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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 1h

Reflecting on how streaming is the one domain of human activity in which we millennials have coordinated effectively to impose our values on other generations.

Billboard Hot 100 showing top 10 places all occupied by Taylor Swift.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, the queries I get have a little more reference to my own work than is traditional, which makes me suspect the chatbot is helping craft the messages. In my case they are most likely to come from Pakistan (and, as you say, not in fact be relevant to my research areas).

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1h

Why is the Arabic juxtaposed with French?

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 20h

Oh the darling.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 3d

'In Fermanagh, the almost total disappearance of greys and re-emergence of red squirrels is being largely put down to pine martens.' This is a great story.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.

www.bbc.com

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Paul Cotterill @bickerrecord.bsky.social · 1d

I would tour council offices across the country, excersing my right to see the public register of shopkeepers of Jewish faith allowed to open on Sundays even tho' they have larger premises, to check this legal duty under Sch 2, Part II/8 para 6 of the Sunday Trading Act 1994 is being properly met.

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 4d

📣Out now on #firstview!

Jack Haughton (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Dispelling ‘das Herbert Butterfieldproblem’: A Rereading of The Whig Interpretation of History'

#IntellectualHistory #Progress #Positive 20thc 🗃️

👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Herbert Butterfield’s The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) is universally received as sceptical of ‘whig’ teleology in historical accounts and, therefore, of politically charged narratives of history. This view stands in need of a basic correction. Butterfield’s work targets teleological accounts which involve a determinate conception of progress such as would arm a partisan politics. He calls this the politics of the ‘general proposition’. Nevertheless, he does defend a conception of progress involving an indeterminate concept. The historian finds, intimated in the detail of the past, that progress is the fruit of interactions between opposing parties. The imperative for the statesman in the present, then, is to facilitate such interactions. In short, The Whig Interpretation of History is a positive work of political thought. Looked at this way, Butterfield’s later, controversial work, The Englishman & His History, does not appear to be in contradiction with the earlier book so much as a polemical expression of it. The two books together present what may be called Butterfield’s politics of historiography. Histories which present progress as a straight line, to be co-opted by one party, encourage precisely the political action which impedes progress. Butterfield, in short, is still a kind of ‘whig’.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

I have been at a Halloween party where someone turned up as the Night On Which All Cows Are Black.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 1d

Tag yourself. I'm "Fifty-two years an imbecile".

BTW I do not wish to know if this is a hoax.

(h/t @fohf.bsky.social)

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Notice that the French horn is neatly juxtaposed to the cor anglais (which is not a horn at all, but a kind of oboe).

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Cor d'harmonie.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_d%2...

Cor d'harmonie — Wikipédia

fr.wikipedia.org

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Good cat. Alert animal.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Another book on Rawls.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, son of Nathaniel Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England, once rode a zebra-drawn carriage to Buckingham Palace, to prove that zebras could be domesticated and should be legally permitted as transportation in London.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Nor even to some of them:

Ec. "does not treat the whole of man's nature as modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It's concerned w. him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth & who is capable of judging the comp. efficacy of means for obtaining that end."

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

In the superb Handel/Hendrix house in Mayfair. They let me dress up as both at once. As they point out, they are celebrating two immigrants to London

Me sitting wearing a blue frock coat with gold decorations.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Attn @josephinequinn.bsky.social.

Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Important early modern Venice analysis

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 1d

By doing so we did, in fact, make an art-historical discovery: although penises are rife throughout the rest of the palace, there are no penises on the walls, ceiling, or other art work of the Chamber of the Great Council.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 2d

The lessons from Autumn 2021 should be:
> Govts should address their severe weaknesses + have a coherent programme
> Pay attention to the cost of living
> Journalists should stop huffing the glue of conference speeches being meaningful

And not:
> Everything's probably fine, election's not tomorrow

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

Wolff contra Engels!

*** At a still further stage of evolution, all the natural and social attributes of the numerous gods are transferred to one almighty god, who is but a reflection of the abstract man. Such was the origin of monotheism... ***

1877: Anti-Duhring - State, Family, Education

www.marxists.org

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 2d

“I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane / They just call me one more deportee.” @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Only Recording of Woody Guthrie Singing the Protest Song 'Deportee' Has Been Released for the First Time

The singer-songwriter recorded the audio on a reel-to-reel tape machine in his apartment in the 1950s. Now, the previously unheard song has been restored using A.I. audio technology

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

Exodus 8:4.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

John 18:38.

Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

#jesuisrésistentialiste #leschosessontcontrenous

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, indeed.

And two of my favourite absolute maniacs are On Here: @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social & @mbarber.bsky.social.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

I once had this exchange with a border guard at Boston Logan:

"What do you study?"
"Political science at Harvard."
"Harvard doesn't have a Political Science Department."

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