If I see one more video telling me I need to know about Zeus’s Law before watching The Odyssey, I will enact the opposite of Zeus’s Law on social media. We get it, you googled stuff.

Regal T Thor Love And Thunder

ALT: Regal T Thor Love And Thunder

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This very much applies to UK as well. It’s insidious. I’d like to think that those unaffected are oblivious. I do wonder though lithub.com/on-reckoning...

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

When I walk into a room full of writers, I’m often struck by the sense that I don’t belong. I’m an immigrant, first-generation to college; my father was a welder. Swearing was the third language we…

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Maybe it’s because I lost a best friend a year ago, but I really am a sucker for shows like Five Star Weekend, The Split and Firefly Lane. Shows that centre female friendship and sisterhood. Please can we have more of them. Thank you.

You Are Freaking Stuck With Me Forever Sarah Chalke

ALT: You Are Freaking Stuck With Me Forever Sarah Chalke

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Some academics turn up their noses at movie adaptations or popular history books, but I call them "gateway drugs" into deeper scholarship. How many of us fell in love with history because a movie (or book) sparked our curiosity first? For me, it was Amadeus - it sent me down an 18thC rabbit hole.

Sneak peak of next year’s @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk courses… Enrolment opens around October.

Another lovely week teaching at @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk

Hydration break.

Just watched The Odyssey? Here’s some actual Mycenaean bronze weapons (rapiers), found in the cemeteries of Eleona and Langada, Kos. They date from 1490 BC to 1180 BC. Held at the Archaeological Museum in Kos.

I see after our Ancient Greek summer, we’re scheduled a Medieval autumn. #TheOdyssey #TheUprising youtu.be/yNj2h2SiyX8?...

THE UPRISING Official Trailer (2026) Andrew Garfield, Action Movie [4K]

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What did I just put myself through. Hideous game.

Rebecca Rideal@rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a horrible, stressful, brutal game to watch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇷

This is a horrible, stressful, brutal game to watch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇷

This is a horrible, stressful, brutal game to watch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇷

the Argentinians have taken to the pitch with shotguns, the ref has booked Thomas Tuchel for complaining

The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis

Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition

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Ah, this is a tough one. What an incredible career. RIP Sam Neill. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Sam Neill’s 20 best roles

The New Zealand actor, who has died at the age of 78, delivered stellar performances for more than 40 years. Here’s our pick of his best roles

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Well, this was an absolutely brilliant book. Highly recommend!

It's worth stressing that we have rules around political funding to protect our entire democracy. The voters of one constituency might be fine with their MP breaking those rules. But they can't release their MP from them, because a single MP on the take is a danger to the whole system.

Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 4w ago

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

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Not meaning to go all Andy Burnham on you, but Im disproportionately annoyed that there hasn’t been a review of Something Rotten in the national press. Is it because it debuted in Manchester? It’s such a good show!

John Felton - The Man Who Killed the Duke ⚔️ In August 1628, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, was continuing his plans for a military campaign in France from his lodgings at the Greyhound Inn in Portsmouth. 📷: Mike Graham

Again

Rebecca Rideal@rebeccarideal.bsky.social · last mo.

I do a lot of audio editing & I’ve not encountered a single person who doesn’t use some kind of filler word / sound when speaking. I’m guilty of ‘um’, others use ‘like’, ‘sort of / kind of’, ‘yeah’ & an extended ‘and’ to fill the delay between thoughts &words. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières

Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain, says author Louis de Bernières

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Most people think Sherlock Holmes began at 221B Baker Street. But Holmes began somewhere far stranger: in a Victorian hospital ward in Edinburgh, where surgeon Joe Bell taught students to read a body like a crime scene.🧵 Here's the US 🇺🇸 trailer for SLEUTH-HOUND. Preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

This (and I don’t say it lightly) was absolutely brilliant! So much fun. Seems like it is only in Manchester at the moment, so beg, borrow, steal yourself a ticket ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Current read - I’m actually blown away by how good this is. Utterly devastating, deeply scholarly and beautifully written. It’s going to stay with me for a very long time.

400 years ago today, a codfish was gutted at Cambridge Market. 🐟   Inside it was a tiny book containing Protestant texts from the early years of the English Reformation.   Was this a providential message from God, a piece of political propaganda or an elaborate hoax? Music by Julius H. from Pixabay

What do Londoners / southerners think of Andy Burnham?