*sucks teeth* sorry, mate, think you’ll find that’s a structural Jesus

how theory are we talking? I like the edited collection “what is history now” and not only because I’m in it… I also tend to recommend Ulkina Rublack’s Concise Companion to History which has these essays

and great optics, of course

@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com omg marie a friend sent this picture from her US hotel room tv this week

MY son would never hit someone out of nowhere, he must have been provoked by YOUR child

@kasiatee.bsky.social @danhancox.bsky.social BIG PEA

oh so now your preferred method of travel is plain old “walking”, huh

did Sean Connery write this pronunciation guide

Friday definitely hotter in London than today — but there is now a red warning until Friday at 9pm and an amber warning until Saturday night so I presume it’s just a timing thing

I know why this happens but it’s still very funny

not only is the AI DJ at it again, but my phone read this screenshot and tried to add it to my calendar as an appointment next Monday afternoon. the machines must be stopped.

right, but… activism *is* performative because language is a form of social action that can bring about change in itself. this motion means exactly the opposite of what you think it means.

thanks newham

This response is understandable, and feels compassionate. I said very similar things about the area that I grew up, which voted heavily for Brexit. But the thing is: these people have been indulged in their ideas — which are racist, and also simply incoherent — for over a decade.

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

men will literally explain anything to women

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social do I… suddenly understand Japanese

the baby is eating kasza manna with frozen forest fruits for breakfast

the baby is eating Greek yoghurt, tahini and date syrup for breakfast

Ahhhh: was I right that the Democracy Volunteers coverage on the day was vaguely suss? Because this picture on their website made me pause.

to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here

we did get 2 emails in the early days of the pandemic that made me cry with laughter: both this incredibly dramatic warning and the later one when we could access campus again which basically told us to bring back the dangerous contraband we’d all smuggled home from labs and say no more about it

the rest of it is somehow *worse* than this but not as clippable

these ChatGPT book promo emails have become more frequent — this is about Is Free Speech Under Threat, I’ve also had them about Imperial Island — and godddd, this cadence, this tone, this vocabulary. why did they teach AI to write like this?!