I kept running into a rumour that she was Black or mixed race, but could never find any confirmation. Any idea?

Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."

Sign the Petition Stop redundancies at Ulster University

450 redundancies announced at the Ulster University. The impact of this will be devastating to staff, students & the functioning of the North as a whole. From social sciences speaking truth to power, to art giving this place joy - the decision must be reversed.

Can you sign & share this petition?

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
230/750 Enid Blyton, Five on a Treasure Island (1942) and all twenty sequels but never ever the Secret fucking Seven

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
229/750 Ernest Hemingway, The First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
228/750 Terry Bisson, Fire on the Mountain (1988)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
227/750 Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (2000)

I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

We absolutely have to move to a position where university workers on repeat contracts at the same institution are understood as working for the university and not the funder.

Keen Arsenal Fan Keir Starmer denies knowing that his team have reached the Champion League semi finals and has called for Miguel Arteta to be sacked for not telling him.

#Saka

Fatal flaw: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up The PM’s current and former colleagues say the Mandelson scandal has exposed the hollowness of his hands-off style.

"'Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth,' said one Labour insider. 'Wrong. He’s an asshole who’s out of his depth.'"

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
226/750 Rick Altman, Film/Genre (1999)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
225/750 V.F. Perkins, Film as Film (1972)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
224/750 Norman Mailer, The Fight (1975)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
223/751 Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)

A demonstration at the Dilley Concentration Camp in Texas. Children and families have been imprisoned in the concentration camp in Texas for months, and all they’ve experienced is abuse, neglect, mistreatment, undrinkable water and moldy food. #SHUTDOWNDILLEY

Credit: @mommmaliz.bsky.social

Now that's what I call a Sunday afternoon

Frankenstein (1910). Kind of wild to consider that its release is closer in time to the publication of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel than to the present day

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
222/751 Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes (1976)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
221/751 Erica Jong, Fear of Flying (1973)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
220/751 Robert Nye, Faust (1980)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
219/751 Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (1940)

Four years in the making, my grand plan is realized at last: you can now technically eat a complete breakfast with the covers of my horror novels.

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
218/747 Marcel Allain and Piere Souvestre, Fantômas (1911) and The Silent Executioner (1911) and would have kept going but couldn’t find any more translations back then

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
217/747 Peter Haining, ed. The Fantastic Pulps (1975)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
216/747 Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
215/747 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (1590-96)