“The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.”

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Ahh, fuck. I’m so sorry for your loss. Alzheimer’s is a shithouse.

Here at Metro’s annual gathering re: our collective NYC digital culture repository. Illuminating to hear abt orgs that licensed some of their popular material with commercial rsch services (EBSCO) w/ the hope of making some 💰; turns out they made a pittance, and now their stuff is paywalled 🙁

Oh hey look, some good news

Small & the cat are sleeping in my bed tonight. If that mad 🍊 twat does trigger Armageddon, going out in my sleep surrounded by the things I love the most in the world, feels like a good way to go. Might eat Small’s Easter eggs, deal with her wrath if we wake up. Shame I’ve already paid the rent.

Visitors to our Research Room and long-distance enquiries request a access to a wide variety of records – but some of our most popular tend to be our healthcare records, particularly those that relate to mental health.
#Archive30 #PopularItem

“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. | Mark Fisher

Marko Plays Jesus Simulator! YouTube video by IT’S MARKO

A very special Let's Play this Easter weekend- free for everyone, @deadman97.bsky.social and @hereliescorri.bsky.social get that little bit closer to God as we play what may be the worst game we've ever experienced- JESUS SIMULATOR:
youtube.com/live/6NqrnSQ...

This looks an amazing (and very generously funded) opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a medieval literary PhD.

📣 Are you interested in the intersection of Machine Learning and Medieval Studies?

We're excited to announce a LATE CALL for our upcoming session, "Digital Medieval Studies: Machine Learning, Model Development, and Applications", as part of the IMC Leeds 2026.

📆 8 Jul 26
▶️ tinyurl.com/3vdm8n8y

Novelist confronts AI researcher over intellectual property | Janne Teller, Timothy Nguyen YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

"Democratizing access": the ultimate doublespeak for #tech billionaires pillaging art, literature, human brilliance—feeding their AI for free, owning the returns.
Danish writer Janne Teller's reply? Fine. If our knowledge belongs to everyone, then #AI platforms should belong to us. Nationalize them.

2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team.

See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...

🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

IWCP 2026

Computational paleography has become a key meeting ground for the humanities and computer science. We are delighted to offer workshop at this year’s #ICDAR2026 conference to showcase the latest developments in this dynamic field.
CfP is open until 22 May!

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Coffee with a Codex: A didactic poem concerning integers An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 26 (12pm ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will show LJS 462, a didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero). Spain, first half of the 14th century.. #medievalsky

Register here: https://bit.ly/4rr6uaV

I’m going to modestly say that if anyone’s interested in the materiality & construction of the online space, my forthcoming book might be of interest to you. This is a really fascinating field of research, I’m so excited to be part of it even in the smallest way.

My batshit theory is the Mold Gold Cape is an early piece of wearable tech. An object which could engender a new communication paradigm, giving us opportunities to contact the divine. I promise I don’t think aliens built the pyramids. But I do love ✨woo.✨

Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Some days you’re just a blue shrew

New York University Arts and Science - Early Modern Iberian Atlantic Faculty Fellow | MEMOs New York University, NYC (USA)

Explore this week's job opportunities focused on the Medieval and Early Modern periods (thread 🧵):

New York University Arts and Science - Early Modern Iberian Atlantic Faculty Fellow: memorients.com/news/new-yor...

Would anyone in Brecon (Powys) be able to give me insight into the taxi/Uber situation there? Particularly for early mornings (6am)? Might be doing a placement there & staying locally, but no car currently & public transport won’t get me to where I need to be on time. Any help appreciated!

Coming very soon! Marketing this exhibition is a bit different for reasons that I'll hopefully be able to share soon, but in the meantime do put this in your diary! (But if you visit, don't tell me about mistakes until it's been open at least a fortnight, please.)

I mean is it that shocking? It's awful, it's anti democratic, it's consistently wild how much these guys say out loud.

I posted this yesterday and links are made for clickin'

Confused immigration protesters at Julie Goodyear's old mansion Protesters falsely thought the former Coronation Street star's old home was going to house immigrants.

BET LYNCH MOB

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A detail from the Chronicle of Battle Abbey, showing a historiated initial enclosing a portrait of William the Conqueror, sitting enthroned, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre, with a dog at his feet. The initial is formed from a winged creature.

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027.

Learn more and apply through the link below!

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Would love to meet for a cuppa if we can make the time work; it can be a bit like juggling knives at times round my gaff!

One of my all time favourite books. Still take it on every foreign holiday I go on, I’ve no idea why.

This is next Friday and they're nice short reads this time - join us!