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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 1d

Well, he did say 'Jehovah'

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 1d

[a great variety of morbid symptoms appear]
Me: this can't be good

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 1d

We are very sad to hear the news of Mike Corbishley's passing.

Mike was a long-time supporter of the CBA and co-founder of YAC. We’ll be celebrating Mike’s life and contributions in an upcoming issue of British Archaeology.

Here he is in 1986, celebrating the conclusion of a Wroxeter excavation

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant Colleague's
New Book Alert!

Buy Chris Fletcher's latest,
hot off the presses or read the OPEN ACCESS version online!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

Arc Humanities book cover for "Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 2d

Celia Imrie has Resting Traitor Face and it will be her undoing

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread. Next time somebody asks how I'm doing, the answer is *howl**bark bark bark**llama noises* *honk honk honk* *Greek expletives* *SHOTGUN BLAST*

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 2d

So... I grew up on an old horse farm in East Central Illinois. Across the road lived the proprietor of the Greek family restaurant in town. His name was Pete Poulos and he was, in fact, Greek.

Pete raised lambs for the restaurant. Occasionally a coyote picked off a lamb, much to Pete's chagrin.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 3d

fuckin amen

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 4d

Somebody's asleep and snoring LOUDLY in this library.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 8d

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny?

alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-ant...

The Anti-Reparations Bible

Alan Lester Promoting the Anti-Reparations Bible Britain’s right-wing press has mobilised to promote Nigel Biggar’s latest book, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt as the defin…

alanlester.co.uk

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 4d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 5d

[Insert your favourite 'British Museum stealing stuff' meme]

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 6d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! Excellent news

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 5d

2/3 of these are just ‘academia’

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 6d

ricism

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 6d

Please share, 6 hours left! I’m writing this last night when despite headlines, all of Gaza has been criminally bombarded nonstop for hours.

Every alleviation, bite to eat, blanket, hour of shelter matters—and is our duty. For Palestinian life. 78/500 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 6d

Cute! Wish they came in orange.

Page from IKEA website showing set of Halloween plates. Four white plates with designs: one ghost, one cobweb, one angry looking black cat, and a bunch of spiders.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7d

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 7d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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David Rosenberg @davidjrosenberg.bsky.social · 7d

One of my favourite anniversaries today: 4 October 1936, the Battle of Cable Street. Very pleased to write an article in the Morning Star about the people who were there, and the urgent tasks for anti-fascists here and now. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/batt...

Battles on the streets and beyond

I CAN’T recall when I first heard of “Cable Street” but as a child I remember my grandfather, Syd, formerly an East End amateur boxer, boasting about “Blackshirts” he had floored.By my teens, when I f...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "We need to not conflate the Jewish community & the ongoing genocide in Gaza.. you can both be absolutely clear that antisemitism & Islamophobia in our country is totally unacceptable & you can stand against the genocide & our govts complicity.."

Well said Zack.

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