POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, it’s next to the Reichstag on the edge of the Tiergarten. This is where the rhetoric of othering leads.

Vivid stress dream that I got a notification about a plane squawking 7700 General Emergency and I looked at the flight number and it was the plane I was on. Added bonus fun: I was dreaming this on a plane. Even more fun: I was woken up by turbulence.

Happy Nov 14th, everybody!

THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender:

There’s nothing like a healthy lunch. And this indeed is nothing like etc etc.

Trying to explain to my mother that, as it is her birthday, I am legally allowed to watch a documentary about the development of the DC3.

I still have the cap and I still wear it.

All pro writers have blindspot words and I thought I knew all of mine. But no. Turns out "unprecedented" is another. I have discovered this because so many of the crises/suffering I'm writing about are unprecedented.

[0] days without being gaslit by my employers.

10th November 1975. youtu.be/Uu1GpQeYh5g

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

So rare to see a political story that doesn't make me want to move back to the UK so I can leave it again in a massive flounce of screaming outrage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"PhD students should embrace plagiarism and being unpredictably wrong without warning" is quite the claim

Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library. 300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive. A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable. Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼

Oh boy. Have I got bears for you. #HugABearDay

The UK's flag carrier making deals with someone who's bankrolling the extreme far right and calling for the violent overthrow of the current British government cool cool nothing problematic about this at all. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Do not call them "cokkies"! Please refer to them as "the Officers and men of Her Majesty's Royal Navy".

It's actually simpler than this: Q: Would an ignorant journalist refer to you as 'dusty'? [YES] A: You're an archive.

Konferensen (2023) is a lot like AMC’s The Terror. The premise (a team-building retreat with awful colleagues/a Polar expedition) is terrible enough in itself without adding Hubris The Bear/a serial killer. But goodness, this was fun.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

"If I were British I would simply xyz to protect myself..." My dude, you wouldn't even wear a facemask without whining. Shut the fuck up.

How's your Sunday? A bit meh? Maybe it needs some Tragic Doomed Love! Heroism! Horrible Death! Bitching! Watercolours! Missing Gravemarkers! and Men Geeking Out Over Flowers! It's all here: finger-post.blog/2025/11/02/g... #FranklinExpedition #FranklinSearch

I had to go into Facebook (I quit in early 2020) to find a specific photo of something and honestly, what the hell is this bullshit:

“I have to eat a Thanksgiving dinner with Tabitha King and if I cross a picket line to sell a book, it’s not going to be a good one.” Lovely to see widespread solidarity with the striking workers at the British Library. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

Happy Halloween everyone. #WorldBollardAssociation 👻

Every so often I repost this photo of Darwin to prove he is the most perfect little man (see alt for more)

It's really important that you text me ASAFP if you find HMSs Assistance, Pioneer and Intrepid in any of the sweets being handed out over Hallowe'en. Edward Belcher abandoned these #FranklinSearch ships in the Arctic in 1854 and they haven't been seen since.

The past week has also reminded me of a couple of things that I always knew. One is that history matters. The other is that making histories - telling stories about the past - is always a collective and collaborative endeavour. Thank you.

The only doom-laden bubbles I want to deal with in 2025: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you're putting screengrabs of racists into my feed without alt text so my mutes get bypassed I'm just blocking you, pew pew pew, you're gone

Midweek appreciation post: getting lovely things in the mail from @heykidsshop.bsky.social brings so much joy. Just look at Adam here: everything about him is perfect.

Point of basic language usage @theguardian.com : if either side of an ongoing conflict is firing there is no 'increasingly fragile ceasefire', there's just firing.

Read a book that had nothing to do with work (climate change, disasters, misery) or research (dead sailors, misery) and the experience was so delightful that I might repeat it. The joy - of not knowing so much that you spot howling errors and misrepresentations - was immense.

Don't be a dick shall be the whole of the law.

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

The next time a woman's assault by a hate-filled man manages to get widespread coverage in the press, and the story sets out all the warning signs that were ignored, the free speech warriors can pat themselves on the back saying "We did that so that Graham Linehan could abuse trans kids on Twitter."

Not saying it's been a wildly shitty travel day, but tonight's dinner is the veggie breakfast ciabatta I bought in an airport Prêt at 0620hrs BST. #woe

Flowers for Algorithm

She should have been brought home to Port Glasgow and installed as a shipbuilding museum in the town's bicentenary year. But nobody who wants this has the money to make it happen.

Women do not like the vehicle.

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

STUCK SHIP KLAXON

Just found my next love interest. He‘s younger than usual - normally I prefer them to have been dead for at least 110 years.

All power to the brilliant, kind and highly qualified teams at the BL, who take care of our treasures and do everything they can to support visitors. I'm so sick of GLAM professionals being undervalued and disrespected.