Gabe Moshenska
@gabemoshenska.bsky.social
I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
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Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
Deadline: [looms]
Me: I wonder if I can bake bollu preñáu in the air fryer?
Me: I wonder if I can bake bollu preñáu in the air fryer?
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Deadline: [looms]
Me: I wonder if I can bake bollu preñáu in the air fryer?
Me: I wonder if I can bake bollu preñáu in the air fryer?
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#OtD 18 Nov 1953 the British Royal Air Force began aerial bombing of Kenya in an effort to crush the "Mau Mau" anti-colonial insurgency. Over the next year and a half they dropped nearly 6 million bombs on the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9039...
November 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#OtD 18 Nov 1953 the British Royal Air Force began aerial bombing of Kenya in an effort to crush the "Mau Mau" anti-colonial insurgency. Over the next year and a half they dropped nearly 6 million bombs on the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9039...
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why can they not just fix it
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
1
CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
2
McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
3
CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
4
EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
5
EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
6
EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
7
CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
8
[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
9
[Customer looks inside the cup]
10
[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
12
EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
why can they not just fix it
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The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
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Is it 'online training course'?
June 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Is it 'online training course'?
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On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.
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We are one of the most petty, miserable, mean-spirited, spiteful little islands in the world. The process we force these people through is already dehumanising and a stain on the moral character of us all.
And this ghoul thinks it is too generous.
I'm gonna lose it.
news.sky.com/story/home-s...
And this ghoul thinks it is too generous.
I'm gonna lose it.
news.sky.com/story/home-s...
Home secretary to tackle UK's 'excessive generosity' with sweeping immigration reforms
In a statement to MPs on Monday, Shabana Mahmood is expected to tighten up the rules to allow for more deportations, and reduce the "pull factors" that attract migrants to the UK.
news.sky.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We are one of the most petty, miserable, mean-spirited, spiteful little islands in the world. The process we force these people through is already dehumanising and a stain on the moral character of us all.
And this ghoul thinks it is too generous.
I'm gonna lose it.
news.sky.com/story/home-s...
And this ghoul thinks it is too generous.
I'm gonna lose it.
news.sky.com/story/home-s...
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@helleborezine.bsky.social merch stirring up trouble! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
@helleborezine.bsky.social merch stirring up trouble! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nothing disappoints harder than a stone circle. The way people bang on about them you'd think they would be at least an interesting experience, preferably an emotional one. They're neither.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Nothing disappoints harder than a stone circle. The way people bang on about them you'd think they would be at least an interesting experience, preferably an emotional one. They're neither.
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Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
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📢 NEW BOOK ALERT!
The housing crisis is global, but so is the resistance.
A thread to introduce “Rent Strikes”, edited together with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, and published open access by @uclpress.bsky.social and @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
🧵(1/10)
The housing crisis is global, but so is the resistance.
A thread to introduce “Rent Strikes”, edited together with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, and published open access by @uclpress.bsky.social and @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
🧵(1/10)
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📢 NEW BOOK ALERT!
The housing crisis is global, but so is the resistance.
A thread to introduce “Rent Strikes”, edited together with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, and published open access by @uclpress.bsky.social and @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
🧵(1/10)
The housing crisis is global, but so is the resistance.
A thread to introduce “Rent Strikes”, edited together with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, and published open access by @uclpress.bsky.social and @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
🧵(1/10)
Me: acquires nice armchair
Cats:
Cats:
a black cat holds a nail file in its paws
Alt: Black cat filing its claws in a sinister way. Brick wall behind with graffiti.
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Me: acquires nice armchair
Cats:
Cats:
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Found this exquisitely auto-translated advert for a bunch of old engraving tools.
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Found this exquisitely auto-translated advert for a bunch of old engraving tools.
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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my works, which are part of a nutritious breakfast.
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. ask your doctor if looking upon my works is right for you.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!
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For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly.
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
80. Ea-nasir: everyone's favourite copper merchant - Thin End of the Wedge
Gina Konstantopoulos, Andrew Deloucas, Gabriel Moshenska, and Steven Garfinkle discuss internet favourite, Ea-nasir. What do we know about the Dilmun traders and their role in the supply of copper to ...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly.
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...
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The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':
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Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's remembrance remembrance day
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It's remembrance remembrance day