William Hamilton
@hamiltonw.bsky.social
English professor and anarchist foodie.
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‘It was the greatest mass revolt in Europe before the French Revolution; some 100,000 people died.’
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social reviews Lyndal Roper’s re-evaluation of the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25, winner of this year’s Cundill History Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social reviews Lyndal Roper’s re-evaluation of the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25, winner of this year’s Cundill History Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Malcolm Gaskill · We’re eating goose! When Peasants Made War
The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
‘It was the greatest mass revolt in Europe before the French Revolution; some 100,000 people died.’
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social reviews Lyndal Roper’s re-evaluation of the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25, winner of this year’s Cundill History Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social reviews Lyndal Roper’s re-evaluation of the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25, winner of this year’s Cundill History Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘“It’s incredibly hard,” Jorie Graham has said, “to calibrate how to grieve the small death of your father, your friends – to face the small but important event of your own death – and simultaneously grieve the huge death of whole species.”’
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’.
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Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green · Chi Chi Trillip Trillip: Jorie Graham looks ahead
For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘“It’s incredibly hard,” Jorie Graham has said, “to calibrate how to grieve the small death of your father, your friends – to face the small but important event of your own death – and simultaneously grieve the huge death of whole species.”’
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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#howl-a-ween
#musicchallenges
Day 27
Haunted
'Haunted'
The Pogues
From the film 'Sid & Nancy
#howl-a-ween
#musicchallenges
Day 27
Haunted
'Haunted'
The Pogues
From the film 'Sid & Nancy
The Pogues - Haunted (1986) - 'Sid & Nancy' Original Soundtrack
YouTube video by José Luis Lafuente
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October 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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#howl-a-ween
#musicchallenges
Day 27
Haunted
'Haunted'
The Pogues
From the film 'Sid & Nancy
#howl-a-ween
#musicchallenges
Day 27
Haunted
'Haunted'
The Pogues
From the film 'Sid & Nancy
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Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=-_IyB5RX1IeFYjHW
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=-_IyB5RX1IeFYjHW
From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=-_IyB5RX1IeFYjHW
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=-_IyB5RX1IeFYjHW
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
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• Police informants at Portland's ICE protests
• John Bolton says he's being persecuted by Trump, but he's been under investigation since the Biden administration
• A Pentagon spokesperson seems to really hate Netlfix!
It's Good Morning, News!
• John Bolton says he's being persecuted by Trump, but he's been under investigation since the Biden administration
• A Pentagon spokesperson seems to really hate Netlfix!
It's Good Morning, News!
Good Morning, News: Pentagon Spokesperson Hates Netflix, John Bolton Under Investigation Since Biden, and Are There Plainclothes Police at Portland's ICE Protests?
Suzette Smith
www.portlandmercury.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
• Police informants at Portland's ICE protests
• John Bolton says he's being persecuted by Trump, but he's been under investigation since the Biden administration
• A Pentagon spokesperson seems to really hate Netlfix!
It's Good Morning, News!
• John Bolton says he's being persecuted by Trump, but he's been under investigation since the Biden administration
• A Pentagon spokesperson seems to really hate Netlfix!
It's Good Morning, News!
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The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency".
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Oscar Wilde's British Library card reissued 130 years after being revoked over gay conviction
The celebrated Irish writer had his pass revoked in 1895 after being imprisoned for a gay relationship.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency".
bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com/news/article...
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We've coloured in another John Rocque map panel from 1746. For the first time ever, see Georgian Westminster and Lambeth mapped in colour. londonist.substack.com/p/1746-in-co...
1746 in Colour: Westminster and Lambeth
Colouring in a map of Georgian London.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
We've coloured in another John Rocque map panel from 1746. For the first time ever, see Georgian Westminster and Lambeth mapped in colour. londonist.substack.com/p/1746-in-co...
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Go Birds! Go Vote! As Philly D.A. Larry Krasner says, you've only got until October 20th to register for this crucial November 4th election that will decide the PA Supreme Court and our rights. Not to mention, you want to vote in next year's Midterms too.
October 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Go Birds! Go Vote! As Philly D.A. Larry Krasner says, you've only got until October 20th to register for this crucial November 4th election that will decide the PA Supreme Court and our rights. Not to mention, you want to vote in next year's Midterms too.
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‘Austen said of Emma that she had chosen “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”. Woolf, too, takes the considerable risk of adopting the point of view of a protagonist whose sense of entitlement makes her hard to warm to.’
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter · Unconditional Looking: Mrs Dalloway’s Demons
Woolf admired Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the happiness of life...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
‘Austen said of Emma that she had chosen “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”. Woolf, too, takes the considerable risk of adopting the point of view of a protagonist whose sense of entitlement makes her hard to warm to.’
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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"Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make...
Even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope." -
Dr. Jane Goodall, March 2025
Choose well, my friends.
Even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope." -
Dr. Jane Goodall, March 2025
Choose well, my friends.
A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall | Famous Last Words | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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October 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make...
Even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope." -
Dr. Jane Goodall, March 2025
Choose well, my friends.
Even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope." -
Dr. Jane Goodall, March 2025
Choose well, my friends.
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It has begun. No flesh shall be spared. Also, I’m in Milwaukee, Hammond and Flint this week! Go to pattonoswalt.com for tix!
October 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It has begun. No flesh shall be spared. Also, I’m in Milwaukee, Hammond and Flint this week! Go to pattonoswalt.com for tix!
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In our Food Issue, @mudede.bsky.social writes about Seattle's street-food scene, and talks to local vendors about some of the hurdles they face as authorities shut down more unpermitted food vendors every year.
Big City, Big Street Food
Seattle is growing. We are becoming big. And with a big city, comes big, delicious food tents.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In our Food Issue, @mudede.bsky.social writes about Seattle's street-food scene, and talks to local vendors about some of the hurdles they face as authorities shut down more unpermitted food vendors every year.
