George Doji

Having seen it... yeah. You probably should be.

Also I've been silent on here mostly because I forgot my password and couldn't be bothered to reset it. I am excellent at networking and social media usage.

SAS Rogue Heroes soldier lived in Leamington and historian wants a tribute to him in the town An elite soldier who features as a character in the hit BBC historical war drama show SAS Rogue Heroes lived in Leamington in his later years - and the historian who has researched his story wants a t...

I've been saying this a while. Fraser definitely deserves a memorial - and I don't think there's one anywhere yet? Please let me know if I'm wrong on that!
www.warwickshireworld.com/news/people/...

Cartoon showing two rectangular boxes running horizontally that almost fill the page and overlap very slightly in the middle. The upper box is labelled SKY, the lower box LAND and squeezed into the overlap is the word HORIZON. Caption: Fen Diagram

Fen Diagram

A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself.

www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...

Oh man, I didn't realise I'd been logged out of bluesky. This is excellent, I need it framed.

Sometimes they're not untold, you've just not been listening.

Formulating a way to express my discomfort with historical figures/stories being referred to as "previously written off", "hidden" or "untold" when there isn't the equal weight placed on who these stories are being written off by or in favour of.

The best!

From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars A Thousand Blows, the knockout new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, puts Victorian-era boxer Hezekiah Moscow in the spotlight. But it doesn’t even begin to do justice to the astonishin...

When people comment 'woke, over-representative' on #AThousandBlows vids etc and I tell them about the dozen (known!) Black boxers just in the 1880s, just in London, incl. two women, their response is to not reply, or to simply repeat themselves.

Anyway 🥊❤️ >>

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A quick note on A Thousand Blows, Black boxers in 1880s London, and ‘woke history’ Ching Hook (Hezekiah Moscow), Alec Munroe, Jem Haines, Jack Davenport, Albert Pearce, ‘Meat Market Charlie’ Bartlett, Violet and Rosaline Mills, Jack Watson, J. Oliver, Tom Tully, Felix Scott, Char…

Wrote a blog about how racists who only like white men telly keep saying 'over-representative'. My argument: ATB only has a few Black characters and they were all real people, really there, so how can it be?

A man commented: "grossly over-representative" 🤷🏻‍♀️

grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...

"We must try to cultivate compassion and inner peace, regardless of our nationality or religion, we can contribute to the well-being and happiness of all mankind. If the last century was the century of violence, it is our responsibility to make this century the century of dialogue."

Losar Tashi Delek! 🐍 Happy Tibetan New Year to you all! Sending you warmest wishes for peace, happiness and new opportunity for this new year. I leave you with last year's message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama:

Nothing makes me feel the sting of my own mortality more than seeing pictures of boybands from my teenage years reuniting.

A few people are saying All You Need is Death, and they're right. I also think Sea Fever is an overlooked gem and enjoyed Double Blind recently. Plus, You Are Not My Mother is an amazing movie.

History's Heroes - History's Secret Heroes: Series 3 - Trailer - BBC Sounds Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.

New series of History's Secret Heroes starts next week! Featuring me and @claremulley.bsky.social, among many others... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Out for my mental health walk in the rain. There better be books at the end of this.

Ship position map from MarineTraffic, showing the Manitoulin just outside Buffalo Harbour. AIS tracking information: Current speed: zero knots. Destination: *Exasperated Sigh*.

I think we can all agree this is a Whole Mood right now

heads up for fans of the "ship is stuck" genre, the Manitoulin is currently stuck in icy Lake Erie just outside Buffalo
www.reddit.com/r/GreatLakes...

Central. Hands down.

Exactly! I've not used it for a while, but I've been really reluctant to deactivate entirely because it's been there for so long. Sigh.

Finally actually deactivated my X account. Genuinely I feel sad - I set that up when I went to Canada directly out of undergrad. I'm turning 40 this year. That's how long I had that account, that's how old some of my networks there were. Woof.

Wrote about visiting Blair Mayne's grave over on instagram. I think sometimes even the well-meaning debates forget that he was a person, not an archetype. www.instagram.com/p/DFDyDH8ovnA/

in one of my favorite books of all time - JUNO & JULIET, an Irish romcom by Julian Gough - one character explains to another that constantly pretending to be an asshole as a joke is meaningfully indistinguishable from actually being an asshole, and I've thought about that every day for 24 years

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.

I want our World Wide Web back.

Neil Gaiman shouldn’t be treated like an extreme outlier. It’s not fame or following that enables men like Gaiman to act the way they do. It’s power. And power can be A-list celebrity status or it can be the head of any ordinary household or a leader in any local community.

Latest release of files from MI5 - The National Archives Today we have made available a selection of previously top secret files from MI5. Including new details on the Cambridge Spies Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

The full cache of declassified MI5 files, released by the National Archives today, can be found here www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/l... Among other things, they cover the Cambridge Spy ring, including Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

The article is important, but seconding this. It is not required to (re)traumatise yourself as an act of support.

In hindsight, planning a third walking tour on the same weekend in January was always going to be a display of hubris for which the weather gods would punish me. Coffee shop and book it is.

Aww, happy anniversary!