Martha

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

I use a Spotify playlist called something like French Beach Club for exactly this purpose.

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

Trans Advocates Win Landmark UK Tribunal Case. Eva Echo and Saba Ali share the story behind their tribunal win.

Reminder that the power of the terfs is limited, but also of the huge emotional cost of their harassment. www.wecreatespace.co/post/trans-a...

Several archaeologists wearing high-vis vests excavating graves. In the background an excavator stands amongst piles of earth. Excavation at the post-Roman cemetery at Worth Matravers cemetery (credit: Lilian Ladle).

NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology
DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages.

#AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵

📷 Lilian Ladle

Tom Cruise also wanted to be a German Baroque composer but Jack Nicholson didn't think he was up to it.

They played a remix of Renegade Master on radio 2 the other day and I suddenly felt really very old.

A dark-skinned man with white hair and beard plants a black, red, and gold flag on the beach below the white cliffs.

Burnum Burnum planting the Aboriginal flag on the cliffs of Dover and claiming Britain for the Indigenous people of Australia

But now do you have to wear the bottoms of those trousers rolled?

I blame that Ken Hom, coming over here with his beansprouts! Get him on the plane to Rwanda now.

Mostly lurking ominously in a corner watching the cool kids who do their ominous lurking in plain sight. But here!

I don't know, I think certain parts of the Church have quite a few gay men of the 'girls have cooties' school, although whether they are sufficiently non-self-flagellant to want gay marriage I'm not sure.

My first estrogen prescription arrived on Christmas Eve, so I waited to start it until Christmas morning. I totally got a new gender for Christmas!

I do remember you but it was two names and a gender ago so it's not surprising if you don't make the connection back!

it’s 1910 england. you’re exhausted and you’ve just laid down for bed, but the sound of melodic banging on the roof keeps you awake. the chimney sweeps are singing and dancing for that fucking nanny again. you want to die.

Not sure my new colleagues entirely know what to make of me. The phrase 'Sorry about dropping a £5.8m cowpat on your head' probably isn't helping.

Hello Bluesky! One more rainbow come to join the e-firmament. It seems quite bright here so far.