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Posts by Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes

I'm looking for colleagues in the UK, #HistSTM, #HistMed, or #STS who work in institutional settings where they find it is difficult to place them in the right Unit of Assessment for REF2029. DM if that's you?

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My take is that Knights Templar conspiracies are a front to hide the real power behind the scenes - the Knights Hospitallers.

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Well, Amundson did claim to be the first to reach the North Pole when he led the 1926 Norge airship expedition that flew over it, although most people seem to think flying over is somewhat cheating (even if it saves on eating your dogs)

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And when he resigns after a cash-for-access scandal immediately after his first PMQs, Gareth Southgate.

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The "Chaos... reigns" fox from Lars Von Trier's Antichrist

The "Chaos... reigns" fox from Lars Von Trier's Antichrist

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"...and to avoid the Blue Shell of the ratchet effect, we must negate the crass fascistic aggression of Wario and nihilistic cynicism of Waluigi by empowering the earthy agrarian Toads and Monty Moles of our world - but to fund this we must make Peach pay her fair way!"

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B&W 1910s picture of Alfred North Whitehead (white balding Oxford don) looking really spaced out.

B&W 1910s picture of Alfred North Whitehead (white balding Oxford don) looking really spaced out.

"What is the process theological view on cannabis policy?"

AN Whitehead: "Fine for some but I prefer a more powerful drug - ideas"

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Looks like Ruben Östlund has a Triangle of Sadness sequel in the works.

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"It's sheer perfection. My precious Panopto-virus. No one will ever take you away from me".

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Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime

www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

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I mean, you can transmute stuff into gold, you just need a particle accelerator.

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Difficult to pick - was also considering 'Die/Diet' from the Springfield Files, & 'Poochie died on the way back to his home planet' (plus, from same episode, 'Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animator's wrist')

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Homer watching TV, looking dejected, with text:
Woman - "Oh, no. Willy didn't make it! And he crushed our boy!"
Man- "Ugh! What a mess".
Homer - "Oh! I don't like this new director's cut"

Homer watching TV, looking dejected, with text: Woman - "Oh, no. Willy didn't make it! And he crushed our boy!" Man- "Ugh! What a mess". Homer - "Oh! I don't like this new director's cut"

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See also:
Homer: "Bart, you didn't finish your spaghetti and Moe Balls.

Brain: "Silence, you fool. It can be ours".

Homer: "Run, boy! Run. (chewing) Run for your life... boy".

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"This cheat will strip the Strait of all her Iranian defences"

"What do you mean it just made her explode?!"

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Having a dog is fun because you can sing songs to them about how gross they smell and they just love the attention

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The UK has a “hostile immigration environment” acutely felt by people who seek asylum. For queer folk, this means dealing with patronising interviews, bureaucratic disbelief, and narrow stereotypes about what it means to be gay. I’ve written more about this here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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After you fill up on all the band's cheese:
"Tonight, you’re probably feeling, like a human camembert"

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Bill and Ted's Iranian Adventure

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Let poor smoke, says health secretary The health secretary, John Reid, angered health campaigners and anti-smoking groups when he said yesterday that smoking is one of the few pleasures left for the poor on sink estates and in working men...

Don't need to go 50 years back to find a Labour minister saying similar things about smoking
www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jun/...

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Whatever your opinion on Starmer, whoever succeeds him will have some big shoes to fill...

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Some of the cult still hope that the spirit of Blaironzon will fully take root in that empty vessel - but alas, the ritual must have been incomplete.

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File Explorer - the absolute basics of folder navigation - now habitually crashes on my less than year old Windows 11 work laptop.

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Wasn't Tanguy Destable one of Glup Shitto's budparent's business partners?

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The persistence of equity: lessons from the trust - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive This chapter aims to use the example of the trust to address the question that motivates this book: 150 years after the Judicature Act 1873, is there any reason (other than simple curiosity as to the ...

I am quite ignorant of the specifics of law despite working in a law faculty, but, re: history of equity, might Ben McFarlane be useful?
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

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I am planning on appointing someone who has publicly resigned twice in scandal. They resign a third time in even bigger scandal. The fallout should, however, not include me, the person who made the big call in the first place.

Totally untenable.

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Reverend Lovejoy in The Simpsons episode Bart's Girlfriend, reading a fictitious Bible verse wherein "And with flaming swords, the Aromites did pierce the eyes of their fellow men and did feast on what flowed forth".

Reverend Lovejoy in The Simpsons episode Bart's Girlfriend, reading a fictitious Bible verse wherein "And with flaming swords, the Aromites did pierce the eyes of their fellow men and did feast on what flowed forth".

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Light technical vehicles used widely by the RSF in battle, about 120 seen here before being delivered to the RSF. December 29th 2025.

Light technical vehicles used widely by the RSF in battle, about 120 seen here before being delivered to the RSF. December 29th 2025.

About 200 light technical vehicles seen on February 18th.

About 200 light technical vehicles seen on February 18th.

RSF fighter aboard a technical

RSF fighter aboard a technical

Short thread containing satellite imagery of Emirati weapons smuggled to the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan, with accompanying file photos. Snapped at a secret RSF logistics base in western Ethiopia (10°05'55.5"N 34°34'50.9"E).

Wednesday marked 3 years since the start of Sudan's brutal civil war.

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Masque of the Orange Death

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If the BBCs coverage was about unmasking sham immigration advisers it would have done more to show how much harm they cause individuals, how much money they scam people out of. Instead it has been focused on creating an impression that people seeking asylum are faking it wholesale. 2/

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