"If" is quite the word

www.reuters.com/business/aer... This is how a pretend soldier cosplaying as a warrior talks about D-Day.

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

Turns out Blackbeard could be a bit of bastard - something Stede Bonnet found out when he was betrayed by the notorious pirate. I discussed this unlikely partnership with @lhistorienne.bsky.social on this week's episode of History's Devils #history 🗃 🎧 💀 Listen ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Turns out Blackbeard could be a bit of bastard - something Stede Bonnet found out when he was betrayed by the notorious pirate. I discussed this unlikely partnership with @lhistorienne.bsky.social on this week's episode of History's Devils #history 🗃 🎧 💀 Listen ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

If the fate of Oswald Mosley is anything to go by, I would hope "yes"

Transworld donated 10,000 copies of Unseen Academicals. Which feels like a very deliberate choice as the book, at its heart, is about characters growing and becoming more successful by embracing new things or by reading.

“If I ever get out of this alive, I’ll never do this again.” On this day in 1909, the first race occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The participants? Not race cars but balloons. indianahistory.org/blog/balloon...

‼️ What happens when a wealthy plantation owner decides to become a Pirate? Violence, betrayal and the weirdest sea battle of the Golden Age of Piracy! This week's episode with @lhistorienne.bsky.social looks at Stede Bonnet, the "Gentleman Pirate" 🗃 ⚓️ Listen 🎧 ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Sporks. #reform #grifternomics

Reform dreams of a Britain where good, honest, white folks eat steak with their hands like our glorious Anglo-Saxon forebears.

Worth noting that Dr Oz has always been a shameless grifter, but it turns out he's a piece of shit eugenicist as well. Good job, scumbag. #DrOz #Eugenics

Not content with "some fans will be detained at the border and/or beaten with sticks", FIFA is upping the ante by switching to a "hopefully, someone dies of heatstroke" strategy. Impressive nihilism. www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

“The Hot Tamale and the Indiana Icicle.” Description of GOP presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt and his Hoosier running mate, vice president Charles W. Fairbanks, who died on this day in 1918 rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-...

Presumably, the lettering will be repurposed for the Trump Memorial Drive Thru at the McDonalds on the corner of New York and 13th?

The electric guitar did not simply make music louder. 🎸⚡ It gave American culture a new voltage: blues pain, rock rebellion, country twang, gospel fire, and the sound of modern identity plugged into an amp. #Brewminate #MusicHistory #ElectricGuitar

⏳ #TimeTravel Welcome to the Future Past… Face Time

Very high on the list of dares I would not take, since I am bitterly aware of what the outcome will be

Our very own Professor @jamescrossland.bsky.social discussing the "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet (who some of you may recognise from the comedy series Our Flag Means Death) with @lhistorienne.bsky.social.

Also now available: the 2026 call for applications for the Society's annual Funded Book Workshops - for historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with specialist readers to discuss a manuscript in detail before submission #Skystorians

Not now, something living inside fog.

Very good. Only thing missing was Starmer stopping mid sentence and saying "wipe that smug look off your face you feckless cunt, I'm the prime minister and i'm talking". Would have guaranteed my vote.

It takes modern academic leadership to do this. Western Sydney University’s pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners.’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Losing losers demand to lose harder.

I'm being pedantic but, if I have go throw down with a dragon, I'm taking a second to put trousers on first

‼️ What happens when a wealthy plantation owner decides to become a Pirate? Violence, betrayal and the weirdest sea battle of the Golden Age of Piracy! This week's episode with @lhistorienne.bsky.social looks at Stede Bonnet, the "Gentleman Pirate" 🗃 ⚓️ Listen 🎧 ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I think I speak for literally everyone on earth when I say, "no" deadline.com/2026/06/zack...

Vanilla Ice will also profit off the publicity to land a starring role in MTV's new reality show, "Celebrity Trumpers"

BREAKING: Charles Manson backs out of the Freedom 250 concert

Legions of ageing, portly Hollywood leading men are currently working on their Trump impressions.

The Beijing Ancient Observatory, 1928, by which time the astronomical instruments looted by German troops during the Boxer Rebellion had been returned from the Kaiser’s gardens in Potsdam to Beijing as per the Versailles Treaty.

This needs to happen. The awkward, crushing sadness of this sight will bring joy to the world.

‼️ A short discussion about famous Satanists Part of my talk with @mikkibrock.bsky.social on this week's HISTORY'S DEVILS Anton LaVey, the Church of Satan, the Satanic Panic and, of course, Pizzagate! Listen ⬇️ 🗃 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Jenkins is Dunning-Kruger effect manifest. A man who knows nothing about everything

A headline that tell us much about how we got here.

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The West’s self-obsession often leads us to think that humanitarianism began here and extended outwards hand in hand with colonisation. Great blog from ICRC here that broadens the scope. blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...

Did you know? In the Victorian era, a man became famous for being one of the worst poets in the English language. William Topaz McGonagall was a Scottish handloom weaver who, in middle age, became convinced that he had been called to be a poet. #Victorian #poets #poetry #history

More of this.

Pretty sure the phrase "google it" will be made obsolete by AI prompts soon enough

The origins of the pizzagate conspiracy predate QAnon - they can be found in the Satanic Panic of the 1980s This week's episode of History's Devils ⬇️ 🎧 🗃 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Using AI to have famous dead political figures appear on Question Time rather than engage in Mortal Kombat-type death matches is a sad indictment of our decline as a society.

Authentic America pizza. None of that Italian shit.

Where's the fucking Mormon Tabernacle Choir when you need them?

Sometimes it's all so beautiful it's hard to even look at

Trumpworld has regressed from Kid Rock to the beta version, Vanilla Ice. Based on this data, I predict gop disaster at the mid terms

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

Strong agree from the man about to start his day with a plate of huevos rancheros

This is an excellent podcast series. James is an excellent communicator.