If Hungary hosts Putin, the EU must kick Hungary out*. Hosting a mass murdering extremist who has carried out war crimes, bombed nuclear power stations & kidnapped children is unacceptable. The EU has to mean something.

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

can’t believe it took you this long to leave that website run by admitted nazis and join this website run by closeted nazis

Will there ever be a series of #Traitors where non-white people aren’t all voted off first?

Liebe Leute, bitte, bitte bestellt eure Bücher beim lokalen Buchhändler. Herr Bezos wartet nur darauf, dass unsere kleinteilige, vielfältige Einzelhandelsstruktur kaputt geht.

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Auf die Frage, was er zur Kritik sage, dass die völlige Streichung von Bürgergeld und Mietzahlungen Obdachlosigkeit produziere, antwortet Friedrich Merz, dass in Deutschland jeder, der ein Dach über dem Kopf benötige, auch eines bekommt, und das ist die unverfrorenste Lüge seit langem.

Auf massive Entrechtung für Menschen in Armut hat sich der Koaltitionsausschuss in der Nacht geeinigt: 1. 100% Sanktion nach 3. verpassten Termin, einschl. Miete 2. 60% bei 2. verpassten Termin 3. 30% Sanktion bei 1. verpassten Termin dunkler Tag heute für @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy! #MedievalSky #SpéirGhorm www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...

Der wirksamste Weg, Menschen »für den Arbeitsmarkt zu begeistern«, sind gute Löhne, verlässliche und real existierende Kinderbetreuung und Pflege sowie ein Gesundheitssystem, das Menschen arbeitsfähig erhält, auch bei Zahnschmerzen. #Merz #Miosga

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

Die beiden rechtspopulistischen und rechtsextremen Parteien kommen gemeinsam auf 51%, die drei sozialdemokratischen Parteien kommen auf 36 %. So ist der Zustand der Republik. Komplett in der Hand russischer Propaganda. Auch dank der nützlichen Idioten von CDU und CSU.

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation. In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre Or livestreamed. Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

A definitive ranking of naps: 1. Post-beach, post-shower, pre-dinner on vacation nap. 2. Post orgasm nap. 3. Any time during The Masters nap 4. Sunday before a late dinner nap 5. Sick day nap 6. All other naps nap.

A sad day but also a celebratory one for the successes of this brilliant project—whatever comes next will kick yet more palaeographical ass.

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers. We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts. Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

There are certain steps of the publishing journey (rejections, being on sub, etc.) that writers often keep quiet, and I get why. But I wish we shared all of it, so that we can celebrate all of one another's milestones—not only publishing and winning awards. They're all accomplishments!

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

If anyone would like an off print of my article on Hand D, just send me a message!

Today goes out to every single person who's ever told me I was being irrational, or paranoid, or foolish, or unreasonable, to worry that the UK would take my immigration status away from me someday. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

Zack Polanski, "We must condemn Tommy Robinson, we must condemn Reform UK MPs" "But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

Virgil van Dijk , Liverpool just love a late late winner! 😁 #LFC #Liverpool#UCL

But but but this has not been a good showing from lfc.

All-time most European Cup/Champions League appearances for #LFC: 80 - Jamie Carragher ⬆️74 - Mo Salah 73 - Steven Gerrard ⬆️60 - Andy Robertson 60 - Trent Alexander-Arnold 58 - John Arne Riise 57 - Phil Neal 57 - Roberto Firmino 55 - Sadio Mané 54 - Jordan Henderson

#LFC have built up 3 two-goal leads this season. They have blown every single one of them. #LFC have won every match they've played this season.

A national rollout of Housing First could save £200m and reduce rough sleeping, the Social Market Foundation think tank has found.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

When I started BretPal (almost two years ago 😪), I had one very clear research goal: to establish parameters for Breton Caroline minuscule (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 85)

So, anyway, here's to BretPal, and here's to (hopefully) BretPal 2.0, in which I hope to explore further scribal connections between Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland. If someone would like to fund me, that would be great. (New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115)

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

For the Exaltation of the Cross, let's look at two liturgical books from the late 8th c. 🕯️✝️🧵 The Gellone Sacramentary, Paris, BNF lat 12048, is a copy of the Gelasian sacramentary. Here are the 1st p., so you can see the wondrous creatures and people, and the p. w/the collect for today's feast.

Here's a detail from another page from Bk4 with a few words transcribed (above 1st line & below 2nd), so you can see some of the more outrageous ligatures & some fun swoopies. The last 3 letters of the Uncial header are the CAS of CASTRO. The TRO in the second line completes the word in minuscule.

It was lovely to attend the preview of the very impressive Treasure: History Unearthed Exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool this evening. Definitely worth a visit #archaeology #medievalsky will post more pics www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

Living through the death of the sector and discipline I’m trained for and is a huge part of my identity and purpose is really grim.

For the record: I don't support what happened to Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk supported what happened to Charlie Kirk, though. He had a big hand in building the culture that killed him.

Really enjoyed this - gorgeous finds, really good lighting, insights into treasure, Viking hoards that haven't been seen together & stupidly chunky Ysceifiog #torc which hasn't been previously displayed...!! Do go! 👇 www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse... #Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Vikings #Torcs

Given that "unfunded" here presumably means "not third-party funded" (research, after all, is usually part of an academic's job description and a part of what they receive their salary for), this sounds like the government wants to shunt a bunch of Higher Ed. employees onto teaching-only contracts.

There's much about the German system that puzzles me, but something here I have found incredibly refreshing is that, at least at my institution, we have primarily natural-science-trained leadership who are actively celebrating and championing humanities research.

Ok. Today is going to be an absolute shitshow on social media, so I'm going to give you a gift. 1. Get out your phone. (Has to be a phone, desktop won't work.) 2. Go to Google. 3. Search for one of the original 151 pokemon by name. 4. Look at the lower right hand corner of your screen. 5. Tap.