I can take many personal insults but I will not stand for being called a yank
18.11.2025 16:49 β π 55 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0@r4g6.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Classics and Ancient History University of Exeter / University of Reading / The Roman Baths SWWDTP funded https://knowles06.medium.com/
I can take many personal insults but I will not stand for being called a yank
18.11.2025 16:49 β π 55 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0"get beyond being in hock to the bond markets" is genuinely disqualifying stuff from Burnham
25.09.2025 11:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02 hours in the same room as freshers and I contract TB (a sore throat)
25.09.2025 11:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've been to ONE lecture with students and I'm already ill
25.09.2025 11:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The "negotiations" in question
24.08.2025 15:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Political Science B.A. @InternetHippo (realizing I was wrong) Perhaps I was right in a new and unusual way
tenured academics writing their second/third/fourth books be like:
18.08.2025 11:15 β π 1300 π 121 π¬ 7 π 7"making efforts" is an enormously load bearing phrase given that clean water in the occupied Donbas has been a problem since 2014
30.07.2025 05:35 β π 72 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0It might be a skill in the sense that I've definitely failed at it before. But that might just be my obsession with "use by"/"best before" dates. I sometimes get home and find that what I thought was a 5-6 day shop was, due to the dates, only a 3-4 day shop.
26.07.2025 16:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wrote something about those houses being built in Flitwick that made it to the Telegraph last weekend. Rage is a great antidote to writer's block, it seems. I'll write something Classics-related soon...
14.07.2025 11:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He's also a regular Spectator contributor (admittedly only in the Life section)
11.07.2025 20:30 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Now, if only I could wrangle some research connection to help me along
08.07.2025 19:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Canada has risen massively in my list of hopeful holiday destinations. I'd either like to see the Toronto IndyCar race or drive the length and breadth of Nova Scotia
08.07.2025 19:12 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Corbyn when there's an opportunity to make Labour lose another election:
04.07.2025 14:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reposting with ALT-text:
A group of over 30 MPs have written to the EHRC with their concerns about the draft code of practice and the consultation period.
Names of signatories in the thread below - if theyβre your MP, send them a thank you message!
Thank you! I certainly will!
19.06.2025 15:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Upgrade? Passed! Now to replace the fear of failing the upgrade with the fear of actually doing the rest of the PhD
19.06.2025 11:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I'd question their definition of "splitting the bag" nowadays - especially in London
13.06.2025 23:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A source has just given me this photograph depicting Elon Musk stepping out onto the balcony of the SpaceX launch center.
05.06.2025 20:54 β π 520 π 95 π¬ 17 π 12please explain
29.05.2025 22:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One word review of the most recent arc? "phwoar"
07.05.2025 15:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's a mixture of impressing my parents by pointing them out and then bonding over Cambridge winning (they're both alumni)
13.04.2025 15:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0>bonds, stocks, oil, and crypto are all now tanking at the same time now
09.04.2025 11:54 β π 506 π 70 π¬ 26 π 5"Why would they want to absorb Ukraine," man asks as Russia marks 3 years since launching a war to annex portions of Ukraine
22.03.2025 16:17 β π 538 π 64 π¬ 30 π 2Olaf Scholz mocked British railways over βbroken tracks and bad trainsβ, claiming that "nothing works any moreβ in the UK. Turns out: Germany rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn long-distance service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...
19.02.2025 06:32 β π 651 π 198 π¬ 48 π 65"We must never repeat the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis"
"No new homeowners, got it"
"wait"
"got it"
russia invading a country and getting what it wanted is a huge banner on the international arena reading βNUKES WORK! GET NUKESβ
12.02.2025 19:17 β π 713 π 126 π¬ 26 π 8One of the first gigs I went to was to see Ichiko Aoba in the basement of a Turkish restaurant in North London in 2019. We all (maybe about 30 people) sat on the floor and listened in complete silence. Sad to miss out on the Barbican :(
11.02.2025 16:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0