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Palaeographic suggestions? This boxed letter is found in a late-12th c Aristotelian MS. Did someone see a similar use? I have an idea about its meaning, but I cannot remember anything of the kind (MS Avranches, BM, 221, f. 13r)
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Palaeographic suggestions? This boxed letter is found in a late-12th c Aristotelian MS. Did someone see a similar use? I have an idea about its meaning, but I cannot remember anything of the kind (MS Avranches, BM, 221, f. 13r)
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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Our first talk of 2026 is on 17 January 2.30pm by Dr John Price - Educating Deptford: The Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community, exploring stories of the children who attended. Tickets £5, location Central Library Bexleyheath - contact us to book your place! @jpaprice.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Our first talk of 2026 is on 17 January 2.30pm by Dr John Price - Educating Deptford: The Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community, exploring stories of the children who attended. Tickets £5, location Central Library Bexleyheath - contact us to book your place! @jpaprice.bsky.social
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No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.
October 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.
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If we must do a comparison of which American president did a better job securing the release of Israeli hostages, the answer is Joe Biden.
Biden's cease-fires got 135 living hostages released. Trump's got 20 (which is less than it would have been had he enforced the continuation of the January cease fire).
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If we must do a comparison of which American president did a better job securing the release of Israeli hostages, the answer is Joe Biden.
It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)
September 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.
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oh that reminds me, is @royalsociety.org still gonna twiddle their thumbs while their Fellow, Elon Musk, is championing the alt-right in the UK?
At what point do we all just have to assume that the Royal Society is happy to be associated with white supremacists and fascists?
At what point do we all just have to assume that the Royal Society is happy to be associated with white supremacists and fascists?
September 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
oh that reminds me, is @royalsociety.org still gonna twiddle their thumbs while their Fellow, Elon Musk, is championing the alt-right in the UK?
At what point do we all just have to assume that the Royal Society is happy to be associated with white supremacists and fascists?
At what point do we all just have to assume that the Royal Society is happy to be associated with white supremacists and fascists?
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BTW Karen Attiah is teaching a course this fall on Race, Media and International Affairs. www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
BTW Karen Attiah is teaching a course this fall on Race, Media and International Affairs. www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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Because of course
EXPOSED: Britain First’s “March for Remigration” led by convicted people smuggler
HOPE not hate can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migran...
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September 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Because of course
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Nationalism— the idea that there is a natural unity among an ethnoracial people speaking a single language— is young but thoroughly taken for granted today. It is tied directly to the idea that the national unity creates an inherent right to a bounded territory claimed by the state. It must go.
Also, even the idea of a single national identity for most European countries is relatively new, despite the claim of these "ancient nations."
As of 1794, only 11% of people in France spoke French as a first language, and nearly half didn't speak French or spoke it poorly.
As of 1794, only 11% of people in France spoke French as a first language, and nearly half didn't speak French or spoke it poorly.
This made me laugh. The United States is almost a century older than Italy!
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Nationalism— the idea that there is a natural unity among an ethnoracial people speaking a single language— is young but thoroughly taken for granted today. It is tied directly to the idea that the national unity creates an inherent right to a bounded territory claimed by the state. It must go.
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Everyone making services needs to watch out for ‘fauxtomation’ - where the automation just means passing labour on to the user or customer. logicmag.io/failure/the-...
August 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Everyone making services needs to watch out for ‘fauxtomation’ - where the automation just means passing labour on to the user or customer. logicmag.io/failure/the-...
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UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says
UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says
Findings suggest since 2004 ONS failed to properly account for fact it received more data from larger employers
The UK’s gender pay gap has been underestimated for more than 20 years, according to research that could raise fresh questions about the quality of data used to inform key pay decisions across the UK.
The findings, released in the British Journal of Industrial Relations on Monday, suggest that, since 2004, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) had failed to properly account for the fact that it received more data from larger employers, when it reported its annual survey of hours and earnings (Ashe). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says
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I’d heard rumours that a Playmobil Cistercian monk was a thing that existed, and I can now confirm those rumours are TRUE. It’s not easy to get hold of tho - a special limited edition for Eberbach Abbey
July 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I’d heard rumours that a Playmobil Cistercian monk was a thing that existed, and I can now confirm those rumours are TRUE. It’s not easy to get hold of tho - a special limited edition for Eberbach Abbey
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Part of me thinks that the reduction of “citizen” to a mere “taxpayer” is of a piece with a more general assault on American Democracy. Republicans started this and too many Democrats have adopted it as well. We need robust and active citizens who do, and are, so much more than taxpayers.
“[These] inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers, that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.” www.al.com/politics/202...
Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
www.al.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Part of me thinks that the reduction of “citizen” to a mere “taxpayer” is of a piece with a more general assault on American Democracy. Republicans started this and too many Democrats have adopted it as well. We need robust and active citizens who do, and are, so much more than taxpayers.
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A truly amazing essay. AI hype has made me obsessed with the *embodiment* of intelligence in physical and social space. This essay captures the essence of both, even down to its aside on How Not to Be Killed in the Basement of the British Library.
Yes! My ranty take: "Something without a brain scrabbled around and found stuff that looks like content but isn’t, because it wasn’t chosen, analyzed, and written by a person. Frankenstein’s monster copy-paste jobs from a bunch of different places? That’s not a summary. That’s word salad."
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
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June 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A truly amazing essay. AI hype has made me obsessed with the *embodiment* of intelligence in physical and social space. This essay captures the essence of both, even down to its aside on How Not to Be Killed in the Basement of the British Library.
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Sophie Page reviews 'Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death', by Joanne Edge @hagenilda.bsky.social
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Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death, By Joanne Edge
Divination is the art of interpreting signs, sometimes with the help of specialists, to predict the future or uncover hidden things. In late medieval Brita
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June 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Sophie Page reviews 'Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death', by Joanne Edge @hagenilda.bsky.social
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I just published: EHRC still can't explain how or why they published the “bathroom bill” interim guidance
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June 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I just published: EHRC still can't explain how or why they published the “bathroom bill” interim guidance
ashleeee.substack.com/p/ehrc-still...
ashleeee.substack.com/p/ehrc-still...
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Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, 1530
A book of embroidery designs.
Here are some creatures - real & imagined - for your needle to work on. Giovanni Andrea Vavassore
(Met Museum)
A book of embroidery designs.
Here are some creatures - real & imagined - for your needle to work on. Giovanni Andrea Vavassore
(Met Museum)
June 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, 1530
A book of embroidery designs.
Here are some creatures - real & imagined - for your needle to work on. Giovanni Andrea Vavassore
(Met Museum)
A book of embroidery designs.
Here are some creatures - real & imagined - for your needle to work on. Giovanni Andrea Vavassore
(Met Museum)
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UCU and the trade union movement will protect and stand with trans people, whether the law cares or not.
Join us for an emergency demo in London.
🏳️⚧️ Parliament Square 1pm
🏳️⚧️ Saturday 19 April
Join us for an emergency demo in London.
🏳️⚧️ Parliament Square 1pm
🏳️⚧️ Saturday 19 April
April 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
UCU and the trade union movement will protect and stand with trans people, whether the law cares or not.
Join us for an emergency demo in London.
🏳️⚧️ Parliament Square 1pm
🏳️⚧️ Saturday 19 April
Join us for an emergency demo in London.
🏳️⚧️ Parliament Square 1pm
🏳️⚧️ Saturday 19 April