June 1976, KISS played their first ever concert in Switzerland. At the time, Charlie Chaplin had been living in Switzerland for over 20 years. There's no way to prove that an 87 year old Charlie Chaplin didn't see KISS on the Destroyer tour and was so invigorated that he went on to outlive Elvis.

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Happy October 3rd to all who celebrate.

So cool!!

*unearthly shrieking intensifies*

TALES OF THE WEIRD MERCH IS GO

@blpublishing.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird

This is going to be an excellent event with speakers including @maireadenright.bsky.social @conorkelly.bsky.social
@dkennytcd.bsky.social @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social @aileenmcharg.bsky.social @danielwincott.bsky.social @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social 📢

Frequently

Yeoooooooo as they say round these parts

Double deckers babies 🥰

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

Sara! I hoped it was this prize! This is so wonderful, congratulations.

That’s the one!

Congratulations!

One of the great uses of Michaelmas. And surely one of the best openings to a novel ever.

A reminder that today is Michaelmas, on which day in parts of Ireland rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

Question for Irish students: Have mature students been refused student Leap cards? This seems to be the case in TCD. Younger students seem to be just getting the under-25s one. #spéirghorm

Congratulations! And “courage”!

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

Or Option 4: 15 years post-PhD but still just a little bébé.

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Life is short and at least half terrible. But this was joyful. The Wedding Present on a school night.

Thank you!! I was so touched by it.

"I’ll claw my way to the back of my closet, past my Sensible Winter Snow Pants, my Sensible Spring Linen, and my Sensible Summer Hawaiian Shirt—for it is not yet their time. No, I am there to dress for the most elusive weather of all—uninterrupted high forties."