Marginalien
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Of that of which we cannot speak
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‘as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender’ you know, the Labour Party is currently in power with a huge majority and could just change the law if they wanted to, but they clearly like this cruel stupid bullshit
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
‘as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender’ you know, the Labour Party is currently in power with a huge majority and could just change the law if they wanted to, but they clearly like this cruel stupid bullshit
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We’ll be running our introduction to manuscript studies again in June 2026. There’s an early bird discount if you book this month, but if students are interested please encourage them to book early as this course has limited places 👇 📚📖✏️💻
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Introduction to Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
This course introduces students to key skills for the study of medieval manuscripts, from the making of parchment to reading text and imagery
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We’ll be running our introduction to manuscript studies again in June 2026. There’s an early bird discount if you book this month, but if students are interested please encourage them to book early as this course has limited places 👇 📚📖✏️💻
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
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"The only animal the elephant fears is the dragon; when the female is about to give birth she wades into the Euphrates (or a lake) because the burning nature of the dragon means it cannot bear water."
Bodleian Lib. MS. Douce 308; Bestiaire d'Amour, Richard de Fournival; f.105r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodleian Lib. MS. Douce 308; Bestiaire d'Amour, Richard de Fournival; f.105r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"The only animal the elephant fears is the dragon; when the female is about to give birth she wades into the Euphrates (or a lake) because the burning nature of the dragon means it cannot bear water."
Bodleian Lib. MS. Douce 308; Bestiaire d'Amour, Richard de Fournival; f.105r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Bodleian Lib. MS. Douce 308; Bestiaire d'Amour, Richard de Fournival; f.105r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
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Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
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Not only are trannies worth fighting for, we’re worth fighting for AS trannies, as what we are right here and now. Not only if we’re part of some other group that matters.
We matter no matter what people think we are, no matter what standards of gender we do or do not meet.
We matter no matter what people think we are, no matter what standards of gender we do or do not meet.
at some point you have to stand up and say "I think trannies are worth fighting for and deserve dignity" and that's the one thing no one wants to actually commit to
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Not only are trannies worth fighting for, we’re worth fighting for AS trannies, as what we are right here and now. Not only if we’re part of some other group that matters.
We matter no matter what people think we are, no matter what standards of gender we do or do not meet.
We matter no matter what people think we are, no matter what standards of gender we do or do not meet.
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Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based)
This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
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Repeatedly, charities have chosen to cooperate with the ongoing exclusion of trans people from public life rather than take a serious risk to defend us. They will survive this shit. We fucking won't. Girl guiding or the People's History Museum or whatever get to do on. We die alone.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Repeatedly, charities have chosen to cooperate with the ongoing exclusion of trans people from public life rather than take a serious risk to defend us. They will survive this shit. We fucking won't. Girl guiding or the People's History Museum or whatever get to do on. We die alone.
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If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
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Yellow Accompaniment by Vasily Kandinsky, 1924
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137897
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137897
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Yellow Accompaniment by Vasily Kandinsky, 1924
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137897
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137897
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The four creatures of Ezekiel's vision in micrography
BL Add 21160; 'Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.285r
BL Add 21160; 'Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.285r
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The four creatures of Ezekiel's vision in micrography
BL Add 21160; 'Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.285r
BL Add 21160; 'Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.285r
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I'm writing a textbook for the study of medieval manuscripts in the 21st century & am developing a framework that will be referenced throughout the book: ten touchpoints for medieval book history in Europe with six drivers of change. Here's how it will play out... (image: Codex Amiatinus) 🧵
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm writing a textbook for the study of medieval manuscripts in the 21st century & am developing a framework that will be referenced throughout the book: ten touchpoints for medieval book history in Europe with six drivers of change. Here's how it will play out... (image: Codex Amiatinus) 🧵
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Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.
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It's important to love things, especially old forgotten things which were originally made to be loved.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's important to love things, especially old forgotten things which were originally made to be loved.
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The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
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I know I say this an awful lot on the podcast but please, please, please email your MP before this atrocious, anti-trans guidance is laid in front of parliament.
🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I know I say this an awful lot on the podcast but please, please, please email your MP before this atrocious, anti-trans guidance is laid in front of parliament.
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Please do a good deed for a trans person in your life today. We're all so tired.
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Please do a good deed for a trans person in your life today. We're all so tired.
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Data indicates that dogs are considerably MORE likely to eat their owners after they die than cats are.
I like to periodically remind people of this
I like to periodically remind people of this
we spent thousands of years breeding dogs to like humans and collaborate with us - we have more of a “begrudging standoff between equals” thing going on with pigs
However to be fair dogs eat humans way more than most people know or want to know
However to be fair dogs eat humans way more than most people know or want to know
October 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Data indicates that dogs are considerably MORE likely to eat their owners after they die than cats are.
I like to periodically remind people of this
I like to periodically remind people of this
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...
Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...
www.arc-humanities.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...
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There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
UnCommon Sense
Peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review (In chronological order) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach t...
uncommon-scents.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
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The very colourful rood screen at the Church of All Saints in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, has some unusual decoration…it was re-painted in 1935 by Henry Bird, who happened to be a lepidopterist and incorporated hundreds of butterflies into his design!
October 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The very colourful rood screen at the Church of All Saints in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, has some unusual decoration…it was re-painted in 1935 by Henry Bird, who happened to be a lepidopterist and incorporated hundreds of butterflies into his design!
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Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-...
#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory
#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory
Codex Aureus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
MS. A 135, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden
archive.org
October 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-...
#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory
#medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory