Anthony
@noluckst2.bsky.social
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Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
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Anthony
@noluckst2.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Looking forward to presenting my paper on Henri III in early modern tragedy at the IHR conference in June!
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Family jewellery is one of the few things you can carry when fleeing war or persecution. The cruelty in this policy is worse than just the financial one. It’s ripping away the remains of family.
Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Family jewellery is one of the few things you can carry when fleeing war or persecution. The cruelty in this policy is worse than just the financial one. It’s ripping away the remains of family.
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Mahmood is a disgrace & she has to go. I voted for Labour, not Reform. This is a turning point for me, I cannot continue to support a Labour government enacting Reform policies, the exact opposite of what I voted for. Shame on Mahmood & shame on Starmer. Labour MPs take note.
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Mahmood is a disgrace & she has to go. I voted for Labour, not Reform. This is a turning point for me, I cannot continue to support a Labour government enacting Reform policies, the exact opposite of what I voted for. Shame on Mahmood & shame on Starmer. Labour MPs take note.
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“Migrants aren’t supposed to have families” is a morally bankrupt position
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“Migrants aren’t supposed to have families” is a morally bankrupt position
his coming was foretold
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
his coming was foretold
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DYK, that sepia ink was originally made from squid ink?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
The Geological Society
- Fossil sepia, described 1829
Discover and access geoscience information resources via one of the world’s premier Earth science libraries. Search our collection of printed books, maps and journals, e-journals, internet resources, ...
www.geolsoc.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
DYK, that sepia ink was originally made from squid ink?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
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I in general love how living a transnational life is arguably more common than ever but policymakers still treat your needs, desires and concerns as essentially mythological middle class nonsense
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I in general love how living a transnational life is arguably more common than ever but policymakers still treat your needs, desires and concerns as essentially mythological middle class nonsense
quid est du commandant rouflaquettes?
sideburns being named after general burnsides sounds like one of those apocryphal folk legends except it's true. They're literally named after this guy
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
quid est du commandant rouflaquettes?
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In his final hours, Keith Gavin’s request for a halal final meal was denied by Alabama officials. "I’m a Muslim, I’m supposed to be eating halal food,” he told Bolts shortly before his execution last year. “There’s nothing else to eat but junk food.”
Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests
Keith Gavin made a number of requests about his final moments, all stemming from his Islamic faith. But the prison largely ignored them, as it has with Muslim prisoners in the past.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In his final hours, Keith Gavin’s request for a halal final meal was denied by Alabama officials. "I’m a Muslim, I’m supposed to be eating halal food,” he told Bolts shortly before his execution last year. “There’s nothing else to eat but junk food.”
All I got from Hinge was a sense that ultimately very little has changed since the age of commissioned portraits
Every time I go back on Hinge for I feel a closer affinity to Holly orders and oaths of celibacy
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
All I got from Hinge was a sense that ultimately very little has changed since the age of commissioned portraits
Honteux.
Noam Chomsky, a linguist by training, has spent most of his working life discussing IR; a subject for which he has no expertise. In this interview, he is more vile and ignorant than usual: he argues that Putin’s attack on Ukraine is ‘restrained’ and ‘humane’. 🤮
www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq
The US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not an independent country anymore”.
www.newstatesman.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Honteux.
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This is excellent on the parallels between the disasters currently unfolding at the BBC and on the front bench.
New Substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... Parts of the Labour party and BBC simply don't know what their jobs should be.
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is excellent on the parallels between the disasters currently unfolding at the BBC and on the front bench.
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Russia has killed Natalia Khodemchuk,the widow of Valerii Khodemchuk -the first victim of the Chornobyl disaster -during the attack on Kyiv on November 14
Natalia was hospitalized with burns covering 45% of her body
She passed away in the hospital this morning.
Deepest condolences.
Natalia was hospitalized with burns covering 45% of her body
She passed away in the hospital this morning.
Deepest condolences.
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Russia has killed Natalia Khodemchuk,the widow of Valerii Khodemchuk -the first victim of the Chornobyl disaster -during the attack on Kyiv on November 14
Natalia was hospitalized with burns covering 45% of her body
She passed away in the hospital this morning.
Deepest condolences.
Natalia was hospitalized with burns covering 45% of her body
She passed away in the hospital this morning.
Deepest condolences.
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Comes back to one of the big intellectual shortcomings of this government is that they think that the Conservative governments 2010 to 2024 weren't worth studying, only won because of Labour failure and that there are no positive or negative lessons to draw.
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Comes back to one of the big intellectual shortcomings of this government is that they think that the Conservative governments 2010 to 2024 weren't worth studying, only won because of Labour failure and that there are no positive or negative lessons to draw.
Considering the villains of Andor and Operation: Cinder in the expanded canon, it is interesting that the Empire has become more of a Stasi-like figure, up-to-and-including the destruction of their own archives and resources
Just showed the kids Rogue One and I’d forgotten how traumatic it is to see a beautiful imperial archive get absolutely rinsed. A tragedy up there with the destruction of the libraries of Alexandria and Baghdad.
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Considering the villains of Andor and Operation: Cinder in the expanded canon, it is interesting that the Empire has become more of a Stasi-like figure, up-to-and-including the destruction of their own archives and resources
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🇫🇷 Verdun: le préfet de la Meuse, Xavier Delarue, va porter plainte contre des propos "clairement révisionnistes" tenus en marge de l'hommage rendu samedi "au maréchal Pétain et à ses soldats" dans une église de Verdun, a-t-il déclaré à l'AFP.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🇫🇷 Verdun: le préfet de la Meuse, Xavier Delarue, va porter plainte contre des propos "clairement révisionnistes" tenus en marge de l'hommage rendu samedi "au maréchal Pétain et à ses soldats" dans une église de Verdun, a-t-il déclaré à l'AFP.
In my Britain the HoC will be in Manchester and the HoL in Liverpool
EXCL:
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
In my Britain the HoC will be in Manchester and the HoL in Liverpool
Headlines to confuse an Elizabethan
Pope among the runs as merry England wrap up pre-Ashes friendly reut.rs/47IIY2D
Pope among the runs as merry England wrap up pre-Ashes friendly
Time in the middle and keeping their fast bowling unit injury-free topped England's agenda as they wrapped up their only pre-Ashes practice match on Saturday against a second-string England Lions at Lilac Hill in Perth's north-east.
reut.rs
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Headlines to confuse an Elizabethan
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This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain and call on Trump to drop his ludicrous lawsuit against the BBC.
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain and call on Trump to drop his ludicrous lawsuit against the BBC.
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
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Interesting exhibition on Renaissance enamels. 👇
🔎 Did you know that in French the common expression "se faire limoger" literally means to fire someone and send him/her someone to the town of Limoges?
#language #earlymodern 🗃️ #arthistory #France #skystorians
🔎 Did you know that in French the common expression "se faire limoger" literally means to fire someone and send him/her someone to the town of Limoges?
#language #earlymodern 🗃️ #arthistory #France #skystorians
In the 16th century the French city of Limoges breathed new life into the medieval art of enamelling – and the results were spectacular, writes Susan Moore
Lustre for life: the unfading brilliance of Renaissance enamels
In the 16th century Limoges breathed new life into the medieval art of enamelling objects – and the results were spectacular, writes Susan Moore
apollo-magazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Interesting exhibition on Renaissance enamels. 👇
🔎 Did you know that in French the common expression "se faire limoger" literally means to fire someone and send him/her someone to the town of Limoges?
#language #earlymodern 🗃️ #arthistory #France #skystorians
🔎 Did you know that in French the common expression "se faire limoger" literally means to fire someone and send him/her someone to the town of Limoges?
#language #earlymodern 🗃️ #arthistory #France #skystorians
Didn't go looking for accidental Classical Reception, but here it is alongside an interesting comment on Ted Heath nonetheless
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Didn't go looking for accidental Classical Reception, but here it is alongside an interesting comment on Ted Heath nonetheless
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Embalmed soviet nomenclature nostaligists meet kids born in free europe
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Embalmed soviet nomenclature nostaligists meet kids born in free europe
Ironically, freezing to death in a glacier is more likely to bag you a BBC documentary than being, say, the Earl of Leicester.
I find the phrase “makes history” nonsensical. Have you seen the stuff historians study? Just dropping an old piece of farm equipment down a well or accidentally freezing to death in a glacier gives you a good shot at the history books
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Ironically, freezing to death in a glacier is more likely to bag you a BBC documentary than being, say, the Earl of Leicester.
réaction du plateau CNEWS
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
réaction du plateau CNEWS
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Ce qui est le plus choquant dans cette séquence lunaire c’est Benjamin Duhamel. Julie Neveux se fait insulter et il ne dit rien. Mais rien et enchaîne.
Les audiences d’Inter chutent mais c’est normal : personne n’écoute le service public pour que deux mecs crachent sur une femme.
Les audiences d’Inter chutent mais c’est normal : personne n’écoute le service public pour que deux mecs crachent sur une femme.
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ce qui est le plus choquant dans cette séquence lunaire c’est Benjamin Duhamel. Julie Neveux se fait insulter et il ne dit rien. Mais rien et enchaîne.
Les audiences d’Inter chutent mais c’est normal : personne n’écoute le service public pour que deux mecs crachent sur une femme.
Les audiences d’Inter chutent mais c’est normal : personne n’écoute le service public pour que deux mecs crachent sur une femme.
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it was actually really bad that Vietnam + Iraq made sure two successive generations of people thought war was only for imperialism and evil motives. The anti-interventionist mindset leads to a morally vacuous reification of the idea that countries own their citizens&cultural norms supersede morality
something I think about a lot is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given a whole generation of young American liberals a reason to support some degree of military interventionism which they would probably otherwise still be pretty soured on post-Iraq and Afghanistan
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
it was actually really bad that Vietnam + Iraq made sure two successive generations of people thought war was only for imperialism and evil motives. The anti-interventionist mindset leads to a morally vacuous reification of the idea that countries own their citizens&cultural norms supersede morality