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New semester starts on Monday…

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: Start of the An Shi #Rebellion #安史之亂 (755–63), named after one of its instigators, An Lushan #安祿山, in English. Largest #CivilWar in #PremodernHistory, casualties estimated at up to 34M, though likely inflated & due to displacement.#唐 #玄宗 #楊貴妃

Is the flip sign for revealing the answer, or did you mass-produce these for all your students?

What's the software? A VLE? I thought it was irritating enough when our one started trying to be helpful by adding the end of HTML tags when you were trying to write, but I'd go nuts if something like that popped up when I was trying to write...

Did they directly say it was because of The Situation?

Well that’s bleak

Wednesday, 6pm. If I can get 2 more done tonight then all the on-time submissions are done!
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Tuesday morning and 48,000 words of essays to go:
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I’m seeing a lot of Canadians and Australians enjoying calling it CommonwealthTok and being able to spell words properly without receiving abuse… but also plenty missing the Americans’ energy.

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.

I want our World Wide Web back.

47 of 79 done: as of this essay, 100,000 words read and about 21,000 words of feedback written
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Still not halfway with the Meiji marking yet, but I did see dolphins swimming past at lunchtime
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Now I have to comment "good grief" on the second post of yours running...

Good grief...
I wonder if they're aware of conditions in their own country such as food deserts? Is that swept under the carpet in 'greatest nation' hyperbole, or are they all too aware of it through personal experiences?

How far have I got through the marking as of today?
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Analogue photograph of northern cupola of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. Image shows red tiled roof with brick tower rising above it

Gateway tower in middle of Newcastle University campus. A red brick tower with slightly ogive arches in centre of picture; to the left, a weeping willow suffused by afternoon sunlight

A closer image of the gateway tower. Image shows view through brick and stone arch past pedestrians towards student union and Victorian buildings

Analogue photograph of Queen Victoria Road, looking towards one of the towers of the Armstrong Building, magnificent home of the History Department. The far-inferior Percy Building of the English Department and Merz Court, which belongs to something unmentionable like scientists, are in the foreground to the left.

This roll of film has travelled from fridge to fridge in the family since it expired in 1997. Came out better than expected when I used it around campus back before the weather got really cold
#filmisnotdead #mynclpics #kodakektar100 #spotmatic

Analogue photograph of Cragside house in Northumberland, showing arched bridge at centre and house above, flanked by pine trees. Colours are shifted to purples and turquoise by the film emulsion

I tried Lomochrome Purple, but this was the only decent picture I got from the roll.
(Do we tag things here? If so, #filmisnotdead #lomochrome #spotmatic)

Sunrise over the North Sea. The sun has just crossed the horizon, lighting a narrow band of sky yellow and the clouds above and sea below peach to orange. Most of the sky is cloudy, and the foreground shows the exposed rocks of the shoreline at low tide, some of which are glinting yellow and red from the sunlight. To the right of the image are railings and a line of seafront houses. Brown's Bay, Cullercoats.

Sunrise yesterday. Guess which idiot forgot they'd left the camera on ISO 20,000?

It's that time of year again when we have to declare whether the department holds any chemical weapons. We are a History department.
We maintain a purely conventional arsenal as a deterrent against Archaeology. That lot keep making swords...

The cat is mortally offended that I am trying to work rather than devoting 100% of my attention to him

Wherever I go on the internet, sooner or later Horse Etymology finds me

Image shows a history of Korea in meme form: a series of maps showing the territorial extent and name or flag of each political entity on the peninsula from protohistory to the present. The description of the north Asian state of Parhae (yes I still use that romanisation) as 'the surprisingly good fanmade crossover au' is what got me laughing.

Aw, the original was deleted, so here's the Korean history meme again:

Started laughing at Parhae, still haven’t stopped

When we finally got it to work the viva itself was totally fine (and so quick that we were done before partner and baby had even left house to pick me up) but the tech definitely did not make the experience smoother.
Good luck with the whole thing!

Defending your thesis? Hope it goes smoothly - my viva was done on an old-fashioned conference call phone: two of us in the room and the external trying to connect by mobile internet from Tokyo.
It took a week to get it to work.

I’m not sure that it’s ever any *other* brand in the UK: they seem to have stitched up the whole market (and I eat a lot of scones…)

Crikey, didn't realise Rodda's clotted cream had conquered the rest of the world too...

Congratulations!