broke: arsenal 2026 vs man utd 2008 woke: maldini vs napoleon

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

The problem with journalists’ commentary on British education in a nutshell

the entire population of England in 1086 will return in... Avengers Domesday

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Since it’s is in the news, or at any rate on social media, at the moment… Recent reflections on what, if anything, the Melian Dialogue can tell us about the workings of international politics - which may be primarily about the discourse rather than the reality: thesphinxblog.com/2023/10/22/w...

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

We are pleased to announce the first publication from the latest research conducted by the @uclholocaust.bsky.social It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/ @andypearce.bsky.social @arthurjchapman.bsky.social @eddorrell.bsky.social

Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science. I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

I will never forgive generative AI for making me question every “Dog being silly” compilation. Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.

Note how, when the government’s condemnation is timely, the rest of the Westminster ecosystem does in fact, react differently!

Mark Antony at the Lupercalia be like

Indiana Jones and it rained overnight so we're mainly just clearly out sludge from the areas we already excavated

A long-ish thread on this scandal and why it's so bad, which military historians and people interested in historiography may find interesting even if you're not Australian. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.

Farage is content with allowing people to be murdered and tortured. I'm not on that side and never will be.

Was a bit of a jump scare spotting myself in this

again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians

283. The fact that a whole tradition of International Relations theory has identified with the Athenian perspective says nothing good about International Relations theory.

Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.

This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Wonderful thread

Why we're here, at its very simplest: 1. Big top-down push to make overt racism & sexism more acceptable & centre politics on them 2. Media views that movement as without agency, just *reacting* to failures of liberalism/ the left

*Agyemang breathes* Frappert: 😡😡😡

Can't believe Champions League winner with Arsenal Mariona Caldentey would do this to me

Fantasies of Nuremberg On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU

the Fantastic Four cast get asked about their own personal fantastic four, which leads to some canned niceties from pascal, kirby and quinn, and an insanely he knows ball answer from ebon.

"FIFA remains neutral in matters of politics"

New government data on the impact of the two child limit: 469,780 households now affected, with 1,665,540 children in those households Almost 40,000 more children affected since last year It's a child poverty machine & it will cost us all more in the long term - get rid of it

Disappointed in how many people engaged with the hit piece on Leah, all that engagement, all those clicks, all those eyeballs, and a counter article. Big success for that publication and that individual because it achieved exactly what it set out to do. All the eyeballs show up the same on the stats

Hidden in this post is a really important point on education & ‘white working class boys’. 💬 “We’d be much better off talking about persistent or multi-generational disadvantage than ethnicity and it would lead to the same policy solutions.”

The vibes are off with England currently

Not like it hasn't been in the post but a dark day for Arsenal. The club should be ashamed.

Zeus during the Trojan War:

(poor Thucydides, doomed across multiple disciplines to be the "Strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" guy after writing an entire lengthy work about how this philosophy leads to ruin)

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

Wikipedia... IS THE SUMMARY. THAT'S WHAT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE IS. A SUMMARY.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

I sometimes find pol-sci takes on the Melian Dialogue odd because of how unmoored they can become from the very immediate context of it (not a swipe at @dburbach.bsky.social who is just describing takes!) Both the Athenians *and the Melians* are correct, and the Athenians are the 'bad guys.' 1/

Non celebration in a CL Final. The game truly has gone.

A player at a Premier League club has been accused of sexual assault by four different women and has carried on playing. We can't name him for legal reasons. “It’s a systemic failure,” says Nazir Afzal, the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England. ✍️ @mjslater.bsky.social

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