this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

why pay an expert writer when you can instead get classrooms of children to write random words then bring in the expert writer to delete every word she wouldn't have written? it's the perfect system. all for the low, low price of literally more money to fund its current promises than exists on earth

Can’t wait to see how Netanyahu and Israel decide to back out of this ‘peace plan’ in fury at the merest hint they might not get to kill every Palestinian. Place your bets on which of their neighbours they choose to bomb next as well in order to bind their ‘allies’ closer.

We’re very excited to share that First World War Studies Volume 16, Issue 2 was recently published and is now available from Taylor & Francis (tag). This new issue brings together fresh perspectives and critical reviews that push forward the study of the Great War. 📝Articles include: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

After more than a year in the making, it is finally here! Check out the programme of the bi-annual Society conference dedicated to naval aspects of the First World War

"Being respectful of our history" means not lying about it. There are not, actually, "a lot of questions" about this grisly massacre You should put your "confidence and trust" in the nonpartisan scholars who have studied this extensively instead of a right-wing Fox & Friends propagandist

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This week @fwwsoc.bsky.social will have its biennial conference at the University of Macedonia. You can check out the amazing program below! We will also be announcing the outcome of our Executive Committee election with my time as President coming to an end. 🗃️

Looks like lots of lucky folks are reviving their advance copies of the anniversary edition of Matthew Stover’s ‘Revenge of the Sith’ novel. You should make sure to stop by @darthinternous.bsky.social and both thank and congratulate him for bringing this incredibly shiny thing back to the world.

I made a whole ass website!!! I'm so proud of it. I love our little penguin and the reel for Review Roulette. There are so many pages to click through and there's a space for announcements to celebrate the achievements of our academic community. Please subscribe for RR, #ScholarSunday, and more!

[SAVE THE DATE] We are organising a conference on neutrality and humanitarianism (1914–1920s), taking place April 15–17, 2026. Deadline for proposals: December 1 > www.casadevelazquez.org/news/the-com... Thanks to @casadevelazquez.bsky.social, FIES, @fwwsoc.bsky.social, @uc3m.es for your support !

Y’know what people* don’t talk about enough these days? Star Wars Galaxies. *I obviously do not include myself in this. There are very few situations where I will not talk about Star Wars Galaxies.

'These medals? Yeah they belonged to my great grandfather. Here's the one he was awarded for bayonetting a Lakota child to death during a massacre. We weren't sure we would get to keep them because of woke.'

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Having studied #digitalID in depth for my PhD and written a book about this way before anyone had even flagged it as a problem - this a TERRIBLE idea. We have been warning the UK government about the dangers of digital ID for years. No one listened. #digitalidentity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Salt Lake City! Come hear stories about writing non-fiction books about a galaxy far, far away with my amazing Star Wars author pals @kelly-knox.com and @infinata.bsky.social. We’ll see you at 7 p.m. in Room 250A! #FanXSaltLake

FanX Salt Lake is coming up -- here's where to find me!

Can't wait to give G4S or some other highly reputable private government contractor all my information. I'm sure that'll work out great.

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public. Starting this week:

*taps sign*

THIS. It’s like the continued Labour insistence that the reason they’re so unpopular is the legacy left by the Tories. People don’t like what you’re doing NOW. If Starmer did different things, they’d feel differently. Why not try, oh I don’t know, implementing some popular* policies? *not populist

Please spread this far and wide! I’m on the convening team of this exciting new IHR seminar series and we are looking forward to hearing about all the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs across the country!

Kimmel did a great job pushing back on Trump last night, but I was really glad to see he lit up Brendan Carr, using his own words against him. The lesser villains of this regime need to be called out by name and held accountable for the obscene things they're doing in their cult leader's name.

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

Dawn Foster knew.

The funniest outcome would be if that rapture has actually happened and it was only a bunch of fish that were taken. Or the dolphins like in HHGTTG. All the humans just didn’t make the cut.

Let’s be clear: What Donald Trump said in public, in plain view, on his own social media feed is more corrupt and dangerous than anything Richard Nixon was caught on tape saying in the White House tapes. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Headlines matter. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Also it’s not a great leap to criminalising women who now take Tylenol whilst pregnant (in a similar way to which women who have miscarriages can now be prosecuted) and also continuing the dehumanising of people with autism in a way that ends very badly.

For fans of historical computer games, a bunch of the team from @blackmillgames.bsky.social (with me chiming in) is currently doing an AMA on Reddit about the whole franchise of games including Gallipoli 🗃️ www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/c...

Firstly Tylenol etc should sue him into oblivion. But the thing that people should also remember when it comes to stuff like this & RFK Jr’s conspiracy bullshit: fascists want people to die. Of course they’re murderous to their enemies. But they also have no issue with their supporters dying.

Folks, has anyone written anything on bisexuality and modernism and/or the First World War? I can't immediately see things, but maybe they're hiding in work without that in the title.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

The ‘veers’ in the headline is doing a lot of work. Given that the channel has continually pushed any number of conspiracy theories and flagrant racism since inception, at what point has it not been far right?

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Well thank goodness we dodged that one. 4,000 miles of no man’s land would have been devastated…

Everything Trump does is intended to enrich himself and his wealthy cronies while incrementally seizing power from Congress in a variety of areas to wield himself as an authoritarian while Republicans in Congress acquiesce.

I said this in the days after. Charlie Kirk's supposed friends and allies have said things publicly that are actually more insensitive and offensive than almost every public figure that supposedly hated him.

Choose. Your. Fighter.

An article on the rise of the First Order in Star Wars Insider 235? I wonder who wrote that…

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

“Trump urges Bondi to prosecute his rivals” is literally the definition of fascism and tyranny. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

Younger people won't believe this, but during the Second World War, Disney put out cartoons about how it was your patriotic duty to stand up to fascists, even noting that we'd each have to take a financial hit if we wanted to win that struggle. No, really!

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

'He'll be here in about 30 years...'