“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.”

ICE to celebrate the traditional welcoming of foreign strangers to American shores by terrifying entire communities.

The Stillsuit if I wrote Dune

The 11am silence on Armistice Day, London, 11th November 1925.

Performative racism and Islamophobia to satisfy the worst of our base and financial supporters. There I answered the question for you.

"A lot of Brexit is very funny. One of the things the British are world class at is taking the piss." fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

What kind of an asshole do you have to be to complain about this?

Spotting the fake AI-generated quotes in student work by textual inconsistencies alone (then cross checked) is my new professorial hobby.

I have opinions this weekend about Elon Musk, Hobbits, and the war. www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-e...

Presumably he insists it be applied this way over the quietly appalled objections of his make up team. Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly. Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.

Profoundly formative in my life, no lie.

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

In fact this encapsulates a common misconception about this admin: it is not ‘isolationist’, indeed it is just as belligerent as Bush II. But unlike its predecessor, it does not even pretend to be warmaking for honorable purposes. It actively wants to punish and steal from *all* Venezuelans.

This is the spirit! 😉😂

Indeed. If the admin had anything approaching a coherent policy towards Venezuela it would be positively beseeching Maduro’s citizens to flee to the States where they would be welcomed.

Aka Cornell chickens out.

Last week I asked my students to create some memes and I realized with a certain degree of horror that the classic meme templates I suggested meant nothing to them. I have become that Principal Skinner “am I out of touch?” meme. Which they also wouldn’t recognize.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

It is perhaps worth noting that “aircraft carriers are obsolete” is an argument that had already begun doing the rounds in the early 1920s (ie even before the aircraft carrier in its modern form had been designed). People have been writing them off for longer than they’ve been built.

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

BBC really burying the lede there

Ah, Eddy, if only

James Watson has died and much of the conversation has inevitably turned to Rosalind Franklin. I do commend anyone with access to read this 2002 New Yorker essay on her by Jim Holt. It presents a rather more complex version of the story than the somewhat mythic … www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Trump invades Poland

The Wehrmacht preferred this approach too and look how it worked out for them 👀

The Onion, yet again, FTW.

why tf did they let him drive if they knew he was sick

When you’re submitting to AITA even when you’re not aware you’re submitting to AITA

Playing City this weekend #YNWA

Only Democrats have agency, remember, and by Democrats I mean my mom.

Did Women Ruin the Workplace

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

Which one is more English?

Americans once jumped into France in C-47s. The most difficult challenge you're going to have is managing your department's funding. Get a fucking grip.

To thwart the rise of Reform what you mainly need to do is to go back to pounds shillings pence and have It Ain’t Half Hot Mum streaming 24/7 in old people’s brains.

Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

A campus novel/speculative fiction about a university whose computer systems become so hopelessly infected by viruses that the school returns to paper. Strangely, everyone becomes smarter and happier until they are eaten by wolves.

Nancy Pelosi’s done some good things over the years. But let’s face it, she’s retiring because she’s got no room in her house for all the money any more.

Professor Stanley’s free to make his own decisions about his life. But it seems strange to post this a week after a lot of Americans who don’t have the luxury of obtaining a sweet new job abroad showed at the ballot box how you can stand up to fascists at home.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

@alanallport.bsky.social yeah, it’s finally arrived. Am so looking forward to reading this.

I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases 1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.

Publication day in 🇬🇧 #AdvanceBritannia

Publication day in 🇬🇧 #AdvanceBritannia

Young Republicans leaders praise Nazis. Here’s why that’s bad news for Zohran Mamdani. by Jonathan Greenblatt

It’s not a big deal, but I’ve never been able to get used to the idea of using the term ‘veteran’ (or worse, ‘vet’) in a UK context. Growing up, they were *always* ex-servicemen. ‘Veteran’ in this sense always referred to the US experience. A bit of creeping Americanization.

This raises a question that’s haunted me for decades: is RR saying beep beep or meep meep? It always sounds like the latter but it usually seems to be transcribed as the former. There needs to be a formal inquiry into this.

📣Out now on #firstview! David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789' #Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜 👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...