JudithFlanders
@judithflanders.co.uk
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
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Defoe forgets the attachment.
February 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Defoe forgets the attachment.
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If any musical acts require advice on integrating Clausewitz or his theory of war into their set, my dms are open
Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison.
Hell of a flex for your tenure file.
Hell of a flex for your tenure file.
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
If any musical acts require advice on integrating Clausewitz or his theory of war into their set, my dms are open
Is it a bad sign when taking notes on a book, after the citation I type, 'NO THEY FUCKING DIDN'T, YOU LUNATIC'.
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Is it a bad sign when taking notes on a book, after the citation I type, 'NO THEY FUCKING DIDN'T, YOU LUNATIC'.
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
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If any other global megastar needs a consulting historian, I'm available. Just putting it out there.
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
If any other global megastar needs a consulting historian, I'm available. Just putting it out there.
My dad said ‘What are you going to do with a history degree?’
Look at this, dad!
Look at this, dad!
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
My dad said ‘What are you going to do with a history degree?’
Look at this, dad!
Look at this, dad!
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I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
Get Involved — Bookbanks
www.bookbanks.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM
I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
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McMaster University has posted the email written by the professor to Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas, granting her an extension on her assignment.
“I’d say focus on the competition right now, and submit it directly to me when it is done”
This is a really lovely note.
“I’d say focus on the competition right now, and submit it directly to me when it is done”
This is a really lovely note.
February 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
McMaster University has posted the email written by the professor to Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas, granting her an extension on her assignment.
“I’d say focus on the competition right now, and submit it directly to me when it is done”
This is a really lovely note.
“I’d say focus on the competition right now, and submit it directly to me when it is done”
This is a really lovely note.
Robert Lepage’s Macbeth: adapted into québecois French, with all the characters being Hell’s Angels. Sounds horrifying, and was the best production of Macbeth I’ve ever seen.
youtu.be/hj4utAfylAw?...
youtu.be/hj4utAfylAw?...
Le Diamant présente Macbeth | Stratford Festival 2025 — TNM — Ex Machina / Robert Lepage — CNA
YouTube video by Le Diamant
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Robert Lepage’s Macbeth: adapted into québecois French, with all the characters being Hell’s Angels. Sounds horrifying, and was the best production of Macbeth I’ve ever seen.
youtu.be/hj4utAfylAw?...
youtu.be/hj4utAfylAw?...
Feature, not bug.
McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
February 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Feature, not bug.
The Guardian goes embarrassingly monoglot. I don’t speak Portuguese, and even I recognise that the last part of film director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s name means ‘Junior’. Not the Graun. Nope, ‘Filho says…’ it pronounces.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
‘I’ve been advised not to say certain things’: The Secret Agent makers on Oscars, dictators and death threats
The actor Wagner Moura and writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho explain how the Brazilian thriller mirrors their experiences of political corruption and why they are compelled to speak out
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The Guardian goes embarrassingly monoglot. I don’t speak Portuguese, and even I recognise that the last part of film director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s name means ‘Junior’. Not the Graun. Nope, ‘Filho says…’ it pronounces.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Since the Guardian sold the Observer down the river, the latter has been all but unreadable. Now the subscription has been hived off,
— for the first time in my adult life I don’t have a newspaper on Sunday
— and I’m not missing it. Which is
— sad.
— for the first time in my adult life I don’t have a newspaper on Sunday
— and I’m not missing it. Which is
— sad.
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Since the Guardian sold the Observer down the river, the latter has been all but unreadable. Now the subscription has been hived off,
— for the first time in my adult life I don’t have a newspaper on Sunday
— and I’m not missing it. Which is
— sad.
— for the first time in my adult life I don’t have a newspaper on Sunday
— and I’m not missing it. Which is
— sad.
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Well, if it’s 8 February, it must be the 94th anniversary of Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk (a fascist from New Zealand who said he was King of Poland) going on trial for attempting to get into print his poem ‘Here Lies John Penis’ 🧵
February 8, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Well, if it’s 8 February, it must be the 94th anniversary of Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk (a fascist from New Zealand who said he was King of Poland) going on trial for attempting to get into print his poem ‘Here Lies John Penis’ 🧵
Love how these towering intellects don’t know that Northern Ireland doesn’t have a Prime Minister.
Dear Northern Ireland,
I think you need to investigate your former Prime Minister Sean Woodward for his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Your attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated.
I think you need to investigate your former Prime Minister Sean Woodward for his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Your attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated.
February 8, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Love how these towering intellects don’t know that Northern Ireland doesn’t have a Prime Minister.
‘Terry’ is just so wrong.
February 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
‘Terry’ is just so wrong.
Anyone else revolted that @thedailybeast.bsky.social , supposed excoriator of Trump and his parade of grifters and shills, nevertheless regularly employs Michael 'Let-Me-Help-You-with-your-PR-Problem-Mr-Epstein-sir' Wolff?
Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles unravel Donald Trump’s late-night Truth Social spiral that even members of his own party scrambled to disown.
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Anyone else revolted that @thedailybeast.bsky.social , supposed excoriator of Trump and his parade of grifters and shills, nevertheless regularly employs Michael 'Let-Me-Help-You-with-your-PR-Problem-Mr-Epstein-sir' Wolff?
And I keep thinking how cheaply the academic/literary world can be bought. Brockman got $850,000 from Epstein over 17 years: $50,000 a year to be his intellectual pimp.
Been thinking a bit about the way that John Brockman acted as Epstein's scientist collector and would organize dinners where Epstein would just happen to show up and I think a lesson here for *white scientists* is if you're being invited to all-white events, that might be actively intentional 🧪
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
And I keep thinking how cheaply the academic/literary world can be bought. Brockman got $850,000 from Epstein over 17 years: $50,000 a year to be his intellectual pimp.
The kind of statement that you think doesn't even need to be said. And yet these days, it's enough to make one weep.
This message, which hangs in the Olympic workout space for Team Canada 🇨🇦
(Written out fully in Alt Text)
(Written out fully in Alt Text)
February 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The kind of statement that you think doesn't even need to be said. And yet these days, it's enough to make one weep.
The free market: it's all fun and games until it doesn't allow you to raise your kids to be bigoted assholes.
www.wonkette.com/p/josh-hawle...
www.wonkette.com/p/josh-hawle...
Josh Hawley Somehow Under Impression That It's Netflix's Job To Help Him Raise Bigoted Children
Hawley spent his time at an antitrust hearing whining about LGBTQ+ characters.
www.wonkette.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
The free market: it's all fun and games until it doesn't allow you to raise your kids to be bigoted assholes.
www.wonkette.com/p/josh-hawle...
www.wonkette.com/p/josh-hawle...
Oddly the choices of response appear to be 'No' and 'Jesus Christ what are you smoking?'
Almost unbelievably, even Poland, what was probably the most pro-American nation on earth now understands that Trump is Putin's bitch.
Anyone that knows Poland understands what a big deal this is.
Anyone that knows Poland understands what a big deal this is.
February 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Oddly the choices of response appear to be 'No' and 'Jesus Christ what are you smoking?'
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February 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question
Trying to imagine the same Olympic committee telling the US they can't use an image of George Washington. Or indeed their own designers that Garibaldi is off-limits.
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Trying to imagine the same Olympic committee telling the US they can't use an image of George Washington. Or indeed their own designers that Garibaldi is off-limits.
One of my favourite moments in a museum was the label underneath a neolithic pot: 'c.4000-2500 BCE. Artist unknown.'
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 7, 2026 at 2:57 PM
One of my favourite moments in a museum was the label underneath a neolithic pot: 'c.4000-2500 BCE. Artist unknown.'
Hi world. Any connection between the complete lack of interest in sexual assault in student bodies and the pervasive adoration of Jeffrey Epstein?
Asking for several generations of women.
Asking for several generations of women.
BREAKING: Bard College President Leon Botstein’s name appears in the Epstein files more than 2,500 times, including arranging travel to Epstein’s island and hosting a visit with “girls” on campus…
As a Bard student parent, I demand Leon Botstein’s immediate removal.
As a Bard student parent, I demand Leon Botstein’s immediate removal.
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Hi world. Any connection between the complete lack of interest in sexual assault in student bodies and the pervasive adoration of Jeffrey Epstein?
Asking for several generations of women.
Asking for several generations of women.