Malcolm Noble
@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social
Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
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Malcolm Noble
@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi! I am an economic and social historian with broad, interdisciplinary interests that need a thread. C19th local government finance, business history, co-operative education, and queer print are my principal preoccupations; there are others. 1/
A trio of baby squirrels kept spooking each by rustling in the leaves so they all shot up the tree in blind panic. It was rather like no 10 but they are fluffy rather than racist. Only two are pictured here.
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A trio of baby squirrels kept spooking each by rustling in the leaves so they all shot up the tree in blind panic. It was rather like no 10 but they are fluffy rather than racist. Only two are pictured here.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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It’s interesting to reflect that Tonty telling Starmer to appoint Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the US precipitated Mandelson’s downfall, shunning by society and potential arrest.
There’s an operetta in there somewhere.
There’s an operetta in there somewhere.
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It’s interesting to reflect that Tonty telling Starmer to appoint Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the US precipitated Mandelson’s downfall, shunning by society and potential arrest.
There’s an operetta in there somewhere.
There’s an operetta in there somewhere.
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CFP for the Kansas Association of Historians meeting in Topeka, March 2026. A fun and welcoming conference for historians in or adjacent to Kansas, all fields. Students welcome. 🗃️ kansashistorians.org
Kansas Association of Historians - Promoting the sharing and learning of history by Kansans for Kansans since 1927
kansashistorians.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
CFP for the Kansas Association of Historians meeting in Topeka, March 2026. A fun and welcoming conference for historians in or adjacent to Kansas, all fields. Students welcome. 🗃️ kansashistorians.org
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Oops you did a racist “crackdown” in your list of “good things” it’s like breathing for labour these days just comes automatically!
✋🏾 Five good things you may have missed that the Labour government delivered last week… 🌹
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Oops you did a racist “crackdown” in your list of “good things” it’s like breathing for labour these days just comes automatically!
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CFP: Women, Money, and Markets: Crisis & Resilience (1650-1950) at The Foundling Museum, London UK, June 12-13, 2026
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
Women, Money and Markets 1600-1950
womenmoneymarkets.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
CFP: Women, Money, and Markets: Crisis & Resilience (1650-1950) at The Foundling Museum, London UK, June 12-13, 2026
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
If you really hate someone, you introduce them to kerning. They can't unsee it.
huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
If you really hate someone, you introduce them to kerning. They can't unsee it.
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There's still time to sign up for the second event in our Winter Lecture Series: 'The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll' with Dr Jade Scott
Tomorrow 17:30 (UK), free and online
Register: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tomorrow 17:30 (UK), free and online
Register: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There's still time to sign up for the second event in our Winter Lecture Series: 'The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll' with Dr Jade Scott
Tomorrow 17:30 (UK), free and online
Register: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tomorrow 17:30 (UK), free and online
Register: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Buy lottery tickets: acceptable use of Comic Sans.
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Buy lottery tickets: acceptable use of Comic Sans.
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(1/4) 📣 Now launching CfP for SCS 2026 conference, “Storytelling at Princely Courts”,
📍 Wrocław, Poland (27-29 August 2026)
👑 Explores the multifaceted role of narratives and stories at medieval & early modern princely courts
🗓 Proposal deadline: 31.01.2026
👉 Limited bursaries available.
📍 Wrocław, Poland (27-29 August 2026)
👑 Explores the multifaceted role of narratives and stories at medieval & early modern princely courts
🗓 Proposal deadline: 31.01.2026
👉 Limited bursaries available.
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
(1/4) 📣 Now launching CfP for SCS 2026 conference, “Storytelling at Princely Courts”,
📍 Wrocław, Poland (27-29 August 2026)
👑 Explores the multifaceted role of narratives and stories at medieval & early modern princely courts
🗓 Proposal deadline: 31.01.2026
👉 Limited bursaries available.
📍 Wrocław, Poland (27-29 August 2026)
👑 Explores the multifaceted role of narratives and stories at medieval & early modern princely courts
🗓 Proposal deadline: 31.01.2026
👉 Limited bursaries available.
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Nov 1879: Facsimileograph ad
(+Foolscap Facsimileograph; Letter Facsimileograph; and Note Size Facsimileograph)
«THE “FACSIMILEOGRAPH” SAVES TIME, MONEY, AND BRAINS.»
(+Foolscap Facsimileograph; Letter Facsimileograph; and Note Size Facsimileograph)
«THE “FACSIMILEOGRAPH” SAVES TIME, MONEY, AND BRAINS.»
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Nov 1879: Facsimileograph ad
(+Foolscap Facsimileograph; Letter Facsimileograph; and Note Size Facsimileograph)
«THE “FACSIMILEOGRAPH” SAVES TIME, MONEY, AND BRAINS.»
(+Foolscap Facsimileograph; Letter Facsimileograph; and Note Size Facsimileograph)
«THE “FACSIMILEOGRAPH” SAVES TIME, MONEY, AND BRAINS.»
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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bluesky branding refresh unveiled
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
bluesky branding refresh unveiled
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Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Happiness not in another place, but this place .. not for another hour, but this hour,
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happiness not in another place, but this place .. not for another hour, but this hour,
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A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-40...
A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens
Rings with a discreet dual purpose have been in use since before the common era, when Hannibal, facing extradition, allegedly ingested the poison he kept secreted behind a gemstone on his finger.
www.openculture.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-40...
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
You spray the papier parfum onto the paper. At once paper is being sold as a bottled scent but also being given away as a netrual substrate to carry the smell of itself. Just a wild glitch.
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You spray the papier parfum onto the paper. At once paper is being sold as a bottled scent but also being given away as a netrual substrate to carry the smell of itself. Just a wild glitch.
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What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...