David Kynaston might be the best kind of historian. Decades of archival research distilled into huge, acclaimed histories of finance and modern Britain. Then: "Enough of that, time to write about cricket."
Jack Flaherty
@meanderinghist.bsky.social
Writer, Wikipedian, support worker, and MA history student at the Open University. Focused on the late 19th century.
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We just sent out our September newsletter. It's full of information about our upcoming events and Annual General Meeting. Read it here.
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This song was making me think that somehow BBC 3 was interfering with Radio 6 on a digital radio station.
BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social · 4w agoBBC Radio 6 Music Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone Now Playing John Cage Imaginary Landscape No. 5
Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet
Wanted to look up some newspapers on the Library of Congress website for some research. It's still so slow. I think it's been over a year of it just being a terrible site to use. I remember I used to fly though newspapers a few years ago and now it takes minutes to load one image.
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI
Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’
timeshighereducation.com
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
I honestly agree. While not an immediate risk to everyone, there are wild fires going on and some can be fast moving with the wind. This warning could save lives and that's probably the key
👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 2mo agoI gotta be honest, I don’t feel like this is what emergency alerts are for. It’s important and severe but if I hear that noise from my phone I expect tornado idk
Sadly I won’t be around for the next eclipse but I hope Keith Richards enjoys it
before I quit twitter I printed out this banger from @tedmccormick.bsky.social. it remains an inspiration
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
While some of you may be yelling GO SPAIN or GO AUSTRIA I'm yelling GO CARLOS II AND THE PURE-BRED HAPSBURG SUCCESSION
The rightmove listing to end all rightmove listings. If it wasn't for popbitch I wouldn't have caught this one. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
Check out this 3 bedroom link detached house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom link detached house for sale in Christie Miller Road, Salisbury, SP2 for £114,000. Marketed by Carter and May, Salisbury
rightmove.co.uk
![A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall.
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Gary Larson cartoon incident
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In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocity" in a letter drafted by its lawyers to Larson and his syndicate. Goodall, who was in Africa at the time, later found the cartoon amusing.[128]
She went on to name it her favourite depiction of herself in pop culture.[129] Larson offered profits from sales of a shirt featuring the cartoon to the Jane Goodall Institute.[130]
Goodall wrote the preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy.[131] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals.
In 1988 Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania.[128] While there, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.[127][132]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdtwslusias4dnfmqydvudsq/bafkreiab4xelozcgki2mm2n3wwq5vdhbvve7v76enl6wbonavz6gjc2p7u)
Is your child up at 9pm arguing about tram networks with the entire staff of the FT and some tedious Americans who are not familiar with the concept of a joke? This report make shock you.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4mo agoEverything's a conspiracy
Last tweet is actually true. Posted in 2006. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Si...
Talk:Sideburns - Wikipedia
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“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
Why was it so bad? It shouldn't have been
👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞@jacktindale.bsky.social · 4mo agoMexico v South Africa
