Fun fact for bores like me: When the expedition first docked at St. Helena on their outbound journey on January 1840, Napoleon (or what was left of him) was still there. By the time they visited again on their return voyage, he'd been shipped off back to France.

KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective, that's a historic wax seal. You shouldn't put it anywhere near your mouth." 1. - "You're right, Kim. I'll put it back in the box." 2. - [Electrochemistry - Heroic] Put the seal in your mouth. 3. - [Esprit de Corps - Legendary] Put the seal in Kim's mouth.

@susie-morello.bsky.social Hey Susie, a few weeks ago you very kindly reached out to SPRI about James Ross’ snuff box, after I posted about it on the FE Facebook group. Is it okay if I write a little blog post about its provenance, with credit to you?

Peglar Papers are Peglar’s says paper

Loot

He's so much more than that www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It’s a great day to be a huge nerd about dead Victorian sailors

So so chuffed for @katiegors.bsky.social whose genealogical research played such an important part in this www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

Experimenting with this ink I found

This summer I might finally read Moby Dick

I was checking to see what thrilling photos I took yesterday and:

I love this patch of earth more than I can say

Seagull on the roof alert

here come old record he come cleaning up slowly he got crumbling binding he one useful resource he got red rot on our knee one thing i can tell you is the historicity

Oh that’s gutting 💔

If you have a workplace pension, some of it (even if it’s a minuscule amount) is likely invested in these psychos

Man I love windflowers. Absolute stunners

Is this thing on?

A reply from the Trust on Facebook: the image, which they call “flawed”, will be replaced in due course.

If your organisation deals in historical fact and uses fictional AI renderings, you will only have yourself to blame when the doors close and your funding disappears. If I want fiction, I'll go somewhere that does it better than Pembroke Dock Heritage Trust.

“What really happened to Erebus?” Doomed by ‘re-imagining’ that (like nearly everything else using the term) demonstrates a singular lack of any kind of imagination, so she was…

Anyone hearing the distant whistled intro to a 90s power ballad by the German rock band Scorpions? Just me?

Pembroke Dock Heritage Trust is using genAI to promote its upcoming HMS Erebus exhibiton. I want to say something but it feels futile, a losing battle. I see so many smaller museums resort to AI slop.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

There’s gotta be more to it than this. I see AI slop on flyers for local fundraisers and street cleanups; on my allotment’s Facebook posts; on our community garden signage. This stuff is being aggressively peddled at people, shoved under their noses where they work and make things. Like free drugs.

Bad: dentist appt was horrible. Good: tall and tasty boy today

@thethousandthpart.com Hello there! I was wondering if you'd previously come across the Crozier Herbarium held at the National Herbarium in Ireland? The hand seems to be Crozier's but I've not seen it referenced anywhere except here: www.botanicgardens.ie/wp-content/u...

Sometimes when you’re researching your chosen topic you stumble upon a REAL piece of historical news 🥕🥕🥕🥕

Tinkering with pansy inlay Madeleines. A bit messy but pleased with first try

Update: “nephew, before I die, I bequeath to you great-grandpa’s old sock, a piece of biscuit and a snuff box he got from his tragic bff”

I’m so glad I attended this workshop today, it gave my confidence in accessing physical archival records a huge boost. Thank you Claire, Jess and the rest of the team 💛

Microsoft CoPilot running ads on tumblr is how I know the AI bubble is bursting

“Son, before I die, I bequeath to you grandpa’s old sock and a piece of biscuit.” 😭😭

Today’s assortment of visiting catnip hogs

Showing off my new shoe skills

Master and Margarita

LMAO

I do love a good headline

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

Bear violence

Train conductor just belittled Cambridge as “the non-cathedral city of Cambridge”

Everything might be terrible but it turns out you can email Notion and they will turn off all the useless AI clutter on your workspace if you ask.

The guardian plugging The Terror in the year of our lord 2026 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

“I deeply regret the time and effort…” It is lying about that too because LLMs cannot feel regret. Historian pals, look away now.

Viva Italia

Please mind the small train inside the little train

But what an album

Win what, you dolt? The slop wars?