Actually I would really like a 5 hour podcast that had none of the Greek stuff but told me about what the Persians were up to in eg Tajikistan or Pakistan or Afghanistan aka the 99% of their empire
I do wish it was possible to tell the Persian story narratively without such heavy emphasis on Greece though
November 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Actually I would really like a 5 hour podcast that had none of the Greek stuff but told me about what the Persians were up to in eg Tajikistan or Pakistan or Afghanistan aka the 99% of their empire
A new Fall of Civilizations episode is always great but this most recent one is a special delight because it reminded me that there was once a Persian King of Kings called Arses
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A new Fall of Civilizations episode is always great but this most recent one is a special delight because it reminded me that there was once a Persian King of Kings called Arses
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
For fully the last 15 mins of Del Toro's Frankenstein all I could hear in my head was Garth Marenghi.
a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
For fully the last 15 mins of Del Toro's Frankenstein all I could hear in my head was Garth Marenghi.
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
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The context in which the Day Today skit is put into this documentary made me laugh so hard my friend asked if I was ok
This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
The Ban
www.newyorker.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The context in which the Day Today skit is put into this documentary made me laugh so hard my friend asked if I was ok
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Bro did you just flank my phalanx. My macedonian phalanx bro, you're flanking it aren't you. Why would you do that dude, I thought we were friends and here you are casually flanking my goddamn phalanx
November 18, 2023 at 12:15 PM
Bro did you just flank my phalanx. My macedonian phalanx bro, you're flanking it aren't you. Why would you do that dude, I thought we were friends and here you are casually flanking my goddamn phalanx
Every time I get a copy edit back I end up feeling like I should send the copy editor flowers to apologise for my shoddy typing.
November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Every time I get a copy edit back I end up feeling like I should send the copy editor flowers to apologise for my shoddy typing.
Been responsible for a child for three days and I feel like I've been run over seventeen times
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Been responsible for a child for three days and I feel like I've been run over seventeen times
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Here’s the final version of the cover of my upcoming book REBEL OF THE REGENCY! Truly an object of beauty, I couldn’t be more thrilled! Thank you to @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social for taking a chance on me!
The book is released in February; get all the links to preorder at rebeloftheregency.com 🤗
The book is released in February; get all the links to preorder at rebeloftheregency.com 🤗
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here’s the final version of the cover of my upcoming book REBEL OF THE REGENCY! Truly an object of beauty, I couldn’t be more thrilled! Thank you to @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social for taking a chance on me!
The book is released in February; get all the links to preorder at rebeloftheregency.com 🤗
The book is released in February; get all the links to preorder at rebeloftheregency.com 🤗
Burst out laughing at the bishop of York claiming that today's world is "more polarised than ever" while celebrating the king having out with the pope for the first time in 600 years because of all the BURNING EACH OTHER ALIVE people did in the 1500s
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Burst out laughing at the bishop of York claiming that today's world is "more polarised than ever" while celebrating the king having out with the pope for the first time in 600 years because of all the BURNING EACH OTHER ALIVE people did in the 1500s
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
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Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
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As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
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Glad to see Celebrity Traitors is no different than regular Traitors when it comes to reading intelligent analysis of what's going on as a cause for suspicion. David Olusoga: "Think logically. Don't get swept along by groupthink." The rest: "He's being too clever. Burn him!"
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Glad to see Celebrity Traitors is no different than regular Traitors when it comes to reading intelligent analysis of what's going on as a cause for suspicion. David Olusoga: "Think logically. Don't get swept along by groupthink." The rest: "He's being too clever. Burn him!"
Am on the final Vorkosigan book (sob) and the reveal that Cordelia and Aral are and have always been Sex People has truly delighted me
October 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Am on the final Vorkosigan book (sob) and the reveal that Cordelia and Aral are and have always been Sex People has truly delighted me
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Thrilled to say I'm a judge for the first ever Inspiring History Teaching Awards, in association with Historic Royal Palaces. Do you know a great history teacher in the UK who deserves to go down in history? Nominate them here bit.ly/42yhGZP
Inspiring History Teaching Awards
Created by Historic Royal Palaces, these awards celebrate teachers who make history exciting, inclusive and meaningful. We want to recognise the impact that great teachers can make by bringing the pas...
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Thrilled to say I'm a judge for the first ever Inspiring History Teaching Awards, in association with Historic Royal Palaces. Do you know a great history teacher in the UK who deserves to go down in history? Nominate them here bit.ly/42yhGZP
Slightly surreal that a significant plot point in the tv show I'm watching is a character writing and pitching the exact book I'm writing next
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Slightly surreal that a significant plot point in the tv show I'm watching is a character writing and pitching the exact book I'm writing next
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Supporters of male primogeniture during the Anarchy of the 12th century:
From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:
October 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Supporters of male primogeniture during the Anarchy of the 12th century:
Finally got a stupid ai written bookclub scam email. Was beginning to feel a bit left out.
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Finally got a stupid ai written bookclub scam email. Was beginning to feel a bit left out.
Turns out that the biometric border thing is what finally prompts me to do the admin nightmare that is pulling together my Irish passport application documentation and get my eu privileges back
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Turns out that the biometric border thing is what finally prompts me to do the admin nightmare that is pulling together my Irish passport application documentation and get my eu privileges back
Reading the new Penguin Classic Horror Anthology where they've copy pasted a load of 19th Century short stories together with such little effort that they've left the explanatory endnote numbers in the text of one of the stories but haven't included the endnotes. Just numbers floating in a void.
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Reading the new Penguin Classic Horror Anthology where they've copy pasted a load of 19th Century short stories together with such little effort that they've left the explanatory endnote numbers in the text of one of the stories but haven't included the endnotes. Just numbers floating in a void.
Fun fact: Thiel didn't even come up with the gawker lawsuit idea. It was pitched to him by a student at Oxford who went on to come up with the Enhanced Games aka the Steroid Olympics, also bankrolled with Thiel's money. The world is so stupid.
Peter Thiel turning out to be this stupid honestly messes with my idea of him as the eminence grise behind the Gawker lawsuit, maybe Hogan pitched him on it and kept having to explain like “a lawsuit is like when they blew up the Death Star brother”
October 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Fun fact: Thiel didn't even come up with the gawker lawsuit idea. It was pitched to him by a student at Oxford who went on to come up with the Enhanced Games aka the Steroid Olympics, also bankrolled with Thiel's money. The world is so stupid.