this is fun! Is The Economist always wrong? www.economist.com/interactive/...

A kick-ass chart by Matt McLean in @sondreus.bsky.social's fantastic retrospective of 250 years of American power www.economist.com/interactive/...

Getting the boys together for this Austria-Spain matchup

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

Great thread on Medieval society

Should be reposted every month....Speak Truth....

Oxford against Yaxley-Lennon getting a platform at the Oxford Union

A week ago today, we launched Zeteo in the UK, with this trailer, below. A week later, the trailer has millions of views across multiple platforms, and we're already about to cross 30,000 subscribers for Zeteo UK, a big chunk of them paid. Have you subscribed? zeteonews.co.uk/subscribe

“It doesn’t seem logical that we have introduced this system where we can challenge people on the way they look on whether or not they can use certain services. Because it’s so unclear what people should do, it feels like it has opened the door to a series of legal challenges.” YA THINK?! 1/

I've been asked to publish this statement from some of the families affected by NHS England's decision in Brighton.

I wrote a book! The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living will be published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on 1st April- and if you preorder from Waterstones between now and Friday it is 25% off: www.waterstones.com/book/the-med...

Hello. Job leads have been few and far between this year so far, and job hunting outside my discipline to make ends meet has been fruitless and demoralizing. I have not gotten a paycheck since October. I could use help making rent this month. “Thank you” - Stella PayPal: @StellaSacco Cashapp: #$SACC

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

I've gained new followers off the #AI impersonation debacle, so I'd like to introduce the REAL me. I'm Dr Lindsey Fitzharris & I'm a medical historian. Yes, it's a real job! If you ever wondered how you'd treat a toothache in 1782, or what would happen if you broke a leg in 1845, I'm your gal. /1

This is very cool. This type of support for trans people should be the bare minimum. It's really a shame that Steyer is the only one in the California governor's race willing to stand up for trans people like this.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

This is horrible. Sorry to hear, and good luck dealing with it!

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

Fine, I'll say it: The Texas Senate race is a tossup www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-texas-...

There‘s a preliminary program for the Star Trek conference in Paris this September! My keynote with the working title „Boldly Going… Nowhere? Star Trek and the US from Cold War to MAGA“ will take place on the morning of September 18. 🖖🏻 startrekparis2026.wordpress.com/programme-pr...

#teampope, somehow. What a time to be alive.

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

A beautiful speech by Dua Lipa on the power of books to inspire, immerse, and transform us youtube.com/watch?v=jmFp...

Saying again I desperately need work, I do not have a way to pay my rent on the 1st, please get in touch if you would like me to write for your game or book or comic or show or website or whatever

Very few sign-ups for the in-person document sessions on 16 and 17 June. Please circulate with PhD students etc who use legal records in their research (or I won't be able to run the sessions this year). I can promise witchcraft, treason, and all that good stuff (if it runs). Details via the thread.

At least the social giants sold us an appealing vision before shafting us. They said we’d have loads of friends & no more wars. The AI lads arent even trying to sell us a vision of optimistic worklessness… Matinees, long lunches, Monday hikes, writing poetry…. It’s just grim.

I know it’s exhausting to do this endlessly but do write to your Labour MP opposing Labour’s bathroom ban. The party does this because it thinks it’s making the problem go away.

#OtD 21 May 1913 a bomb exploded at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, set by suffragettes. It caused no casualties but caused some damage. A note was left reading: “How beggarly appears argument before defiant deed. Votes for women.”' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9413...

There's some welcome bits and pieces in that EHRC guidance, particularly on clubs and associations being able to remain trans-inclusive, but in general it's a mess. Imagine having to make a major financial decision on the basis of the endless, hyper-anxious impenetrable drivel in that document.

When people say: “Democrats abandoned the working class” they are saying several things but not what they intend. A 🧵 First, the message is “working class” == White. All the Black people I know work. All of them. So these terms are a big choice that conservatives AND leftists repeatedly make.

A thought inspired by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social 's podcast

A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

Donald Trump is not an anomaly but the culmination of decades of democratic decay, oligarchic power and institutional collapse in the United States, Chris Hedges writes. #Trump #USPolitics #democracy

Nothing breaks fantasy immersion faster than meeting a legendary hero named Kevin.

I’ve gotten nothing but compliments on my new shirt today.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Whoever you vote for today remember: Labour came to power in 2024 with an enormous majority promising change, then scraped and bowed to the worst people in the country, and pitch-rolled for Reform. They had a chance to change Britain for the better and flushed it down the toilet. So vote for hope.

Literally just been reading about this expedition in @ottoenglish.bsky.social 's book #FakeHeroes. Extraordinary story

They've identified Peglar, Bridgens, Young, and Orren! www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...