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walked out of watching Hamnet and shuffle my music and 'forever young' comes on... spotify do you want me dead

a weighted blanket isn't enough, I need to be buried in the permafrost on Beechey Island

just learned that in 1732 an ass was sent down a rope from the top of the steeple of Derby Cathedral, after a Frenchman had done it several times. the rope broke and several onlookers were injured. oh to be a fly on the wall for the events that led up to this...

top surgery recovery has one pondering such questions as are button up shirts and trackies the new look, how many times can one be forced to sleep on their back before losing the will to live, and how the everloving fuck do you not automatically use your arms to push yourself up every time you stand

proud to admit that it took till my 50th listen of 'vincent' by don mclean to figure out it's about van gogh 👍

rip to sir john franklin and the 128 others but I simply wouldn't get scurvy or die in the arctic !!

introductory slide of my northwest passage powerpoint for my friend's party

I don't know if my weather forecast is lying to me or if I am just reading it incompetently, but every time I leave the house at the moment I am either roasting or freezing and I Do Not Like It

the "manosphere" is located at 80 degrees latitude or higher. you can only prove yourself a man in an elemental struggle against ice and scurvy. i dont make the rules

Absolutely insane. Uneblieveable. "Sex Matters", one of the hate groups responsible for removing trans people's rights via the Supreme Court are arguing that trans people shouldn't be allowed to transition because they don't have rights and not having rights is bad. Fucking hell

Woke historians now claim the British Empire was colonial. Where does the madness end?

Britain's exploration of South Pole was 'colonial', claims museum Polar centre at Cambridge University said expeditions were in same 'mould', despite Antarctica having no human inhabitants

Historians will shrug at this headline because it’s obviously true (one might argue ‘Imperial’ a slightly better label, I suppose?)

Presumably The Telegraph expects its readers to be outraged at this language? I’m not sure why

Bob Bartlett, photographed on the US Coast Guard ship Bear on its way to rescue the survivors of the Karluk. Bartlett and his Inuk friend Kataktovik travelled 700 miles across perilous terrain to raise the alarm and get help after the ship was crushed by ice. Image by Lomen Bros, Nome; individual photographer not identified. - From the [www.historicsites.ca/hawthorne.html Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland & Labrador] website, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6177505

A photo from p67 of William Laird McKinlay's 1976 memoir Karluk: The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. The Karluk is mortally wounded, being crushed by ice, and the crew and stores have moved onto the ice flow. Bartlett stays on board overnight, playing records. When he lifts each one from the Victrola, he frisbees it into the galley fire. And then the ship begins to die. "Then, at 3:15 a shout, 'She's going!' brought everyone on to the ice. The Karluk was settling down at the bow. As the minutes went by, the deck sank almost entirely under water. Captain Bartlett put the Funeral March on the Victrola. With the water running along the starboard side and pouring down the hatches, he waited at the rail until it came down level with the ice. Then he stepped off."

I was joking yesterday about polaramory, but I do actually have a Famous Emotional Support Dead Guy and he has nothing to do with #FranklinExpedition.

He's Bob Bartlett. He was brave and principled. And no captain ever left his dying ship (the Karluk) as stylishly as he did in January 1914.

solidarity and love to all of my trans siblings, especially sisters, in the face of today's news. finding it hard right now to feel anything other than blinding anger, but I know we will get through this

Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

Just finished preparing the HMS Terror for our arctic expedition, no time to check the news if we want to make it out before winter.

Happy Christmas from those of us aboard the HMS Terror

Ted Lasso season 4 is set to take place on board the ill-fated Franklin expedition’s HMS Terror as the crew descends into madness and advanced scurvy

Vintage book cover featuring a horse with a bit in its mouth looking a bit tired. Title and copy read: SICK OF THIS HORSE SHIT Riding, walking, all that shit: fuck it By Maneson the Horse

Back cover synopsis for Sick of This Horse Shit Perhaps you wonder how it is possible that a horse wrote a whole book. The answer is simple. I am very angry. This is my story: A long time ago I was a baby and it was pretty funny. Then I became older & stronger and everyone wanted a ride. 'Take me over to that' they'd say. "Trot me over yonder,' they'd also say, but they wouldn't say it with their mouths they would say it by kicking me with boots. Yes, it is messed up and I am sick of it. This is the end of my horse shit so read it up. There will be no more rides, no more funny horse sounds just for fun. I am going to hurt the old man who runs this piece of shit place. Review blurb: OLD MISTER MAYNARD BETTER WATCH OUT! HIS HORSE HAS MADE MANY VIOLENT PROMISES! Grep Chitlin - Saddlebag Reader PAPERBACK PARADISE

horse book

just sat in the sun and ate a delicious orange. maybe Wendy Cope was onto something

I think I can wear a clean jumper for a maximum of 12 hours before god intervenes and makes me spill something on it

Fuck this, fuck settlers, fuck settler colonialism, and FREE PALESTINE. 🇵🇸✊🏽🍉

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

destressing from my research on interpersonal drama in gay squats by listening to my audiobook about sexual assault, journalistic suppression, and surveillance

A black and white archive photograph of a cat sitting on a cannon and arching his back. A dog is sitting right in front of the cannon.

If you've got a better photograph of a cat trying to fire a cannon at an unsuspecting dog then we'd like to see it.

#Caturday #Archives #SaturdayMorning

A painting of the assassination of Julius Caesar

Happy ides of march!

Today it is tradition to give the gift of stabbing to would-be dictators 🫶🏻

my research atm is reading and listening to lots of testimonies from gay men in the '80s and '90s. sometimes I google their names to see if they're still kicking, and it's always so funny to me when the person I'm writing about is on instagram or something

we're in the next ad break and have had a navy ad, a police ad, a blood donation ad and an ad for east anglia. bonkers