Can’t beat teen logic! You can, actually. I still paid board. 😂 (Click to expand).

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

‘Let’s choose which window’, that fun game well known to Australian children viewers of Playschool, and Russian officials not seen in public for a week or two

Caveat: I haven’t seen last ep of S3. The hero of The Diplomat is Nicol Trowbridge. Because he is one of only two characters (with Stuart) who has a moral centre. His actions come from his moral reaction to events. Therefore none of the US characters understand him.

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought. acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...

It fascinates me, the way that honour exists in our society and motivates people, and yet the way we talk about it…we have real trouble with it, with talking about it and understanding it.

you're not gonna believe where they lead

I’m afraid the Trump-Bill Clinton thing won’t take hold (despite being very funny), because no one can seriously imagine Trump *giving* anything to anyone, ever.

This asbestos metaphor is brilliant.

The original Half Man Half Biscuit.

rotating this footnote in my mind forever, what a treat

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Further citation, since I was curious! (Seems like the researcher elaborated in press interviews) archive.org/details/chri...

Ah, the joys of unintentional punctuation. Either that, or the ice cream man REALLY doesn’t like little Johnnie.

Without checking: it surely can’t be a common thing for there to be an England team without a single player from either Liverpool or Manchester United?

Another selection of the best dril's replies on Threads: +

thank you to new supporters!! that gets me to 59 anyone want to make 60?

Here's a great article from acquisitions editors, in time for University Press Week: Don't Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press. https://bit.ly/3XoKxfV ##UPWeek2025 #TeamUP #ReadUP @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

This was a criticism of @adapalmer.bsky.social’s Terra Ignota books, but Madame’s entertainments seem positively bourgeois compared to Epstein.

jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away

Very happy to see this arrive! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

TRUMP [to the Ghost] Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me.

Australians will (rightly) pillory the quality of commentators we get on FTA TV, for cricket and for all codes of football. But we’ve repressed the memory of Darrell Eastlake.

What do we expect to see in a Ridley Scott version of the Battle of Britain? - helicopters - Tiger tanks - Mustangs - Rommel (with the goggles) - I dunno, maybe a nuke? - Galland as a Good Guy - the King on the roof of Buck House, shaking his fists at the Boche - Joaquin Phoenix plays Churchill

Apropos of the news in general, I happen to think Morstein-Marx is wrong*, and that Caesar had a well-grounded fear of prosecution when he launched the civil war, and that it was (partly) the reason he did. *about this; he’s right about a lot else.

A compelling platforming from a candidate with vision

Hands up who else, when the financial crisis was hitting in 2008, saw “fascism” as a likely medium-term consequence.

This is very bad! Endless resources to disrupt environmental protests and these guys can just rock up on Macquarie Street without problems? Nazis need to be comprehensively excluded from public life in every context as the zeroth priority of a functioning society

Le degré de nullité d'une ministre pas FOUTUE de prévoir LE ONZE NOVEMBRE un message où la France n'a pas deux Bretagne et dont le Poilu ne porte pas un casque allemand.

If you are thinking, "wow, I wish a resource like this existed for office holders in the Roman Republic" - it does, albeit in book form, as T.R.S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951, 1952, 1960) in two volumes, both hosted online: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/...

On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston

Good enough to upstage Basil Rathbone for the villain crown in The Best Film Ever Made (Robin Hood).

Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.

The great album of the century so far.

This is not my area but: the answer is just ‘racism’, right? Like, this is pretty much the reason racism was invented?

I talked to the @unibonn.bsky.social magazine forsch about perfectionism, the Middle Ages, and why we could do with more creativity in scholarship. This is the English translation. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

This is a roundabout way of announcing they will join the Sterling Currency Area.

Excited to share that I am one of the ‘talking heads’ for the National Geographic series ‘Gladiators: Warriors of the Ancient World’. The series airs on National Geographic TV (US), but the first episode is on YouTube: youtu.be/9ssD7rNNv88?... #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

Again, the troops should learn from the Spanish Army of Flanders: take control of a nearby town and hold it as their own until all backpay has been settled.

I know sport isn’t as prominent on here as it should be but: Club Brugge v Barcelona. Have a look at the highlights. What a game of football.

I fucking love this... this is what the internet was meant for neal.fun/space-elevat...

There are some organisations that would seriously tarnish their image by doing something like this. But for FIFA, everyone’s response is “Yeah, that tracks.”

It will never not be funny how often Stephen Maturin abuses his doctor’s privilege to tell his best friend “You’re too fat. Stop eating so much, fatty.”

Cheney’s grave will presumably be in the United States, a boon for a country notoriously short of public toilets.

Sex and the City and Just Shoot Me. I want George Segal’s character dating Samantha.

His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.

Oh no, I’m not falling for that one.