Anguilla Noticer
@myopicduck.bsky.social
My job is literally just history 🇹🇹🇩🇰 PhD student on 1800s Caribbean political culture @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
i tried to see if this was a reference to something and google ai immediately submitted to me
merritt@merrittk.com · 2y agoJar Jar: Meesa no knowing what dat is mister Jedi Qui-Gon: Why don’t you have a taste, Jar Jar? It’s quite safe. But you mustn’t bite
"bluesky is an echo chamber", I say as I am disembowelled for my opinions on Emily Wilson's reviews of The Odyssey
stating that women and girls need to be protected from trans people is absolutely hate
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 22h agoDid we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
“My cans! My precious antique cans!” is a strangely iconic line to me
Hourly Simpsons@hourlysimpsons.bagpuss.org · 14h ago
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
One of the deep cultural and policy differences between Ireland and England (not UK) is the punitive, often borderline or actually abusive secondary school system run by privatised 'trusts' with no local control. To an Irish person it really feels like a government that hates/fears its children.
Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is a harrowing - though not surprising - read. It’s probably hard to quantify, but I think we need to know how widespread this approach is, and what impact it has on young people’s mental health
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
The paradigmatic British journalist. The man may be dead but his spirit (divorced bigoted pedophile) lives on in the press.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
this is like requiring butchers to be vegan
🌈ｔｕｒｂｏ ｆａｌｃｏｎ 🚘@turbofalcon.bsky.social · 2d agoanother one is that you can't become a train conductor/engineer if you have an autism diagnosis in sweden. which, i mean, you know... the whole industry is operating on "don't ask don't tell" here it's so cruel how this is weaponized against neurodivergent people instead of the legal system
putting my phone away & reading a book because it will make me happy but posting about it so as to inspire others
Who remembers how pleased with itself the BBC was its "exposé" about asylum seekers faking being gay
DIVA Magazine@divamag.bsky.social · 2d agoConcerns for LGBTQIA+ people after changes made to Home Office asylum interviews
listen to @bloodwork.show
New town every hour@townsusa.bsky.social · 3d agoDacula, Georgia Pop: 6,350 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacula,_Georgia Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=140497986 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=170487622 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34096071
some real Diagrams came out of syria circa 2016/2017ish
Ape With Stick from 2001: A Space Odyssey was a historically progressive force and I’ll hear no more idealist criticism
>brain tells me to take a nap >ask if it’s gonna be restful or sweaty >brain doesn’t understand, I pull out illustrated diagram what is restful and what is sweaty >brain laughs “It’ll be a good nap, sir” >take a nap >it’s sweaty
I can't believe these fucking weirdos want to relitigate COVID on social media, the place for relitigating the 2016 primaries
"the target isn't really the books: it's the spaces + the ppl who offer them (and a visual warning for the rest of us)." If you've been to the likes of Book Punch, Hunter Bookshop and Have a Nice Stay, you'll see this as they're set up to also host talks + exhibitions, and spend quality time in.
John dEFR0G has never had 1 million likes@defrog.bsky.social · 3d agoGovHK clearly has the ability to stop "dangerous" books from being imported. I think they're also aware most of these books can be bought, read and shared digitally. So the target isn't really the books: it's the spaces and the ppl who offer them (and a visual warning for the rest of us). 2/2
Thinking through the unedifying, un-evidence-based rush to an undefined, apparently unmodelled paradigm of 'specialisation, what's being lost/threatened? Herts History was an excellent example of performing to a top standard in REF, but also much more than that. Questions to think with include: 1/4
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit
