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Dr Eleanor Janega
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That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
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The scene from the Simpsons where Homer says "the bear patrol must be working like a charm"
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Not gonna lie - cos playing as Guy Fawkes while being the sort of American who is totally unaware of UK politics or the fact the the rest of the world exists is actually a very good bit. And yet.
The Thomas Violence tweet that reads "I'm one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not america'.
January 23, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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McBain saying that's the joke.
January 20, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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McBain saying that's the joke.
January 20, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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McBain saying 'That's the joke.'
January 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Even the dog is like, 'I cannot believe the idiocy I am hearing.'
A close up of the leopard dog or whatever. It has a look on it's face that indicates that it is tiref of this bullshit. It does have one blue eye and one brown one though, which is super cute. Free the dog.
January 20, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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You are like a little baby. Watch this:
A screenshot of my NBA allstars team voting. For the West i picked Jalen Green Jalen Williams Jaylen Williams Jaylen Wells Jaylen Clark For the East JaylennBrown Jalen Richardson Jalen Johnson Jalen Duren Jalen Suggs
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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The cover of a book called Kicked in the Head by a Horse: stories by Ronnie Casano
January 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Stopped by this stand but they said you already bought it all?
A stand at Borough Market with a neon sign that should say Hot Chocolate but the t is burnt out so it says Ho Chocolate.
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The cover of a book titled "Kicked in the Head by a Horse: stories by Ronnie Cassano".
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Oh hell yeah.
At poster for Batman Returns.
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Out: Children's books by the sex pest who we have decided to Suddenly Notice.™️
In: The very good book for young people about consent which will help stuff like this never happen again.
A screen shot of a BBC news article which reads: Best-selling children's author and comedian David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins, the company has said. A spokesman for the publisher said: "After careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO, HarperCollins UK has decided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams." The Telegraph reported that the decision was made after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women. The cover of Justin's awesome bok Can We Talk About Consent: A book about freedom, choices, and agreement.
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Eleanor Janega, drinking ale in a pub, in Central London (2025). 📸 Justin Hancock
Me looking like a total snack down pub. It's like completely unnecessarily cunty. I have this black dress with a bardot neckline and the face is stamped, girl. Don't ask why I am like this, ask yourself why you aren't.
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Nice. (it's what he would have wanted.)
A screen shot showing that the first post has 69 likes
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Really makes you think.
A screen shot of three tweets from Polly Mackenzie from 2018 they read: It is now so cool to ban plastic. It's the government's go-to policy to move on from a bad story. Worth reflecting on how far we've come in th last four years. Four years ago lib dem ministers started agitating for a 5p charge on plastic bags. It took us months to persuade Cameron and Osborne. We finally got the policy in an eve-of-conference trade, in return for tightening benefit sanctions.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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"Leave it, he's not worth it!"
A picture of Kier Starmer behind a podium with the US and UK flags behind him. The Closed Captions read 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Me in this round, knowing I would always have to vote for Disintegration over all my other darlings.
That weird crying toddler with a gun meme.
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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It's worse when they notice you, sometimes.
A picture of the focus group panel from Mad Men season 4, Ep 4 the reject showing a focus group fo girls from the office, crucially showing Alison, furthest to the left, who breaks down in tears and says the above.
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Mom come pick me up, the yanks are trying to talk about UK politics again.
A screen shot of three skeets. The first starts out reasonably and reads: Yeah. Seriously. Labour gets in, and immediately are afraid to be Labour. Then an unhinged reply: they showed their colors back when they were afraid to oppose brexit The first person replies: Yeah. The wishy washy shot is just... They are a party never led by a woman, and it shows.
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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That's right.
a picture of Pam Poovey from Archer, with her hands wrapped up to box.
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Actual image of the focus group for 28 Years Later.
A picture of the Always Sunny crew in the focus group for Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The "defeated male leaves" lion meme
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Screenshot since this man has been defeated in the marketplace of ideas and is scared of medieval historians.
A screenshot of the offending skeet by @ryanlcooper.com which reads: "in particular, escalating the popular contrarian "there was no such thing as the Dark Ages!!" take to "the collapse of the Roman Empire was Actually Good" is ridiculous.
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Oh for sure man.
My booty shorts which read: the term "Dark Ages" refers to a lack of sources not intellectual decline.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM