Nick Wise

They mean calling Goodwin an academic but Shaheen an activist, not bias in the range of panellists.

I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made. “Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied. Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.” He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

I grew up near Reading, a few people got caught out visiting Lire or Lesen.

The article's author is pictured below.

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

At the winter solstice, the sun rises in Beijing at 7:32 and in Kashgar at 10:12, same time zone and country.

A picture of wrapped Christmas presents with the text Huge parcel the parcels for big money!

When you misparse the parcel

*Or when traveling in the South East, which includes Exeter

onodi.co/bisect/

I now understand why I still call the vehicle that collects the bins a dust cart.

Seeing a lot of people share this with praise. It is not real, it is a prank.

Also it's not real, it's an elaborate prank.

I am obsessed with the sumo wrestlers currently living their best lives in London

Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social

This paper should be required reading for all editors, publishers, teachers, and anyone who has asked 'why don't you just use an AI detector to filter out AI-generated submissions/work?'

osf.io/preprints/ed...

Surely it depends on the alcohol? 18 year old whisky is great, 18 year old beer probably not.

Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part I: State of Play This is the first post in a series (I, II, III, IV) that will be examining the historical assumptions of Paradox Interactive’s grand strategy computer game set in the early modern period, Eur…

There was an interesting set of blog posts by the historian and professor @bretdevereaux.bsky.social about the theory of history within Europa Universalis
acoup.blog/2021/04/30/c...

A screenshot from BBC News with the headline 'Queen recalls Jilly Cooper's wish to get plastered'.

This is England

Toulouse is outrageously photogenic

I want to meet the people who built this wall

Haha of course there's a typo

Do you like sitting in the middle of your loving room and staring at the walls? Have a lot of visitors who you don't want to look at? Bid now!

Played Russian Omelette and now having cheesy mash potato for lunch (aligot)

Vive la France

Show us the last four albums you listened to.

The Eurostar security staff addressing confused non-English people as 'boss' does not help the confusion

Pierce Brosnan about to walk into the Crucible for a first round match against Zhao Xintong