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Cecilia@gaiacecilia.bsky.social |
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Professional history geek and all round textiles nerd who probably should be working on her PhD right now. (She/her)
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Cecilia
@gaiacecilia.bsky.social
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This, mis-prescribing medication (that the doctor definitely knew better than to give me) sent a genetic condition from 'slightly weird' to regular joint dislocations and considerable pain in about 6 weeks - in my 20s. Most people need a fairly grim description to make them believe I'm disabled.
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Ward Q. Normal
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As someone whose plans for the future went from "I should be able to retire at 65" to "I don't know if my body will hold up that long" within the span of the last two years, I urge all of you to remember this.
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Cecilia
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Its a bloody good film, even if my inner dress and textiles historian self had Opinions about some of the fashion, and I love that they leave in the BBQ prime minister bit as well.
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Cecilia
@gaiacecilia.bsky.social
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LMAO Also, can confirm from my DoE that it also feels like it to an unfit 14 year old.
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John Bull
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Realised i've never put out the call here:
If you're interested in women's football in London, and helping INDEPENDENT ones compete against sportswashing, then I'm the vice-chair of a club and WE NEED YOU.
Volunteers, in person or remote, in ANY capacity or skill. Sponsors too! londonseawardfc.com
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Cecilia
@gaiacecilia.bsky.social
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I mean, fair. Especially when it comes to being able to be smug at the British, the biggest pirates, sorry seafarers, in history. Although I suspect, being Medway born and bred, most of the Dutch come here and are glad they didn't try and keep it.
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Cecilia
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Yeah, I know, apparently our ships had to deep a draw to be kept in one piece but the trophy is still there. Still, its noticeable how conspicuously absent from British history/mythology this little episode is.
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Cecilia
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Lol, doesn't surprise me. One of the funniest things was, on the anniversary we threw a big festival in memory of the Battle of the Medway and invited the Dutch Navy along who had the absolute time of thier lives zipping up and down the river smugly.
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Cecilia
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I assume this means that its England v. The Dutch tonight? I follow football not at all, but I did used to tour guide on the site of that battle and literally every time a dutch person was on the tour they'd say "We still have your ship, you know"....
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Melanie D’Arrigo
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Impoundment Learn the term. It’s how Donald Trump plans to defund any agency or program he wants, and there will be nothing Congress can do to stop it. This is how he defunds education, climate action and everything else on day one. This Project 2025.
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Neil
@stopfordianneil.bsky.social
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I’d appreciate it if you could all like and reply to this so the BS team know that this is something that we all want to prevent the trolls.
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Cecilia
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I'd be willing to bet there absolutely were people saying that and were ignored - either that or, to be diplomatic, there is a culture which discourages pointing out problems. Neither option are exactly unprecedented.
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Cecilia
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Ah count off. I remember that. On the Latin/Classics trip to Italy they made us do it in Latin which was when the Latin teacher found out why I'd been politely told not to take Latin GCSE 3 years earlier. They'd be sodding amazed I got Distinction in the Latin modules of my masters 14 years later.
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Cecilia
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We since found out that the person who said this is from an very rich family so probably could do it, but that university was not one of the wealthy ones, you'd think she'd have picked *something* up about not all of us having the cash to do stuff like that.
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Cecilia
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This convo reminds me of the dep head during my masters who, when asked about learning certain medieval dialects, recommended that we just 'go live in France or Germany for 6 months to learn' like... I know we're in the UK but post brexit? Not an option for most of us.
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Josh Fox
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We are looking for an illustrator for Ex Tenebris, a galaxy-spanning investigative game in a world of shadowy cults, demons, and sinister ancient technology. Must be able to draw human scenes, monsters and technology (e.g. spaceships). Is that someone you know? Get in touch!
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Cecilia
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My Dad works for TFL (and its predecessor) and has for decades and I always remember just how much respect he had for Lord Hendy. Shared this thread with him because I know, if there is something new in it because it raises my already high opinion of him.
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John Bull
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They were told it was pointless, because "they'll be too scared" Livingstone asked Hendy if he thought that was true. Hendy's reply: "This is THEIR city. They'll come." And they did.
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Cecilia
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Dad and his GF have a greyhound and Chief absolutely is exactly the same. Ironically the kitten and the Welsh terrier are the two running round the house like lunatics as Chief sleeps 15 hours a day and ignores thier energy.
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geoffrey
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largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended
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Thomas Hansen
@thomashansen.bsky.social
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Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags.
They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock.
Consumers pay $2,780 per bag.
The production of the bags costs Dior $57.
Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social
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🛸clyde bruckman's final repost🐈⬛
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this is like the uk's seventh prime minister in ten years but only the second one britons actually got to vote for, absolutely ridiculous country
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Cecilia
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*Snigger*
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K.B. Spangler
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I feel like it's a moral imperative that all of us terminally online weirdos must talk to a minimum of one (1) normal person about Project 2025 and back up that conversation with sources.
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Gillian Branstetter
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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
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A squire rushed in to the great hall.
"Someone," he shouted, "has taken the sword from the stone!"
The assembled knights halted their dinner.
"At last, a king?"
"Who?"
"I don't know," the squire said. "The sword is gone!"
Elsewhere:
"This," Indy muttered, "belongs in a museum.
#MicroFiction
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Cecilia
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I hosted a count watch party in my post-grad student halls building. Most of the attendees aren't British and so I ended up having to explain Count Binface and the Moster Raving Loony Party to them. I suspect more than one came away with the idea that British politics are completely insane.
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Cecilia
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Historian/re-enactor: *Joins you*
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Faine Greenwood
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The Heritage Foundation is absolutely making overt terrorist threats and everyone you know needs to be aware of this.
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Cecilia
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Eh, I always described it as fanfiction with a CGI budget but this works too.
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Cecilia
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This. I'm in the UK but am too disabled to be allowed to move to most of these countries - sadly progressive policies usually stop at people with disabilities being allowed to emigrate to a place else I'd be plotting my way there right now.
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Cecilia
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I love them all. Cats and drawings.
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Micah
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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop
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Shiv Ramdas
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this is what I spend way too much time trying to explain to liberals here about India. Your Indian coworker who bleeds modi isnt misled, or anxious or anything- they just love Islamophobia. many people are good but a whole bunch of people are shite. It is time you accept this.
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Skyla is offline resetting her brain. Buy her books.
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc... QUICK DOES ONE PERSON WANT TO PLEDGE $81 CAD???
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Al Petterson
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Veterans Day is for veterans. Memorial Day is for veterans who have died. Independence Day is NOT FOR VETERANS - it's for all of us. If you wore our uniform, I respect what you did on behalf of my country's interests, but this Thursday isn't about you.
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Tade Thompson
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Had lunch with a former colleague today and she asked if I missed it. I have not had a single death threat, nor have I been assaulted, or racially abused, since I stopped working for the NHS. Why would I miss it? Even if my writing career failed spectacularly, I still wouldn't go back to the NHS.
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scott⚡️mccloud
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Cecilia
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*Laughs in British/historian*
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Ana Saez-Hidalgo
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King's Manor, long-time Center for Medieval Studies at York, will be sold by the University of York as it is too expensive to run, according to the university admin.
If you would like to register your dismay, please do so at chng.it/Q46N7Sbp46
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DaveAnthony
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A paper from Harvard estimates the cost of Long Covid in the USA is now US$3.7 trillion, or about 17% of pre-Covid US GDP.
scholar.harvard.edu/files/cutler...
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Blue Heron Farm
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Try not to think of it as Trump will never be held accountable for his four years of crimes, but instead think of the fact that he will be completely unrestrained by any laws against the crimes he will commit if he gets elected again.
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Marie Brennan
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A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!
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Cecilia
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LMAO
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@uncalmhorizons.bsky.social
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The Met spokesperson:
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Mark Chadbourn
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Tommy Robinson has been arrested in Canada for…checks notes…being an illegal immigrant. And I’ve only just repaired the Irony Klaxon.
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Dr Tess Wingard
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coming to Leeds IMC 2024? on monday, we've got three exciting sessions of papers on trans and intersex histories in the middle ages just for you!!
(plaintext version of the session info in the attached screenshots can be found here tesswingard.wordpress.com/trans-and-in...)
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Tom
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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.
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Cecilia
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*Sends hugs from 'my mum was actual friends with Farage for a while, guess how much stuff I simply don't tell her now'* Parents like that really suck and I wish we didn't have to deal with that.
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🌿 Laura 🌿
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At least once AI has a PhD, there will be no jobs for it, people won't want to use it do other stuff because it's overqualified, its family will ask it why it bothered wasting its time getting one and politicians will decide we're spending too much money on it
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