Adam hit a car on the way to the campsite denting both the car and the minibus.

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Just for any academics, let me be clear, Hookland is anti-nostalgic. It's an exploration and exorcism of my childhood, not a celebration of falsely remembered sunshine. Nostalgia is a warping gravity.

I spent years researching how 1970s Britain was essentially constant cultural panic attacks about supposed terminal decline, due to things like *checks notes* inexpensive concrete public art Is it worse to cultivate imperial nostalgic declinist nonsense for a decade, or to forget doing it?

B-36 production line, Consolidated Forth Worth plant, c. 1951 That's a big stick.

A genuine test track *on top* of a Fiat factory in Turin, Italy. 😊

Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com 230; HyphenPunk @hyphenpunk.bsky.social 3; Peter Marshall, Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney #FridayReads

I’m really enjoying drawing drones into classic paintings for my Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone series little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-three-dr...

The thing about philosophy — which was there on day one — is that you can watch these *gorgeous* lines of argumentation all coming to the conclusion that Actually This Part of the Status Quo is Great, Thanks for Asking. It doesn’t mean it isn’t fascinating or even educative. It just isn’t radical.

Situated in what was the former hamlet of Norton Lees, a tiny village surrounded by the fields of the Derbyshire countryside, with Sheffield a small town some two miles away is the Bishops House. Dating to around the mid 16th century with later rebuilding and extensions, the

I love writing one single article over and over again every month

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

BRITISH RAIL IS TRAVELLING (1969)

CHOTINER: So you had reasons for visiting the island? SUMMERS: Is butiful plce CHOTINER: Is that buttiful or beautiful? SUMMERS: 51 % of 1. Wmen or seenery, nt shr wich.

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

I attended SFF cons as a teenager. I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college. "Oh wow you look way older" No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped. They know what the hell they're doing.

Dear ABC radio, please have somebody with more expertise than me explain to you why “renewables are the cheapest form of power” and “power prices have gone up in the last years in spite of increased renewables” are not contradictory statements. And why slowing renewables will not bring prices down.

A classic example of the inversions of settler colonialism: the settler becomes the native and the Indigenous person becomes an outsider on their own land.

“Actually, he only raped teenagers” is a hell of a thing to say out loud.

Scientists Confirm Aurora Borealis Will Be Visible On Google Images Tonight https://theonion.com/scientists-confirm-aurora-borealis-will-be-visible-on-google-images-tonight/

Did she just call it mansplaining to have a problem with the NYT covering up Trump’s connections to Epstein, or should I expect to smell burnt toast in a few moments

a woman helped Buffalo Bill load his van, setting off a chain of events that ended in him getting shot by agent Clarice Starling

Got a trackback on Airminded today from an old-school 911 truther (also a nuclear weapons and a conventional bombing denier). Bless

For the first time since it's founding there's an actual conspiracy that indicts powerful elites and there are actual documents that actually prove it and Infowars is like "nah"

Reminds me of the best post ever from Phoebe Bridgers

A few photos of how history pops through the slickness of the now. This is a corner in the Museumincel area. The Red Army advanced through here towards the civic district of Berlin in 1945. There’s quite a few bullet impacts still in evidence including some quite large calibre.

a “Space Force”, if you will

It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating

This is fucking me up. The most powerful people really are the biggest dorks on the planet.

Night all

Reminder that Dan Hannan is the idiot who thought Brexit would lead to 10% annual GDP growth for multiple years, the EU would come back to the UK on bended knees begging to be admitted, etc etc. He's *reliably* wrong—a valuable service to those of us who recognize idiocy on stilts.

Just a reminder - even if the LNP had not decided to dump the net zero target, they would still be irrelevant to what the Govt can do.

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (123.33803, 57.85224). 32 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.🔭

𓋔𓇋𓄿𓂋𓈌𓊵 or "Nyarlathotep" in Egyptian hieroglyphics according to a Reddit post. I was looking for a font to typeset the name but most of them are only mapped to the English alphabet. Happily, there's a set of Unicode hieroglyphics with many more characters.

today I sent off a book proposal to a publisher and they got straight back to me to say it looks good & will go out to review! feeling very productive and pleased with myself💪 now I'm supposed to be marking 22 essays on the 1848 revolutions, as a little reward

Science is not a high school debate club with people on stage. Scientific arguments need to be backed by evidence (and method and theory). Politicians and crackpots argue against things all the time irrespective of the evidence.

JFC...people obsessed with Hitler's genitalia are SO FUCKING WEIRD. It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler. Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.

What's the feeling for a Ridley Scott Battle of Britain movie? Which, according to this website includes Lancasters. This is the man who got his armourers to change the way grenades exploded on Black Hawk Down because they were "not Ridley Scott explosions". www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...

Archive-based teaching this afternoon, on the post-war reconstruction of central Coventry.

a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found

emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts

192 years ago, on the 13th of November 1833, the Leonid meteor storm appeared over north America. Together with Halley's Comet this greatly impacted the study of meteors. It was described by Native American nations, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln among others. #otd 🗃️

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Still can’t figure out if being able to regularly work in here would be amazing or just very distracting 📍 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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