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Sorry to ask what may be a strange question, but trans people, do you think the Labour government is actively or aggressively anti-trans?

apologies - as unfair to you as life is to Ned (he only wishes he could even want to think of going to a party)

"high speed train" writes itself ...

Actor David Walmsley (whose work you might have enjoyed in The Terror or Slow Horses) is raising money for two mental health charities and one supporting people in the entertainment & events industry, by running 30 marathons in 30 days - with no rest days.

www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

smoking what kind of joint? yes

A picture of a boxes of trail mix called “pick me ups“, except a discount sticker is placed over the wording so it looks like it reads “fuck me ups”

For anybody out there who just needs a little giggle.

The entire cast of the Sacchae approve

CB: the unsympathetic characters are meant to be sympathetic
EB: sympathy? pah
AB: you are allowed some nuance, as a treat

(do enjoy JE and WH blew my mind, structurally, but whew does it show Anne was the only one who managed to function outside the family hothouse)

obligatory

A kindred spirit (down to the handwriting) with whoever annotated a beloved used copy of the Iliad in English. Why do I love it? For the note "Achilles is a hero", first put to paper in book 18/24, on the n-hundredth mention of his name, of a work whose first line tells you "Achilles is a hero"

Monday!

would love to meet up! @glimpsesofcalm.bsky.social and @itsevidentvery.bsky.social reunion?

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Not personal experience, but an experienced person - Giles Peaker is on here as @nearlylegal.co.uk ; works for anthonygold.co.uk

Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago The first people to reach the Kitsissut Islands off the north-west coast of Greenland were Indigenous peoples, who crossed over 50 kilometres of treacherous water

Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

This account has long been a friend of the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, so I'm pleased to see this:

Yet another suggestion (demerits: ignores lexical semantics and attested idioms; merits: pithy, alliterative):
fututores fututuri (fuckers (are destined to) get fucked)

tempoora even ... (runs)

What is the EU's new border system EES - and how does it work? The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

They're EES (EU biometric exit/entry system) terminals www.bbc.com/news/article...

YES! YES! INCREDIBLE WIN!

it is SO good. The mix of exactly what you expect (guess who was least affected by the consequences of externalising the costs of their preferred economic model) and absolute out-of-left-field blinders ("oh yeah eels bunging up your kitchen tap, that happens all the time") is so well told

Death in Hamburg | Richard J Evans Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Ger...

Death in Hamburg (story of 1892 cholera epidemic there; 10,000 dead in 6 weeks, rest of Europe untouched) is both a page-turner AND a brick of analysis. Non-spoiler: it was misgovernance (governing Hamburg like a corporation) www.richardjevans.com/publications...

Of Ken's First Real World Road-Trip, and the Fruit
Of Masculinity, whose fragile Cast
Brought Strife to Barbieland, and of the Dolls'
Cold-dawned Awareness, till one greater Doll
Restored Zen, and regained the blissful Pink,
Sing Heav'nly Muse

UK advice is wait 3 weeks if no SOB/fever/blood - coughs can take ages. For symptomatic relief, steam is great www.nhsfife.org/media/e9dp0v.... No need to buy stuff - hot water in a bowl + a towel over your head for 15 mins works fine. If poss no speaking for 20 mins after. Normal to cough up loads

Minotaur says: how will you get out again
(free offer of very, very basic Linear B intro if you want it)

Text on a green background. It says, "Wildthorn: Wildthorn Books is a new imprint of Tor Publishing Group focused on commercial stories that are irresistable, genre-blending and genre-bending. Wildthorn's mission is to become the destination for compulsive, page-turning reads."

NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.

😁 call it a lightbulb moment

tired: Earth Mother
...wired: Earthed Mother

Applications are open for our 23rd Summer School on British History and the History of the British Empire! This year's topic will be "City and Empire. Colonial and Postcolonial London". 🏛️

📅 21-24 July 2026
📍German Historical Institute London
⏰ Apply by 6 March 2026
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This is wonderful! He looks glum enough to try drinking the Tabasco