I spent some time going through videos and interviews with London residents who were displaced by the Olympics in 2012 for this episode and in response the general consensus from anyone in power was: Fuck off, leave me alone, the opening ceremony was brilliant, stop complaining.

Called it! iykyk Listen to Blood Work @bloodwork.show

Amazing story @failuretolaunch.bsky.social i need you guys to come back on the show for more moon stories

Had a blast gabbing about Michael Moore's sole narrative film "Canadian Bacon" and about the glories of both John Candy and Baywatch.

the chief executive of Cancer Research UK is neither a cancer patient nor a cancer researcher, and yet everyone seems to understand that that’s fine, because neither of those would be the correct experience for the job??

This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.

New *Stories* episode! For some reason I've been thinking a lot about pointless wars rss.com/podcasts/our... #Pratchett #SunTzu #stories #myths #podcast #war

The world does not need more undergraduate history essays but does need more people who can write good ones.

In 1980, Terry Fox tried to run across the country on one leg to raise money for cancer research. Can we take this unproblematic, universally beloved, unequivocal hero and still extract a downer episode out of it? Tune in to find out! (with @ourstories.bsky.social) youtu.be/FtS-7K9JLU4

I strongly recommend this book if you enjoy fantasy or military fiction! Full review to come 📖

Any fantasy book reviewers around that want to take a look at some gunpowder fantasy?

I'm back! After a short hiatus I've got an episode about stories told and manipulated with statistics rss.com/podcasts/our...

Girlduiding and Women's Institute say the law forces them to exclude trans women. But that's not true. We are offering to indemnify them against legal risk if they change course. If they remain trans exclusive, their members can know it's management's ideological choice.

Boycotts are necessary! Big protests are necessary! Economic blackouts are necessary! Workers calling out sick or taking time off to support these causes is necessary! Mutual aid is BEYOND necessary! But they are not strikes.

Words matter - it’s important to pick the right ones to tell the story of your movement

Hi! Minnesotan here. We are not normally showy people. We don’t talk to strangers much. But all of us are desperately trying to tell you that something very bad is happening here. Not because Minnesota needs help (though we do), but as a warning. This is coming for everyone. Abolish ICE now.

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 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

More than 68,000 women have already added their names to our letter in solidarity - Together we are showing that trans exclusion is not being done in our name. You can join us and help keep the momentum growing… ✍️ Sign here: notinourname.org.uk 🔄 Please share to help us reach even more supporters

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.

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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".