Without wind on the grid, prices last year would have been almost 50% higher. eciu.net/media/press-...

Shades of IBM and the Nazis

Building capacity is one of the best things we can do. This is good stuff. I’ll try to post more from a somatic lens later.

Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

From ever-brilliant @rubenbolling.bsky.social another great cartoon. See original here bsky.app/profile/rube... And reminder that a certain SCOTUS member will be immortalized for something other than "I like beer!" We should use his name in every account of these skin-color-based roundups.

The condemnation of Imperial thuggery as "fundamentally un-British" was a common tactic domestically and within the Empire in the 1920s and 30s and made opposing empire much more palatable for many people at that point!

Seen a couple of posts about people decrying the coupling national identity (American) to protests (e.g. no American flags, no conceit of something being "unamerican" and I should really write something up on the use and manipulation of civil identities through forms of conditional loyalty

Reminder: Haidt is not actually an "expert" in this field and actual experts have called out that he's just wrong about almost everything. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/10/e...

We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.

How to enjoy the TV while keeping the dog busy - hands free.

The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)

The Maccabees thing has been confusing me because of how much effort is being put in to gaslighting people that the fans aren't notoriously violent racist thugs, but I think it's actually more to do with making sure nobody official listens to Muslims when they complain about racism

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared" That is Anne Frank in 1943.

I think there's plenty of Londoners who've seen beaver in parks over the years. We were all young once.

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

#MorningPrayer Lord Jesus Christ, cornerstone of the kingdom and foundation of your church, give us the faith and faithfulness to build our common life on you, our solid rock; root us and ground us in your love and grace. In you, may we produce a fruit of blessing for all people.

Partial #ProofOfCat - two paws and the tip of her tail, poking out from under the duvet. These two paws must have been too hot

Thinking of taking class on Evil and Suffering on field trip, ideally to a site illustrating memorialisation as a response to evil (think Susan Neiman’s stuff on this). Liverpool’s Int’l Slavery Museum would be a great option but closed for the big development… Other suggestions in the NW?

So... Kate's furiously angry at George &the wine bottle has gone missing, suspicious? #TheArchers

VERY excited we get to discuss Mélanie Lamotte's book @ihreurope1500.bsky.social with @lrhodges.bsky.social & @juliehardwick.bsky.social and Mélanie herself! 18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

"Most people in the UK think net migration increased last year, when it more than halved". Part of the problem is that "immigration" has been (deliberately) conflated with "small boats", & voters keep hearing those are rising. Throttling work/student visas won't fix that www.ft.com/content/a17f...

look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think

We're starting the Haitian Revolution this week in class - will need to find a way to bring this source in:

Age of Revolutions sits down with historian Miranda Spieler to explore the hidden lives of enslaved people in Paris and the fugitive histories that challenge our understanding of freedom and empire. 👉 Read the full interview: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/01/12/i...

4yrs ago today, we helped @catsprotection.bsky.social trap this tiny, hungry, limping feral kitty. He wasn't happy about staying in our spare room for a month after a vet visit. But then he discovered duvets. And after we released him, i went for a nap. Woke up to discover he'd decided to move in.

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

There is always an XKCD

Feels like a good time to repost this. Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg's checklist of things to do that aren't protesting or voting.

Trump’s Mar-A-Lago trafficked girls to Jeffrey Epstein in the late 1990s and early 2000s; the club’s spa sent women and girls to his nearby mansion for house calls, according to former Mar-a-Lago and Epstein employees. #OpDeathEaters 🧵

"The question is not only how to keep universities solvent, but how to ensure that, in ten or twenty years’ time, they are still universities."

I've been reading about John Jay's trip to London in 1794 to negotiate with the British govt. I keep coming across references to Peter Augustus Jay keeping a detailed daily diary of the visit, but cannot find it anywhere. Is it online anywhere? published? thank you #C18th #Skystorians 🗃

#MorningPrayer At your baptism, Lord Jesus, the Spirit descended and the Father’s voice spoke: ‘This is my beloved son, in him I delight’. Remind us that in our baptism we become part of your body, that we receive the same spirit, and are held with the same love as we follow you.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

I'll just leave this stat here.

Uruguay really needs to be studied more generally. A sort of ‘why some nations work’ case study.

9 JANUARY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived”: Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense is (anonymously) published by Robert Bell. www.gutenberg.org/files/147/14...

It does make a nice change when leaked whatsapp group messages show government MPs being privately better than they are in public; used to be very much the opposite.

William really is a prize twit &a big part of the problem with George #TheArchers

Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.

Please buy my new Lent book Gravity Defied … buy lots of copies for your Lent courses … you will have a great time watching #Wicked and spending time studying it. Do consider using my friends at Church House Books as your supplier: chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978191...

#MorningPrayer Lord Jesus, help us to see. Restore our vision that we may see as you do and promote your gospel of peace, justice, and grace. Restore our understanding, that we may know all people to be made in your image. Guide us to see and follow the way on which you lead us,

Both Reform & the Tories openly call for ICE-style immigration enforcement squads in the UK. While Labour tries to compete by boasting about its own number of raids & deportations that are barely any different. Immigration enforcement shot two more people in the US overnight.

January 1625 - Richard Napier briefly owns a swan. 3 Jan: 'Mr Grub sent me a Cygnet ... I gave him 2s'. 8 Jan: 'My Cygnet did flye away'. #otd #earlymodern

Here is a lot of stuff you can do right now. (And remember, every day is shut the fuck up Friday)

Highland Games idea - tossing the wine bottle? #TheArchers

Far too many Brits underestimating how many people in parliament would happily create a British ICE. Also astonishing that people have to be reminded that no one should ever be murdered by anyone.

Meanwhile, in the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social Professor Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians

Emma is finally seeing the light! #TheArchers