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Speaker Profile: Kimberley Fraser: "Wind beneath their Wings: 100 Years of flight at Canada's Oldest Operating Airport" Since 1926, Cooking Lake has been a vital gateway to Canada’s vast north. Dr. Fraser shows the spirit of early risk-takers echoes. Dets & Tix: aviationcultures.org/aviation-cul...

Historian friends: what are you using these days to manage sources & notes and make sure you know where everything is when it's time to write? DevonThink? Something else? I'm gearing up for a sabbatical and want to refresh my approach!

“This is different for coders” - everyone should be a coder. Everyone should be making software. You’re on a computer 18 hours a day what do you mean you don’t want to bend it to your will. You’re just like… letting other people decide what your computer does???

I prefer this place to the other one, but I don't have many followers here yet. Help me with the odd share if you like what I do. Ta.

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

By my quick in the lockup calculation- the cut to the NDIS was roughly 10% in real terms. Absolutely brutal.

The case studies hey

Tele having a normal one I see.

One thing over the past few years that I have found liberating is that I have begun to understand "propaganda" as not necessarily bad or even untrue. As a leftist, I freaking love some of it, particularly from the Spanish Civil War:

“This poll represents a seismic shift in the way Australians think about the United States,” said Dr Emma Shortis, Director of The Australia Institute’s International & Security Affairs Program. “We need to break up with Trump.” Read more: https://theaus.in/4f6KFea

Slowly being driven mad by the fast food franchise model in college education. A university system is most effective when its constituent campuses offer a diversity of approaches and programs capable of producing an equally complex labor force with a wide range of cultural and technical capabilities

Another twist to the Politico story on the data center causing low water pressure: There was this great local reporting on the issue that found that the complaint about low water pressure was coming from a private well that the data center didn't even draw from thecitizen.com/2026/05/11/b...

What you write in an “editor’s note” at the end of a story when you are definitely a credible news outlet running reporting by a legitimate journalist

Entrance steps of WW2 air raid shelter on the Rockingham Estate, south London. Dig up by @uclarchaeology.bsky.social students. Note white paint for visibility in blackout. Section on right seems hollow, could this be a way inside?? 10 mins later: nope it is well sealed with solid concrete. Dammit!

Definitely beleaguered now

In 18 years of closely watching federal budgets, I've never seen a budget measure with this level of social spending cuts (not even in Joe Hockey's 2014 budget). $36b in NDIS cuts over the forward estimates

This is insane. You cannot jump to the experimental fringes of new knowledge by replacing basic understanding with a chatbot. You might as well ask students to watch a magic show.

It's kicking off in Nottingham lads

Never forget that Australia's Treasurer has a PhD; that doctorate is in political science; and that it uses 🫣 two (2) fonts in its title. 😬 #ausecon #auspol

At some point there needs to be a *proper* conversation about how cruelty has become a new normal for so many people. And we can't just keep putting it down to structures. Too many people with plenty of agency are actively choosing this.

Torygasp having a normal one. God's OpEd on p.8

CF Snowbirds making a fuel stop en route from Comox, BC to Moose Jaw, SK at Calgary International Airport (YYC) May 12, 2023 ⚔️🛩️📸

The Jarrow Marchers sigh, turn around, and walk home....

I, too, am old enough to remember when the entire National Conversation™️ focused on the need for Democrats to Tone Down The Rhetoric because of fears about Political Violence.

OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June

The acting chancellor of the Australian National University confirms four more members of the university council have resigned, following last week's exit of former chancellor Julie Bishop.

Of all the many things that are not going to happen over the next 30 years, this is among the things that are most not going to happen.

So much death and destruction and suffering imposed *for nothing*, for old men's dreams of glory and vain ambitions of achieving their Gender. Absolutely bottom tier stuff.

I know it's been said a million times but honestly, honestly, the US-Israeli war on Iran is genuinely one of the most fucked up things I have seen in international affairs in my life. It is genuinely shocking to me, in a way I think it would be bad to lose sight of, just how bad this has been.

Sea and Land (1887) A Victorian-era _Monster Manual_. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/05/sea-and-land-1887/ #TTRPG

Down in the incredible, atmospheric crypt at Lastingham Church, North Yorkshire 🤩 It dates from at least the 11th century, and perhaps has some earlier fabric within it. More photos in thread…

KIM KITSURAGI - “The pinball machine?” The lieutenant glances at the machine. “Gurdi's Goats. A classic.” REACTION SPEED - Oh it's more than just a classic -- a must-play. All serious pinballers have attempted a *tempo-run*.

In an interview, Mommy said 'peekaboo' and reappeared, seeming to undermine messaging from moments earlier when she disappeared.

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/lilian..., courtesy of @dib.ie

As @brionyneilson.bsky.social once informed me, Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero have in the past described historians as like grave-robbers.

Ever wanted an easy way to save newspaper articles in Trove as high-resolution images? I've created a userscript that makes it easy to download cropped and masked articles, as well as full page images. https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-images-userscript

Great news coming! It's about one of the attached. Even without the 'upgrade', we can confirm we've noted experts presenting on each of all four types. Which one gets the 'upgrade'? Either way, with those four to hear about, why wouldn't you join us? Please do: aviationcultures.org/aviation-cul...

Medical science is extraordinary. For eg here we have proof that a man whose brain is just rancid cheese is now able to speak in almost complete sentences. Nonsensical sentences, but still.

This analysis falls into the trap of "every policy should have an economically redistributive impact in its own right", rather than "it's fine within the context of progressive taxation to fund things that benefit society overall even when they also provide individual benefits to wealthier groups"

This is beyond parody

"distinctive Australian spirit" = decades of being hateful to all manner of marginalised groups. Quite happy to lose even more of that, bud.

New War & Society article! @drmeganekelleher.bsky.social considers challenges faced by Imperial War Graves Commission in commemoration & care of RAF personnel buried in UK. @tlgrady68.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One picture, thousands of years… 🗺️ Chester, England

Anti-Nuclear poster, NYC, 1984. Love the design on this one. Very of the era. It comes from the Cornell Persuasive Cartography collection, which has over 1000 #maps! digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3... Whole collection digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/... 🗃️ #c20th

Surely they've suffered enough?

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