Timeline cleanser 😍

Is the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Thatcher wrecked British society?

15 November 1940 | A German Sinti boy, Dieter Bamberger, was born in Frankenthal (Pfalz). In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 18 March 1943. No. Z-4262 He perished in the camp on 16 April 1943. --- The fate of the Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/eb31osDbyk0

Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I believe the technical term for the claims made by OpenAI in its defence is “bonkers”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In: wearing seven poppies and boasting loudly about observing the two minute silence. Out: having the remotest interest in the past or educating yourself on what should not supposedly be forgotten.

What this article doesn’t say: the gas that entered the British trenches had been deployed by the British; the COs had disregarded their own engineers’ warnings that the wind was about to change. But all we remember is the brave piper. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1945 the British made sure that Germanys public broadcasting system would never be taken over by an authoritarian leader again by creating a complicated federal system. They didn’t see to that at home which has left the BBC vulnerable. This needs to change now.

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Interesting that this political strategist and advisor who worked in the Harris campaign now says @aoc.bsky.social could run for president as a result of the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win in New York.

An unfolding humanitarian crisis in Kenya, where thousands have been made homeless by floods caused by the rising waters of Lake Naivasha, and landlords responding by hiking rents while the government does nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=alTv...

9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.

Massively useful post !

One week to go! Join us at Cruinn Còmhla - Gaelic community day in Edinburgh Classes · Music · Conversation · Culture · Café Further info: www.ionaddhuneideann.org Saturday 15 November 2025 10.00 – 16.00 Darroch, 7 Gillespie Street, Edinburgh EH3 9NH

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Definite Toy Story/DC mashup vibes on the walk home tonight.

At the impressive Institut Français d’Ecosse for #Boulez symposium, introduced by Eddie Campbell. Great to participate in panel on Pli selon pli with Larson Powell, @ianpace.bsky.social & Michael Spitzer

Musicologist and music critic Hans Keller was arrested by the Nazis and forced to leave Austria for England following the Anschluss in 1938. He died #OTD in 1985. Listen to a BBC recording telling of his escape. holocaustmusic.ort.o...

Cat and Bird https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/cat-and-bird

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

my favorite student praise when i was teaching a history of rock course was "your class helped me understand my dad better"

The RSF is backed by the UAE and is still committing genocide in Sudan, including through mass executions

The single most terrifying kid I had at my door for Hallowe’en was one dressed up in a hazmat suit. For anyone who grew up with the threat of nuclear winter, truly the stuff of nightmares.

The Nazis in Berlin are getting bolder: I saw one of them on the tram home this evening, a guy in his early twenties, who stared at me and smirked before looking away. it’s incredible how Germany has looked on as so many young people have drifted into this hate cult. It’s a betrayal, to be honest.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

The British Library has long relied on the good will of its fabulous staff, whom it treats shockingly, pays derisorily and ignores as much as it can. Faced with a contemptible 2.6% pay offer, the staff has, unsurprisingly, had enough.

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

One of the things I talk about in my work is how we erroneously believe that the passage of time is what brings about change. In actual fact, it is our action to change things that brings about the passage of time. Otherwise, we are trapped in repeating and expanding fascisitic/colonising patterns.

"Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories" Arundhati Roy

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Nothing to worry about, just dead bodies washing ashore in a region where the US is carrying out extrajudicial killings of boats at sea

The lesson from this is that (1) Reform are a real threat (2) they can be defeated.

‘mon the Welsh!! 😃

🎉 This #OAweek marks a special milestone for SUP as we celebrate the anniversary of our first #OpenAccess publication! 🙏 Thanks to everyone who has supported SUP by reading, citing, sharing, or championing our work. Here's to many more years of open conversations! 🔗 www.sup.ac.uk/news/a-year-...

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Braquage! #Louvre

Linguists and Arms and Armour specialists: can I ask your advice? This is an object in the Aberystwyth School of Art museum collection; a clasp knife of 412mm when opened. Made of bone (ivory?) and an unidentified metal. Does anyone out there recognise the script? We know next to nothing!

Just found why there was a little black boy living in a surgeon's household in 1773 Perth, Scotland. The surgeon was originally from Virginia in America and had only recently come over to Scotland from there. This story is definitely going into my nearly finished academic journal paper. #Skystorians

As seen at No Kings Atlanta:

17th October. Battle of Lemgo. Well some folk like a bit of poetry (and fall for it). Others like a bit of archival endeavour. Where do you stand? www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-... #MilHist #17thCentury #EarlyModern #skystorians #ThirtyYearsWar #30YearsWar

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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This seems like a good opportunity to remind folks that solitary confinement is torture