Richard Wild
@richardwild.bsky.social
Runner, skier, nerd (he/him)
Hell yeah! New mediaeval podcast just dropped.
Many are saying: 'Hell yeah - new medieval podcast just dropped.'
AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO DO SO!!
AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO DO SO!!
AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
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Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hell yeah! New mediaeval podcast just dropped.
Whenever I see Chuck Schumer trending I always know it's something good.
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Whenever I see Chuck Schumer trending I always know it's something good.
I know I shouldn't brag but I made an absolutely kickass lasagne tonight.
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I know I shouldn't brag but I made an absolutely kickass lasagne tonight.
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Finished the Rugby half marathon in 1:41:06 by my watch. I wanted to do under 1:45 so I'm super happy with that. Was quite hilly too, although the weather was very good 😊
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Finished the Rugby half marathon in 1:41:06 by my watch. I wanted to do under 1:45 so I'm super happy with that. Was quite hilly too, although the weather was very good 😊
I just can't fathom why hermit crabs evolved. Like, you're a crustacean, but unlike every other crustacean, you have to sort out your shell for yourself
October 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I just can't fathom why hermit crabs evolved. Like, you're a crustacean, but unlike every other crustacean, you have to sort out your shell for yourself
Joking aside, I always find it a bit jarring to be reminded Ukip still exists, since they came to be so completely associated with Farage.
I feel so sorry for UKIP. The main parties have raised the bar so high for ultra racism and transphobia that they've literally had to adopt Nazi iconography as their logo just to compete.
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Joking aside, I always find it a bit jarring to be reminded Ukip still exists, since they came to be so completely associated with Farage.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have noticed that the people saying that the ECHR "needs to be updated" are never, ever, specific about what rights they think need to be dropped, modified, or (ha!) added.
“Bring it up to date” means “exclude foreigners from the full protection of human rights” and you can pretend not to see that much, but I can’t.
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have noticed that the people saying that the ECHR "needs to be updated" are never, ever, specific about what rights they think need to be dropped, modified, or (ha!) added.
To Transylvania
Tyler once took a trans-Atlantic flight
Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To Transylvania
It's clear evidence that our political class spends an unhealthy amount of time on Twitter, that they follow events in America far too closely, and it has gradually cooked all their brains.
I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter
September 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It's clear evidence that our political class spends an unhealthy amount of time on Twitter, that they follow events in America far too closely, and it has gradually cooked all their brains.
One of the lesser known Carry On films
“Open carry on campus” genuinely sounds like something you’d have to make up to make fun of America
Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
One of the lesser known Carry On films
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but don't call me a centrist.
September 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but don't call me a centrist.
Congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social, first encouraging thing to happen in British politics for years 🙌
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social, first encouraging thing to happen in British politics for years 🙌
Whatever good was done by Tony Blair's government was clearly done despite these people not because of them.
More normalisation of a pernicious agenda by folk who you would have thought would have an interest in protecting their legacy...
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Jack Straw says the UK should ‘decouple’ from the ECHR
Convention is being used in unintended ways to help prevent deportations, former Labour home secretary says
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August 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Whatever good was done by Tony Blair's government was clearly done despite these people not because of them.
US liberals really need to face this. Even *if* a result is permitted to go against Trump, do you think he will accept it? He already showed us in 2020 that he will not. He was only stopped then because Republicans—Mike Pence in particular—refused to play ball. Think they will again? I don't.
Yes, there will be elections in the United States in 2026 and 2028. They just will never be free or fair and what we are seeing or not just in the moment but the infrastructure of authoritarianism and fascist society being put in place and solidified.
August 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
US liberals really need to face this. Even *if* a result is permitted to go against Trump, do you think he will accept it? He already showed us in 2020 that he will not. He was only stopped then because Republicans—Mike Pence in particular—refused to play ball. Think they will again? I don't.
Slightly diminish a band:
The Off-white Stripes
The Off-white Stripes
Slightly diminish a band:
Taylor Lingering
Taylor Lingering
Slightly diminish a band:
8¾ Inch Nails
8¾ Inch Nails
August 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
The Off-white Stripes
The Off-white Stripes
Is this the same UK government that says it is going all in on AI?
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Is this the same UK government that says it is going all in on AI?
Twenty years ago, I read the parable of the Banker and the Fisherman, while illustrated the stupidity of making money for money's sake. But we can see that things have got even worse since then.
Plagiarism aside; this fucking notion, that "thankfully" you no longer need time and work to express your creativity is peak late capitalism: it completely ignores the fact that the creative process is a joy in and of itself, instead refocusing entirely on the end goal, the product, the profit. 🤢
July 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Twenty years ago, I read the parable of the Banker and the Fisherman, while illustrated the stupidity of making money for money's sake. But we can see that things have got even worse since then.
Not the first time this has happened. I've been watching long enough to remember Congress voting for the USA PATRIOT act without any of them knowing most of what was in it.
I mean this is just unbelievable — they don't even know what's in THEIR OWN DAMN BILL.
This provision guts renewable energy and they have no clue know where it came from?? This entire process is rotten to its core.
This provision guts renewable energy and they have no clue know where it came from?? This entire process is rotten to its core.
A megabill mystery: New solar and wind tax comes as a surprise to Republican senators
"I don't know where it came from," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Budget Committee, told NBC News after he released the 940-page legislation.
www.nbcnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Not the first time this has happened. I've been watching long enough to remember Congress voting for the USA PATRIOT act without any of them knowing most of what was in it.
Oh yes please do this, I can't wait to find out what would be in the Democrats' version of Project 2025
June 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Oh yes please do this, I can't wait to find out what would be in the Democrats' version of Project 2025
New video by @hoots.bsky.social !
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I tried learning Finnish
YouTube video by hoots
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June 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New video by @hoots.bsky.social !
More than a few pro-Brexit politicians and commentators had spent decades dining out on lies about supposed barmy Brussels regulations, and when leaving suddenly became a real prospect, they had to double down because their only alternative was admitting they'd been bullshitting all this time.
Nearly all those commentators and most of the politicians who happily pushed this narrative did so blithely thinking that the matter of leaving would never come up. When it did, they could not pivot to a pro-EU stance without admitting they'd been lying about it all this time.
May 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
More than a few pro-Brexit politicians and commentators had spent decades dining out on lies about supposed barmy Brussels regulations, and when leaving suddenly became a real prospect, they had to double down because their only alternative was admitting they'd been bullshitting all this time.
I mean, obviously. If Air Force One was merely a large business jet, the US government could easily have replaced the existing planes already.
Bribe with massive extra costs: Converting the $400 million Qatari jet into a new Air Force One for Trump would require the installation of numerous top-secret systems, cost over a billion dollars and take years, three aviation experts told NBC News.
May 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I mean, obviously. If Air Force One was merely a large business jet, the US government could easily have replaced the existing planes already.
This is why the backlash to the initial Covid response has been so fierce. Because for 50 years the elite have been trying to sever our social bonds, force us to think of ourselves as isolated individuals with no responsibilities to each other. But the pandemic showed the instinct is still there.
We're literally five years on from a national response to a global crisis in which community volunteering was mobilised on a massive scale. People queued up at supermarkets to buy food for their housebound neighbours. The vast majority of the population practised solidarity.
But...
But...
Why Starmer’s “island of strangers” remark owed more to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone than Enoch Powell. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
May 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is why the backlash to the initial Covid response has been so fierce. Because for 50 years the elite have been trying to sever our social bonds, force us to think of ourselves as isolated individuals with no responsibilities to each other. But the pandemic showed the instinct is still there.
Laughing at the instructions for my new barbecue which caution not to operate it under the influence of alcohol. Buddy, I got some news for you
May 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Laughing at the instructions for my new barbecue which caution not to operate it under the influence of alcohol. Buddy, I got some news for you