Dr Eleanor Janega
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
https://eleanorjanega.com/
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A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
SRA urged to take action as we reveal solicitor has ‘purposely frustrated’ investigation
Solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne delayed an official investigation into his alleged professional misconduct by overwhelming the regulator with complaints and threatening them with two injunctions se…
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November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
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In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
Annoying everyone I know by repeatedly announcing, "Girl, it's giving thanks." I live in London.
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Annoying everyone I know by repeatedly announcing, "Girl, it's giving thanks." I live in London.
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poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
I keep forgetting to say - on the blog I wrote about being called a contrarian for doing history, why misunderstandings of the "Dark Ages" ignore materialist circumstances and also just, you know, any history at all whatsoever.
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On contrarian history
Unfortunately, though I have made the world’s best booty shorts and deployed them with great skill and aplomb, there are still those in our society who refuse to heed my message, and also to learn …
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November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I keep forgetting to say - on the blog I wrote about being called a contrarian for doing history, why misunderstandings of the "Dark Ages" ignore materialist circumstances and also just, you know, any history at all whatsoever.
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Doctor of Medieval History.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Cometh the hour, cometh the Doctor of Medieval History.
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🛑Please stop...
The situation here is much worse than you can imagine.🚨 We are trapped in the rain, cold, and floods.😭 We are literally drowning without warm clothes or hot food.💔 Please do anything.I'm begging you.🙏🏻 It's just my family.🥺 Please share and donate. 🙏
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The situation here is much worse than you can imagine.🚨 We are trapped in the rain, cold, and floods.😭 We are literally drowning without warm clothes or hot food.💔 Please do anything.I'm begging you.🙏🏻 It's just my family.🥺 Please share and donate. 🙏
gofund.me/bec64b33
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🛑Please stop...
The situation here is much worse than you can imagine.🚨 We are trapped in the rain, cold, and floods.😭 We are literally drowning without warm clothes or hot food.💔 Please do anything.I'm begging you.🙏🏻 It's just my family.🥺 Please share and donate. 🙏
gofund.me/bec64b33
The situation here is much worse than you can imagine.🚨 We are trapped in the rain, cold, and floods.😭 We are literally drowning without warm clothes or hot food.💔 Please do anything.I'm begging you.🙏🏻 It's just my family.🥺 Please share and donate. 🙏
gofund.me/bec64b33
Anyway I already talked about how stupid this is. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-uwifh-...
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Anyway I already talked about how stupid this is. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-uwifh-...
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The core division here is people who understand what llms are and why they will never be able to do the things they are sold as doing (before we even get to the enormous ethical and environmental concerns), and rubes getting their wallets inspected by tech bros.
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The core division here is people who understand what llms are and why they will never be able to do the things they are sold as doing (before we even get to the enormous ethical and environmental concerns), and rubes getting their wallets inspected by tech bros.
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new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - this seems like it's unfolding exactly as a very small group of extremely wealthy people want it. An isolated, financially captive and stunningly beautiful place to live, from which they can continue to take a wrecking-ball to the planet.
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
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November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - this seems like it's unfolding exactly as a very small group of extremely wealthy people want it. An isolated, financially captive and stunningly beautiful place to live, from which they can continue to take a wrecking-ball to the planet.
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This is going to ring true to this guy’s idiot fan base because it’s largely true. Timing may not make any difference to the allegations but it’s true we are now getting a very late, very isolated bout of Noticing Things that could and should have been noticed many years earlier.
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is going to ring true to this guy’s idiot fan base because it’s largely true. Timing may not make any difference to the allegations but it’s true we are now getting a very late, very isolated bout of Noticing Things that could and should have been noticed many years earlier.
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Reflecting on this bit, about tuition fees, over lunch. This comment shows me just how little Smith understands UK HE. In an uncapped system driven by reputation and student choice, raising the fee itself does not, in fact, represent any financial stability. It only intensifies the market pressure.
Smith mow spinning tuition fee increases with inflation as a "remarkable certainty about income" that private sector would envy. Reply is that national insurance rises completely wipe that out.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reflecting on this bit, about tuition fees, over lunch. This comment shows me just how little Smith understands UK HE. In an uncapped system driven by reputation and student choice, raising the fee itself does not, in fact, represent any financial stability. It only intensifies the market pressure.
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For some reason I've suddenly remembered those two Palestine activists who were convicted of harassment (later overturned on appeal) for filming themselves asking a Labour MP questions about Gaza.
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
For some reason I've suddenly remembered those two Palestine activists who were convicted of harassment (later overturned on appeal) for filming themselves asking a Labour MP questions about Gaza.
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Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
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My son is winning his battle against malnutrition, but the fight isn't over. He needs continuous care to fully recover. Please help us cross the finish line! Every share and donation fuels his journey to health. Thank you
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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My son is winning his battle against malnutrition, but the fight isn't over. He needs continuous care to fully recover. Please help us cross the finish line! Every share and donation fuels his journey to health. Thank you
Vireted by: @mommunism.bsky.social
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not to mention everyone else in the town which suddenly supports night clubs and shops and bars and whatnot
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
not to mention everyone else in the town which suddenly supports night clubs and shops and bars and whatnot
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
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If you're interested in the movement of Buddhist terms and elements into Persian and Arabic from Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan, see Chia-Wei's fascinating new article below!
Today I stumbled upon an open-access article in the new edited volume "Connected Philology" by someone who has the exact same name as me and also works at the Université de Lausanne. Very suspicious 👀
#shamelessselfpromotion
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#shamelessselfpromotion
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Connected Philology
Even though the similarities of philological methods and traditions across various cultures have been the subject of scholarly research, the reasons for these occurrences usually remain obscure. The p...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
If you're interested in the movement of Buddhist terms and elements into Persian and Arabic from Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan, see Chia-Wei's fascinating new article below!
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Welcome to the UK, where minors are blocked from accessing porn but it's perfectly legal for a grown man to shout about sissy hypno porn in a minors face.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Welcome to the UK, where minors are blocked from accessing porn but it's perfectly legal for a grown man to shout about sissy hypno porn in a minors face.
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
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There will be no transformation fund for mergers, despite them loving the idea of mergers. Smith is 'not convinced' that it is necessary.
This lady was involved in various water companies right? I'm not misremembering that? Some absolute neck.
This lady was involved in various water companies right? I'm not misremembering that? Some absolute neck.
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
There will be no transformation fund for mergers, despite them loving the idea of mergers. Smith is 'not convinced' that it is necessary.
This lady was involved in various water companies right? I'm not misremembering that? Some absolute neck.
This lady was involved in various water companies right? I'm not misremembering that? Some absolute neck.
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Smith gives beautifully contradictory answer where they want to direct some bits of universities (research, national priorities) and yet they want to lean back and act as if they are not directing universities at all because autonomy and no it's not for us to &c. Hitherto unseen levels of smug.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Smith gives beautifully contradictory answer where they want to direct some bits of universities (research, national priorities) and yet they want to lean back and act as if they are not directing universities at all because autonomy and no it's not for us to &c. Hitherto unseen levels of smug.