Charlotte Gauthier
@faraiunvers.bsky.social
Historian of late medieval/early modern religious conflict and diplomacy. England and Christendom, the crusades, and the Reformation. Also: digital humanities, early music, historical theology, and public history. www.charlottegauthier.com
Looking forward to being deported for having the temerity to study at theological college (and thus briefly dropping below the earnings threshold, even though I've been a net contributor for a decade+).
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Looking forward to being deported for having the temerity to study at theological college (and thus briefly dropping below the earnings threshold, even though I've been a net contributor for a decade+).
Came here to say the same. Apparently anyone who already has ILR will be deported if their income falls below a certain threshold at any time, for any reason. Very Christian to see people as purely units of economic productivity.
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Katie Lam on X: "Indefinite Leave to Remain entitles people to benefits, social housing and free healthcare. Most migrants can get it after five years, whether or not they’ve paid a penny in tax. This is crazy. We keep trying to change the rules, but the Government keeps voting us down. https://t.co/47ZQtwaLxe" / X
Indefinite Leave to Remain entitles people to benefits, social housing and free healthcare. Most migrants can get it after five years, whether or not they’ve paid a penny in tax. This is crazy. We keep trying to change the rules, but the Government keeps voting us down. https://t.co/47ZQtwaLxe
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October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Came here to say the same. Apparently anyone who already has ILR will be deported if their income falls below a certain threshold at any time, for any reason. Very Christian to see people as purely units of economic productivity.
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
The Turkish stuff made for Turkish people is. The Turkish stuff made for tourists, on the other hand...
October 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Turkish stuff made for Turkish people is. The Turkish stuff made for tourists, on the other hand...
Post-service takeaway is the only sensible ending to the evening.
October 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Post-service takeaway is the only sensible ending to the evening.
The people who don't like it might have unwittingly subjected themselves to the bad stuff. Can't stand the gelatinous stuff in the grocery store boxes. Fortnum's, on the other hand, is firmer, and so delightful that I only buy it at Christmas, lest massive weight gain ensue. (Not the point I know.)
October 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The people who don't like it might have unwittingly subjected themselves to the bad stuff. Can't stand the gelatinous stuff in the grocery store boxes. Fortnum's, on the other hand, is firmer, and so delightful that I only buy it at Christmas, lest massive weight gain ensue. (Not the point I know.)
William Chester Jordan. Read this beautiful article - which was recommended to me years ago when I asked the same question: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Etiam reges, Even Kings | Speculum: Vol 90, No 3
“He could not believe that the army had been brought so far, through so many dangers, only to fail at the last.” With these few words Joseph Strayer grasped the essence of Louis IX's feelings during t...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
William Chester Jordan. Read this beautiful article - which was recommended to me years ago when I asked the same question: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
There’s hope for us all.
September 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
There’s hope for us all.
Which is, frankly, the point of the assignment. It will be salutary to give them a visceral experience (assuming they do the assignment) of AI slop falsifying records.
Apologies for the sheer amount of CO2 the exercise will generate, however.
Apologies for the sheer amount of CO2 the exercise will generate, however.
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Which is, frankly, the point of the assignment. It will be salutary to give them a visceral experience (assuming they do the assignment) of AI slop falsifying records.
Apologies for the sheer amount of CO2 the exercise will generate, however.
Apologies for the sheer amount of CO2 the exercise will generate, however.
I've just tried this with ChatGPT about a well-known event: the sinking of the Lusitania. The book references it spit out were actually real - though with the US rather than UK publishers. But it completely hallucinated all 5 of the "journal articles" it referenced. (No surprise there!)
September 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I've just tried this with ChatGPT about a well-known event: the sinking of the Lusitania. The book references it spit out were actually real - though with the US rather than UK publishers. But it completely hallucinated all 5 of the "journal articles" it referenced. (No surprise there!)
The French don't do tea, Francis. Why do you think they fought so many wars with England?
August 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The French don't do tea, Francis. Why do you think they fought so many wars with England?
Now Nic, tell us how you’d defend it from an attack from the sea, and then conversely how you’d besiege it. We want battle plans. 😉
August 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Now Nic, tell us how you’d defend it from an attack from the sea, and then conversely how you’d besiege it. We want battle plans. 😉
Everyone in the Middle Ages wore nothing but brown and went around permanently dirty and dishevelled. Also, there was no sunshine so even daylight had a permanently blue cast to it.
August 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Everyone in the Middle Ages wore nothing but brown and went around permanently dirty and dishevelled. Also, there was no sunshine so even daylight had a permanently blue cast to it.
Bland, inoffensive, and (low be it spoken) sometimes insincere niceness, designed to entice people to join a Christian community in which they can then be 'discipled'. The 'winsome' are often well-meaning, but whether 'winsomeness' brings anyone to a robust faith is a matter of some doubt.
August 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Bland, inoffensive, and (low be it spoken) sometimes insincere niceness, designed to entice people to join a Christian community in which they can then be 'discipled'. The 'winsome' are often well-meaning, but whether 'winsomeness' brings anyone to a robust faith is a matter of some doubt.
The NRSV is a never-ending fount of modern clangers. It's ageing just about as well as some of the 1950s/60s 'modern language' translations, some of which are now unintentionally hilarious.
August 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The NRSV is a never-ending fount of modern clangers. It's ageing just about as well as some of the 1950s/60s 'modern language' translations, some of which are now unintentionally hilarious.
This. I wince whenever I hear any of the following:
'have a heart for'
'having a season [of/for] x'
'winsome'
'being church'
'growing younger'
'discipling'
...amongst others. Ironically, such phrases have sometimes been sold as "reducing jargon" and "speaking the "language of the people". Well... 🤷♀️
'have a heart for'
'having a season [of/for] x'
'winsome'
'being church'
'growing younger'
'discipling'
...amongst others. Ironically, such phrases have sometimes been sold as "reducing jargon" and "speaking the "language of the people". Well... 🤷♀️
August 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This. I wince whenever I hear any of the following:
'have a heart for'
'having a season [of/for] x'
'winsome'
'being church'
'growing younger'
'discipling'
...amongst others. Ironically, such phrases have sometimes been sold as "reducing jargon" and "speaking the "language of the people". Well... 🤷♀️
'have a heart for'
'having a season [of/for] x'
'winsome'
'being church'
'growing younger'
'discipling'
...amongst others. Ironically, such phrases have sometimes been sold as "reducing jargon" and "speaking the "language of the people". Well... 🤷♀️
This is why the comma after 'both' is so important. 😂
August 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is why the comma after 'both' is so important. 😂
I too am agog to hear this tip.
August 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I too am agog to hear this tip.
Yes! When I worked in tech I never hired comp sci graduates. Musicians, historians, and physicists always made the best programmers.
August 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Yes! When I worked in tech I never hired comp sci graduates. Musicians, historians, and physicists always made the best programmers.
Always delighted to get in the way of such people.
August 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Always delighted to get in the way of such people.