Our Stories and Our Selves
@ourstories.bsky.social
Podcast about how our minds make stories and stories make us. By https://bsky.app/profile/kirsty-sara-writes.bsky.social
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January 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
We're dropping this heater episode of @bloodwork.show behind the paywall at 6 P.M.
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One of my favourite quotes is from Audre Lorde and it reminds me consistently why community is so urgent: “We are, each one of us, intricately woven into the other's existence.”
January 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM
One of my favourite quotes is from Audre Lorde and it reminds me consistently why community is so urgent: “We are, each one of us, intricately woven into the other's existence.”
Relistening to this episode for… well…
BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 11
DOWN BELOW THE BORDERLINE: THE MONROE DOCTRINE
We look at the geospatial order of the Western Hemisphere, James Monroe’s 1823 SotU address declaring the end of European colonialism in the Americas, and why Latin America continues to tremble in the shadow of his doctrine.
DOWN BELOW THE BORDERLINE: THE MONROE DOCTRINE
We look at the geospatial order of the Western Hemisphere, James Monroe’s 1823 SotU address declaring the end of European colonialism in the Americas, and why Latin America continues to tremble in the shadow of his doctrine.
Down Below the Borderline: The Monroe Doctrine | Blood Work
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January 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Relistening to this episode for… well…
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Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Bread and roses, lads. You don't work for permission to exist, you work so you can have a nice life.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
And Terry Pratchett didn't give us the Boots Theory just so you could not know it.
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this is such an important thing to recognize and call out
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
this is such an important thing to recognize and call out
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
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One of the main reasons we know anything about the workings of the Soviet space program is because similar libraries were opened up to historians after the fall of the USSR.
Trashing all these documents will force future programs to resolve problems that were solved and written about in the 60s.
Trashing all these documents will force future programs to resolve problems that were solved and written about in the 60s.
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
One of the main reasons we know anything about the workings of the Soviet space program is because similar libraries were opened up to historians after the fall of the USSR.
Trashing all these documents will force future programs to resolve problems that were solved and written about in the 60s.
Trashing all these documents will force future programs to resolve problems that were solved and written about in the 60s.
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
December 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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I sort of think that the Covid times for many people utterly killed any sense that we all live in this world collectively and that you are actually obligated to be mindful of other people, and I think it’s a problem that goes well beyond just the Covid denialists.
Few things make me as angry as 'National Slowdown Day' People are out there driving like absolute pricks, it is getting so much worse, and the best we have come up with is 'please stop'
As if a person with that level of selfishness is going to hear about 'Slowdown' day and think it applies to them
As if a person with that level of selfishness is going to hear about 'Slowdown' day and think it applies to them
A motorist travelling at 119km/h in a 50km/h zone in Dublin is among 150 drivers detected speeding so far today as part of a garda speed enforcement operation
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I sort of think that the Covid times for many people utterly killed any sense that we all live in this world collectively and that you are actually obligated to be mindful of other people, and I think it’s a problem that goes well beyond just the Covid denialists.
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Hunger Strike: Day 50
These are the largest collective hunger strikes in Britain since the Irish republican strikes of the 1980s. Then, Martin Hurson died after 46 days on strike. Bobby Sands was elected an MP from prison; he died after 66 days.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
These are the largest collective hunger strikes in Britain since the Irish republican strikes of the 1980s. Then, Martin Hurson died after 46 days on strike. Bobby Sands was elected an MP from prison; he died after 66 days.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Inside the Palestine hunger strike
Across the UK, six prisoners are refusing food and contemplating martyrdom
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December 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hunger Strike: Day 50
These are the largest collective hunger strikes in Britain since the Irish republican strikes of the 1980s. Then, Martin Hurson died after 46 days on strike. Bobby Sands was elected an MP from prison; he died after 66 days.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
These are the largest collective hunger strikes in Britain since the Irish republican strikes of the 1980s. Then, Martin Hurson died after 46 days on strike. Bobby Sands was elected an MP from prison; he died after 66 days.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
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"The lives of the Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners now on hunger strike are at growing risk. On Friday, two reached day 48 without food. (In 1981, one IRA prisoner – 29-year-old Martin Hurson – died on the 46th day.)" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the Palestine Action hunger strikers: the government is trying to ignore this protest | Editorial
Editorial: Doctors have warned that the lives of these prisoners are now in danger. Pretending this is not happening is not good enough
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December 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"The lives of the Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners now on hunger strike are at growing risk. On Friday, two reached day 48 without food. (In 1981, one IRA prisoner – 29-year-old Martin Hurson – died on the 46th day.)" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Google AI is wrong to refer to the QI website for a quotation I have never examined.
The AI is confused because I do have an article referring to Lord Bowen and another article referring to an umbrella
quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/15/h...
quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/07/b...
The AI is confused because I do have an article referring to Lord Bowen and another article referring to an umbrella
quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/15/h...
quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/07/b...
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Google AI is wrong to refer to the QI website for a quotation I have never examined.
The AI is confused because I do have an article referring to Lord Bowen and another article referring to an umbrella
quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/15/h...
quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/07/b...
The AI is confused because I do have an article referring to Lord Bowen and another article referring to an umbrella
quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/15/h...
quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/07/b...
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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather is a fun parody of several Christmas stories with a deep message. In this episode I talk to my friend and hog historian Marissa about all the Christmas stories covered in t...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This.
Jews are no more to blame for the actions of Israel than Muslims are to blame for the actions of ISIS. Collective blame is bigotry.
Jews are no more to blame for the actions of Israel than Muslims are to blame for the actions of ISIS. Collective blame is bigotry.
No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This.
Jews are no more to blame for the actions of Israel than Muslims are to blame for the actions of ISIS. Collective blame is bigotry.
Jews are no more to blame for the actions of Israel than Muslims are to blame for the actions of ISIS. Collective blame is bigotry.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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How can i become an opinion columnist? I’m sure i could do a better job than a lot of the current ones
"Yes, I am rubbish at juggling. No, I don't have Parkinson's."
Freeman is somehow simultaneously deliberately stupid and actually stupid. It's a marketable skill for Professional Opinion Havers.
Freeman is somehow simultaneously deliberately stupid and actually stupid. It's a marketable skill for Professional Opinion Havers.
She’s had a ‘problem’ with ADHD for quite some time.
Looks like it’s her new Bête Noire.
Looks like it’s her new Bête Noire.
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
How can i become an opinion columnist? I’m sure i could do a better job than a lot of the current ones
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨The boys are joined by @patrickwyman.bsky.social to talk about the US Navy's very stupid attempt to create flying aircraft carriers.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨The boys are joined by @patrickwyman.bsky.social to talk about the US Navy's very stupid attempt to create flying aircraft carriers.
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I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.
It also means (@lollardfish.bsky.social has ably written about this) that you as a parent are forced to concentrate on and narrate your child's difficulties just to get them what they need, which is damaging to your child and your relationship with them.
I Shouldn’t Have to Dehumanize My Son to Get Him Support
Instead of focusing on the challenges facing disabled people, we should emphasize goals.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.
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A remarkable project - a consortium of scholars from prehistorians to modern history. The Russians are indeed trying to kill an entire country and its culture, Ukrainians and their friends are resisting
uhgi.org
uhgi.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A remarkable project - a consortium of scholars from prehistorians to modern history. The Russians are indeed trying to kill an entire country and its culture, Ukrainians and their friends are resisting
uhgi.org
uhgi.org
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More than 68,000 women have already added their names to our letter in solidarity - Together we are showing that trans exclusion is not being done in our name.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
More than 68,000 women have already added their names to our letter in solidarity - Together we are showing that trans exclusion is not being done in our name.
You can join us and help keep the momentum growing…
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A quick thread about empire based on a long conversation in a hospital waiting room today. Like so many Brits, my family includes people from multiple heritages, including white elders raised in industrialised regions of North England and Wales which were not racially diverse when they were young.
4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A quick thread about empire based on a long conversation in a hospital waiting room today. Like so many Brits, my family includes people from multiple heritages, including white elders raised in industrialised regions of North England and Wales which were not racially diverse when they were young.
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It's misleading that the Lucy Worsley documentary on the Six Wives of Henry the VIII didn't even mention that lots of European kings had wives, some more than one in their lifetime.
2. That the BBC is being misleading by making a series on the British Empire that focuses on the British Empire.
December 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's misleading that the Lucy Worsley documentary on the Six Wives of Henry the VIII didn't even mention that lots of European kings had wives, some more than one in their lifetime.