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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1h

She also did a law degree at Birkbeck. I know someone who taught her there, who says she was as weird, aggressive and bolshie then as she is now.

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1h

It's perfectly true. A reliable source tells me that MBS went to a Djalili gig and wrote in his diary that night, 'I will no longer order journalists to be dismembered with a bonesaw.'

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1h

Is there a section in the vid when the Pope looks straight to camera, gives an Uncle Sam pointing finger and says, 'Yes, Timothy Dolan, this means YOU'?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1h

A number much increased since Firefox refashioned the bar to have group tabs, so all JSTOR essays on XXX can be grouped together, all X library tabs in another group. Huge improvement in organization and visibility.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2h

Thanks, but since I wrote two books on precisely this subject, I think I'm good where I stand.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 4h

Exhibit 1. And the headline it produced.

Now imagine the headline if Mark Carney were Martha Carney.

Carney's volatile temper and brusque demeanour also worries some of those in his
orbit. For a politician, he is impolitic and officious, even with the most senior ministers and public servants.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 4h

*Victorian social historian here* Agree, food costs were a significantly higher percentage of outgoings than today, but by contrast, housing costs were substantially less. So taking one prong only is also only telling a small part of the story.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 6h

Or author/literary agent/publisher

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6h

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 6h

I knew of someone who had two children (not twins) named Liam and William. I never really recovered from that. Just couldn't take them seriously.

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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 5d

Spud-EU-Like was there for the taking...

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 19h

As a Montrealer, I hold no brief for the Jays.
As a Canadian, I would laugh like a drain if the 51st state won the World Series.

Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 19h

#DEVELOPING Yankees score twice in third inning to cut Blue Jays lead to 6-3 in Game 3 of the ALDS. @BlueJays #WEWANTITALL

LIVE UPDATES: Blue Jays lead 6-3 over Yankees

The Toronto Blue Jays are hoping to finish off a sweep of the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the American League Division Series tonight.

www.ctvnews.ca

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 19h

No, but I file upcoming Zoom meeting links as ‘Pending Zooms’, which I always misread as ‘Pending Dooms’.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 19h

I question the use of the conditional ‘potential’.

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 20h

Bertrand Russell, who died when I was 10, was partially raised by his grandfather, who visited Napoleon on Elba.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 20h

Bring Your Gigolo to Work Day.

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 20h

Military historian, Eng lit, material culture.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 21h

Who is going to volunteer for the Duke of Monmouth?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 21h

Unlike Dolly’s sister, I have no belief in the power of prayer, but if I were going to pray for (or to) anyone, it would be for (or to!) Dolly.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 21h

This is a great read altogether, but it was the quote below that said everything.

"The world is still so sentimental about Russia's great cultural heritage," says Oleksandr Mykhed, a Ukrainian writer and literary scholar. "It makes it so easy for Russians to say: we will kill you and then we will ask for sorrow and forgiveness, and then we will kill another people in another country, but what can you do, our soul is just a mystery."

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

‘Integration matters’. As Ms O now lives in Dubai, would she like to tell us how her Arabic lessons are going? Since she’s horrified by non-English-speakers in the UK, presumably she’s fluent?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Every interview with Badenoch is basically, ‘Why should we read George Eliot?’ when what she really means is ‘I didn’t bother to read Silas Marner over my summer holidays and so I’m going to argue about set books instead.’

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

His own constituency is 96% white. That's not what he means either.

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Let's do the fucking news.

Screenshot of the first edition of The (London) Times, 1788. Front page is entirely small classified advertisements.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

I see the kids here who only speak Yiddish, the girls 'learn' important things like cooking, the boys get phones with most of the world blocked out so they can work in 'business'. It is heartrending.

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