Nominative determinism in action, clearly.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · yesterday

Only takes half a brain to see an ocean of possible support between the Lib Dems and Reform! That Reform keep moving Right and the LDs aren't firing on all cylinders! But Badenoch keeps moving Rightwards and vacating all that space... Political malpractice. 😡 www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Not the first time a left-wing Spanish prime minister complained about being under 'attack' from Morocco I can tell you that much.

Ok so wordle is fun but have you tried trying to guess the starter pack that got shared somewhere based on the profiles of the 20-odd new followers you just got.

You don't get an opening passage like this by using AI kids.

The Bronze Age of Parks and Rec.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · last wk.

A Kansas high school physics teacher was arrested after repeatedly clapping during a city commission meeting over a controversial data center proposal.

A plea for assistance: is there anyone who has written a ERC Starting Grant in history or connected discipline in the last couple of years, and who might be willing to share a copy confidentially? Thanks in advance - the ones I have access to are *very* dated!

Dislike these on principle, but this is a good example of how profoundly useless AI summaries can be. An outdoor area shuts in winter, a busy restaurant should be booked ahead and they're famous for *signature* cocktails, so ignore that and ask for something off menu?

Conservative media commentary has it all wrong. The Odyssey isn't evidence that mainstream critics have all gone woke - the true woke hive mind is incapable of unequivocally liking anything with universal popular acclaim. All this is doing is fuelling nitpicking on Bluesky.

Every time there's Nolan discourse, I'm reminded that The Dark Knight Rises is so pro cop that being able to free them all from the sewer is a crucial plot point, but once they get out their contribution is to form a phalanx and charge machine guns.

We're hosting an AMAbon Pompeii this week with noted historian Tom Hiddleston. Poor guy, he must be incredibly difficult to Google... *finger to earpiece* Chat, we're being informed that Loki is a historian now. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Refrigerator engineer: so we'll put a light in the fridge that turns out on automatically when the door opens so you can see all your food easily Me: amazing, can I also see my frozen food? Refrigerator engineer: lol no

I believe that no one deserves to be brutally murdered, but also that not everyone's life choices earned unqualified plaudits.

The fascist communication dilemma is always how far to present themselves as pitiable victims of an unjust society versus strong men able to sort out society's problems through force of will (and force of force). Get the balance wrong, and you just look a bit pathetic really.

If only there was a topical sporting metaphor for a situation where you score a point against your own team unnecessarily.

roterote@roterote.bsky.social · last mo.

The embarrassment of celebrating Trump’s corruption and cheating at the World Cup. Jeffries telling the world the Democratic Party also supports corruption at the world stage. Pathetic.

In fairness, if you can't trust the recipient of the Fifa Peace Prize to analyse whether an action was motivated by hostile intent, who can you trust.

Cool little eastern bloc antique - set of nested hedgehog ashtrays that can be assembled to make a single, giant mecha hedgehog. Based on a classic Walter Bosse design, but I think these are the ones Aeroflot used to give out as souvenirs back in the 1950s and 1960s.

You've got to assume that these guys aren't used to bending their arms when elevating them like this.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

In fairness, they were completely upfront about the green water bit.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last mo.

The $1.7M contract was directly awarded—bypassing the usual competitive bidding process—to Greenwater Services: a trust-run company owned by a longtime Republican donor who has previously skirted campaign finance law and pled guilty to conspiracy to bribe representative. trib.al/slUAzBN

As ever, the lesson from Starmer's demise is that you don't beat the far right by capitulation on transphobia, immigrants or anything else, you beat them by offering an alternative vision that stakes a claim over a better, kinder future.

You can't even call ice cream Neapolitan now, because of Woke

Maybe unnecessary nitpicking, but the Spanish Republic was not being run by the Communist Party in June 1937 (or ever). A pretty broad swathe of pro-Republican were willing to at least tacitly accept the suppression of the POUM.

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2mo ago

#OtD 16 Jun 1937 the anti-Stalinist Marxist party the POUM was declared illegal in Republican Spain by the Communist Party-run authorities. Many were rounded up and arrested. More info in our podcast episodes on the Spanish Civil War: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-...

Reading against the brain.

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

📢 New Special Issue! How did southern Africa’s liberation armies imagine the future? Drawing on oral histories, memoirs & struggle archives, this SI explores how soldiers shaped ideas about freedom, gender, politics an&d solidarity from the 1960s to the 1980s. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...

Been reflecting a bit on the news out of Belfast, and the possibilities of anti-fascist activism. Since Trump 1.0, @askhistorians.bsky.social has fielded a steady stream of questions that amounted to 'what kind of activism helped defeat fascism in the past'.

Just bought a liquid handsoap that claims to have prebiotic properties, which seems like the opposite of what you'd want in soap.

Sorry to no longer be teaching a module on Spanish Civil War historiography, because this review would be an incredibly fun text to unpack with students. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Still ‘Spain Mad’ after Ninety Years: The Endless Fascination of the British with the Spanish Civil War

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Got an exceptionally rare google notification for my own name, and it turned out to be a photo credit for an article about Budapest Pride.

As an Australian who lived in the UK for too long, this looks brutal - the high baseline humidity and inadequate built environment makes this kind of weather utterly draining and impossible to escape. Unless you're coming from Darwin in wet season, you aren't prepared for what low 30s means there.

Alan@gammacounter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Temperature map right now for England and Wales. 33 (91) in London. May 25

The Neflixification of life continues, with a full season of summer just dumped on us all at once without any fanfare or lead in. What happened to pacing weather out smdh