Oliver
@deathbyhat.bsky.social
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Make this go viral.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Make this go viral.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
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It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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On the 6th day of Christmas...
Wise prophet or foolish coward – the goose has been both. Revered at Michaelmas, mocked by Shakespeare, feared on the battlefield and loved for feathers, fat and flight – here's how this bird shaped medieval life. ⤵️
Wise prophet or foolish coward – the goose has been both. Revered at Michaelmas, mocked by Shakespeare, feared on the battlefield and loved for feathers, fat and flight – here's how this bird shaped medieval life. ⤵️
The haunting cry that brings a creature from another world
Folklore heralds the goose as guardian, soothsayer and companion of the gods
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
On the 6th day of Christmas...
Wise prophet or foolish coward – the goose has been both. Revered at Michaelmas, mocked by Shakespeare, feared on the battlefield and loved for feathers, fat and flight – here's how this bird shaped medieval life. ⤵️
Wise prophet or foolish coward – the goose has been both. Revered at Michaelmas, mocked by Shakespeare, feared on the battlefield and loved for feathers, fat and flight – here's how this bird shaped medieval life. ⤵️
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It's a sad day when patriotic hero Tommy Robinson can't visit a Muslim country and get his arse handed to him and publicly shit himself.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It's a sad day when patriotic hero Tommy Robinson can't visit a Muslim country and get his arse handed to him and publicly shit himself.
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NEW Did the #Romans harm our health? Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centres.
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW Did the #Romans harm our health? Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centres.
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
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Yes. Yes they did
NEW Did the #Romans harm our health? Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centres.
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yes. Yes they did
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TOND is here, and it’s put the Broken Vell podcast channel back in the top ten!
Thanks to everyone who supports us on patreon.com/brokenveil and everyone who’s listened… especially if they’ve told a friend.
It’s like The Ring. Right? You have to pass it on.
Thanks to everyone who supports us on patreon.com/brokenveil and everyone who’s listened… especially if they’ve told a friend.
It’s like The Ring. Right? You have to pass it on.
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
TOND is here, and it’s put the Broken Vell podcast channel back in the top ten!
Thanks to everyone who supports us on patreon.com/brokenveil and everyone who’s listened… especially if they’ve told a friend.
It’s like The Ring. Right? You have to pass it on.
Thanks to everyone who supports us on patreon.com/brokenveil and everyone who’s listened… especially if they’ve told a friend.
It’s like The Ring. Right? You have to pass it on.
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I'm told that if enough people download this, it's more likely that there will finally also be audiobooks of Villager, 1983 and Notebook.
But no pressure, obviously.
But no pressure, obviously.
Exciting day for me, today. I've not listened yet so please don't tell me what happens...
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I'm told that if enough people download this, it's more likely that there will finally also be audiobooks of Villager, 1983 and Notebook.
But no pressure, obviously.
But no pressure, obviously.
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If you're still looking for a Christmas present for a postman/woman, a retired postie, someone who wants to be a postie or someone who just loves walking Britain's beautiful footpaths, can I recommend The Postal Paths by... er, well, me 😉?
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you're still looking for a Christmas present for a postman/woman, a retired postie, someone who wants to be a postie or someone who just loves walking Britain's beautiful footpaths, can I recommend The Postal Paths by... er, well, me 😉?
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The issue is that a woman working full time on a decent salary cannot afford rent on a one bed flat and the cost of childcare to allow her to work
THAT’S what should be being called out
But the RW media don’t want people questioning THAT
Better to vilify those struggling to make ends meet
8/
THAT’S what should be being called out
But the RW media don’t want people questioning THAT
Better to vilify those struggling to make ends meet
8/
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The issue is that a woman working full time on a decent salary cannot afford rent on a one bed flat and the cost of childcare to allow her to work
THAT’S what should be being called out
But the RW media don’t want people questioning THAT
Better to vilify those struggling to make ends meet
8/
THAT’S what should be being called out
But the RW media don’t want people questioning THAT
Better to vilify those struggling to make ends meet
8/
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
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Good luck forcing me off the pavement you fucking bin.
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good luck forcing me off the pavement you fucking bin.
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- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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"Instead of unbroken golden sand, the shoreline is littered with millions of tiny plastic pellets – bio-beads – spilled into the sea by Southern Water and now washing up in waves. They are a chilling reminder of how fragile our environment is, and how carelessly some treat it." Worth a read ⤵️
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again | Mick Channon
The Camber Sands bio-beads disaster
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Instead of unbroken golden sand, the shoreline is littered with millions of tiny plastic pellets – bio-beads – spilled into the sea by Southern Water and now washing up in waves. They are a chilling reminder of how fragile our environment is, and how carelessly some treat it." Worth a read ⤵️
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Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
This is the Observer's coverage of the Reform Russian Spie Scandal... 600 words on page 22 of the printed newspaper.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
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How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
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Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"