These guys usually cosplay Hitler, so it’s refreshing to see them diversify into Stalin with “how many divisions does the Pope have?”

Doing a stats class and tumbling helplessly back into epistemology.

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Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar? Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece! Here's mine... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This war may end up the most devastating thing that happens to the US and the world in the 21st century (or, maybe TACO Tuesday, though I doubt it). It's definitely a moment for people in institutions to do something. For us, is it time to panic? I'd love to hear theories of why not. 14/14

May 1-2 Sydney (CCWM 6pm) #Antigone events.humanitix.com/antigone-f6c... "After nearly seven decades..Sydney will..witness the power of Sophocles' Antigone.. return to a tradition that began with the.. 1886 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon..that launched Greek drama in Australia."

This is the Platonic ideal of labour relations under capitalism. I do wish that “You just can’t get good help nowadays” wasn’t the animating principle of conservative migration policy.

@johnquiggin.bsky.social John, there may be a simple publishing reason for this, but: I’m reading (well, listening to) “Economics In Two Lessons”. My question: given you’re Australian, why are the examples almost always American?

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[nods sagely] Mister (Well, it does tell me fairy tales while we stare at the beautiful women.)

All around the world, center left parties are desperate to find a solution to their unpopularity that isn’t giving up horrible neoliberal policies that everyone hates

Folks, if I had free copies, I'd give them to all who wanted -- not about 🤑. If you've any interest in how actual Roman historying works, mystery from scarce sources, or interest in the political arena of the Late Republuc (a mirror to our times) this book will intrigue. + it's 16.60 Hardcover now.

On @arseblog.com duty this morning as Andrew heads to Lisbon. Odegaard and Saka have shared the pitch for an hour or more in just six Premier League games this season. I really hope we see them both start against Sporting tomorrow night: p1r.es/41Oy7jL

If there’s a better game than that this year, then it will have to be something special. #AFL

This is the time of year when there js a steady supply of chocolate just sitting there waiting to be eaten. Why bother with heaven, when we’ve already created it here on earth?

The Hawthorn supporters are booing Bailey Smith. Why? Do they think he’s Indigenous?

This is a job for the occupation authorities.

That will be a job for the occupation authorities.

Five books to get to know me by: The Lord of the Rings Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett The Last Generation of the Roman Republic by Erich Gruen A History of the Peloponnesusn War by Thucydides and Broken Republic* by David Rafferty *(working title, forthcoming)

Apart from being basically stupid, this misses an important point: England and Scotland separately built their national identity on Protestantism specifically, in quite muscular forms. And then spent the next several centuries walking that back, because they found it dangerous and divisive.

This, too, will be a job for the occupation authorities.

(Bam-balam.)

As I sit here working through this basket of mini Easter eggs, I think about the Klopp Actually tweet where she says “You don’t eat biscuits because you’re hungry, you eat them until there aren’t any left.” And he sweeps her hair behind her ears and says “I think this is why you are unhappy.”

He would have, except they refused to pay out on the basis that you cannot kill a divinity. The case went court, lasted four centuries, spawned six heresies, and was eventually settled at the Council of Chalcedon.

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

My emotional relationship with Steph Catley and Ellie Carpenter is strong and good, I tell myself.

This will be a job for the occupation authorities.

But unlike just spamming that one post over & over, you are now building an interesting spiral someone can go down to learn all sorts of different things about your book, hopefully with easy-to-click links all along the path. Don't be self-conscious. Post in your usual shit-poster voice.

Marcelo Bielsa with a fascinating insight into his methods, describing how he has built a collection of 300 successful plays in football that he then trains his players to copy and implement in matches.

If you didn’t already have a moustache in 1980 there is no reason to have grown one since.

Loved this essay by @timdunlop.bsky.social on “a regnant, malicious, corrupt & immoral world order” that makes banal political theatre & policy levers of what was once humanity’s most radical evil: harming children “the point is not to hide the extremity; it is to make it part of the furniture”

File this under gambling in Casablanca.

I put my phone on sleep at night which means if you’re not in my favourites, I won’t get notified. I need Apple to create an “if it happens” setting so literally anyone can wake me up to tell me. I don’t care how I find out or who I find out from, I just want to know AS SOON AS IT HAPPENS.

But Australia IS multicultural (it still is, even though both major parties want to attack rather than defend that happy state of affairs) and also (largely) does the European social democrat thing: health care, protection against unfair dismissal etc. Not as well as we could, but still.

We Carlton supporters are like Jesus: we’re both having shitty Easters, and we both kinda deserve it. #AFL

Weitering has to come off here. And shouldn’t come back on.

On the first of the month the Australian Dictionary of Biography publishes new and revised entries. Notable people, good and bad. One of March’s entries is maybe a definitionally life well lived for me, the kind of person who absolutely should be a model adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ni...

What is even stranger is that this is exactly the Clone Wars animation style.

I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵

This is *precisely* what Reform complained about in the byelection the Greens won.

Found it. @Dawn_M_ #respect

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

Voting is open in the #EdRichardsStarkeyMedal. We want to know your top three songs by The Beatles. Give us your 3-2-1

Excel is reasonable substitute for a database for the vast majority of business users.