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

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.

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.

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!

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

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...

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...

There are certain steps of the publishing journey (rejections, being on sub, etc.) that writers often keep quiet, and I get why. But I wish we shared all of it, so that we can celebrate all of one another's milestones—not only publishing and winning awards. They're all accomplishments!

A very big Onion announcement:

The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.

It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.

Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

If anyone would like an off print of my article on Hand D, just send me a message!

Today goes out to every single person who's ever told me I was being irrational, or paranoid, or foolish, or unreasonable, to worry that the UK would take my immigration status away from me someday.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...

And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

Zack Polanski, "We must condemn Tommy Robinson, we must condemn Reform UK MPs"

"But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them