Australians love their kids, but dream of wandering the desert severing the spinal chords of obnoxious backpackers.

Enjoyment of this film enhanced by the knowledge that Gary Oldman was drunk in most scenes.

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

Meet 26 yr old Leicester man and neo-Nazi, Matthew Gravill, ex Buckingham Palace warden guiding visitors around state room whilst also acting as an underground organiser of an International fascist group Who does the security vetting news.stv.tv/world/reveal...

Our next book by Paul Cavill and Steve Harding from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social explores the latest research on the possible location of the Battle of Brunanburh in 937: storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?ma... #Brunanburh #placenames #History #Archaeology #wirral #cheshire #merseyside

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Using machines to set arbitrary production targets for human performance - Soviet economic policy meets AI-governed bureaucratic dystopia. #progress

Calling all historians of US foreign relations. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

The collapse of Noah Smith from 'interesting writer whose occasionally a bit random' into 'complete idiot and mentalist' is one of the most clear cut cases of twitter-poisoning I've seen

A busy and chaotic #MementoMoriMonday Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 c. 1871-1889 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

I enjoy the one on the far left who looks like a cross between Julius Streicher and Tom Hardy in Bronson

Very adroit summary of where we're at.

This Wednesday, 12 November, our very own @jamescrossland.bsky.social will be talking about his current #research project on the #history of domestic #intelligence in #Britain. Everyone interested is very welcome to attend.

Who knows if he's in this pic of the Lancashire Fusiliers preparing to land at Gallipoli in 1915, but today I'm remembering my great grandfather Joseph Mears, who ended #WWI traumatised and listless to the extent that he emigrated to Canada and killed a man with an axe in a barfight. #Family

Simpler times?

Advanced classes for AI generated automatons in how to just about pass as human

You know, I’m 46, studying writing at University, something tech bros tell me has no future, but I’ve never felt more sure that I wanted to create fiction in my whole life.

The rate at which humanity normalises stupid is the shovel with which we dig our graves.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The lesson: don't romanticise spy shit.

Part II Tesla showroom London…

#PhantomsFriday The Thing in the Cemetery The awful Thing in this story from Van Wert, Ohio suggests Augustus Hare’s unearthly Croglin Grange vampire. "The apparition seemed in the distance like a huge cadaver clothed in a robe of sack-cloth." thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/t...

Wow…what a revolutionary concept.

BBC really burying the lede there

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

To think it all started with Marx and Engels researching together at Chetham’s Library, Manchester.

"Psychos everywhere, plague of madness" - as always, the wisdom of 12 Monkeys delivers.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1915 Studebaker hearse, with elaborately carved curtains, tassels, ribbons and pillars, echoing earlier horse-drawn hearses made by Studebaker. www.bonhams.com/auctions/247...

Apparently Blue Sky has some sort of filth filter applied by default, so if you're not seeing this post maybe check your settings.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The Scandinavians remain irritatingly good at this "doing things in a good and sensible" way shit.

I'm telling my kids this is Socrates and Plato www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScRL...

Human progress

Today I learnt about a three-legged, one-eyed shapeshifting kitsune ( #yokai fox) known as Otora gitsune who possesses humans and talks about its wartime experiences. Those possessed suffer from discharge from their left eye, an aching left leg, and they recount... 1/2 🎨Matthew Meyer @yokai.com

Naming things doesn't have to be complicated #history

Had the best conditions for sketching on my flight to LA: aisle seat, left side of the plane (light comes from the left - I’m right handed), nobody in the center seat next to me, smooth flight the whole way - done from start to finish in one sitting. It’s the little things… 😁

WTF is a "Yaed Apple"? Crimes against typeset, right there

every single conversation I've ever had with a US military public affairs officer has been more interesting, forthcoming, and generous than the convos I have with tech company PR.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... How to depress the next generation as early in life as possible

Seeking refuge from the dreary UK autumn, I have found my way to Death Valley - highly recommended.

Just writing something on 1920s culture for programme for @the-rsc.bsky.social new production of The Forsyte Saga and reminded of Will Dyson's brilliant / terrifying cartoon for John Bull in 1922.

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-... Really good bit of investigative journalism uncovering the grifters, liars and criminals who spearheaded the flag nonsense.

You can’t see it, but this is my surprised face.

Finally saw Sinners. It's a good film, but it's also just a more layered and slicker version of From Dusk 'till Dawn #films

Mic drop

The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004. "Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl. She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".

Men freaking out and dying slowly in the arctic. Perfect #Halloween viewing

A better outcome would be to never refer to him again unless it's in the context of a story about a criminal conviction.

Everyone remember to leave kitchen knives and babysitters by the chimney for Michael tonight!

And with that, "Go to TikTok" becomes "Jump the Shark" to describe the moment someone becomes irredeemably thick

Happy Devils Night to those who celebrate #detroit #Devils

Defenestrating a prince makes even more confident we're reliving the 17th century.

Yes, with a bullet. I still maintain that the moment we stopped laughing at these dipshits, we started losing the battle.