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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes

@tarquinhh.bsky.social

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Oxford Law Research Admin (currently on a GLAMorous secondment), dabbler in history, philosophy & sociology of the life sciences & medicine.

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · Jun 24

My former PI Carrie Friese's book on lab animal welfare is out today and is open access:
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
#sts #sociology

A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals

[Open Access] Questions the treatment of laboratory animals in biomedical researchLaboratory animals are often used to develop medical treatments: vaccines, antibiotics, and organ transplants have all...

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 3h

"...When Gul Madred tries to force Picard to state that there are five lights, he is in fact trying to impose upon Picard that in addition to the light of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, & their light as reflected in Man, there is also a fifth light, Satan. This, of course, Picard rejects, for..."

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 3h

"Jean-Luc Picard is a Christlike figure who, in seeking to redeem the Federation's sins, for which he is tried by the Caiaphas-like Satie, is repeatedly betrayed and crucified by such agents of Antichrist as the Borg and Gul Madred, yet refuses to give in to temptation. In this essay I will..."

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 5h

Wrong again! Svengali was in fact the former leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 9h

I think Disraelian one-nation Toryism hasn't been helped in its descent into obscurity by its conflation in a lot of discourse with that other moribund aspect of Tory one-nationism, namely unionism.

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 9h

Lord Summerisle: "See, this is why your world is going to sh*t now you don't even remember how to libate the pagan gods"

Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 9h

"All these pages are blank"

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 1d

This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals!!!!!

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Same: ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...

Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 1d

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 1d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn't The Fudges of Youghal an HP Lovecraft short story?

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

Excluding Marwan Barghouti from the list of prisoners for release means none of the parties are serious about the second stage of the agreement (replacing Hamas with an alternative administration) let along any "peace" prospects

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, but he's vindictive and senile enough that it's just as likely that instead of anything strategic what this leads to instead is a rapprochement with the Maduro regime.

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

'Worcestershire' is tame compared to the divergences of spelling vs. pronunciation of some East Anglian towns, e.g. Happisburgh ('Haze-bruh'), Costessey ('Cossy').

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 3d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

A 🗃️ colleague at Rutgers has been mercilessly doxxed for being a scholar of the history of antifascism - and his family (including another historian colleague) were prevented from leaving the country last night, in a very alarming development. See below for how to help!

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

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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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, the occasion of His immersion in the River Tylenol and the appearance of the dove of the Parautistus.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Baptism of Christ, depicted the smaller & largely nude Christ on left, wearing a towel for modesty, and red clothed giant John the Baptist on the right, wielding staff in left hand and drizzling an unspecified clear liquid from a small bottle on Christ's head with his right. The dove of the Holy Spirit paintingbombs in front of the sun at the top above Christ's head.

Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Neurotypical (slur)

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

*someone, not 'sknrone'

Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow not come across A Boy and His Dog before (as sknrone familiar-ish with Harlan Ellison), & reading the Wikipedia synopsis the first thing that came to mind was "Worst Adventure Time episode ever"

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Reminded of the time my dad picked the Blockbuster rental for family movie night and selected Todd Solontz's Happiness because "this looks interesting".

Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, my autism could have been so much more powerful.

Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

🎵 Baby in her placenta, I know
I know, it's really serious🎵

(To the tune of The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma)

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

The point you raise is larger, but it's also notable that there's never to my knowledge been a similar call in Nature for the Nobels to recognise the contributions of lab animals to science (given they are actual living sentient beings, not glorified calculators).

Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 2d

Nintendo really going meta for the upcoming Zelda game with the seemingly innocuous Ben Doak recently revealing himself to have been Ben Gannon-Doak all along.