Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)

Holy shit. 😭😱🤮

"Nothing in the [Representation of the People] bill as it stands would stop Harborne giving as much as he likes while living half a world away."

If there's one thing to share with UK folks you know who lean/vote conservative, perhaps it's this. And it's an urgent thing to write to MPs about.

Bijzondere en zeer boeiende reflectie Esther!
Heel goed verwoord ook.🙏🏻

Doet me meteen aan 2 dingen denken…

1. Een zeer inzichtgevende droom die ik ooit had over het je verenigen met donkerder kanten van jezelf.

2. De mini-lezing die @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social gaf over haar werk mbt ‘Monsters’.

Reputational damage, plus impersonation, plus violating copyright, plus ruining the information landscape.... I could go on.

PSA: Slop machines aren't reviewers. Here's another sort of class-action lawsuit that needs to happen.

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Event image Text: Sir Michael Palin: Travels Through Time. 5PM, SUN 19 APRIL | BRITISH LIBRARY. In conversation with Rebecca Rideal. HistFest 2026. Image: An image of Michael Palin against a blue background.

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An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

Title page of the Whole Course of Chirurgerie by Peter Lowe. The page has been damaged over the years and a large portion of the top right hand corner is missing.

Happy #WorldBookDay!
Here's a rare 1st edition of the Whole Course of Chirurgerie (1597) by our College founder, Peter Lowe. It's the first complete treatise on surgery written in English and takes the form of a dialogue between teacher (John Cointeret) and pupil (Peter Lowe)

from an interview with a POW recently released from the camps

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Wow; yes!

Bluesky at its best today

Women aren't gobsmacked at all. But really hoping guys finally get angry about this.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Fabulous! A. Mechele Dickerson's THE MIDDLE-CLASS NEW DEAL from @ucpress.bsky.social is #5 on the NYT paperback nonfiction bestseller list!!!
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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

As a parent, you are also an unmitigated piece of shit for exposing other people’s children to preventable diseases. I have zero time or sympathy for these people. I hope in their dotage their children sue the pants off them for their willful stupidity. Fuck these people.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Starting now

Collective brain rot in real time.

📣 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

In THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME, @chanda.bsky.social blends physics, post-colonial history & Black feminist thought to show why “the edge” is the best place to see the big picture. On sale 4/7/26!

Cover designer: Tyler Comrie

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Until someone works out how to get monopoly profits from renewables they are constantly going to be attacked by frightened oligarchs.

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, laying on a large white comforter. His body is compact and curled up, but his head is slightly lifted up and looking at the camera. His ears point outward slightly, giving off a bit of an annoyed expression at being woken up.

a bit disgruntled

honestly, genuinely, if you could speak OK French and do calculus and prac-crit a poem when you were 17 you can definitely still do it today. it will take you a maximum of a handful of months to get back any of those things, and it is really joyful.

brains are not like bodies in this way.

A grim thread. I have reverted to mostly in-class assignments. The era of undergrads writing essays unsupervised on their own time is rapidly coming to a close.

The fascism is killing us, some faster than others, but nearly all of us either way.

one of the ways Trump’s war is robbing you (if you’re alive to read this) is that news organizations that still do arts coverage are cutting their arts coverage to make room for war coverage

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America Working and Homeless in America

With Amazon down, a good reminder to buy books from actual bookstores—not an oligarch-owned tech behemoth that exploits its workers.

A friendly reminder that your Libro audiobook credits never expire 🙃 You bought them...so why would we take them away?

@justinevdl.bsky.social just joined Bluesky. Give her a follow and preorder UNREASONABLE WOMEN immediately. An extraordinary book everyone will be talking about this year.