Simon Thomson

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...

Old English "Life of St Christopher"

I've written a thing about the dog-headed Saint Christopher for Oxford's brilliant Resources for Old English Prose: roep.web.ox.ac.uk/article/old-... If you love dogs and the overthrow of some kinds of tyranny, check it out.

Happy 6,028th birthday to the Earth, which according to the work of Archbishop James Usher was created on 23 October 4004BC, some time around lunchtime.

Halloween kommt dieses Jahr früher.

Erst wenn Männer Angst haben, hören wir hin Friedrich Merz rechtfertigt seine "Stadtbild"-Aussagen mit einem Verweis auf die Ängste der Töchter der Nation. Diese Instrumentalisierung von Frauen ist falsch. In Wahrheit geht es in der Debatte um ...

"Friedrich Merz rechtfertigt seine "Stadtbild"-Aussagen mit einem Verweis auf die Ängste der Töchter der Nation. Diese Instrumentalisierung von Frauen ist falsch. In Wahrheit geht es in der Debatte um Migration nämlich wieder einmal um das, was Männer fühlen."

#Stadtbild

Birth citizens, on the other hand, can take more than they give, because their status makes them more valid as humans. That's where the implications of this rhetoric go. All migrants know that they have to be and do better than everyone else just to 'justify their presence'.

Bundestagswahl 2025 Wahlverhalten in Bevölkerungsgruppen Jüngere Frauen in Städten 9 Union 12 SPD 9 AfD 22 Grüne 34 Linke Ältere Männer auf dem Land 42 18 18 8 3 Stand: 23.02.2025, 18:28 Uhr infratest dimap

Was Töchter in der Stadt so meinen, wenn man sie fragt.

Was Merz tut, wird seit vielen Jahren in den Gender-Wissenschaften als »Femonationalismus« beschrieben (Sara Farris).

„Versuche europäischer rechter Parteien feministische Ideale für Kampagnen gegen Migranten und Migrantinnen und gegen den Islam zu vereinnahmen.“

Es geht nicht um Sicherheit.

The Social and Individual Effects of Homeless Shelter: Evidence from Temporary Shelter Provision Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

A new study lands squarely in current news and finds that providing homeless people with shelter reduces crime (also emergency room visits and mortality). "Shelter functions as a public good with high social benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w34376

Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’ At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden

This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If Hungary hosts Putin, the EU must kick Hungary out*.

Hosting a mass murdering extremist who has carried out war crimes, bombed nuclear power stations & kidnapped children is unacceptable.

The EU has to mean something.

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

can’t believe it took you this long to leave that website run by admitted nazis and join this website run by closeted nazis

Will there ever be a series of #Traitors where non-white people aren’t all voted off first?

Zahl der Buchhandlungen binnen fünf Jahren um ein Viertel gesunken Schnell mal zum Buchladen um die Ecke - das wird immer schwieriger. Obwohl die Branche mehr Umsatz macht, gibt es immer weniger Geschäfte. Das Statistikamt nennt auch mögliche Gründe für den Rückgang.

Liebe Leute, bitte, bitte bestellt eure Bücher beim lokalen Buchhändler. Herr Bezos wartet nur darauf, dass unsere kleinteilige, vielfältige Einzelhandelsstruktur kaputt geht.

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky? The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Auf die Frage, was er zur Kritik sage, dass die völlige Streichung von Bürgergeld und Mietzahlungen Obdachlosigkeit produziere, antwortet Friedrich Merz, dass in Deutschland jeder, der ein Dach über dem Kopf benötige, auch eines bekommt, und das ist die unverfrorenste Lüge seit langem.

Auf massive Entrechtung für Menschen in Armut hat sich der Koaltitionsausschuss in der Nacht geeinigt:

1. 100% Sanktion nach 3. verpassten Termin, einschl. Miete
2. 60% bei 2. verpassten Termin
3. 30% Sanktion bei 1. verpassten Termin

dunkler Tag heute für @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social

The Book of Lecan Conference - Royal Irish Academy During this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm

www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...

Der wirksamste Weg, Menschen »für den Arbeitsmarkt zu begeistern«, sind gute Löhne, verlässliche und real existierende Kinderbetreuung und Pflege sowie ein Gesundheitssystem, das Menschen arbeitsfähig erhält, auch bei Zahnschmerzen. #Merz #Miosga

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

Screenshot der forsa Umfrage, die oben beschriebene Zustände ausweist.

Die beiden rechtspopulistischen und rechtsextremen Parteien kommen gemeinsam auf 51%, die drei sozialdemokratischen Parteien kommen auf 36 %.
So ist der Zustand der Republik. Komplett in der Hand russischer Propaganda. Auch dank der nützlichen Idioten von CDU und CSU.

A tale of two parchments In this talk, Dr. Jiří Vnouček discusses differences in species choice and membrane preparation of 'Insular' and 'Continental' parchment used for book-making in the early Middle Ages.

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation.
In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre
Or livestreamed.
Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

A definitive ranking of naps:

1. Post-beach, post-shower, pre-dinner on vacation nap.

2. Post orgasm nap.

3. Any time during The Masters nap

4. Sunday before a late dinner nap

5. Sick day nap

6. All other naps nap.

A sad day but also a celebratory one for the successes of this brilliant project—whatever comes next will kick yet more palaeographical ass.

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

What Am I Supposed to Tell My Terrified Friends? Every time there's a mass shooting in the US, my trans friends and I hold our collective breath. If the shooter turns out to be trans, it could signal the final days of our human rights in a country t...

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...