I look forward to Shelob, the next crypto startup.

We end on "Machine Yearning for a Better Present" because why can't we dream? Why accept that universities are not places of learning? Nothing, except industry and their paid shills amongst us, force us to accept this & this force is not one of reason, but one of regressive values & profit. 10/n

Controversy! In the #BBL! Genuinely thought the 3rd umpire would deem that a feather edge...

Who isn't a little grumpy being disturbed from a post festive nap?

PSA for Victorians with chronic illnesses! I just heard about the Medical Cooling Concesssion and it may be useful to you too? If you require cooling at home for medical reasons, get your GP to help complete the application and get a big discount on summer energy bills. Form linked here >

It's good I blocked out 5 days for the test match because it will probably take me another three to stop feeling extremely grumpy about this shambles.

Yes, the pitch is doing a bit, but this farce is really down to a lack of batting application of both sides imho. #TheAshes

ABC Grandstand still generously referring to Green as "the last of the recognised bats"...

6/88 almost a carbon copy of Australia's effort yesterday at this point. FFS play some test cricket you bastards. #TheAshes

Harper on track to make as much as the whole England 11 at this rate #BBL

This aged quickly...

Imma turn over to the BBL to get my fix of applied batting for the day...

Cricket Australia app declaring today a "Boxing Day Classic" because if they don't cheer they'll cry.

Boland opening the batting... As if to confirm this match has descended into farce. #TheAshes 🏏

My most uncontroversial opinion is that a pitch shouldn't yield 20 wickets on the first day of a test.

Running out of vocabulary for the WTFery #TheAshes Is this a matter of misjudged pitch preparation or are the players simply that keen to move on to Sydney?!

My phone melting down with people texting me versions of "WTF IS HAPPENING AT THE G?!?!?" #TheAshes 🏏

Once again fearing for anyone with pre-booked tickets for day 3... #TheAshes 🏏

Took the dogs outside for a pit stop and the Aussies fall from 6/89 to all out for 152 while my back is turned! 🏏 The Josh Tongue legend is born! #AUSvENG #Ashes

My SO makes a mean traditional Xmas pudding with gallons of brandy, so when last year's family lunch was cancelled due to bushfires, we simply put it back in the fridge for this year, and friends, vintage Christmas pudding is an experience you should have at least once in your life!

It is a common misconception, but Oliver Cromwell did not actually ban Die Hard from being a Christmas movie during the 1650s.

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

Mmm... lovely smell as @nigella.bsky.social's festive sausage rolls come out of the oven 😋 I topped some with sesame seeds so I know which ones do/don't include onion

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

"You're angry, but engaged."

Kitchen smells sooo good. My oven is completely stuffed with slow roasting lamb (one whole tray with herb and garlic marinade, and another whole tray without for the fodmap sensitive amongst us). Only problem is there's no room for the gingerbread... It's going to be an early start tomorrow!

Right? @ so many companies: don't do this! (I mean, obvs you have to state the contents for customs or whatever, but don't label your boxes in font 100 FFS)

You know, it's low-grade annoying how when you sell something online the algorithm thinks you want to buy more of those things, like you weren't trying desperately to rid yourself of this very junk...

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This is the power of leading with love and our shared humanity as one united community. What a precious day at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Still time to have you donation matched. Till midnight today only, up to $124,903 Donate: donate.ASRC.org.au/donatetoday

Who do you want to be? A person who knows how to fish or the person who asks AI for a fish?

Doing myself a holiday favour and just blocking the latest AI discourse guy

Adelaide Oval DJ obviously has a sense of humour... blasting Livin' On A Prayer at the Barmy Army during a brief rain delay. 🏏 #Ashes

Melbourne! I may be late to this but I highly recommend getting to The Viking Age exhibition at the Museum before it closes in Jan. Outstanding display of artefacts from the Galloway Hoard, but the real highlight is all the info on the investigation and interpretation of the finds.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

DEI isn't why you didn't get a job. THERE ARE NO JOBS. YOU DIDN'T GET A JOB BECAUSE THERE ARE NO JOBS. If all the older professors retired? You still wouldn't get a job! Not in the humanities! Because they'll replace at best half of those lines! There will still be no jobs! None!

One of the things I taught myself while on this long slow rehab journey has been propagating from cuttings, and folks, my first ever home-propagated rose is blooming!!! 😍 #LongCOVID #TinyJoys

Palaeographic suggestions? This boxed letter is found in a late-12th c Aristotelian MS. Did someone see a similar use? I have an idea about its meaning, but I cannot remember anything of the kind (MS Avranches, BM, 221, f. 13r)

Carey almost lapped Head in that run. 😂 🏏

Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely! tinyurl.com/f7su6urv

Oh woah. A few days before the Xmas shutdown is not a great time to let your whole academic staff know that the library will be closed for 2 months starting next week...

No no no no. There are many reasons someone might need to a wheelchair to navigate an airport and still be ambulant enough to walk from the gate to their seat, or off again. Enough with this jealousy from able people. You don't know how good you have it. The plane will get you there just the same.

Salisbury was rebuilt for aesthetic reasons, but they decided to build the new one on top of a gravel waterbed for insane reasons and it immediately began sinking, so they engineered more water underneath and now they check the water level twice a day with a Holy Dipstick. I dunno

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

This sounds like an obvious thing, but looking for discussions of how historians use sources that were created for other purposes. Like reading against the grain concept but broader. Eg administrative documents were generated for one contemporaneous purpose, but we historians use them for another.

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No idea how anyone is sitting in the sun at the Adelaide Oval today 🫠☀️

Gonna practise this line in front of the mirror.

LOL. No.

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