook did have some functioning earlymodern groups, and exiles equally welcome... 📜 go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 📜 go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 📜 go.bsky.app/K2gp9GKat://did:plc:2xh3ekkjbuyi3e5pbfnakuyt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2ilk674e52f
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- Whatever happened to the Democrats? They still kicking around?
- Reposted by Benjamin AndersonAuschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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- Fortunate enough to visit Auschwitz and I recommend everybody experiences it. I was walking around Camp 2 when a massive thunderstorm hit, whilst everyone else ran for cover I (stupidly) remained out in the open and found the whole place deserted. It was the most harrowing moment of my life.
- That'll be a western power casually advocating ethnic cleansing. Post-WW2 order well and truly dead and buried.
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- www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis... The unis are supposedly in red, but principles can pick up 400k+ a year. Can't be that bad.
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- Ever since discovering this font in Orlando Figes's A People's Tragedy, I have been looking for it ever since, so I'm asking yall for help! What is this font?! I thought it was Garamond, but I can't find one with no. 1's like that.
- Transgenderism is a fabricated problem to distract people from the shambles that neo-liberalism has wrought on them. Just saying.
- Whenever Trump speaks . . . .
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- Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- 4 years later and he's finally off lead
- Yet Peter Mathieson found enough money to get a 20k pay rise last year and taking his annual salary to over 400k Edinburgh University in stark warning of pressures 'greater than in any recent times' www.scotsman.com/education/ed...
- Nothing like being reminded of how much academia is a sector on its deathbed.
- Equally butthurt over his reception when he last came over
