This doesn't happen often. Double woo hoos this morning. Time to up my sub to goodlawproject.org and find out if Huda Ammori has a crowd funder!!

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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

I don't have the stomach to click through to the entries, but Brits may be interested to learn that anyone confirming they are over 18 can do word searches on the US Dept of Justice's released Epstein files. "Nigel Farage" surfaces 36 results; "Farage", 38. www.justice.gov/epstein

Amazing work form the cairo geniza team - all of us not involved are jealous that you are having so much fun! Brilliant example of how minutiae are what make history. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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Quick iconic comic cover edit to laud Ilhan Omar.

Absolutely spot on! 👏👏

Canada’s PM Mark Carney's now legendary Davos speech. Worth listening to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4... - (speech is 17 min long)

Just checked. He's another Labour millionaire. Nuff said. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/private-he...

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ -- Matthew 25:40

We are so happy for all of them! 🎉 This great news is what we fight for and work hard for each and every day, and we couldn't do it without you. 💜 Here's to more great news to come! 2/2

More accurately: I have told the clergy of the episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness and I've asked them to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written..."

a blue whale’s anus can stretch up to over 3 feet making it the 2nd largest asshole in the world behind jd vance

Five years ago.

Again, we support each other. Divya has been boosting so many people on top of her own amazing work all while dealing with health issues, surely we can give some of that help back?

And another link bsky.app/profile/bret...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...

This message hits hard.

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)

Feverishly working on this

Our first talk of 2026 is on 17 January 2.30pm by Dr John Price - Educating Deptford: The Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community, exploring stories of the children who attended. Tickets £5, location Central Library Bexleyheath - contact us to book your place! @jpaprice.bsky.social

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

If we must do a comparison of which American president did a better job securing the release of Israeli hostages, the answer is Joe Biden.

Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.

oh that reminds me, is @royalsociety.org still gonna twiddle their thumbs while their Fellow, Elon Musk, is championing the alt-right in the UK? At what point do we all just have to assume that the Royal Society is happy to be associated with white supremacists and fascists?

BTW Karen Attiah is teaching a course this fall on Race, Media and International Affairs. www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Because of course

Nationalism— the idea that there is a natural unity among an ethnoracial people speaking a single language— is young but thoroughly taken for granted today. It is tied directly to the idea that the national unity creates an inherent right to a bounded territory claimed by the state. It must go.

Everyone making services needs to watch out for ‘fauxtomation’ - where the automation just means passing labour on to the user or customer. logicmag.io/failure/the-...

UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says

I’d heard rumours that a Playmobil Cistercian monk was a thing that existed, and I can now confirm those rumours are TRUE. It’s not easy to get hold of tho - a special limited edition for Eberbach Abbey

Part of me thinks that the reduction of “citizen” to a mere “taxpayer” is of a piece with a more general assault on American Democracy. Republicans started this and too many Democrats have adopted it as well. We need robust and active citizens who do, and are, so much more than taxpayers.

A truly amazing essay. AI hype has made me obsessed with the *embodiment* of intelligence in physical and social space. This essay captures the essence of both, even down to its aside on How Not to Be Killed in the Basement of the British Library.

Sophie Page reviews 'Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death', by Joanne Edge @hagenilda.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

I just published: EHRC still can't explain how or why they published the “bathroom bill” interim guidance ashleeee.substack.com/p/ehrc-still...

Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, 1530 A book of embroidery designs. Here are some creatures - real & imagined - for your needle to work on. Giovanni Andrea Vavassore (Met Museum)

UCU and the trade union movement will protect and stand with trans people, whether the law cares or not. Join us for an emergency demo in London. 🏳️‍⚧️ Parliament Square 1pm 🏳️‍⚧️ Saturday 19 April

The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct. An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

I've locked myself out of Commons Bsky, but in the meantime, here's an open letter for UCU members in HE to sign in support of a motion we're bringing to the meeting on Weds 19th which calls for a focus on defending jobs, reforming HE, & calling off a national ballot. ucucommons.org/2025/02/13/m...