This is why I like living in London. People from all over the world have made their homes here, built lives & families here, and they’ve made our shared city & the communities that exist here much better, more interesting places

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

We're dropping this heater episode of @bloodwork.show behind the paywall at 6 P.M. If you're not in, you can't win patreon.com/bloodworkshow

One of my favourite quotes is from Audre Lorde and it reminds me consistently why community is so urgent: “We are, each one of us, intricately woven into the other's existence.”

Relistening to this episode for… well…

Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life. And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

One of the main reasons we know anything about the workings of the Soviet space program is because similar libraries were opened up to historians after the fall of the USSR. Trashing all these documents will force future programs to resolve problems that were solved and written about in the 60s.

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Happy Hogswatch! rss.com/podcasts/our... #Hogswatch

I sort of think that the Covid times for many people utterly killed any sense that we all live in this world collectively and that you are actually obligated to be mindful of other people, and I think it’s a problem that goes well beyond just the Covid denialists.

Hunger Strike: Day 50 These are the largest collective hunger strikes in Britain since the Irish republican strikes of the 1980s. Then, Martin Hurson died after 46 days on strike. Bobby Sands was elected an MP from prison; he died after 66 days. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

"The lives of the Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners now on hunger strike are at growing risk. On Friday, two reached day 48 without food. (In 1981, one IRA prisoner – 29-year-old Martin Hurson – died on the 46th day.)" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Google AI is wrong to refer to the QI website for a quotation I have never examined. The AI is confused because I do have an article referring to Lord Bowen and another article referring to an umbrella quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/15/h... quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/07/b...

A new episode? It’s a Hogwatch miracle! rss.com/podcasts/our... #podcast #Hogfather #Hogswatch #story #stories

This. Jews are no more to blame for the actions of Israel than Muslims are to blame for the actions of ISIS. Collective blame is bigotry.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

How can i become an opinion columnist? I’m sure i could do a better job than a lot of the current ones

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨The boys are joined by @patrickwyman.bsky.social to talk about the US Navy's very stupid attempt to create flying aircraft carriers. m.soundcloud.com/llbdpodcast/...

I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.

A remarkable project - a consortium of scholars from prehistorians to modern history. The Russians are indeed trying to kill an entire country and its culture, Ukrainians and their friends are resisting uhgi.org

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A quick thread about empire based on a long conversation in a hospital waiting room today. Like so many Brits, my family includes people from multiple heritages, including white elders raised in industrialised regions of North England and Wales which were not racially diverse when they were young.

It's misleading that the Lucy Worsley documentary on the Six Wives of Henry the VIII didn't even mention that lots of European kings had wives, some more than one in their lifetime.

if you genuinely want to argue that the Equality Act, when introduced, intended to make unlawful an approach to trans inclusion that has existed *since the 1970s*, I absolutely cannot take you seriously

From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.

The Panjandrum iykyk Listen to @bloodwork.show

Really good, if infuriating and upsetting episode! I’d be interested in a follow-up looking at more of the external narrative about what was happening during and after the uprising. Governor Cary said he was “closing the book” but would love to know more about the lead-up and aftermath of that

It’s a brilliant short series. It’s fair and even handed. If the Telegraph had watched to the end, they would have heard Olusoga highlight the contradictions in our shared heritage with an illustration from his own family.

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

Historical facts seem to stir up a lot of emotion among people who wrap their identity as British up in the story of the British empire being “a force for good” There seems to be a collective memory, or maybe a collective delusion, of what the British empire was that is out of touch with reality

This bit is especially stupid, but highlights something I think is pretty unique to history. Is there another academic subject to which such emotional attachment is applied? Not just superceding facts, but the whole idea it's about judging good & evil in the past.

I finally made another episode! This time I look at the psychology replication crisis and stories about self-fulfilling prophecies. Anyone who is familiar with the show will not be surprised to hear that there is more nuance there than some may expect 🙂 rss.com/podcasts/our...

I’m so excited for this show! I’m sure anyone following me will already be aware of Patrick Wyman’s work but if not- get on it!

This story has shaped our society ever since

I've found this to be true when it comes to explaining why I still mask in public. Once nearly everybody had already had COVID once vaccines were out, "I don't want to die" garnered skepticism but "My favorite foods tasted wrong for six months last time" had folks going "oh, huh, that makes sense!"

Nancy cat has *two* bowls of fresh water that should be much more comfortable to drink out of 😄 #caturday #podcat #cats

Thinking a lot about the heart wrenching but wonderful poem Home by Warsan Shire today “no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land” www.best-poems.net/warsan-shire...

I don't think OpenAI robbed me of "generational wealth." I think it is bad that a billionaire stole from hundreds of thousands of people in order to make himself richer. I didn't think that needed to be explained.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the hideous ubiquity of AI slop I strongly recommend looking at breathtaking art that predates the written word and crying at the enduring beauty of human creativity for a bit. Plagues, wars and ice ages haven't stopped us, neither will robots who suck at painting.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"The answer to this is to turn a weapon into a tool.... If every time we pick our phone up we will learn something, or connect with someone, or do something helpful, or to have a genuine belly laugh, or find something truly beautiful then it’s a tool." www.bishuk.com/relationship...

Why do people tell so many stories about whether we went to the moon? Shamelessly reposting my episode about Moon Stories and conspiracies, with the wonderful Failure to Launch podcast rss.com/podcasts/our... #space #moon #BuzzAldrin #MoonLanding #Kardashian

I didn’t know this but it doesn’t surprise me. The stereotypes are just another example of a nasty story to demonise an underprivileged group

Loved these episodes! Although Sophie and @margaret.bsky.social were a big unfair to the oral tradition! It’s not ‘just a game of telephone’ there are specific ways to memorise and check information. I actually wonder if part of why druids were against writing was they feared losing control of info?

I’m sure @bloodwork.show has some thoughts on this

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.