lrt: speaking as a historian, when people talk about 'future historians', they massively overestimate how much people care what historians think

stop trying to make "future historians" happen. you can just say you've passed any hope of meaningful justice in this world onto an imagined secular afterlife. that's fine.

going to repeat here that >90% of EU politicians are going to have to go if we don't want generations of subservience to a violent, nazi country

After this, no one should doubt Trump’s intention to invade Greenland. The EU needs to step up fast.

fuck the usa

i'd prob say the same thing if i looked like him

(gay truffle hunter with a cold) send a dig pig

'what are women going to do when they hit their 40s if they don't have kids? just keep being sexy and having fun?' well. yes, actually

new year's day walk

lewis & short and lsj stacked on top of one another

You can tell no woman was near this story because $630 is not even close to the upper end for designer boots

the english say 'britain' when they mean england, the germans say 'europe' when they mean germany and americans say 'the world' when they mean america

people don't angbandpost enough

"new year, new me" i say, awaking one morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic insect

gumo hope yr hangovers ok

LAISSEZ-MOI DANSER youtu.be/IM-s3QwWiQ8?...

MOSKAU! MOSKAU!

cheers. good 2026 to all 🥂

windchill? yeah i wish it would

Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?

for all the talk about this being the next transformative technology, there is an awful lot of forcing from above. no one ever met with a country's PM to tell them smart phone adoption was too low. what are we doing here?

robert schumann's piano concerto is like a rach before rach

first phase of my traditional nye cooking started monday evening cooking the ragù and then getting up in the middle of the night to put it away when it had cooled, but phase 1 for today is more picturesque: saffron risotto for the arancine. anyone disputing my italianness can face me in a nonna-off

dreamt kier starmer was coming by the shop last night and was like 'idgaf what he's thinking of buying, i'm calling him a cunt'

saying i eat croissants over the books (it's okay, i list any crumbs i drop in it under condition as 'some scattered soiling') (also any pages i remove to use as napkins are removed from the page count) (also i invent previous owners to blame it on)

they should make a 'Thick of It' style political sitcom about the French Revolution with Peter Capaldi as Robespierre

one of the things my job has brought home to me after academia is that i love working with physical objects, its pure satisfaction on a gut level. digitisation is fantastic for access but without the physical dimension, the real object, you can't have the same connection to it, the same satisfaction

Damit das neue Jahr auf einer solidarischen Note beginnt, könnt Ihr jetzt noch schnell hier unterschreiben epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

i always struggle to come up with any celebrity encounters until i remember queen elizabeth ii once nodded at me and then prince philip told me i was too fucking tall. but tbh if you spent long enough in cambridge something similar has probably happened to you

telling people that months of the french revolutionary calendar are kingdoms of beleriand

what conservatives don't get about jesus is that he was very radish, and this is why he was cruciferous

I love that a common thread throughout the history of textual transmission is how often a piece will survive because someone did the equivalent of screenshotting it to hatepost on it

laughing like a spoilt queen as i press the button on the machine that crushes dozens of oranges together just to make me a small bottle of juice

'Lorsch' ist wenn ein Wiener französisch spricht

showing off this absolute beaut today - 16th-century in the binding made for the el elector palatinate, containing vitae of Burchard of Worms and Gall (by Walahfrid), and Paulus Diaconus' Historia Longobardorum!

brb gründe einen technoclub in moria und nenne den zwerghain

Semmering - the famous Semmeringbahn, the dilapidated K.u.K-era Kurhaus, mountains and snow

ipa 🤝 ai massively overhyped, distressingly ubiquitous, belongs in the bin

our society would benefit from a polytheistic basis where we could have gods for things like assembling flat-pack furniture

They should go further and make a separate dictionary for men which is much heavier but contains fewer words

what I love about LotR is that it is at its heart about moving through a melancholy landscape largely filled with ruins, faded histories and legends - I would have filmed it that way and cut the fights to a bare minimum, plus add Merry's interest in comparative philology as a major plot element

eat your fucking heart out peter jackson i know how to write a fucking blockbuster k

peter jackson: ...so the witch-king rides in on a balrog firing machine guns into the air in both hands, screaming 'WHO WANTS SOME OF THIS, MOTHERFUCKERS' producers: 😑 me: so here's the scene with merry reconstructing the verb system of proto-rohirro-hobbit producers: 🤑🤑🤑

what I love about LotR is that it is at its heart about moving through a melancholy landscape largely filled with ruins, faded histories and legends - I would have filmed it that way and cut the fights to a bare minimum, plus add Merry's interest in comparative philology as a major plot element

lrt: men, what is stopping you etc

Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael. It's often thought to be a self-portrait. During World War II the Nazis stole the painting from Poland. Many historians regard it as the most important painting missing since WW II. No color photo of the painting was made before it disappeared.

~~Mme. LAVRA~~ does herewith adviſe *** 𝘥𝘪ſ𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 *** conaiſſeurs of literature. 👉 That ſhe is offering divers lexica, grammers, and texts edited to the 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦ſ𝘵 ſ𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥 from her book-ſhop at the ſign of the 𝘤𝘳𝘦ſ𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵-𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯; and that woodcuts of her in fishnets with her tits out are going for 7/ 8d

it's funny how bookseller is considered a quiet, sedate and well, 'bookish' profession when we were the purveyors of banned and unwholesome thought and pornography for centuries and were constantly being prosecuted for it

cracking open the champers. happy christmas 🎄❄️🥂