Simon Thomson

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

Regime change.

Cos that's worked out really well before, eh?

FFS.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Haha, okay. It’s the third of my previous options. Have a nice afternoon.

Are we talking about Charlemagne here or Britain? Or don’t you really know?

*the Saxons in Britain, I should have said.

The Saxons converted about 150 years before Charlemagne was coronated in Rome. Let’s not be silly about this.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...

We’re just not a free country.

Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

NOW - Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... who wouldn't want a robot to... watch over your kids, take care of your pets... we are in the most interesting time in history." 4:08 PM Jan 22, 2026 223.8K Views

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids?

The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

Photo featuring the inside of a church with a view to an arched window with central oval design

East Window, 2008 by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

Are we honestly doing the World Cup over there? For real?

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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Detail depicting an elephant from the British Library Collection: Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1, fol. 81r.

Issue 42.2 of Parergon was released just before Christmas. A special issue focused on medieval English attitudes to the outside world, Alison Hudson's article 'Elephants in English Literature, Art, and Material Culture before the Reign of Henry III' is currently open access!

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You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

Between Philology and Desire, Part 2. On the challenge of translation. The backdrop is a woodland path.

New post!

Part two of my series on philology and translation. I look at the challenges of translating even a few lines of an Old English text.

Does "wyrd bið ful aræd!" mean "fate is fully determined!", "shit happens!", or something else entirely?

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Schwierigkeitsgrad und Wirksamkeit klimafreundlicher Entscheidungen Scatterplot mit „Wirksamkeit“ auf der x-Achse, und „Schwierigkeitsgrad“ auf der y-Achse. Unter anderem (jeweils mit passendem Symbol): Autofrei leben Vegan leben Mehr Öffis Nicht Fliegen Kein Einwegplastik Keine Klimaanlage Weniger heizen Vegetarisch leben Weniger Fleisch Ein Flug weniger Mülltrennen Licht ausschalten Lokale Lebensmittel Keine Kreuzfahrten Quelle: Schwierigkeitsgrad und Wirksamkeit klimafreundlicher Entscheidungen - T Brudermann & A Hoeben - Die Kunst der Ausrede (Oekom Verlog) - CC-BY-ND. Hinzugefügt, oben rechts: „Eat the rich“ (mit so kleiner Guillotine)

jede*r kann etwas tun

Man if you thought Freedom Fries was embarrassing get ready because renaming stuff is this dude’s single favorite thing in the world

Flight Free UK Fight climate change: make the pledge to be flight free in 2026

I am taking the flight free challenge! Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor knighted in King’s New Year Honours | News | University of Leicester

Services to losing multiple employment tribunals?

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Was die Verschärfung beim Bürgergeld bringt:
- Applaus von rechts außen
- mehr Hunger
- mehr häusliche Gewalt
- mehr Kinderleid

Was sie nicht bringt:
- Einsparungen

Ach ja - Frohe Weihnachten ihr lieben Christen überall 😘

Auch wenn die Polizei das dementiert: Falls jemand Fotos oder Videos hat, wie die Polizei AfD-Teilnehmer in Polizeiautos zur Veranstaltung in #Gießen fährt, bitte lasst uns das Material zukommen. Auch Material von Konvois, die Teilnehmer bringen, ist interessant.

Deutschland - Zahl der Wohnungslosen steigt auf Höchststand mit mehr als einer Million Menschen - viele Kinder betroffen In Deutschland gab es im vergangenen Jahr mehr als eine Million wohnungslose Menschen - das ist ein Anstieg von elf Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Als wohnungslos gilt, wer über keine eigene angemiete...

Deutschland hat 83,6 Millionen Einwohner und eine Million von ihnen ist wohnungslos, Tendenz weiter steigend. Und der Regierung ist es einfach egal - selbst das 264.000 Kinder und Jugendliche betroffen sind.
www.deutschlandfunk.de/zahl-der-woh...

Vicki is still carrying her orange around 💀😂 #BravoCon #RHOC

Background of a keffiyeh pattern with an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine.

Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the left side an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. On the right side 4 bullets points that say: 1. One of the first major works in English written by a leading Palestinian American intellectual. 2. Analyzes Palestinian displacement, resistance, and self-determination. 3. Explains the nature of Zionism "from the standpoint of its victims." 4. Examines the relationship between Zionism, Western liberalism, and imperialism.

The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Fesshole screenshot: I may have nearly knocked out my gynecologist by shooting a speculum at his head. It wasn't my fault. He made me laugh, my muscles contracted, and suddenly my twat was a cannon.

It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...