Being autistic is being told why didn’t you ask for help. Because asking required social scripting, shame buffering, tone analysis, and a risk assessment.

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

What justification of resources?

It’s a process.

A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians. The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.

If I wanted to see people talking nonsense over one another I'd have watched Jeremy Kyle. This wasn't a journalist interviewing a politician for television. This was a bloke trying to start a row for ratings and thus destroying any credibility for his opinions.

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

When I was really little at school there was a girl in our class in a wheelchair. Her name was Toni. I remember being really shocked to discover she was disabled as that word was used to describe something really terrible! (There were still 'invalid carriages' around at the time)

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. - Andouillette. You might as well just bite a pig as it walks past. - Dancer in the Dark. I cried for weeks. - Anything by Status Quo, but mainly 'Whatever you want...'

Emil Milewski>Art is everything

Sunday

I am a 45yr old woman with qualifications and a good job... so why is it so hard to get a hot shower? My shower was broken, replaced, and now broken again. Stayed in a hotel and they didn't have hot water. How is it so hard in 2025?

Can someone please explain to my Mum that this is why I'm struggling to find work?

Unsolicited Rik Pic

The funniest thing someone could do politicly currently is run as a Reform candidate and defect to Labour or Greens instantly

AI is a scourge in so many ways: 🧵 Yesterday I was on a train next to a guy doing some sort of educational revision on his laptop and it was fascinating! He was using ChatGPT... Now I made a few judgements because we all do. His revision was based on the construction industry, he was in his 30s

Men: if you haven't had sex with your wife for a while, first check that you don't need to take something off her plate. It's hard to be turned on when you're basically someone's mum or maid rather than equal partner.

Hot take: They should give Trump the Nobel for Chemistry. He is desperate for a Nobel, but is so obviously not a chemist that he'd be desperate to tell people he got one, but couldn't without admitting he was trolled. It would be excruciating...

£110 for a night in a hotel in London. Now, I get it. Its London. Its expensive. However... No wifi. No plug sockets. The light is hanging off the wall. There are carpet remnants in the corner. You can only get a hot shower if you run the basin tap for ten minutes!

Here here! (Or is it hear hear?)

How have they made trains so uncomfortable? And why do people smell so much? (I'm on a train to London and the manspreader next to me is making the journey intolerable and the mix of farts and strong perfumes and washing detergent is making me gip!)

No thank you! I'm all for MHKs cooperating and showing where their policies overlap, but party politics is a scourge on democracy... tribal infighting and footballification are not missed on the Isle of Man...

Any excuse to post this masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSR4...

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

If we all learned how to apologize, self-reflect, and take responsibility for our actions and mistakes literally none of this would be happening to the world.

These images are separated by one day

The Carolina pale crawler tale that got my attention – Sharon A. Hill I posted this more than a week ago, now even Snopes has checked out this story. It's not a hoax, but we don't know what this guy really saw. sharonahill.com/the-carolina...

Meanwhile on Twixter @mothinali.bsky.social gives feedback to a posters recent artwork. 😂💚

It was Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent...

For anyone who wonders what 'vivid dreams' really are, check out this amazing thread...

“Please, just stop sending me #AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on." variety.com/2025/film/ne...

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

It's true! When I studied economics, I was stunned by the ROI of social programs. Every dollar spent on childcare returns about $2.80 to the economy, and healthcare delivers even greater returns with broader social impact. A universal basic income is simply smart fiscal policy. Why the reluctance?

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

i think an interesting cultural experiment would be if we started enforcing traffic law

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

UKRI chief: funding processes hinder ‘wacky’ ideas. Ian Chapman wants UK Research and Innovation to have more “strategic” relationship with universities. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

I look at the wonder of Victorian back to backs in Cardiff and am always baffled why new builds choose to completely ignore the basics of living spaces we had nailed for centuries... I'm stuck in a new build and its awful! None of the rooms work, its impossible to heat/cool.

A chippy tea is expensive. Pubs are completely unaffordable. Politicians look out of touch when photo-opping with a pint or ordering chips. These are middle class activities now.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

The growth of AI absolutely necessitates UBI and we should be talking about instituting it IMMEDIATELY

Sliding back into depression. I'm starting to see a pattern now. I work hard and get myself on an even keel against all odds, and then some mediocre bloke decides I'm a threat and kicks off and I slide back into depression. There are so many mediocre men I'm struggling to see a point in fighting it

We need more of this. Trump and other bullies do not understand the absurd. It renders them powerless. To defeat ICE just be really fucking weird!

I suffer with really bad epic dreams. Had one last night. Its not a nightmare but my watch registers an elevated heart rate and I wake up knackered. I can live a week. Despite taking 3 medications to stop them. I am afraid to go to sleep as its more like waking up.

How to shame a recluse: Oshin (kitten) is fascinated by cobwebs. Cobwebs I hadn't realised were there. He is actually sitting on my head to get closer to a cobweb. You can't complain that someone is sitting on your head when you could avoid it with basic cleaning...