Cameron the Apostate

I hope order is swiftly restored, Dr. Y

I have started watching, just not quite finished yet: I will do though: it’s such an interesting topic. I’ve been waiting for Dr Young to say the word ‘elf’ but so far he hasn’t ;)

@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Hopefully you’re already aware that your Twitter account has been hacked by crypto scammers?

Are elves fairies?

...Dr C just said he doesn't believe in face tattoos /2

Recently, on the Jackson Crawford Patreon page, some dude left a string of messages demanding a translation of the word 'berserker' into Elder Futhark for a (yes) face tattoo. Failing that 'Ragnarok' or 'Valhalla' would do: 3 quintessentially Viking concepts in runes that predate the Viking age 🙄 /1

Clearly the gods got the grasshopper design right straight out of the gate. No fine tunings necessary

And yet you have written so much about cats. Hidden depths emerging

Ic hæbbe twā his bōca and hæbbe hine gesewen sprecan. Hē is wīs and gelǣred

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Iċ mæġ wel, Þe þancas do. Hit is bliss, þā Denisċan sprǣċe to leornianne

'Patience'. Hu gǣþ hit mid þe, Mike?

...enough and the setting alone gives it significant novelty value (I can only think of one previous TV show, pushing 20 years ago, set in the fine city of Old York)

Yesterday I discovered a new(ish) British detective show set in York with an autistic lead character (a police archivist who ends up assisting a detective). I don't know enough to comment the authenticity of its portrayal of autism but the broad strokes seem to be in place. It's entertaining /1

Oops, *visit

The insinuation here seems to be that campaigning for free speech is suspicious and vaguely sinister

Which way to the Lonely Tree, where the Dark Lord of All Squirrels sits upon a giant stash of acorns?

I recommend a list to Old York one day, opportunity permitting: it's very different

Getting up in the mornings can be a challenge at this time of the year. You suddenly wake up to a dark bedroom in a coal-black world, and you think "It's 3am, I can go straight back to sleep". Five minutes later the alarm bell rings and you realise it's actually 6am

TIL the origin of the word 'stationery'. It comes from the fixed stalls, or stations, set up by booksellers in 15th Century London, in contrast to the more usual itinerant traders of the time (and later centuries too) 📚

After all those years in medical school, how come doctors are still practising? And why do we have to be patients with them?

Just wrote out a date containing the numerals '2026' for the very first time 👀

@dannybate.bsky.social Happy New 2026 Dr B

Yep, me too - one of the better recently written Old English textbooks

IMHO this is one of the best introductions to Latin currently available: concise and punchy, with some engaging readings. It is certainly better than 'Complete Latin' from the same publisher, which is a very old school, grammar-heavy affair. I wish there was a 'Beginner's Classical Greek', but alas

(More) Old Norse, with a side-order of Modern Icelandic

My parents made this bird sculpture from various bits of wood and old metal they found in their shed and made a perch for it on the sawn-off trunk of a dead tree, and it makes for some great folk horror winter sunset photos.

Social grooming.... it's a powerful signal. Also, Voyager Mouse is perhaps the greatest cat name there ever was

After all those years in medical school, how come doctors are still practising? And why do we have to be patients with them?

Pitch it to someone else then ;) Your Dad is talented