This image will haunt my dreams. It seems only right that it haunts everyone else's

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Problem: it's easier to make money from sensationalist partisanism, and promoting this is the business model upon which social media is built.

Top parenting tip: annoy your 13 year old girl by constantly asking her why she hasn’t achieved as much as Kim Ju Ae? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In more ways than one, these are my kind of people.

apnews.com/article/nort... Let us never forget that to support his invasion of Ukraine, Putin is calling on people who's conception of war stopped evolving in about 1961.

I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

Of course! He's alive and living INSIDE the twenty dollar bills. He did it. He seeded the world.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina Death and the Tobogganer, etching by Swain, 1862 wellcomecollection.org/works/kxghsvfb

My mom sent me a link to this bookshop website that curates interesting and unusual books. Great looking selection, here. societyforunusualbooks.com

A reminder.

Auction the helmet. Buy bullets with the proceeds.

Arsenal, meanwhile, have signed Perkin Warbeck…

Flavor Flav is a low key American success story and a certified national treasure.

Fun fact: in the lead up to the General Strike, Britain's fascists spoke about it being "The Day" when the forces of the right would defeat the revolutionary left in nationwide combat. Spoiler: there was no apocalyptic showdown.

"The first person to be executed for treason in the United States was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown."

Christabel Pankhurst died on this day 1958 in Santa Monica, California.

Scoop: A report published last week outlined what Palo Alto researchers believed was a China-linked hacking campaign. But after an intervention from execs, the report's language was changed to refer more vaguely to "a state-aligned group that operates out of Asia." www.reuters.com/world/china/...

If you care about heritage in space, you might have heard of For All Moonkind, run by Ole Miss law professor Michelle Hanlon. She's just published a blog saying that archaeologists have no contribution to make regarding heritage in space. spacelawandethics.substack.com/p/who-actual...

youtu.be/CO7n49ohjKc?... 📢 The first episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS has dropped - "Britain's First Fascists" - on YouTube, Spotify, Apple etc. Please check it out, share widely or transmit to the moon so it's waiting for Musk when he arrives in his lonely man spaceship #podcast #history 📚🗃

The National Trust is really pushing the limits of what email filters will let through…

Sage advice from Viz

Tell me you don't understand the point of Threads, without telling me you don't understand the point of Threads

youtu.be/CO7n49ohjKc?... 📢 The first episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS has dropped - "Britain's First Fascists" - on YouTube, Spotify, Apple etc. Please check it out, share widely or transmit to the moon so it's waiting for Musk when he arrives in his lonely man spaceship #podcast #history 📚🗃

Just because someone is rich and highly successful in business doesn't mean their brain can't be utterly melted online.

Every time I hear someone talk about the death of broadcast television and radio I am reminded that those things are free and regulated. And don’t require you to scan your I.D.

Call me an elitist, but I don't trust the judgement of multi-millionaires who look like they just crawled out of a bin.

Hi All, Just sent out this post. Yes, the Ukrainians have a victory strategy that they are developing for 2026. They actually understand their war far better than the many of the failures in the western analytical community. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

#OnThisDay in London's legal history: Robert Nixon jailed for 5 years, 1737, for planting a bomb in parliament wp.me/p74yfw-im

#OnThisDay in 1885 dynamite was found on Harrow Road, the last event in the 'Fenian' bombing campaign that began in 1881. James Cunningham and Harry Burton had planted devices at Parliament and the Tower of London that January and were found guilty of treason at the Old Bailey that May. #CM150 #OTD

They also serve hot sauce at breakfast, yet we confine ourselves to ketchup and brown sauce. Madness.

"Batman technology" is trending - I am assuming this means the world is finally fixed

The best thing on YouTube are videos where real chefs tear apart Jamie Oliver's inability to authentically make anything more complex than a bacon and egg sandwich. Why can't the Internet just be this?

I'm burying the lead here but, the stovepipe jeans / loafers whilst cooking combination? What a motherfucker.

megaphone.link/NSR7414660134 Interesting episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social This may have been by the hosts' design, but I came away from this with the thought that Maurice Glasman is actually quite thick.

very charmed that in its eulogy to mass market paperbacks the NYT found an 18-year-old who uses the word "reckon" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

"Across Europe, news media companies increasingly depend on cloud services run by a handful of powerful tech actors. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google provide the digital infrastructure that underpins the functioning of newsrooms" By @ccs.bsky.social for @article19.bsky.social

When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:

Free phd idea for someone to use: How representation of the Internet habe evolved over the course of The Simpsons. Research aspect would be fun

Going to be talking about how the Black Death altered human history in my lecture this morning.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The economic benefits of the higher education sector that the "why bother with this liberal nonsense when you can learn to lay bricks" crowd don't understand.

Dearest Gentle Readers, IT’S TIME! Registration for #batw2026 is live and ready for you. Whether you’re joining us in person or online, you can now get one step closer to celebrating 20 years of BATW. britainandtheworld.org/registration

V'Ger still requires the information

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f... Good man

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic... Time for a Monday dystopia: Royal family wiped out in mass accident (see start of King Ralph for guidance) except for ostracised Andrew. Becomes king and abuses norms of royal-parliamentary practice to rule as a petty, creepy tyrant. You're welcome.

Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees own shadow. Handlers declare 6 more years of fascism. #Satire

I find it fascinating that while people in our part of the world were essentially losing their minds, Japan was experiencing the 19th century in a much different way. My mother has a stereoscope picture of Japan during this time. 🤔 #Victorian #Japan #history #photography youtu.be/OB4cWbn-D_o?...