Menai
@menai.bsky.social
magistra, mater, filia
Teacher of Classics, History, RE in a secondary school on the south coast.
Teacher of Classics, History, RE in a secondary school on the south coast.
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Free ebook! (co-edited by my brother-in-law) 🎉
Happy Friday! May I interest you in a free book? SLAVERY AND HONOUR IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD is out now in Open Access! This edited collection from David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns explores the complexities of honour and dishonour in ancient Greek slavery.
July 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Free ebook! (co-edited by my brother-in-law) 🎉
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Yep, 100% this. Also some fun witchcraft allusions if you're looking for them
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is a love story and about family conflict, but also, like… a really great introduction to labor organization. Unions should have book clubs and this should be one of the books.
July 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Yep, 100% this. Also some fun witchcraft allusions if you're looking for them
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One like, one Thucydides opinion.
One like, one history opinion
one like, one writing opinion.
July 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
One like, one Thucydides opinion.
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They can even market it as 'Jane Austen's favourite novel! Before there was Mr Darcy, there was...SIR CHARLES GRANDISON.'
July 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
They can even market it as 'Jane Austen's favourite novel! Before there was Mr Darcy, there was...SIR CHARLES GRANDISON.'
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I suspect a coyote did this.
July 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I suspect a coyote did this.
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🚨2 months ago, every National Weather Service Director of the last 34 years took the unprecedented step of signing a joint, open letter.
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”
The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”
The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.
July 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🚨2 months ago, every National Weather Service Director of the last 34 years took the unprecedented step of signing a joint, open letter.
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”
The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”
The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.
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Look all I really want to see are rants by the cast members about the evils of roving Machiavelociraptors.
#earlymodern #RenSoc25
#earlymodern #RenSoc25
I choose to believe that this is about the time Erasmus, More, Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, and Lucrezia Borgia all got trapped on an island full of dinosaurs and had to ad fontes their way out of it using their unique skill sets.
July 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Look all I really want to see are rants by the cast members about the evils of roving Machiavelociraptors.
#earlymodern #RenSoc25
#earlymodern #RenSoc25
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In other good news, Swift Press will also be publishing the paperback of 1983 in August (and the rest of my Unbound backlist shortly afterwards): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
1983
Benji is an imaginative eight-year-old boy, living with his parents in a mining village in Nottinghamshire amidst the spoil heaps and chip shops that characteri
blackwells.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In other good news, Swift Press will also be publishing the paperback of 1983 in August (and the rest of my Unbound backlist shortly afterwards): blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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If you wonder how life is in the second decade of a marriage, my husband and I just declared tomorrow Waffles&Weasels day, where we shall eat waffles and go look for some local elusive weasels in a park, and hopefully not get these goals confused
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you wonder how life is in the second decade of a marriage, my husband and I just declared tomorrow Waffles&Weasels day, where we shall eat waffles and go look for some local elusive weasels in a park, and hopefully not get these goals confused
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 18 June #Horace
“Romae principis urbium
dignatur suboles inter amabilis
vatum ponere me choros,
et iam dente minus mordeor invido.
o, testudinis aureae
dulcem quae strepitum, Pieri, temperas,
o mutis quoque piscibus...
#LatinForTheDay – 18 June #Horace
“Romae principis urbium
dignatur suboles inter amabilis
vatum ponere me choros,
et iam dente minus mordeor invido.
o, testudinis aureae
dulcem quae strepitum, Pieri, temperas,
o mutis quoque piscibus...
June 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 18 June #Horace
“Romae principis urbium
dignatur suboles inter amabilis
vatum ponere me choros,
et iam dente minus mordeor invido.
o, testudinis aureae
dulcem quae strepitum, Pieri, temperas,
o mutis quoque piscibus...
#LatinForTheDay – 18 June #Horace
“Romae principis urbium
dignatur suboles inter amabilis
vatum ponere me choros,
et iam dente minus mordeor invido.
o, testudinis aureae
dulcem quae strepitum, Pieri, temperas,
o mutis quoque piscibus...
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Be the kind of person who supports your local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.
June 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Be the kind of person who supports your local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.
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🧿YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - 25/09/25👁️
An interactive novel retelling of the Odyssey, faithful to Homer’s original and its many translations.
by @lejenksbrown.bsky.social of Greek Myth Comix!
An interactive novel retelling of the Odyssey, faithful to Homer’s original and its many translations.
by @lejenksbrown.bsky.social of Greek Myth Comix!
May 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🧿YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - 25/09/25👁️
An interactive novel retelling of the Odyssey, faithful to Homer’s original and its many translations.
by @lejenksbrown.bsky.social of Greek Myth Comix!
An interactive novel retelling of the Odyssey, faithful to Homer’s original and its many translations.
by @lejenksbrown.bsky.social of Greek Myth Comix!
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
11
TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
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Astonishing that this article has to spell out in detail how to use a fan to cool yourself down in summer
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Astonishing that this article has to spell out in detail how to use a fan to cool yourself down in summer
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It's called Microsoft Outlook
June 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It's called Microsoft Outlook
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Do you ever think about how smart phones are essentially a more cursed form of tamagotchi that we have to tend to and maintain daily
June 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Do you ever think about how smart phones are essentially a more cursed form of tamagotchi that we have to tend to and maintain daily
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I take my coffee like I take my books: shamelessly purchased for enough happy brain tingles to drag me through another day even though I already have plenty at home
June 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I take my coffee like I take my books: shamelessly purchased for enough happy brain tingles to drag me through another day even though I already have plenty at home
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Pretty sure Carney turns and winks at Macron as the felon starts talking here.👌
You just know the truckload of ridicule he gets behind his back.
(🎥 Jasmine Lorimer)
You just know the truckload of ridicule he gets behind his back.
(🎥 Jasmine Lorimer)
June 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Pretty sure Carney turns and winks at Macron as the felon starts talking here.👌
You just know the truckload of ridicule he gets behind his back.
(🎥 Jasmine Lorimer)
You just know the truckload of ridicule he gets behind his back.
(🎥 Jasmine Lorimer)
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Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
June 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
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"ohhh snap, this book comes with a MAP": me, about to have a very good time
June 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"ohhh snap, this book comes with a MAP": me, about to have a very good time
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Seriously. What else did you expect from us on #WorldBicycleDay?
June 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Seriously. What else did you expect from us on #WorldBicycleDay?
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At an alumni rally earlier the same day in support of Yale standing up to the Trump administration, there was a historic, unheard-of call-and-response cheer:
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
May 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
At an alumni rally earlier the same day in support of Yale standing up to the Trump administration, there was a historic, unheard-of call-and-response cheer:
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
"Who do we love?"
"HARVARD!"
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One more bookish set for good measure.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
May 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
One more bookish set for good measure.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.
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‘I lived my passion’: how Christine Beckers and a group of intrepid female drivers blazed a trail in 1970s Monaco
‘I lived my passion’: how Christine Beckers and a group of intrepid female drivers blazed a trail in 1970s Monaco
New book shines a light on the women who stole headlines on an F1 support bill 50 years ago, with Beckers going on to star at Le Mans and hold the Guinness World Record
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
‘I lived my passion’: how Christine Beckers and a group of intrepid female drivers blazed a trail in 1970s Monaco