Hard life

I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️

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Margo Leadbetter

I cannot overstate the number of cat beds there are in this house. And yet…

Who’s got no thumbs and eats plastic? This lady!

I feel this would also make a great tabletop RPG

Yes there’s some scholarship on Irish anti-nuclear movements and their involvement in non-proliferation diplomacy but I’m struggling to find anything on culture or social history.

Nuclear weapons mostly! Sorry, should have been more specific!

Can anyone recommend scholarship on Irish nuclear history/culture 🙏

Also Reg has the most intense zoomies I’ve ever seen. I literally cannot get a photo of him he’s too FAST

Friend bought me some breakup flowers, Margo Leadbetter knocked them off the desk. Please ML it’s been a hard week 😭

She’s a very strange creature

It’s just me and the Howls Moving Castle audiobook against the world

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

We’re heading into scarce Lime bike season, winter troopers

Happy gotcha day to my best boy. Two years ago he was sad, sick, and scared. Now he’s a round, happy, and chaotic tiny criminal. It’s the redemption arc we all deserve.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a doorway and saying nice office ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a doorway and saying nice office

I just want to have one conversation with the architect please

Say what you will about the new £185m Schwarzman Centre in Oxford, but my office is essentially the Severance set

I’ve got to say I’m not all that impressed with these chimney sweeps

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Detained at his own brother’s pleasure

She’s figured out that if she sticks her paw into the auto feeder she can get a few biscuits out

Tuxedo cat loafing on a purple sofa

Rate the loaf

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

The galaxy light!

A small purple boy

this is a thing that has happened organically among readers of the book and I feel so blessed to have listeners who engage with what I do in such creative ways. thank you all, I work hard at what I do and you make it deeply worth it

Goblin mode