Caroline Bristow
@mscbristow.bsky.social
Classicist. Educationalist. Feminist. Gamer. Geek.
'Just the right amount of mad to successfully direct Aristophanes'
'Just the right amount of mad to successfully direct Aristophanes'
Delighted to be speaking at the @businessdisability.bsky.social Annual Conference 2025 about the new edition of the CLC which won the Innovative Product category of the 2025 Disability Smart Awards.
#BDFBusinessAsUsual #DisabilitySmart
#BDFBusinessAsUsual #DisabilitySmart
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Delighted to be speaking at the @businessdisability.bsky.social Annual Conference 2025 about the new edition of the CLC which won the Innovative Product category of the 2025 Disability Smart Awards.
#BDFBusinessAsUsual #DisabilitySmart
#BDFBusinessAsUsual #DisabilitySmart
Theatre to watch Much Ado About Nothing and sod the play, the pre show music playlist is BANGING; Moloko, Madison Avenue, Basement Jaxx...
February 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Theatre to watch Much Ado About Nothing and sod the play, the pre show music playlist is BANGING; Moloko, Madison Avenue, Basement Jaxx...
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
"Thank you for calling the Void. All our operators are currently busy with other screamers at the moment. Please hold the line; your scream is important to us and we will accommodate your screaming as soon as we can. Thank you for choosing the Void."
*musak*
*caller contemplates trying the Abyss*
*musak*
*caller contemplates trying the Abyss*
Please be extra kind to the void today, there’s a lot of people out there screaming and the lines aren’t the void’s fault
January 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Thank you for calling the Void. All our operators are currently busy with other screamers at the moment. Please hold the line; your scream is important to us and we will accommodate your screaming as soon as we can. Thank you for choosing the Void."
*musak*
*caller contemplates trying the Abyss*
*musak*
*caller contemplates trying the Abyss*
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
At some point people will surely notice that these are not the same gestures right? Right?
January 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
At some point people will surely notice that these are not the same gestures right? Right?
If when watching LOTR: The Two Towers, you don't cheer when Legolas says 'they're taking the hobbits to Isengard' and break into a chorus of "daaaaa da da da da da daaaaaaa" then did you even internet in the early 2000s?
January 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If when watching LOTR: The Two Towers, you don't cheer when Legolas says 'they're taking the hobbits to Isengard' and break into a chorus of "daaaaa da da da da da daaaaaaa" then did you even internet in the early 2000s?
Arrive for my teacher training gig today in a windowless room with the thermostat set to 28 degrees C.
Does anyone have any tropical plants in need of rehoming? I have the perfect place...
Does anyone have any tropical plants in need of rehoming? I have the perfect place...
James Mcavoy Sweating GIF
Alt: The actor James Mcavoy Sweating and fanning himself with paper
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Arrive for my teacher training gig today in a windowless room with the thermostat set to 28 degrees C.
Does anyone have any tropical plants in need of rehoming? I have the perfect place...
Does anyone have any tropical plants in need of rehoming? I have the perfect place...
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
Here is the #ClassicsBluesky List of Lists (obviously let me know if I've missed any and as new ones are created, so I can update)
The BlueSky List of Lists
Or perhaps, more accurately, the List of (Mostly) Starter Packs. After discovering that 150 slots is clearly not enough for a full 'Ancient Mediterranean Studies' Starter Pack (for example, here...
www.elliemackinroberts.net
November 12, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Here is the #ClassicsBluesky List of Lists (obviously let me know if I've missed any and as new ones are created, so I can update)
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
UK Classics friends, especially Uk HE departments, please please find time to fill in the government’s curriculum consultation! We need a classics voice so we don’t get left out or left behind. Closes Nov 22. Sample/adaptable responses available here: cucdeducation.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/d...
DfE Curriculum & Assessment Review (closes 22 Nov 2024): Call for Evidence
Department for Education: Curriculum & Assessment Review Curriculum review responses from CUCD Deadline: 22 Nov 2024 Call for evidence: On behalf of Professor Helen Lovatt, Chair of CUCD Please…
cucdeducation.wordpress.com
November 10, 2024 at 10:46 PM
UK Classics friends, especially Uk HE departments, please please find time to fill in the government’s curriculum consultation! We need a classics voice so we don’t get left out or left behind. Closes Nov 22. Sample/adaptable responses available here: cucdeducation.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/d...
Calling #ClassicsTeachers who currently or recently taught / teach the Iliad - including some discussion of Briseis - do you have a few minutes to answer a few questions for me...?
October 26, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Calling #ClassicsTeachers who currently or recently taught / teach the Iliad - including some discussion of Briseis - do you have a few minutes to answer a few questions for me...?
The big screens at work are being particularly thought provoking and encouraging personal reflection today
October 25, 2024 at 9:53 AM
The big screens at work are being particularly thought provoking and encouraging personal reflection today
Oh god. So many emotions. Someone else singing Chester's music feels inherently wrong but she's great, she fits. I can only hope that the band knew him well enough that they know he would give his blessing.
No one could replace what was lost far too soon. RIP Chester.
youtube.com/shorts/8NpzX...
No one could replace what was lost far too soon. RIP Chester.
youtube.com/shorts/8NpzX...
Numb.
YouTube video by Linkin Park
youtube.com
September 6, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Oh god. So many emotions. Someone else singing Chester's music feels inherently wrong but she's great, she fits. I can only hope that the band knew him well enough that they know he would give his blessing.
No one could replace what was lost far too soon. RIP Chester.
youtube.com/shorts/8NpzX...
No one could replace what was lost far too soon. RIP Chester.
youtube.com/shorts/8NpzX...
Today was like being back in PE lessons but less awful, I discovered I suck at almost all fairground games and then someone asked me to throw stuff with precision; I mean I still came last overall but if you want pictures of pretend groceries knocked over by tennis balls I'm your GIRL.
September 1, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Today was like being back in PE lessons but less awful, I discovered I suck at almost all fairground games and then someone asked me to throw stuff with precision; I mean I still came last overall but if you want pictures of pretend groceries knocked over by tennis balls I'm your GIRL.
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
#CFP #CA2025 Classical Association and the Classical Association of Scotland conference - hybrid/St Andrews, Scotland - July 11-13, 2025 - ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk Due by Nov 30 (plenty of #classicalreception themes in the call)
Classical Association Conference 2025
Visit the post for more.
ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
September 1, 2024 at 10:07 AM
#CFP #CA2025 Classical Association and the Classical Association of Scotland conference - hybrid/St Andrews, Scotland - July 11-13, 2025 - ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk Due by Nov 30 (plenty of #classicalreception themes in the call)
Good lord I've suddenly gained a lot of followers, hello new people! I'll try and be more interesting...
September 1, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Good lord I've suddenly gained a lot of followers, hello new people! I'll try and be more interesting...
On a ferry to Venice, reading Brownmiller 'Against Our Will', feeling very on brand
August 21, 2024 at 7:15 AM
On a ferry to Venice, reading Brownmiller 'Against Our Will', feeling very on brand
Agreeing debate should be taken off of the list by sending emails to the list is giving Peak List Behaviour.
#Classics #AncientWorldStudies #LiverpoolList
#Classics #AncientWorldStudies #LiverpoolList
June 2, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Agreeing debate should be taken off of the list by sending emails to the list is giving Peak List Behaviour.
#Classics #AncientWorldStudies #LiverpoolList
#Classics #AncientWorldStudies #LiverpoolList
Ah, I see the wider world is again learning that same sex attraction isn't a modern invention. Very good very good.
Maybe write it on a post it note and stick it to your mirrors this time? Y'all seem to forget these facts very quickly and then are astonished all over again. It must be very tiring.
Maybe write it on a post it note and stick it to your mirrors this time? Y'all seem to forget these facts very quickly and then are astonished all over again. It must be very tiring.
February 6, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Ah, I see the wider world is again learning that same sex attraction isn't a modern invention. Very good very good.
Maybe write it on a post it note and stick it to your mirrors this time? Y'all seem to forget these facts very quickly and then are astonished all over again. It must be very tiring.
Maybe write it on a post it note and stick it to your mirrors this time? Y'all seem to forget these facts very quickly and then are astonished all over again. It must be very tiring.
Reddit spitting truth today: 'Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people'
January 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Reddit spitting truth today: 'Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people'
So this morning a (totally normal, plain) potato caught fire in the microwave (I got there in time and put it out, everything is fine)
I think I've been reading too much Livy because now I'm trying to work out what this omen means ... 😳
I think I've been reading too much Livy because now I'm trying to work out what this omen means ... 😳
January 11, 2024 at 8:45 AM
So this morning a (totally normal, plain) potato caught fire in the microwave (I got there in time and put it out, everything is fine)
I think I've been reading too much Livy because now I'm trying to work out what this omen means ... 😳
I think I've been reading too much Livy because now I'm trying to work out what this omen means ... 😳
Well that 12 months sucked. Here's hoping the next batch is a bit better.
January 1, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Well that 12 months sucked. Here's hoping the next batch is a bit better.
Reposted by Caroline Bristow
I continue to be baffled by whatever the fuck American influencers think charcuterie is. A trolling late just sent me a video where some chick included a bunch of tinned cocktails on her charcuterie set up which also included no actual charcuterie. Bitch that's just a counter top.
December 27, 2023 at 6:51 PM
I continue to be baffled by whatever the fuck American influencers think charcuterie is. A trolling late just sent me a video where some chick included a bunch of tinned cocktails on her charcuterie set up which also included no actual charcuterie. Bitch that's just a counter top.
The top shelves of Tesco are UNACCEPTABLE
December 27, 2023 at 9:12 PM
The top shelves of Tesco are UNACCEPTABLE