The men on my team are like, yay sport! That’s fun but not the detailed intergenerational following of details a pub quiz demands

Yup, and we can't forget the context that this is an explicitly ageist policy directed at younger people in a context where we have worse political polarisation by age than any other time in modern UK political history. The kids are pissed that they're always the ones being told to make sacrifices.

Ugh we never have a Sport. We need a Sport.

Oh I mean it’s dangerous but I am lazy optimistic and careless!

And it is getting worse. I started in Religion and thought a move into History was a safe one. I certainly didn't have "close history departments" or "sack historians" on my bingo card.

It makes the 2010s look like paradise

I swear to god it’s the sharpness that makes them special but also means it’s not for me

Yeah but the same spirit that disinclined me to use the safety handle would certainly make me not wear the glove!

I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census
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Suggestion given to me: a mandolin to shred veg myself. Actuality: mandolined for a week passionately; sliced fingertips; mandolined determinedly; grew bored; now it’s handle thing is second only to Ladle in jamming the drawer.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

There’s a punk musician in Oxford called Meryl Streak and I just thought this justifies your childhood ideas.

It was well known *and yet* every mention of Peter on social media had a hundred responses that were just the photos of him with Epstein, and that achieved nothing at all - didn’t make anyone blink - until the Americans released his sucky, criminal emails.

Offord on the telly again talking about getting '800,000 economically inactive people back to work'.

High time journalists start properly interrogating this abject nonsense.

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This is easier said than done of course, because most companies don’t have a number you can call.
Tangentially: I tried to complain to a company recently, had to use the stupid chatbot. It wasn’t helpful. I called it useless. It said it detected profanity & refused to continue the chat

A History of Protest and Public Space in England - Conway Hall Historian Katrina Navickas explores the radical history of the increasing restrictions against protest in England’s public spaces. From the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, C...

Off to @conwayhall.bsky.social this afternoon to discuss my book. If you're in central and want sone relevant current debate, come along. Last minute tickets available!
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LSBU blocks access to pension & threatens academics with the sack if they don't accept new terms with increased workloads London South Bank University (LSBU) has threatened to put all its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a restructure that would divide the workforce into teaching or research streams, worsening ter...

The state of British academia: my partner was made redundant from one uni after 14 (14)yrs on fixed-term contracts, & has now begun a short-term fixed contract at another that is threatening to put all (all) its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a “fire & rehire” www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

Thomas More pamphlet title: it’s kinda a tough situation…

'In the tumultuous years since the creation of the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, three memorial committee members have stepped down and researchers have been fired largely over disputes related to engaging descendant communities.'

Ps she also wrote a book on how to give wedding speeches

It’s so amazing, she taught women to masturbate - an unsung hero!

It's 3 p.m.: Let's watch Angela Lansbury touch herself in the tub It's 3 p.m.: Let's watch Angela Lansbury touch herself in the tub

She was a woman of many dimensions www.avclub.com/its-3-p-m-le...

Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May.

Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians

Amazon is still working out the logistics of sending people to your house to black out the pages of your physical books with a sharpie.

A colleague told me that Madame Roland was VERY popular in Republican China (of all places).

Ohhhh the history books f biography is ace! And weird! I also wonder the influence of culling from the Penny Cyclopedis and RTS was!

Wow I’ve tired to disconnect mine for a fraction I’m doing ok! Thanks for sharing apparently I’m a Luddite

I’ve just finished a bad year. I’ve coped so much better than my previous bad years. A skill. How would you mark it, without success etc the externals?

So um not to he reductive but where cinnamon buns are best Skogen or Hamblin

Ohh my Quaker 19c working class girls knew about Madame Roland and I like this as a measure of what we should know!