Looking forward to seeing British politicians attempt to copy this aesthetic in the most excruciating way possible.

Me: well that was an anxiety dream but quite an absurd one, rather than a horror. Nyika: oh btw you screamed in your sleep

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Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me. Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Saw a long self pitying thread from someone who’s been pagan since they were a teenager complaining that nobody takes their ‘faith’ seriously. Unironically talking about their pagan faith: complete Christian cultural victory.

🤔

I see all those books I read about debates over the church’s temporal vs spiritual authority in the 18c are relevant again.

very busy at the moment, but then again ...

Italian government to Trump…

Matt Goodwin’s sitting on his own in a Scruton cafe crying like a little girl and you’re laughing?

Me, sowing an electoral system so I can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, reaping an electoral system where they can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Will everyone please accordingly update their class takes, which will take effect from 5pm today

when i think about "peak" Twitter, I think of this post

Watching American and Israeli governments intensify another conflict in the Middle East: I bet the Brits did this

Who will police the police? ‘Look Lisa, it’s McGruff the crime dog! Help me bite crime’

ME: [first day as a detective] Was the robber armed? VICTIM: No ME: *writing ‘probably a snake’ in my notepad* Thank you.

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Chatted to our neighbour's mother. ...who is also from England. ...also from Cambridgeshire ...works at the Perse School. We live in a smallish town in New Zealand.

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia >threaten the Pope himself with personal violence >heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion >misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

Ah

Abominable, completely indefensible.

another day, another mantis rescued.

First of all, I didn’t go to UAG. Secondly, you seem to be looking in China.

Swing and a miss.

About six years ago, when I finished my doctorate in history at Cambridge there were ~ one or two tenure track posts world wide.

In Hamilton. Not a *great* sign if the local council is running ‘please don’t kill yourself’ ad campaigns.

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Rereading

Yesterday we heard the immortal phrase ‘fuckin’ Kea stole my gun.’

Mantis on the window I know, I know, it’s serious 🎵

Incredibly shitty version of a memory palace: thinking ‘oh no it’s an Albany expression’ every time we drive past Albany, muttering ‘what the hell?’ every time I pick up the oregano from the pantry, &c

Who put Bella in the wiiiitch elm? 🎵

Hihi/stitchbird at Shakespear park. Only around ~3000

I still have to stop myself saying “real fuckin sexy just like you asked” whenever anything involves taking a photo

Sorry but you are way too humanities brained if you think space colonization is problematic because earth colonization was often accompanied by bad stuff. There are no people on the moon. The bad things involving colonization were the things they did to people living there. There are no people there

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

And bookcase 4

Progress

Think about this one like once every 45 minutes

Someone has probably said it but