Panel from a Nancy comic of Nancy walking along the street with a scowl saying โI feel very grouchy today- Iโm in a mean moodโ
Me heading back home to keep working and walking past all the people finishing work and sitting in the park enjoying the beautiful weather.
This is just...weird.
It's not like the BM don't have enough stock images of people looking at stuff?
Or is the classic case of someone higher up paying an AI company money for whatever reason, then they have to use it?
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Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 โข 3:47 PM UTC
I just thought everyone should see this
see I would do this, but my research literally depends on sorting out all these things and atm Iโm having to write around the places where the research is at a standstill ๐ฅน๐ญ
yes and complit!! they cover a fair amount of world war literature there which is more in my area of expertise ๐
so itโs all just an extension of the general chaos with which I conduct my life ๐ฅณ
because every single time Iโm on the train my netflix/disney plus downloads have expired and my unread journal articles are the next most entertaining thing on my ipad
most my writing happens on our phd writing retreats where suddenly 2000 words appear out of nowhere, while most my actual thesis reading seems to happen on the stretch of the avanti west coast line that has no internet service
either that or panic reading because for some reason they have me studying/teaching novels when as an undergrad I only studied pre-1660 texts, aka pre-invention of the novel
ngl most of my time just seems to be taken up by admin ๐ญ emails, forms, expenses, travel planning, cataloguing, writing up documents for other people, sending more emails to find out who the next person I need to email isโฆ
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
The arts and humanities funding landscape in the UK
big big mood ๐
Illustrations from โThe Gates of Hornโ (1926) by Bernard Sleigh, a novel about a fictional Fairy Investigation Society that inspired the creation of the real Fairy Investigation Society ๐งโโ๏ธ #ostension
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
Wow! ๐ฎ๐คฉ
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! ๐ค
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
a few lines of a manuscript of Oidheadh Con Culainn, describing the moment in which Lugaid beheads Cรบ Chulainn (who is already dead). towards the end of a line is a doodle of a person's face/head, a little bigger than the letters around it but not much. it might actually be standing in for the word 'face' or 'head' here, I'd have to check another MS to be sure
Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cรบ Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment
sorry to be that person but the LNER train from peterborough to london hits too close to home (literally)
Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Bรถcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
if they havenโt already (I would check but rip EThOS)
my main takeaway from the past week is that someone will for sure write a media studies phd thesis about dan and philโs internet careers
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
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R hetorique & the crafte of
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
A blue-grey box with a Red Cross on it, which reads: "BLOOD TRANSFUSION SET."
The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.
Opening slide for an event. It has a colourful background with a pair of hands holding a game controller (in the top right corner). White text says: Talk Unreal pasts, playful presents: history and fantasy in games and media 10 September 2025
It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!
don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten
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it does make me giggle when people online accuse me of having no media literacy, like yes please letโs crack out our copies of Hayden White and Todorov and have a chat about narrativity (Iโm not even being cheeky, I am always DESPERATE for someone to talk to about narrative theory)
I hereby deny that I made Beike write my book!
I KNOW ๐ญ Iโm like 50,000 views was more than acceptable, thank you very much
