Free ebook! (co-edited by my brother-in-law) 🎉

Yep, 100% this. Also some fun witchcraft allusions if you're looking for them

One like, one Thucydides opinion.

They can even market it as 'Jane Austen's favourite novel! Before there was Mr Darcy, there was...SIR CHARLES GRANDISON.'

I suspect a coyote did this.

🚨2 months ago, every National Weather Service Director of the last 34 years took the unprecedented step of signing a joint, open letter. “Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.” The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.

Look all I really want to see are rants by the cast members about the evils of roving Machiavelociraptors. #earlymodern #RenSoc25

In other good news, Swift Press will also be publishing the paperback of 1983 in August (and the rest of my Unbound backlist shortly afterwards): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

If you wonder how life is in the second decade of a marriage, my husband and I just declared tomorrow Waffles&Weasels day, where we shall eat waffles and go look for some local elusive weasels in a park, and hopefully not get these goals confused

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 18 June #Horace “Romae principis urbium dignatur suboles inter amabilis vatum ponere me choros, et iam dente minus mordeor invido. o, testudinis aureae dulcem quae strepitum, Pieri, temperas, o mutis quoque piscibus...

Be the kind of person who supports your local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.

🧿YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - 25/09/25👁️ An interactive novel retelling of the Odyssey, faithful to Homer’s original and its many translations. by @lejenksbrown.bsky.social of Greek Myth Comix!

british fan chat

Astonishing that this article has to spell out in detail how to use a fan to cool yourself down in summer

It's called Microsoft Outlook

Do you ever think about how smart phones are essentially a more cursed form of tamagotchi that we have to tend to and maintain daily

I take my coffee like I take my books: shamelessly purchased for enough happy brain tingles to drag me through another day even though I already have plenty at home

Pretty sure Carney turns and winks at Macron as the felon starts talking here.👌 You just know the truckload of ridicule he gets behind his back. (🎥 Jasmine Lorimer)

Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release. I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿

"ohhh snap, this book comes with a MAP": me, about to have a very good time

Seriously. What else did you expect from us on #WorldBicycleDay?

At an alumni rally earlier the same day in support of Yale standing up to the Trump administration, there was a historic, unheard-of call-and-response cheer: "Who do we love?" "HARVARD!" "Who do we love?" "HARVARD!"

One more bookish set for good measure. These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.

‘I lived my passion’: how Christine Beckers and a group of intrepid female drivers blazed a trail in 1970s Monaco

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

Sam Neill is a guy who can convincingly act with a great sense of arrogance and pretension and cruelty and in real life is the world’s chillest nicest guy who spends every day drinking wine with his pigs

Our students studying abroad at Harvard were told to transfer elsewhere this afternoon. Our Government is covering the costs of their new textbooks as they waddle into unknown territory.

One bucket-list site ticked off today for #RomanFortThursday 🥳 - the changing hall niches in the monumental bathhouse of Chesters Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall 😮🔥 Just incredible survival - plus hypocausts to walk in! 😬 #HypocaustGate

If you can be anything in the world, be someone who appreciates googly eyes! I didn't have any lead hanging about so he's got 2p pieces in his feet making sure he will always stand to attention.

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘St Michael’s Mount’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

To celebrate reaching 6000 followers, I am going to give away a free copy of my book The Road to Mons Graupius, which charts my journey along a Roman road through Scotland! To enter, follow me, then like and repost this post. I will choose a winner at random on Friday 16th May... #RomanSiteSaturday

Apparently today is #NationalPackagingDay and it reminds us of that day we opened a book and found this paper bag and it was like we'd travelled back in time.

When do the Cardinals get to go over to Casa Amour

As anarchists we defy all laws of church and state. But we are still subject to the law of "if you see the Tom Holland Rihanna video, you must watch and repost the Tom Holland Rihanna video." We're only human goddamnit.

its a brutal time for young men. Living up to the famous names you were given. Always have to roam around in the sewer. Your teacher is a literal rat. Can’t even say cowabunga anymore.

Slooooooow progress on my Mont St Michel embroidery based on image and stitches from the Bayeux Tapestry

Someone should write a book about all the various professions through history that were done primarily by women because they were looked down on as unglamorous and unfulfilling until men figured out there was power and money in these professions and pushed women out.

This is true; I am from Beverley, and our town crest is a beaver annoyed that you've asked it to do something during its lunch break.

It should be illegal for the Conclave to overlap with the Eurovision Song Contest. Following one confusing European voting system, with clandestine politics, opaque transparency, no independent election monitoring, and no clear end-time, is difficult enough. But two, simultaneously... No.

For International Sculpture Day, here's my favourite piece of ancient Greek sculpture: it's Athena but is she thinking, reading a list if Athenian dead, or something else? 🏛 Acropolis Museum #Ancientbluesky 🏺

One billion dollars.

y'all girl scout troup #1005 from Rowlett Texas will be uncovering our time capsule tomorrow morning at Dorsey Elementary. The troup of second graders there now will put their own back in the ground! EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of my former troop members are coming.

Now in Herculaneum and Tauryen is back on it… 😆

update: we at least have one silver lining to the whole thing, which is that this guy’s day got ruined

This one seems to making the rounds here again for some reason