History’s first recorded dumb Top 10 list :

100% this. Now, here’s a thread of my Top 10 dumbest Top 10 lists… 1/10

Those Dubai-based influencers knew what they were getting into …

Also says the war is to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons even though he said he obliterated the Iranian nuclear weapons programme in the attack last summer 🤷‍♂️

I mean he doesn’t actually have a heart, so there’s that.

Gianni Infantino sitting on Trump’s Board of Peace .

‘I must admit I didn't think much of Andy Mountbatten Windsor first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. Also, he looked like a total nonce.’

Andrew mugshot when?

Andrew arriving at his birthday party today

Show me your Uber driver

Show me your Uber driver

Martin and Francesca Scorsese this week at the Klementinum library, Prague 📚 😍

Update on ‘state of the art’ section: ooof, you would not believe the absolute STATE of some of this art. Shocking. 🫣

Currently working on the ‘state of the art’ section of an academic application form 🎨 🖌️🧐

Peter Mandelson will return in "AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY"

Mornin’ All! ☕️

This will forever be my Bad Bunny.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only

What the hell is going on with TV schedulers in the US? Why have they sandwiched tonight’s Bad Bunny concert in the middle of about four hours of steroidal blokes in helmets slamming into one another?! Idgi 🤷‍♂️

‘aroused controversy’

Logging off for some intensely cerebral academic cogitation and brainstorming.

Duolingo is luring me into a life of crime .. 🤷‍♂️

Fisto is not in the Epstein files.

Bounce the dog is not in the Epstein Files.

The final scene of the Melania movie is absolutely insane 🤯

Currently watching. Also hoping @martindbbrown.bsky.social will some day give us a follow up to ‘The Bondian Cold War’… ‘The Palmerian Cold War’ 🍿

Four more members of Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ have been announced :

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."

“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."

“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."

“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."

based on a true story

I don’t love it when people say ‘deliberately’ when they mean ‘intentionally’.. also describing something very big as ‘enormous’ (enormous meaning something is very bad, not very big) ..

Weasel words from UO. No way this was an academic decision. They got bullied and browbeaten by the Turningpoint mob. A junior academic’s career derailed by a right wing hit squad.

Abject cowardice from the university. Shame on them.

Pretty sure Plato already shipped the entire human race in The Symposium?

If Trump does invade Venezuela I think FIFA should rescind his Peace Prize, because if they don’t the award will just become completely meaningless.

Jiří Hutečka has a new article, and it's a great read. Not that I'm surprised.

When you study the I Ching instead of Advanced Tort 🤦‍♂️

‘Frankenbond’

This is such a big deal and Dagmar is the perfect person for the job - her expertise on TGM are unmatched in the field.

A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.

Good evening !

The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...