‘Let’s get to the third quarterly report.’

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

Curling doesn't necessarily have to be just a winter sport.

‘The school principle’ @theguardian.com ? The principle? Everyone knows the cheat sheet ’the principal is a pal’. And if you don’t, maybe — hire a few subs?

Dear sporting goods store, I think it’s adorable you’re sharing your dreams and aspirations with your customers, but I gotta tell ya, I really only care about what you manage to achieve.

I just started to type a response to someone's post here on Bluesky. Then I thought, 'Hang on, I don't actually know anything about that subject,' and deleted it. Pro Tip: You can do this!

What passes for news in my neck of the woods. One in an irregular series.

A-fucking-men to infinity and beyond, singing hallelujahs with the choir--yes. This. Forever. Always. Yes.

This is key. It's as if James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny & then insisted it be used for agriculture, & writing legal briefs, & surgery. JH: 'It's the best thing ever! Really, it'll change beet production & Court of Appeals claims & hernia surgery!' Everyone: Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy...

never get involved in a land war in Minnesota

Why is there not a single journalist who will ask this smug little god-botherer: 'Speaker, can you explain what the taxpayer is paying you for, since you apparently don't know anything about anything?'

Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️

Oh wow, look what I just found: the most gorgeously dyed wools, based on historical images. I want every single one at republicofyarnia.com.

She meant champagne bars.

Who’d have thunk it. Who.

While some folks downstairs are still complaining about a sporting event and languages they don’t understand. Up here in Canada, the CBC is showing Olympic hockey with play-by-play in Inuktitut. It’s the Canadian experience I didn’t know I needed. ❤️🇨🇦 #olympics #inuktitut

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

Mazel tov to @terribleman.com for a double hitter: He won the runner up prize for best #translation from both Spanish AND French in the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation awards announced yesterday! 👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉 #xl8 #langsky #booksky

In honour of John Redwood joining the Lords, I revive and oldie but a goodie: 'Lord' R pretending (badly) to know the Welsh national anthem when he was *checks notes* Secretary of State for Wales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA1g...

putting on my economic historian hat, the tech industries believed that since these jobs were a very high-wage sector relative to training, that they were cognitively equivalent to professions that required lengthy periods of time to master. if you examined programming ethnographically, however...

I've been thinking about a lot. What do these people think they are going to do after? Not Trump, Lutnick or the other 70yo, but the women they're pushing to the front lines as their bulldozers. Disbarrment, impeachment, criminal charges. I never contemplated them thinking there would be no 'after'.

Interesting sea-change from Bondi. 'Qualified' hasn't been a prerequisite up to now.

The amazing thing about this quote is that it was in the FT, a UK publication. Y'know, the country where a thermos -- which keeps things hot -- is called *checks notes* a vacuum flask.

Today in "maybe it was a bad idea to bet the world economy on a giant scam that also spawns an infinite number of smaller scams" news.

I have been a little surprised that this shoe hadn't dropped already. The more that businesses become seen as extensions of a particular government's interests, the less that many other governments will want to have any relationship to them. See also the CapGemini brouhaha.

Woah. Author friends, read this thread and spread the word.

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

For the last few years I've been working on a book on Valerie Solanas, the politics of madness, and the boundaries of feminist history. You can get a glimpse of it in this piece just out in History Workshop's digital magazine (which links to a longer article in History Workshop Journal 100).

Moral of the story: Never work for a company whose executives refer to their employees as ‘hobbits’. It can only end in tears. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Une entrevue avec moi dans « La semaine » www.7jours.ca/2026/02/05/c...

I’d like to report a drive-by shooting.

Cabinet Secretary and man of the people: on holiday with his wife, four children, and nannies, plural. Two adults (outside of the GOP these are generally known as ‘parents’) are apparently not enough to corral 4 kids. At least 2 other adults are needed.

Oh gee, it's my morning for 'Sanctimonous Responses from Snippy Blueskyers'. Damn. I forgot to put it in my diary.

'Trump uses his platform to shout at people using their platform to shout at him.'

MAGA KILLER Bruce Fanjoy 🇨🇦 proposes Petition e-7148, which requires the official opposition leader to hold a top secret security clearance. #cdnpoli 👍💯🔥👊 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Why is this not an Olympic sport?

Let me get this straight. The Royal Academy contemplated throwing Ai Wei Wei out for tweeting about genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, back with the parqagons of virtue, @royalsociety.org is whistling on its way, refusing to throw out Elon Musk for overseeing the deaths of millions. Got it.

At first glance thought he said “The proceeds of trolls” which frankly would make as much sense. If not more, actually. We need to take a harder line on international bridge trolls.

‘May have’, AP? I do not think those words mean what you think they do. Hell, I’m 66 and have never in my life watched a football game, and even I saw Bad Bunny. apnews.com/article/bad-...

Something compelled me to make this

Defoe forgets the attachment.

If any musical acts require advice on integrating Clausewitz or his theory of war into their set, my dms are open

Is it a bad sign when taking notes on a book, after the citation I type, 'NO THEY FUCKING DIDN'T, YOU LUNATIC'. Asking for a friend.

If any other global megastar needs a consulting historian, I'm available. Just putting it out there.

My dad said ‘What are you going to do with a history degree?’ Look at this, dad!

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)