There is no better example of schadenfreude than being a younger kid with a day off while your older sibling has to go to school.

I think the key difference between Amsterdam and other cycle-heavy cities like Copenhagen and Cambridge is that in the latter they don't stop/dash through when you're waiting at a cross walk about 50% of the time. In Amsterdam they cycle into you *when you are already on the cross walk*.

I need to preface this with the fact that I have never owned a car, wish at least 75% of the world's cars could disappear, am a passionate commuter cyclist, cycle with kids in all weather, advocate for cycling in cities, etc. Man, are the cyclists in Amsterdam dickheads.

A powerful message spotted in Amsterdam. Rest in power, Anne and Hind. Maybe one day the world will keep its promise.

A powerful message spotted in Amsterdam. Rest in power, Anne and Hind. Maybe one day the world will keep its promise.

Yes.

Also, tobacco doesn't help you overthrow Ancien Regimes now does it.

I see that the UK, like Australia, is comparing a social media ban for under-16s to a tobacco ban. While I recognize the harms that social media does to some teens, this analogy is ridiculous. A lot of teens--especially queer and disabled teens--depend on social media for essential peer support.

Siblings can be so different from one another.

I wish you all a shady path and a cool chalk stream.

Well I'm not sure what everyone else is doing this beautiful bank holiday Saturday but I just watched a kingfisher take a bath in my little stretch of brook.

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

A story that might interest #Indigisky🔥

A wonderful story about Cultural Guardian Jodi Ashini & others' work to repatriate archival photographs of Innu back to communities. People are finding unseen pictures of cousins & aunties, grandparents & friends. Repatriation isn't just political. It's personal. theindependent.ca/news/lji/pho...

Everyone needs to start immediately asking how this is going to be enforced. Institutions: do not comply in advance. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A ruling or law that protects some women but actively harms and excludes other women? For this historian of sexual labour, it's deja vu.

Everyone needs to start immediately asking how this is going to be enforced. Institutions: do not comply in advance. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

OH MAN MAKE IT HAPPEN HERE. How do we make it happen here? I loathe it. It's literally forcing millions of people, many of whom are struggling to make ends meet, to sell their privacy for food. It's a hidden scandal and I'll rant about it to anyone who will listen. Including MPs.

What to say in the face of this intolerance & hatred? All I can personally say is that I will fight--physically if I have to--anyone who tries to enforce this policy if I am in the room. And to remind everyone that this policy attacks ALL WOMEN who do not conform to stereotypical femininity.

I don't even know what to say anymore. Not a single government is willing to do anything to check Israel for illegally seizing 50 boats and 428 civilians in international waters. Ben Gvir mocks them and tweets about it. Looks like forced stress positions for the prisoners, which is torture.

Staying in a lovely Oxford College accommodation reminds me of a friend who used to say 'my college single-glazed windows are only good for keeping out the pigeons'. One day, he rang me. I could hear him laughing & an enormous commotion. 'Julia!', he cried. 'THEY DON'T EVEN KEEP OUT THE PIGEONS'

I continue to find The Discourse on education in England to be like something from another planet or a time machine. Of COURSE "attainment at all costs" harms SEND kids. It's bad for ALL kids. This has been the accepted educational understanding for decades. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Staying in a lovely Oxford College accommodation reminds me of a friend who used to say 'my college single-glazed windows are only good for keeping out the pigeons'. One day, he rang me. I could hear him laughing & an enormous commotion. 'Julia!', he cried. 'THEY DON'T EVEN KEEP OUT THE PIGEONS'

Them, Mommmmmm, we want a pet! Mom: Fine you can get a fish. Them:

Always beware nineteenth century vibes-based history. Excellent advice.

A big saving will come from 'Primarily limiting annual investments in the development & modernization of the digital infrastructure & online access tools', a place where Canada already lags seriously behind. Also, these are the tools that allow ordinary Canadians to access their nation's archives.

This is something that could start to change tomorrow.

My goodness, you folks are doing your best to make this feel like Old Twitter! Thanks so much all, it's been incredibly useful to me! Feel free to keep them coming and also maybe lend me an extra brain and eyes to read it all.

My friend in Voisey's Bay, Nunatsiavut reports that there are three polar bears within 500 metres of the facility and no one is allowed to go outside. We are...having very different work days.

Sky today: I heard you asked for some motherfuckin' rain.

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

Having just yesterday witnessed three teenage girls almost get hit by a car that decided a crossing overcrowded with children was a good place to speed through a red, I think the answer to this question is people behind wheels often turn into garbage people. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Another fascinating, enfuriating history of women's health care, with a dash of hope. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Thank goodness for this rain! Every conversation at the allotment these last few springs have been about how each spring is drier than the next, and this is the worst one yet. Please clouds, keep it coming!

I cackled at the reaction to that graduation speech that is doing the rounds, and I'm increasingly convinced that young people see AI as something embarrassing/boring that their parents and grandparents do; like using full stops in texts & putting their pills in those pill-organizing containers.

Wow Starmer is really getting bold now, proposing to personally oversee a form of continental drift that would see 'Britain' (but crucially not Northern Ireland) nestled just south of Switzerland? He didn't clarify what he meant so I'm assuming its some alchemical kind of geophysics.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

The sheer joy of looking at this patch of deep mauve alliums that someone has cultivated in the allotment. It's like a fantastical drawing of a fairy land and yet it's real. Also, my allotment friend's fox hole is getting fancier and fancier, and he's been watching three kits play!

Because they drank it all and their wives haven't gone to the shop for more.

We cannot fix anything in this world until we fix the toxic media ecosystems in which most people consume "news." The misinformation pandemic is a public health crisis like no other. I hope, I hope we get to start fixing this. soon.

Happy 100th birthday, David Attenborough. Thank you for inspiring my kid to notice and love the natural world. You're truly one of his greatest heroes; a 100-year-old nature documentary narrator. And I can't think of anything cooler than that.

Kid the Younger is insisting we get a cake and candles for David Attenborough's 100th birthday.

God could they not have gone for moodle too?

Basically, it seems that the British have so effectively projected themselves on to a particular version of classical civilization that people think the American Matt Damon should be speaking with a British accent in Ancient Greece?

Sorry, but what accent do people think people should be speaking with in a movie about Ancient Greece? Because there were no British people there. And Ancient Greeks didn't speak with a Greek accent. They spoke the language itself. Fascinated by what this says about our historical imaginations.

Things are tough out there. So I thought it might be nice to know that there are people in the world like my allotment committee, who organized volunteer days to build a beautiful dead hedge along the brookside border. We had security issues, and we didn't want a big chain link fence, so with...

Things are tough out there. So I thought it might be nice to know that there are people in the world like my allotment committee, who organized volunteer days to build a beautiful dead hedge along the brookside border. We had security issues, and we didn't want a big chain link fence, so with...

Imagine pretending to be your mom to get out of fighting Mark fucking Zuckerberg.

I'm planning to have a feminist dance party in my college seminar this term. Perhaps Obama went to the wrong college seminars.

Hertfordshire runs wonderful history programs & are especially strong on heritage, public and local history, which is exactly what this country needs more of. What's being allowed to happen to humanities in the UK HE sector is going to have dire consequences for generations to come.