This! 👇

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

I might save this skeet just to look at every now and again when I need a giggle.

OH made this remarkable discovery in the local record shop's January sale. The singing reminds me of Father O'Sullivan's woeful efforts at a sung liturgy at mass as a child. It's on Caedmon Records though!

These new courses, on a similar model to our @ihr.bsky.social Summer School, are going to be really exciting! Teaching, trips and guest experts, then the option to add a (free) extra day with bespoke research guidance from our colleagues @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, to work on your own current project.

It is extraordinary how the law is being treated as not applying to AI companies, and specifically X. Ofcom has apparently posted on X that it has contacted X to determine whether an investigation is warranted. I. What other area of crime does this happen? There are laws! National specialist CSE

'A recent report by the University of Bristol found that schools had become the biggest provider of foodbanks across England, with 4,000 across the country.'

Well now. I am feeling rough as old dogs today but this beauty from @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social has cheered me right up! Wonderful to see it in print, and with such a gorgeous cover!

At some point in all these articles you reach the bit where the so-called AI genius says 'turns out that reality isn't like SciFi' and you realise that these people are at root just clowns. We should be laughing like drains at their idiocy, not trying to bend our economy and society to it.

First cold/ RSV/ sore throat nasty of 2026. Bleurgh.

Another exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke. Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3

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American food standards are genuinely grim, both from human health, environmental health, and animal health and welfare perspectives.

Eating my late breakfast to the sound of @cathamclarke.bsky.social reading Caedmon's hymn - one of Cerys's picks of 2025 on 6 Music...

Holy shit. This is nuts.

Semiotic paradox alert!

It reads like Goodall might have had a disinhibiting sherry or two over the festive season and I am here for it! As far as I can tell this lot get wheeled in every now and again to vote against hunting bans and for benefit cuts. They should have been out years ago.

I’m currently studying equity and trusts, concerned with many of the issues that form the legal spine of Austen’s plots. Austen does a better job of setting out the issues than some judgments I’ve read!

Punctuation is important

Rememeber Supertram?

RG universities might be tempted to think 'this could be good for us', but it won't be. To be honest we let the principle go when 2* stopped being funded. If we accept 3* not being funded we've basically accepted the principle that nothing should be, and the point of this is really just...

'An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the Russell Group university “does not have appropriate arrangements in place” for managing workplace stress and was unable to demonstrate that it is managing the risks associated with excessive workloads.' 1/2

I would ask anyone who says this whether they walked through the boarded up city of Salisbury after the novichok attack. The death of Dawn Sturgess was terrible. Yet we must look in the face the fact that we are just lucky that many more did not die. The perfume bottle contained enough...

If shooting estates can't make their businesses work without persecuting raptors, we should legislate to make game shooting illegal. I am sick to death already about them getting round the restrictions on releasing birds outdoors that apply to everyone else to stop bird flu.

I have gone to my health club (embarrassing admission, I know) to work this morning as OH is using our shared office solo. Turns out I am working in Santa's Grotto. Literally; there are snowy footsteps in the corridor to the door.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

This has given me a much-needed laugh. As comedy, it would only be improved by adding the clause 'before walking into a cupboard'.

Erasmus was probably one of the key formative experiences of my life. I went to Belgium, met amazing people, became a medievalist. It's because of Erasmus that I now can and do write on Middle French + Anglo-Norman as well as Middle English. Will raise a beer to this back in Liege next summer.

Absolutely fantastic! But it's 'Kojak lost his lollipop and couldn't come out to play' and no dissent will be tolerated.

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

Preliminary thought is that this apparent quote indicates his lawyers have no evidence show was watched in US: “Documentary's publicity, coupled with significant increases in VPN usage in Florida since its debut, establishes the immense likelihood that citizens of Florida accessed the Documentary“

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

Enjoying a bit of Spinal Tap. We're on the miniature bread.

AI doesn’t sell

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Useful thread if, like me, you are losing your mind at acrobat reader asking you every day if you want it to summarise your train ticket.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

A thousand? Your regular reminder that if this were any other industry people would care.

Every day the embedded gen AI in my phone asks me if I want it to summarise my train ticket.

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Funny what's considered affordable these days and what isn't.

Because it's shit. Now watch politicians tell us it's the fault of business and workers for being luddites.

So he plans to address the problem of justice delayed with the problem of justice denied?

Bored of saying this now but if this were any other sector people would care. We're talking tens of thousands of jobs already gone nationally, with no ending sight.

We have an exciting event in Jan for PGRs, ECRs and those starting out in fields involving the past. Join us in considering how the Society could contribute to early career support by enabling the exchange of ideas and peer support in these challenging times. www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

thought this was an Onion headline

A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact “working very hard to get what you have”

This is great. I might nick this idea for a learning support hour or core skills session.