lol she got his ass and he knows it

📣 CFP British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2026 -- "Alternate Histories of the Body" I'm very excited to be organising this together with Lloyd Maedhbh Houston! 🥳 Send us your abstracts by November 21! #academicsky #callforpapers #literatureandscience

A little less than two weeks to send in your abstracts for "Alternate Histories of the Body"! @lejhouston.bsky.social and I are very excited by what has come in so far.

“Instead of mobilizing his unprecedented grassroots machine to pressure obstructionist lawmakers, support state and local candidates who shared his vision, and counter the Tea Party, Obama mothballed his campaign operation, bottling it up inside the Democratic National Committee.”

Really like this article on the circulation of the Marquis de Sade's works in C19 England, looking at everything from adaptation/imitation/influence to two-penny serial parts of Nouvelle Justine. www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...

Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians

Chuck Schumer is the Paul Reiser in Aliens of the Democratic Party. Listen, motherfucker, I don’t give a shit what helps the Weyland Yutani Corporation, these fucking monsters are going to eat us. You need to get off your ass or you have to go.

The media’s normalisation of evil really irks me. This tulip meets every definition for a Neo-Nazi - at the very least he should be described as a fascist, or far right. ‘White nationalist’ ignores his antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-miscegenation & Holocaust denial.

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Just over two weeks left to get your abstracts and panel proposals in for the @thebsls.bsky.social Winter Symposium: "Alternate Histories of the Body" www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call... @adeleguyton.bsky.social and I are already thrilled by what people have been proposing.

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

Honestly I love this for Elon. They’ve kept X upright while constantly degrading the service, all under the banner of “hey remember Twitter? This is still basically Twitter. You’re too lazy to move, right?” Now they’re ripping out the user experience, replacing it with a Grok slop bucket.

I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award

CFP: "Alternate Histories of the Body" (BSLS Winter Symposium, 30 January 2026 - Online) www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call... @adeleguyton.bsky.social and I eagerly welcome papers and panels for this one-day symposium exploring alternate ways to historicize 'the body' and embodied approaches to history.

I am genuinely dumbfounded that anybody, even for a nanosecond, might have thought that LLM simulations of human participants could provide novel insights on the human mind

DIY Hormone Therapy: Everything I Can Legally Tell You Out now on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/lilya...

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Autism hive-mind: does anyone have a sense of the etymology / origins of 'meltdown' as a metaphor for autistic overwhelm? When it was first used / popularized as an analogy? Whether it was a community-originated term, or a medical one? Particularly influential deployments that lent it currency?

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture. It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

This #BannedBooksWeek I'm remembering all the books I read at the wrong time, when they were "age inappropriate". Some of them shocked and scared me but I don't regret any of them. 🧵

Irrelevant, anti-intellectual morons

Britain’s Natural Party of Government has basically memed itself into chasing the Far Right vote. Proposals that once existed in the darker recesses of X have leapt via substacks and op-Eds into mainstream policy positions, in under a year.

The UK household debt is over £2 trillion. Debt once public now loaded to households e.g. student debt. Energy debt rising. People borrowing for healthcare. Mortgages 7 times salary being issued. Soaring rents. Real average wage stuck at the 2008 level. What could go wrong?

The infantilisation of Greta Thunberg is ableist. AND people not accounting for her Autism is reductive and disingenuous. What happened to her and others from the flotilla is atrocious, clearly illegal, demonstrative of Israel as a terrorist state.

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Oh man.

The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation's comments on radio 4 today were worrying. He refers to a potential need for legal changes to enable the banning of protests to alleviate the burden on police for national security reasons, while discussing the defend our juries protest on Saturday.

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

Can't remember where I read it, but I saw someone say "AI is this generation's asbestos and we'll be weeding it out of everything it touched in generations to come" and I just can't stop thinking about that

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

The Trump/RFK autism claim makes perfect sense once you remember that MAGA is always about turning the clock back. The claim isn't "Tylenol causes autism," it's "pregnant women taking Tylenol causes autism"... Because the real goal here is to revive the 1950s tradition of blaming autism on women.

Uh oh… The right isn’t going to like this. 🚨 NEW: A Justice Department official on the Charlie Kirk case told NBC News, “So far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect to any left-wing groups.”

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

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I am so fucking tired dude...

A college English class where they’re told to use AI to complete assignments. Why bother teaching at all? Especially the languages/literature. I’m sorry but I will judge any professor who does this, especially in fields like English and history

Researchers from Queen's University Belfast are recruiting trans and gender diverse people aged 18-29 to explore their experiences of mental health support in NI. To find out more, please contact [email protected]. To participate, please click on the following link: bit.ly/45Rqw79

PSA: never trust Crowder

We will soon live in a world where the world's richest men will own and control all of the biggest social media companies and legacy media as well. Ellison, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg etc. will control not only the production of news and information but how its disseminated on their platforms.

This oligarch bastard openly stated last year like a Bond villain that he envisions a world where AI surveillance will keep the masses in check. fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

Larry Ellison just became the world's richest man. He's in talks to lead an acquisition bid of Tiktok and his son just completed a takeover of Paramount/CBS. By year's end, he will likely be in control of legacy media and the largest social media platform. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I despise how hard YouTube actively fucks over its users and creators at every turn. Be sure to check your devices (Yes, plural DEVICE(S), because they’ve made it per device not just account), and make sure this setting is OFF! It’s potentially hiding thousands of videos from you.

We cannot allow ourselves to let this kind of speech or thinking to become normalized. Domestic violence is no joking matter. The sentiments expressed here are repulsive.

The 90s are back baby! Autism misinformation is in the news again!

How we talk about history is the issue where the media and political discourse is perhaps most out of touch with how out of touch Nigel Farage is with the British public, outside his core vocal minority