Setting up a rape crisis line to make fun out of rape survivors seeking help for having deep voices, to millions of people. Trying to dismantle Amnesty International. She’s eclipsed the villains even of her own rudimentary imagination

Me watching the final

Patroclus funeral games is crazy I’m going to stipulate in my will that my grieving family and friends have to do a sports day

The Munich Beer Hall Putsch, 1923

Can’t believe I endured all that and now I have to do duolingo

Me watching the final

The one time in history an England win would be the anti-racist outcome

argentina gonna sing some amazingly racist songs about this

Already gutted and then I find out they're also racist

why did we just let them get that goal by sheer attrition

I don’t have enough propranolol for this

Me at the football: oh fuck off. Fuck off Rob, looking up from Augustine: are you having fun love?

extremely specific question to bring to the bluesky hive mind but I can’t find answers: Does anyone know if you can buy ready to eat fish at Fortune’s smokery in Whitby or if it’s purely a take home and cook it thing

To mark five years of this book existing I've been collating some of the praise it's received from grateful readers

I expect he got Arts Council funding for it

Must say have not been enjoying the Iliad but it’s worth it just for the bit where Achilles gets the shit kicked out of him by a river

A week ago I would have bet that not a single person on earth liked Ann Widdecombe. The world finds yet another opportunity to give me a rude awakening

Hold on is the Fat Controller flashing that engine?

Discussing what to wear to the durham miners gala and said the sentence ‘I used to have a lesbians and gays support the miners T shirt but it went in holes at the pits‘

'Johnnie secretly asked the hotel staff to scatter 30 assorted packets of crisps on the bed as a surprise while they were away. However, staff misunderstood the request and instead opened the bags and sprinkled the crisps on the sheets like salty confetti.'

The question is, would it be funnier to wear it yourself, or give it to @robpalk.bsky.social when he's in the kitchen?

Reach the end of the tour & a disgruntled child goes "But we didn't see ANY ghosts on this tour" and you hear him behind you all say "DIDN'T YOU???" and you turn around but he's but there anymore, because, you see, he was a ghost all along, oooooohhhh, spooky

Paid a visit to the salon today which is on floor 3 of one of the old rickety buildings on The Shambles. I’m sitting in the chair when a pale, whiskered man in full Victorian dress complete with top hat comes from the back room and out the door. Nobody acknowledges him or speaks.

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

Farage’s vanity election meant to demonstrate his mandate for fascism now has two possible outcomes. Either he pisses about getting re-elected to a constituency he was already MP in, or he gets ousted from his job by a man with a bin for a face. A masterstroke

If a racist resigns in disgrace, And sparks an electoral race, And the rest step aside, Could the people decide On a man with a bin for a face?

New thread in which I post the weirdest shit Vinted showed me that day

I had never consciously considered it, but yes I do believe that Babar and PG Wodehouse's books take place in the same world

I knew Babar was a G but I somehow missed until now that he wears SPATS

Having a lil fangirl moment when I see that @florencehrscott.bsky.social is attending the same session virtually at @imc-leeds.bsky.social that I'm attending online 😅 (Session: 240 - New Approaches to Medieval Office Liturgy, I: Material Approaches to Office Liturgy)

So good to see this excellent provision and #archaeology orgs should take note. Attending conferences whilst trying to maintain breastfeeding were some of the most stressful professional experiences I've ever had, both mentally/emotionally but also physically.

Yeah same actually

I imagine you lot are all hogwild to read my long awaited 2nd novel, aren't you? I just remembered there's an excerpt from an early draft here for you all to read! thelondonmagazine.org/article/fict...

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a reference to the Battle of Hastings approaches one. That's Godwinson's law.

Just saw the funniest facebook comment. Picture of cat scratches on a girl’s leg in a local group, some woman has put ‘people should keep their opinions to themselves at the end of the day cat was in the wrong end of’

How is this guy still alive? I remember leaving him in the dust on Bob-omb Battlefield like twenty years ago

Emily Wilson doesn’t have time for online nonsense/culture war about the upcoming ODYSSEY. 👌

About to watch How Green Was My Valley, the classic film about rural Wales, and just found out they didn't bother to hire Welsh people or even make any of the actors do Welsh accents. It's grating on me conceptually before I even press play

Inspired by @florencehrscott.bsky.social 's pie yesterday, I made a beef and veg pie and it was delicious. But which of you will bake a pie tomorrow? Pie it forward. #PieItForward

What stage of down bad is it when you start thinking your boyfriend looks like Anthony Perkins

I can offer up a pie I baked some years ago depicting Richard Spencer being punched

I once read in a student essay: ‘England before the Viking Age was a so-called heptarchy consisting of all in all eight kingdoms.’ (It was a German essay, I have translated the quote.) That sums it up quite neatly, I guess …

The Heptarchy is FAKE NEWS

Really convenient of the Iliad to get Zeus to describe the entire plot of the rest of the book half way through in case you‘re sick of listening to this bard and want an early night

Let's be honest with ourselves, "nobody is great here" sums up pretty much all the Greek Gods.

Very funny moment in the Iliad when Zeus explains to his wife Hera how much he wants to bed her by listing all the other extremely hot women he’s had affairs with

Tomorrow we must all bake pies in homage to Florence's pie.

The Bluesky experience

Before baking this pie, my very first, I would like to dwell on how perfect it is

Impossible to not want Dr Congo to win this tbh