JudithFlanders
@judithflanders.co.uk
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
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‘Tulip’ comes from the Turkish word ‘tülbent’ which means "turban."
The flower got its name from the resemblance of its overlapping petals to the folds of fabric in a turban.
The flower got its name from the resemblance of its overlapping petals to the folds of fabric in a turban.
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Is that — is that Lord Lucan on the left? I never would have guessed he’d spent all these decades hiding on Fox News.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Is that — is that Lord Lucan on the left? I never would have guessed he’d spent all these decades hiding on Fox News.
The mentality of an 8 year old:
Let's stand around at a party and say mean things about you! Fun!
The mentality of a not-very-smart 8 year old:
I can't think of enough mean things, so I'm going to make a chatbot do it. Hysterical!
Let's stand around at a party and say mean things about you! Fun!
The mentality of a not-very-smart 8 year old:
I can't think of enough mean things, so I'm going to make a chatbot do it. Hysterical!
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The mentality of an 8 year old:
Let's stand around at a party and say mean things about you! Fun!
The mentality of a not-very-smart 8 year old:
I can't think of enough mean things, so I'm going to make a chatbot do it. Hysterical!
Let's stand around at a party and say mean things about you! Fun!
The mentality of a not-very-smart 8 year old:
I can't think of enough mean things, so I'm going to make a chatbot do it. Hysterical!
When does Meta get categorised as a hate group?
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
When does Meta get categorised as a hate group?
Proud to come from the province that hates Poilievre the most.
338 Sunday Update: A Competitive Race, Even as Poilievre’s Numbers Slide → www.338canada.ca/p/338-sunday...
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Proud to come from the province that hates Poilievre the most.
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A fascinating and sad story, like Shattered Glass with AI
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A fascinating and sad story, like Shattered Glass with AI
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Today’s fun linguistic discovery: a baby sling is a marsupio in Italian, a marsúpio in Portuguese and a kenguru in Hungarian.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Today’s fun linguistic discovery: a baby sling is a marsupio in Italian, a marsúpio in Portuguese and a kenguru in Hungarian.
If we’ve learned anything about Epstein, isn’t it that he was a sexual predator turned financier, not the other way around? His money came via his ability to provide children for other predators, not from his financial nous, of which he appeared to have none.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If we’ve learned anything about Epstein, isn’t it that he was a sexual predator turned financier, not the other way around? His money came via his ability to provide children for other predators, not from his financial nous, of which he appeared to have none.
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Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
Heidi Stevens: After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right?
If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have to stop giving a pass to sexual abusers, writes Heidi Stevens.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
Separated at birth.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Separated at birth.
I read an interesting side-note in an article. ‘Cool,’ I thought, ‘I should do something w/ that idea,’ & moved on with my life. A decade later I had a breakdown & realized I couldn’t continue in my job. I took 2 weeks’ holiday & researched enough to write a book proposal. A publisher bought it and…
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I read an interesting side-note in an article. ‘Cool,’ I thought, ‘I should do something w/ that idea,’ & moved on with my life. A decade later I had a breakdown & realized I couldn’t continue in my job. I took 2 weeks’ holiday & researched enough to write a book proposal. A publisher bought it and…
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This site is free, folks.
Buoyancy.
What are the pros/cons to an Olympic swimmer of holding in their farts?
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This site is free, folks.
This is a delightful story. Montréal’s only bilingual high school has had its land sold out from under it by the convent that owns it. The school offered to buy the land from them but the holy sisters in Christ said, Nah, we’d rather fuck you over.
Cri du cœur pour sauver le collège Villa Maria
Plusieurs centaines de personnes se sont réunies devant l’école secondaire privée.
www.ledevoir.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is a delightful story. Montréal’s only bilingual high school has had its land sold out from under it by the convent that owns it. The school offered to buy the land from them but the holy sisters in Christ said, Nah, we’d rather fuck you over.
The always excellent @davidallengreen.bsky.social on Trump’s non-case against the BBC. My favourite part is his verb choice for the Trump team ‘scampering’ about to gather evidence.
Trump scampering has made my day.
Trump scampering has made my day.
a white polar bear is standing in a pile of hay in a zoo enclosure .
Alt: a white polar bear is standing in a pile of hay in a zoo enclosure . He gradually moves backwards under cover.
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The always excellent @davidallengreen.bsky.social on Trump’s non-case against the BBC. My favourite part is his verb choice for the Trump team ‘scampering’ about to gather evidence.
Trump scampering has made my day.
Trump scampering has made my day.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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Dostoevsky really will just end a paragraph with a line that comes from outer space and makes you reread the entire paragraph:
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Dostoevsky really will just end a paragraph with a line that comes from outer space and makes you reread the entire paragraph:
Dear rest of the world
This is, I’m afraid, the nicest thing that could ever be said about Britain’s last-but-three Prime Minister.
This is, I’m afraid, the nicest thing that could ever be said about Britain’s last-but-three Prime Minister.
It speaks volumes about the place the Eton Mafia holds in this godforsaken nation that a man like Boris Johnson climbed any higher in life than being a children's entertainer on administrative leave pending the outcome of a tribunal.
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Dear rest of the world
This is, I’m afraid, the nicest thing that could ever be said about Britain’s last-but-three Prime Minister.
This is, I’m afraid, the nicest thing that could ever be said about Britain’s last-but-three Prime Minister.
Oh my god, that’s the way Trump looks at Ivanka.
I mean not now, she’s aged out. But when she was as young as Mamdani.
I mean not now, she’s aged out. But when she was as young as Mamdani.
Lol at NYT, after everything, having to roll with a smiling triumphant Mamdani looking down on Trump as lead story
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Oh my god, that’s the way Trump looks at Ivanka.
I mean not now, she’s aged out. But when she was as young as Mamdani.
I mean not now, she’s aged out. But when she was as young as Mamdani.
I know nothing about gaming. But I know evil when I see it. And a CEO who answers the question 'how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?' with 'We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity' is either the stupidest person in existence, or straightforwardly evil.
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I know nothing about gaming. But I know evil when I see it. And a CEO who answers the question 'how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?' with 'We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity' is either the stupidest person in existence, or straightforwardly evil.
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Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
There is no way on god's green earth that I am not going to do this for ever and ever, amen.
this inspired by a friend in a highly corporate line of work who was having kittens at having to address a large group of important people and just told me that my suggestion of adding "motherfucker" under his breath at the end of every sentence worked wonders.
Of course it did. It never fails.
Of course it did. It never fails.
the key to overcoming imposter syndrome lies not in understanding that you're better than this but in accepting that everyone else is worse than this
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There is no way on god's green earth that I am not going to do this for ever and ever, amen.