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Diane Purkiss

@janetanderson.bsky.social

I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.

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The missing voice in the debate over Jeffrey Epstein's death is found in the Epstein files The Epstein files include a never-before-seen interview with the doctor who conducted the autopsy on Jeffrey Epstein.

1/ After examining Epstein's corpse, Baden was convinced he died by homicide.

Baden said he has never seen 3 fractures in a suicidal hanging as a medical examiner for 25 yrs, nor while serving for decades as NY state commission that oversees prison deaths.

www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

09.03.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6
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Our PM right. Again.

09.03.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Elon Musk's X grilled over 'appalling and offensive' Grok posts on Hillsborough X has been questioned by MPs over "the most appalling and offensive" AI posts about the Hillsborough disaster.Β 

Elon Musk's X grilled over 'appalling and offensive' Grok posts on Hillsborough

09.03.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Frankly, if this comes as any surprise then you really need to start paying attention.

09.03.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3018    πŸ” 1333    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 71

Just the fash then?

09.03.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New YouGov:

Six in 10 Britons, 59%, say they are opposed to military action, up 10 points in a week.

Labour
Support: 14%
Oppose: 76%

Conservatives
Support: 43%
Oppose: 43%

Reform UK
Support: 57%
Oppose: 27%

Lib Dem
Support: 12%
Oppose: 81%

Green
Support: 4%
Oppose: 87%

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Just like Rosa Parks, we will say β€œNo!”

β€œNo! We will not accept putting ourselves at risk when using the toilet.”

β€œNo! We will not accept what you think our healthcare should be.”

β€œNo! We will not accept fewer human rights than you.”

β€œNo! We will not go back into the closet. We are staying out.”

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Opposition is up +10 across 4 parties, including Cons, but not Reform voters, whose outlier status increases as a result

09.03.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is what happens when one of the stupidest people in history is in charge of your government.

09.03.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2438    πŸ” 765    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 51
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OMG, Trump is Helping Russia with their Financial Crisis by giving nations assess to Russia Oil which is sanctioned . Trump again Helping Russia a Dictatorship and not Ukraine who is trying to Save Democracy. This is Unacceptable 😱😱😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑

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NBC’s Richard Engel: β€œThe White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

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modern life gets a lot simpler once you learn to remember this

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Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

So concerned about β€˜protecting women’ they intimidate women they disagree with. Bastards

09.03.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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John Lennon Attributed to Stuart Sutcliffe

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The actual finding here is about research methodology and doesn't debunk previous studies that find no association between Tylenol and autism.

You should not report studies like this in a way that implies RFK Jr has a point!
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

09.03.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 368    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

Also the whole of Irish history, especially the famine.

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This marks the return of the 19th-century "spoils system." It sets a precedent for extremely high turnovers of the federal bureaucracy every election cycle. Assuming a Dem wins in '28, it would be stupid of them not to clean house, which means our century of non-partisan bureaucracy is over.

🧡

09.03.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Fartage is sulking as his sugar daddy stood him up

09.03.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Economist, Ten years after the EU referendum, Britain has become more European. 8 March.

The Economist, Ten years after the EU referendum, Britain has become more European. 8 March.

Britain still remains in Europe geographically. It's time we start acting like it, and repair our relationship with the continent.

08.03.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I often feel, while writing books, "This would be a lot easier and much less risky and would gain me much more respect amongst the literary establishment if I left the jokes out."

But I don't want to do that. And I'm very stubborn. And I don't give a flying fuck about the literary establishment.

09.03.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage invests Β£215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Crypto, the choice of kings, I mean crims!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Stop Wiping Your Glasses on the Bottom of Your
Shirt
Sorry, but You're Probably Not Washing Your Sheets
Enough
Stop Throwing Out Old Clothes. Repurpose Them Instead.

Stop Wiping Your Glasses on the Bottom of Your Shirt Sorry, but You're Probably Not Washing Your Sheets Enough Stop Throwing Out Old Clothes. Repurpose Them Instead.

The increasingly large hectoring section of the newspaper

09.03.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

the funniest part of this article is when the author hits pause to be like "I personally don't read romance, I am in a book club called the Difficult Books Club where we read the Brothers Karamazov and kind of hate it." seems like the wrong person to be writing about romance and fanfic then idk

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"I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world β€” prisons, persecution, everything."

Emma Goldman

#InternationalWomensDay

08.03.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

absolutely this. it's middle-class wetwipes with billionaire backers who are fretting about who is using what toilet. including journalists ofc, hence why their views are grossly overrepresented.

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2/2 Even Egbert van der Poel’s ordinary buildings seem to have been struck by catastrophe, as with this farmyard. Today is his day.

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Born on this day in 1621, in Delft, Egbert van der Poel. Famed for chronicling disaster & destruction. So appropriate! Here, village being plundered and burned at night.

09.03.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is terrible and they only ever talk about it with regards to Democrats. The Republican will be like "let's murder children" and they'll be like "A BOLD STANCE" and then a Democrat takes a mainstream concept like "abolish ICE" and they're like "sorry, you can't be electable with that!"

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Oil is over $100 per barrel right now

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