David Veevers
@davidveevers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | writing my third book, 'Where the Manchineel Trees Grow' with Icon Books
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November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Just glanced out the back door to find an interdimensional rip has opened up in the sky.
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just glanced out the back door to find an interdimensional rip has opened up in the sky.
By some miracle I’ve got a quiet afternoon - well two hours. Tucking into this. I don’t know why but I’ve put it off for a good while. Let’s see what all the fuss is about…
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
By some miracle I’ve got a quiet afternoon - well two hours. Tucking into this. I don’t know why but I’ve put it off for a good while. Let’s see what all the fuss is about…
As in the West Bank and Gaza, so in occupied Syria, Israel uses any form of resistance to its own illegal actions as proof of its binary narrative of legitimate state power versus terrorism - a binary the West loves and laps up. But in this definition, the French Resistance in WW2 was terrorism.
According to Syrian media, Israel accuses the Syrian government of having affiliations with the "militants" (Syrian locals) who resisted the Israeli raid on Beit Jinn
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
As in the West Bank and Gaza, so in occupied Syria, Israel uses any form of resistance to its own illegal actions as proof of its binary narrative of legitimate state power versus terrorism - a binary the West loves and laps up. But in this definition, the French Resistance in WW2 was terrorism.
Those who study History cannot stress enough how often we see this incremental stripping of minorities' basic rights & the implementation of policies in which the endangerment to a group's wellbeing is normalised by the society around it.
This is evil. Children - babies - will suffer as a result.
This is evil. Children - babies - will suffer as a result.
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Those who study History cannot stress enough how often we see this incremental stripping of minorities' basic rights & the implementation of policies in which the endangerment to a group's wellbeing is normalised by the society around it.
This is evil. Children - babies - will suffer as a result.
This is evil. Children - babies - will suffer as a result.
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
Henry just got up and said 'I need to remove my waste'.
Wee. He's gone for a wee.
Wee. He's gone for a wee.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Henry just got up and said 'I need to remove my waste'.
Wee. He's gone for a wee.
Wee. He's gone for a wee.
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Join us in two weeks—online and in person in Cape Town—for the first MEMOs Conference!
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Join us in two weeks—online and in person in Cape Town—for the first MEMOs Conference!
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Argh been up since 4.30am thinking about my book. I love this writing phase and the burning sense of purpose it gives me, but it gets a bit exhausting in how all-consuming the process becomes. And Henry seems to have heard me downstairs so now I have a chatty-Cathy companion 🤦
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Argh been up since 4.30am thinking about my book. I love this writing phase and the burning sense of purpose it gives me, but it gets a bit exhausting in how all-consuming the process becomes. And Henry seems to have heard me downstairs so now I have a chatty-Cathy companion 🤦
I just want to apologise to the Luddites whose name I’ve taken in vain all this time. My bad, you were right about everything.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I just want to apologise to the Luddites whose name I’ve taken in vain all this time. My bad, you were right about everything.
We go live now to management at Dundee after receiving this news:
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We go live now to management at Dundee after receiving this news:
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
So the concerns of government and society at large are driven by just 7% of the 400k people arriving here annually, a number which itself makes up about 6% of the UK population as a whole. So 7% of 6%. 0.42%. About the proportion of Jews in Germany when Hitler blamed them for all its problems.
"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
So the concerns of government and society at large are driven by just 7% of the 400k people arriving here annually, a number which itself makes up about 6% of the UK population as a whole. So 7% of 6%. 0.42%. About the proportion of Jews in Germany when Hitler blamed them for all its problems.
Reading UK news right now is like ‘Biological men identifying as women will be segregated from society. Meanwhile, the heroic farmers have once again occupied London. In more news, radicalised eco-nuts and pro-Hamas loonies are arrested under Terrorist laws. And Farage: “racist” or misunderstood?’
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Reading UK news right now is like ‘Biological men identifying as women will be segregated from society. Meanwhile, the heroic farmers have once again occupied London. In more news, radicalised eco-nuts and pro-Hamas loonies are arrested under Terrorist laws. And Farage: “racist” or misunderstood?’
Pluribus is the best thing on telly right now. Such a brilliant concept and Rhea Seehorn is just as good here as she was on Better Call Saul.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Pluribus is the best thing on telly right now. Such a brilliant concept and Rhea Seehorn is just as good here as she was on Better Call Saul.
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#earlymodern assistance, again, please: July 1648, 'Revolted Fleet' captured _Guinea_ in the Downs, took it to Holland, and gold, &c it was carrying dissipated to predictable Guinea Company fury. Aging brain, though, has lost the particulars/references of this. Many thanks, as always, for assistance
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#earlymodern assistance, again, please: July 1648, 'Revolted Fleet' captured _Guinea_ in the Downs, took it to Holland, and gold, &c it was carrying dissipated to predictable Guinea Company fury. Aging brain, though, has lost the particulars/references of this. Many thanks, as always, for assistance
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Seeing a fair few academics saying things like ‘sure I know AI is terrible and the people who designed it are terrible and the impact it has on the planet is terrible…but how might *I* be able to use it in a non-terrible way?’
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Seeing a fair few academics saying things like ‘sure I know AI is terrible and the people who designed it are terrible and the impact it has on the planet is terrible…but how might *I* be able to use it in a non-terrible way?’
His squirms when the auditorium erupts is going to sustain me all day long. Magnificent - that kid dragged his arse all over the place.
This is absolutely magnificent!
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
Listen to the rapturous applause as a student does the job our press and media won’t, and holds Reform UK’s Richard Tice to account over his lies RE his connection to ex-REFUK Wales leader Nathan Gill, recently jailed for 10+ yrs for taking Russian bribes as an MEP.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
His squirms when the auditorium erupts is going to sustain me all day long. Magnificent - that kid dragged his arse all over the place.
Dusting of snow on the mountains of Gwynedd this morning.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Dusting of snow on the mountains of Gwynedd this morning.
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I think being tried by a jury of your peers is quite important actually.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I think being tried by a jury of your peers is quite important actually.