netflix spending a lot of money on hyping gimmick fighting sport matches that turn out to be complete waste-of-time farces probably does more to undermine those sports than anything other than trump boosting them

Have more public spaces where kids can congregate FFS, let them be kids, form gangs and stuff

My pick for the next James Bond is actually Pierce Brosnan 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't know why I always end up watching A Thousand Blows when I can't sleep but here we are.

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

Allowing Tommy Robinson to stage this on the same day as both Nakba Day and the FA Cup Final is nothing short of criminally negligent to public safety by the Home Sec and he head of the Met. Fucking insane.

I honestly think banning MPs' second jobs is the single most powerful immediate thing the Govt could do to dent Reform support. It's the right thing to do. It would be a strong move (and message) in cleaning up politics. And it would shine a light on the person hit hardest: Nigel Farage.

Really excited by this talk on the 12th June (am one of the experts) Rethinking Lipstick Three Experts - Three Myths - Busted It's free, online and can be booked by registering via chmsn.wufoo.com/forms/qffw9z... Part of the Cosmetic History and Makeup Studies Network Salon programme

I'm giving my talk 'Witch Bottles & Worn Shoes: History of Home Protection Folklore' 🧙🏻‍♀️ at @museumofthehome.bsky.social Thurs 18th June 6:30pm for 'What the Folk?' Festival – come by for a drink 🍷 & special collections display 🌙 👢🎟️ Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/wit...

If you're a person eg. woman, and you still post on X and you just get loads of abuse in response from anonymous bots, but then you CONTINUE TO POST ON X, is it like a weird kink thing? I can't see any other explanation at this stage.

Sick, exhausted, working, and solo parenting for four days. My son has asked for Hula Hoops (well, 'Scooby Snacks, mama?') and a bottle of milk for breakfast. He is having Hula Hoops and a bottle of milk for breakfast. Lunch? 10 pieces of cheese from my parents' fridge, at a guess. It's fine. Yep.

My coffee addiction is such that I get excited in the evening to go to sleep so that I can have coffee again in the morning

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

Book reviews are an anxious thing for me so I am so grateful to Joe Piggin for his kind review. My only hope when writing is for it to be useful & entertaining... glad I halfway achieved it! @ulsteruni.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social @bssh.bsky.social idrottsforum.org/pigjoe_heffe...

To this day, if someone makes a pompous declaration of some sort, I follow it up with "and Luton for the Cup!"

'Tree desert'? We prefer 'beach', thanks. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🎭 What secrets were hiding in the East End music halls? Discover London's forgotten Cockney Yiddish performers — the songs, laughs & stories from the turn of the 20th century. Talk by Vivi Lachs · Tues 26 May · 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/PrRF2G5

A strong contender for the most impactful joke I ever saw on normal TV as a kid. Short, perfect, and ingeniously stupid. A high watermark of the smart-dumb gag!

The man on the left, to be clear. But, y'know...

I complained to Tendring Council about this man last year - he stands in Clacton town centre spewing messages of intolerance, nonsense + hate, telling everyone we're all going to hell. Loudly. Was told by Anti-Social Behaviour Officer there's was no issue 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But seriously, it's heartbreaking that SOME men, when faced with a successful woman, their first instinct is to tear her down. If you are unsatisfied with where you are in life, tearing down a woman is not going to make that better.

I want it on a t- shirt.

Slightly related, to both Nigel Farage and (our mutual, I'd imagine) fear of light aircraft, this plane crashed into a hedge at Clacton Air Field WEEKS ago and no one has bothered to move it yet lol. (No one died)

Ok yep I'm ready to go for the Clacton by-election. In the interest of financial transparency: my mum gave me £50 every year for my birthday between 1996-2020 (never rose with inflation). Bank just text to say I should be entering overdraft tomorrow. Don't know what crypto is #CoxForClacton 😜💚

Kick him out. Recall petition in Clacton that turns into a 4 horse race by-election between Nigel, Andy, Zack, and Gaz Top attempting a move into politics.

Joan Collins at Cannes today - she's 93 in a couple of weeks. I'm OBSESSED.

Deleted a post because I can't be doing with lawyer mansplaining of all the mansplainings 😂

No evidence of actual incompetence will stop stupid people voting with their bile.

You know that there’s some headline writer out there waiting for Miliband to take over from Keir so they can finally use the line Red Ed Redemption

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

Tuesday

The Devils' Dance Floor: Hezekiah Moscow and the Fight for Life in Late Victorian London will be published next Spring. Entirely unaffiliated, and better seven years late than never, eh! 😂🥊 #AThousandBlows

Sometimes, when I am uncertain about a decision, I listen to the Mountain Goat's "You Were Cool" and think about what choice I would make based on the way that song makes me feel. This practice has never steered me wrong.

Slightly increase a band Johnny Cash and Carry

he lost the racists to Reform, the progressives to the Greens and the middles who just want us all to get along to the Lib Dems. When you stand for nothing you get no one innit

As a bartender I once got told I looked like 'Angelina Jolie's less hot younger sister'. And last year an 82yr old veteran journo said I walk on water and glow in the dark. Keep these things with me 😂👊🏻

Trawling through this kind of shit, and then seemingly misrepresenting your findings, is bald muckraking. What on earth would prompt someone to go hunting through council tax records and the minutiae of waterways law other than to try and manufacture outrage out of nothing?

Some of the worst people in this country know exactly what they will do with a majority a quarter of that size, and they will not waste a moment doing it. The rest of us can only stand watching as you effectively hand it all over to them.

Making some friends who don't just exist in my phone will also cure me 😂 Independent Historians, assemble!🍷

Guardian ending the Rivals review I read this morning with 'Rivals season two is on Disney+' without transmitting that IT ISN'T ACTUALLY ON UNTIL FRIDAY has made a bad day worse!!! 'winkies akimbo' though... heheheh.

Sometimes when I think I can't write, I like to look at the 1921 census and remind myself that my great grandmother Bridget couldn't remember how to spell four of her six (she ended up with ten) kids' names 😅 RIP Teresa/Theresa, Beatrice/Betris, Christian/Christine, Saraha/Sarah 🫠

Today is my birthday. I'm 44, which (according to articles in my feed) is the magic number when aging accelerates. 😂 The only thing I really want for my birthday is for the book I've been working on for 5 years to find its readership, so if you are so inclined, I'd be grateful for your preorders👇

Hello's headline here is hilarious. Always look for the local angle 😆 The story itself, however: not. Not funny at all. A former spokesperson for Goldsmiths, University of London (me) and MA History graduate, says: "FFS, the absolute state of it." www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/8999...

Dentist just asked me what my stress levels are like, answered 9/10, he asked why, then I burst into tears HA HA HA. I DON'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME SOMEONE ASKED?!?!

The Devils' Dance Floor: Hezekiah Moscow and the Fight for Life in Late Victorian London will be published next Spring. Entirely unaffiliated, and better seven years late than never, eh! 😂🥊 #AThousandBlows

Keeping my bare-knuckles crossed for #AThousandBlows at the BAFTAs today. Best Drama? Maybe? Come on!!! 👊🏻 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

New Kneecap is four stars or five if you're a 39yr old mildly hungover deliriously tired woman on four hours sleep doing gym cardio on a Sunday morning, escaping a toddler who talks about dinosaurs 24hrs a day (expert review).

An aside, I like that in the photo he's sitting in the corner of Clacton Wetherspoons that most smells like decomposing mice 🍻

Fabio Wardley is an absolute freak, good GRIEF!!!