Book drafts sent to editor. I feel acomplished.

instead of using Google satellite AI slop, have you considered

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 2y ago

I draw custom maps on commission. Maps for books, games, decoration, etc. Here are a couple of examples. There are more on my website, along with a contact form and info about cost, process, etc. If you need a map, I'm happy to help! surprisedeelmaps.com

I mean even for the Torygasp that is pretty bad

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 6d ago

Extraordinarily bleak thing to publish (Telegraph)

Extraordinarily bleak thing to publish (Telegraph)

And it’s AI

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh dear.

Behold the holy of holys for all map collectors and enjoyers. The Mapus Mundi the 1300 map of all creation

You can log on to Bluesky where the Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians, and Culture critics are all yelling at one another about The Odyssey you can log on to X where people are debating if women are "real people"

Iron Age tomb and view in Herefordshire. Archaeology is so cool

I’m tapping the sign ridl.io/russian-navy...

Russian Navy Between Practicality and Fantasy – Riddle Russia

Jeff Hawn on feasibility of a large-scale modernization of the Russian navy

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ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ Recently-announced Russian plans for a giant 500-ton unmanned surface vessel (USV) are being greeted with scepticism, confusion, and ridicule by Russian warbloggers. They say that the Navy is wasting money on grandiose schemes while failing to fix its current problems. ⬇️

I am still surprised so many people are discussing Greek Classical poetry without discussing hubris. Even as we seem to be witnessing it firsthand

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” seems pretty cut and dry to me

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

The case of a traveler who allegedly entered a ‘duress password’ to wipe his phone raises a legal question with no easy answers. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/97214...

If you are in Hereford check out Overloaded Tacos phenomenally good

UK Gov pissing away money on AI fantasy as it undermines its once great research position

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · last wk.

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

The children yearn for the factories and mines www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Schools to offer technical subjects to pupils from age 14, Burnham says

The government wants pupils to take courses like AI and manufacturing which are linked to local jobs.

bbc.co.uk

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I think one of my eccentricities is I am deeply formal and polite upon initial introduction, and when people don’t reciprocate especially in a client customer teacher student or elder junior context I get deeply annoyed

Dr Wilson has been given a massive opportunity to share her research and interpretations. She has used it extremely effectively. As non academics react in confusion academics applaud her.

Hereford Cathedral

It’s days like today seeing some Tutor timber and maybe a fire place stone peaking out that I see why @oldenoughtosay.com enjoys old buildings so very much. (Location Ross on Wye)

Politico is doing it wrong. The headline should say. “Comrade McConnell in vigorous health unable to attend cultural festival as he works for glory of the revolution” Don’t worry you’ll get there

History is complicated it’s not a morality play for you to make sweeping assertions about baddies and goodie’s

Is the DNC short on cash because everyone got super annoyed with those spam messages? Serious question

“So little pains do the vulgar take in investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.” -Thucydides

Well ABBA Voyage is very much worth the price of admission

It still only takes 3 or 4 prompts to convince ChatGPT the moon is made of cheese 🧀😊 not a serious device

I’m just saying Count Binface plan to both nationalize Adele and move the hand dryer in the gents toilet at the crown and stag resonate with the average voter

For those unfamilar with UK North South discourse I have created a handy diagram.

So I finished my PhD secured a post doc grant and a book contract. Yet the British Academy feels I don’t warrant a endorsement of a global talent visa 🫠

Nice morning with the doves

Counterpoint when there is no fuel for the ambulances so people bleed to death. When there are no mosquito nets so people catch malaria. When there is no medication for malaria so people die. Merely days before all of those things were available until the funding was cut off. It seems people died