Isabelle Roughol
@isabelleroughol.com
broadhistory.com
Founder & host, Broad History | Indie media executive | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, almost 🇺🇸, once 🇦🇺 & 🇰🇭, forever MIZ 🐯
Founder & host, Broad History | Indie media executive | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, almost 🇺🇸, once 🇦🇺 & 🇰🇭, forever MIZ 🐯
My first podcast episode is currently being held hostage by AI – turns out AI-powered software is so good it corrupts every file that gets near.
Drop your email on my list or just comment "AI ate my podcast" and I'll send it to you after I've paid the ransom. www.broadhistory.com
Drop your email on my list or just comment "AI ate my podcast" and I'll send it to you after I've paid the ransom. www.broadhistory.com
Broad History
The history you think you know – with women in it this time
www.broadhistory.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
My first podcast episode is currently being held hostage by AI – turns out AI-powered software is so good it corrupts every file that gets near.
Drop your email on my list or just comment "AI ate my podcast" and I'll send it to you after I've paid the ransom. www.broadhistory.com
Drop your email on my list or just comment "AI ate my podcast" and I'll send it to you after I've paid the ransom. www.broadhistory.com
There are only two good things about February: its merciful shortness, and this great moment in American journalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PB...
Whole 'nother Story - February
YouTube video by KMOX
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
There are only two good things about February: its merciful shortness, and this great moment in American journalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PB...
Reposted by Isabelle Roughol
Storytime: @trustfnd.com started because of trans journalists.
When unprecedented attacks on trans people escalated last year, I felt like I saw into the future of community-driven journalism—but also saw one big problem: fragmentation.
I wanted to build something to fix that.
When unprecedented attacks on trans people escalated last year, I felt like I saw into the future of community-driven journalism—but also saw one big problem: fragmentation.
I wanted to build something to fix that.
February 1, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Storytime: @trustfnd.com started because of trans journalists.
When unprecedented attacks on trans people escalated last year, I felt like I saw into the future of community-driven journalism—but also saw one big problem: fragmentation.
I wanted to build something to fix that.
When unprecedented attacks on trans people escalated last year, I felt like I saw into the future of community-driven journalism—but also saw one big problem: fragmentation.
I wanted to build something to fix that.
Possibly the hardest part of making a podcast is finding the 4 seconds of music that open it.
January 29, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Possibly the hardest part of making a podcast is finding the 4 seconds of music that open it.
Can I even post a 2 minute video on bluesky? I'm about to find out. Watch to the end for shameless cat exploitation video.
Coming soon… sign up at broadhistory.com.
Coming soon… sign up at broadhistory.com.
January 28, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Can I even post a 2 minute video on bluesky? I'm about to find out. Watch to the end for shameless cat exploitation video.
Coming soon… sign up at broadhistory.com.
Coming soon… sign up at broadhistory.com.
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Broad History: Introducing Broad History. Have a listen:
Introducing Broad History
Listen to this episode of Broad History
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January 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Broad History: Introducing Broad History. Have a listen:
Woke up as always with French public radio today and hearing professional journalists casually (and accurately) use words like “collapse of the rule of law” and “murder by police” referring to the United States broke me.
January 26, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Woke up as always with French public radio today and hearing professional journalists casually (and accurately) use words like “collapse of the rule of law” and “murder by police” referring to the United States broke me.
Sneak peak... first episode of the new pod with the fantastic @vnbateman.bsky.social in the editing bay... 🎉 Sign up for launch updates at broadhistory.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Sneak peak... first episode of the new pod with the fantastic @vnbateman.bsky.social in the editing bay... 🎉 Sign up for launch updates at broadhistory.com
Is it me or has every piece of software you use been ruined by AI features you don't need cluttering the UI and eating up CPU until it becomes utterly unusable? No? Just me?
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Is it me or has every piece of software you use been ruined by AI features you don't need cluttering the UI and eating up CPU until it becomes utterly unusable? No? Just me?
Reposted by Isabelle Roughol
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Reposted by Isabelle Roughol
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
Kids these days and all but there is a dude playing endless videos without headphones in front of me rn and he's definitely Boomer bordering on Silent Generation (I wish)
January 15, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Kids these days and all but there is a dude playing endless videos without headphones in front of me rn and he's definitely Boomer bordering on Silent Generation (I wish)
The Stranger Things making off is a throwback to the great era of dvd extras. Storytelling & world-building nerdery gold. We need more of this
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The Stranger Things making off is a throwback to the great era of dvd extras. Storytelling & world-building nerdery gold. We need more of this
This is totally normal. Nope. No problem at all.
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 AM
This is totally normal. Nope. No problem at all.
Shocking really? I thought it was telegraphed from the first few minutes of the first episode.
www.thetimes.com/article/5346...
www.thetimes.com/article/5346...
The Night Manager’s shocking twist is the bombshell series two needed
The return of an original character in the third episode was a lesson in how to keep a TV secret. Spoilers ahead
www.thetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Shocking really? I thought it was telegraphed from the first few minutes of the first episode.
www.thetimes.com/article/5346...
www.thetimes.com/article/5346...
For the umpteenth time: Citizens, whether naturalised or not, are citizens. In a state under democratic rule of law, you cannot apply different penalties for the same offense based on a citizen’s origins. The nature of the offense is irrelevant. This shouldn’t need explaining.
"Farage and Badenoch are free to offer up an explanation as to why Connolly should be able to incite violence without consequence, while el-Fattah should face extrajudicial punishment for it. Until they do so, there is an all too obvious one: they are openly pandering to racists."
Calls to remove el-Fattah’s UK citizenship are dictatorial
Yes his tweets were disgusting, possibly criminal, yet it should not be possible for politicians to revoke someone’s national identity just because they dislike their views
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
For the umpteenth time: Citizens, whether naturalised or not, are citizens. In a state under democratic rule of law, you cannot apply different penalties for the same offense based on a citizen’s origins. The nature of the offense is irrelevant. This shouldn’t need explaining.
I was sitting in a Belsize Park café I often frequent and had my back turned to Ryan Gosling the entire time.
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I was sitting in a Belsize Park café I often frequent and had my back turned to Ryan Gosling the entire time.
Conde Nast somehow merged my digital account with someone else’s print New Yorker subscription in the US. I have their name, street address and full personal details. Have for years. Hi, Sarah.
Over the years I’ve helped several people with their online subscriptions to various Condé Nast properties, and oy vey, nothing about this surprises me. Their user authentication has always been a cluster fuck.
www-bleepingcomputer-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.blee...
www-bleepingcomputer-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.blee...
Hacker claims to leak WIRED database with 2.3 million records
A hacker claims to have breached Condé Nast and leaked an alleged WIRED database containing more than 2.3 million subscriber records, while also warning that they plan to release up to 40 million addi...
www-bleepingcomputer-com.cdn.ampproject.org
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Conde Nast somehow merged my digital account with someone else’s print New Yorker subscription in the US. I have their name, street address and full personal details. Have for years. Hi, Sarah.
Out: Audiobooks aren’t books.
In: Video podcasts aren’t podcasts.
In: Video podcasts aren’t podcasts.
December 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Out: Audiobooks aren’t books.
In: Video podcasts aren’t podcasts.
In: Video podcasts aren’t podcasts.
Being a woman is googling a fairly common ailment and reading “doctors aren’t yet quite sure why…”
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Being a woman is googling a fairly common ailment and reading “doctors aren’t yet quite sure why…”
I can’t believe you missed the chance to tell the weirdest Saint Nicolas story yet, @empirepoduk.bsky.social, the one I grew up with in Lorraine where old St Nick saws back together the bodies of 3 little boys dismembered, cured and PICKLED by the local butcher 7 years earlier! Happy Christmas 🩸🔪
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I can’t believe you missed the chance to tell the weirdest Saint Nicolas story yet, @empirepoduk.bsky.social, the one I grew up with in Lorraine where old St Nick saws back together the bodies of 3 little boys dismembered, cured and PICKLED by the local butcher 7 years earlier! Happy Christmas 🩸🔪
Now i’ve watched the 60 Minutes CECOT segment. You should too (now coz they get taken down fast). It’s not even anything you haven’t heard before. It’s still damning. Both US and Salvadorian govt had a chance to respond and opted not to.
December 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Now i’ve watched the 60 Minutes CECOT segment. You should too (now coz they get taken down fast). It’s not even anything you haven’t heard before. It’s still damning. Both US and Salvadorian govt had a chance to respond and opted not to.
When you write an email like this, you want it leaked. As you should. Nobody is surprised that this is Bari Weiss’s cbs.
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
When you write an email like this, you want it leaked. As you should. Nobody is surprised that this is Bari Weiss’s cbs.
No one has a natural right to that land. Everywhere, borders are stories we tell ourselves, fictions that hold for a little or a long while, usually born from a more or less steady end to a conflict. How wide we set the lens when we look at that story matters.
Look, I know this wouldn't be The Guardian if they didn't try to shoehorn colonisation into it, but if you're gonna make colonial borders half your explanation, you really ought to go back a century more and consider Thai imperialism as well. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
What to know about the Thailand-Cambodia conflict – video analysis
Oliver Holmes looks at how colonial maps, simmering nationalism and Donald Trump have a role in Thailand and Cambodia's border dispute
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
No one has a natural right to that land. Everywhere, borders are stories we tell ourselves, fictions that hold for a little or a long while, usually born from a more or less steady end to a conflict. How wide we set the lens when we look at that story matters.
Look, I know this wouldn't be The Guardian if they didn't try to shoehorn colonisation into it, but if you're gonna make colonial borders half your explanation, you really ought to go back a century more and consider Thai imperialism as well. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
What to know about the Thailand-Cambodia conflict – video analysis
Oliver Holmes looks at how colonial maps, simmering nationalism and Donald Trump have a role in Thailand and Cambodia's border dispute
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Look, I know this wouldn't be The Guardian if they didn't try to shoehorn colonisation into it, but if you're gonna make colonial borders half your explanation, you really ought to go back a century more and consider Thai imperialism as well. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...