Spoop of Yotai

The Peggie ET made it clear that spouting off about chromosomes/ TW in prison is harassment. The 1st 2 years I was at the OU some colleagues did *just that* almost every day on the staff forum + I was told officially that they were allowed to because of academic freedom/some other cowardly BS. 1/

Dark Eldar Starmer: I welcome She Who Thirsts but I think we should go further, becoming truly wanton and cruel in our lust for violence and sadism

The film aired in 1991 so I was probably about 7. Don’t show your 7-year olds films about infamous historical shark attacks. They’ll become animal historians.

To (mildly mis)quote November Kelly, "I love it when the forces of liberalism are brought to bear against TERFs".

I have to say it's nice that this time it's a different OU which is bowing to conservative pressure and fucking over its trans staff (/s)

Kawashima, whose Mandarin name is Jin Bihui (Radiant Jade), says she once had "ambitions to restore the old Chinese Empire," but is now content to live as a man in Japan. At some point she clearly changes her mind, since her life takes several dramatic changes. 2/4

Love it when academics who can't/won't follow simple processes talk down to me and my student support colleagues when things go wrong (i.e. they fuck up).

"Anti-trans activist Graham Linehan guilty of criminal damage" - This is how this story should be framed by any neutral outlet.

My new piece on the 2021 BBC documentary ‘Foot and Mouth - The Killing Fields in Wales’, and its revisiting of the impact of the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak and ensuing animal cull on the nation’s farmers. A 🧵 about the programme... #skystorians #envhum #polisky

The auto-transcription for my intro to Early Modern Europe lecture has rendered the last Plantagenet king as Bitchard III.

If there was ever a gravestone appropriate to the industrial revolution this one from Batley Cemetery fit the bill perfectly. It is worth expanding the photograph to read the words. Image "My flanges all refuse to slide" Tim Green CC BY 2.0

Trannies: do they deserve hate crimes and violence done to them? We asked a panel of cis people with various degrees of scorn for the degenerates to debate this issue

I take great solace and joy from the fact that at heart Robert Smith is just a really earnest wife-guy www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...

London birthday photodump 1/?

egg-producing equipment? does joanne mean like a dvd copy of 1995 trans-coded film classic HACKERS?

Deliberately misgenderng children is abuse. Abuse causes a 64% likelihood of poor mental health into adulthood. If schools, parents & the Streeting/Starmer conversion therapy centres for trans kids do it they are deliberately harming children, harm that will continue throughout their lives. 1/6

When you realise there's a typo in your email signature and you've been sending out emails all morning that imply you've made up the neo-pronoun 'shey'

I have been saying this for years. The qualitative evidence has long pointed towards trans women and AMAB non-binary people coming out later in life - on average - than other trans people. Every bit of moral panic about trans boys coming out young also betrays a deep transmisogyny.

35. Historical research can be triggering/traumatic (including looking at material in the archives) but there is not enough discussion about this or how researchers can deal with this aspect of the work

One thing that's striking about Ozzy Osborne's death is how difficult it is to imagine the music industry producing another figure like him. The barriers to working class people are so great, and there's a related attitude to culture that is neutered as a result.

If you see this I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment.

IT'S LIVE! 🌈 I'm so proud of this piece I wrote for the Spring '25 volume of Different Visions, and am honored to be published alongside other amazing medievalists ✨ I'm also a little scared because it's the most personal thing I've ever published 😳 differentvisions.org/rainbow-medi...

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Absolutely in love with my local for putting on a Totoraiser double bill

One of my favourite surprises from #IMC2025 was picking up these fantastic medieval animal themed #D&D modules from the fabulous Anachronalia (who I don't think is here). I look forward to spreading the joy of medieval nonsense to some Edinburgh rpgers soon.

I just got a job (yay! Woo!) and in the acceptance phonecall my new manager asked me if I was 'ok with the salary' having previously said 'i guess you'll want to talk about the salary'. Was I supposed to haggle? Is that a thing?

Woken up completely exhausted from #IMC2025. Time for some engineering disaster podcasts and sugary tea.

If you take heroin your GP will help you with blood tests. But if you follow international healthcare protocols and take eg puberty blockers NHS England has told your GP not to help you monitor hormone levels with blood tests. Gender affirming care is, apparently, worse than heroin.

Had an amazing #IMC2025, it was wonderful to get back in touch with old friends, meet new ones, and listen to some fantastic papers. Wonderful return after six years away

Well that's #IMC2025 done. A big thank you to @imc-leeds.bsky.social and Leeds staff for another great conference. It felt more important than ever to meet up and be inspired by all the interesting things colleagues are doing.

This green near the School of English used to be chock full of bunnies, I wonder why they've left/where they've gone. Any ideas @leedsims.bsky.social #IMC2025?

Fascinating (/horrifying) colonial memory in one of the Australian wines in our IMC apartment

Well, that went very well! My thanks for a lovely session and some fascinating papers and questions to @medica.bsky.social and the audience. So many brilliant overlaps between papers to explore

@midagesmodgames.bsky.social in war "it's fun to get really big stuff", Katie Vernon. Nuff said!

It's my 76th birthday today. I transitioned in my late 20s - should have been earlier but fear and politics - and I will never back down. I've had a good and productive life of politics and writing and I hope to get more done yet. Remember GCs lie. A photo from 79 and one from 23...

Huh, I gave my first IMC paper ten years ago

Three fascinating papers on death and commemoration in S601, wonderful note on the ongoing problems in conservation of tombs from Naomi Oziel at the end - the current owner of a transi chapel in Ireland wants to be buried there! #IMC2025 #MedievalSky

@kzooicms.bsky.social has definitely got @imc-leeds.bsky.social beat in terms of friars and nuns in habit but the IMC can hold it's own in the "more mature men with luxurious silvery manes" stakes #imc2025 #medievalsky

Reasonably sure I lost a papier-mâché horse head down here in Parkinson basement. If it ever turns up let me know! #imc2025

Coming back to #imc2025 as an alum/no longer a staff/student is weird! Getting (politely) kicked out of my go to computer cluster because it's 'not for delegates' sucks!

I'm back at #IMC2025 for the first time since 2018, it would be lovely to catch up with some old pals!

There are rumours that a meeting between the leaders of rat and rabbit took place on the Sunday evening before the quiz. Perhaps an alliance is in the offing, but would this uneasy peace last the whole Congress?

During the IMC, Leeds University hosts birds of prey as well as its usual population of rats and rabbits. You can only swear fealty to one of these ancient clans. The raptors may seem cool, but the rabbits give you +1 to Cunning and Charm #IMC2025

During the IMC, Leeds University hosts birds of prey as well as its usual population of rats and rabbits. You can only swear fealty to one of these ancient clans. The raptors may seem cool, but the rabbits give you +1 to Cunning and Charm #IMC2025

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man! www.badsquiddogames.com

Preparing my slides for #IMC2025, where I'm presenting on wounding and healing medieval warhorses for @medica.bsky.social panel #S1214. Want to know how to stitch up a horse after a medieval battle? Of course you do. #SkyStorians #HistMed #MedievalSky

"Got called transphobic in academia earlier lads" "Tell us what happened lad" "I got called transphobic in academia" "Ye but why" "I was being transphobic" "In academia?" "Yeah it was in academia"