Rory Martin
@roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social
Hudders fan. I work in a pub and a care home in West Yorkshire.
I've just got back from Athens where the locals built a shrine to the cult of Augustus on top of the agora of Athenian democracy because they backed Marc Antony in the civil war.
Let's not be cute about Augustus.
Let's not be cute about Augustus.
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I've just got back from Athens where the locals built a shrine to the cult of Augustus on top of the agora of Athenian democracy because they backed Marc Antony in the civil war.
Let's not be cute about Augustus.
Let's not be cute about Augustus.
Swigging a milky coffee? In this economy?
I really like supermarkets, they're really clean businesses in the sense they're entirely responsive to consumer demand with no hang ups.
Less processed food being bought? Begone! Monster caffeine drinking by the gallon? Welcome!
I really like supermarkets, they're really clean businesses in the sense they're entirely responsive to consumer demand with no hang ups.
Less processed food being bought? Begone! Monster caffeine drinking by the gallon? Welcome!
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Swigging a milky coffee? In this economy?
I really like supermarkets, they're really clean businesses in the sense they're entirely responsive to consumer demand with no hang ups.
Less processed food being bought? Begone! Monster caffeine drinking by the gallon? Welcome!
I really like supermarkets, they're really clean businesses in the sense they're entirely responsive to consumer demand with no hang ups.
Less processed food being bought? Begone! Monster caffeine drinking by the gallon? Welcome!
Gonna go out on a limb and suggest whatever X account my dad heard it from was a bit more histrionic than the reality. I just refuse to engage in the local politics if anywhere outside Holmfirth as a matter of principle.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Gonna go out on a limb and suggest whatever X account my dad heard it from was a bit more histrionic than the reality. I just refuse to engage in the local politics if anywhere outside Holmfirth as a matter of principle.
Sorry just had an evening with my 70 year old dad explaining the trans lobby to me and how mamdani is going to nationalise supermarket (??)
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Sorry just had an evening with my 70 year old dad explaining the trans lobby to me and how mamdani is going to nationalise supermarket (??)
Politically within the labour party? Cos even 97 had youth centres that are long gone and 3% increased spending wouldn't get us back to 2010. The virulent anger of the Reform 28%, and our thought leaders marinading 88 Twitter wouldn't be changed by fair wind economics
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Politically within the labour party? Cos even 97 had youth centres that are long gone and 3% increased spending wouldn't get us back to 2010. The virulent anger of the Reform 28%, and our thought leaders marinading 88 Twitter wouldn't be changed by fair wind economics
Yeah don't think any economic conditions save you from "not having a coherent political vision"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Yeah don't think any economic conditions save you from "not having a coherent political vision"
Had a good war with Diana's death too.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Had a good war with Diana's death too.
I think he convinced them not to level the city and just take the gold which is why so much archetecture still exists?
The Herulian sack of Athens was much worse in terms of keeping old buildings for me to go on holiday to.
The Herulian sack of Athens was much worse in terms of keeping old buildings for me to go on holiday to.
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I think he convinced them not to level the city and just take the gold which is why so much archetecture still exists?
The Herulian sack of Athens was much worse in terms of keeping old buildings for me to go on holiday to.
The Herulian sack of Athens was much worse in terms of keeping old buildings for me to go on holiday to.
I like how the inverted commas around "interesting" don't need to be more than implied
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I like how the inverted commas around "interesting" don't need to be more than implied
Parliament refusing to legislate does lead to the rather bizarre encroachment of the courts into redefining the equality act for trans people, though.
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Parliament refusing to legislate does lead to the rather bizarre encroachment of the courts into redefining the equality act for trans people, though.
Early hagiography is usually a post facto critique of Roman power once it had collapsed imo.
The ostensibly Christian citizens of Rome levied hadd to bring back the specifically anti-gallic pagan sacrifices during the siege and sack of Rome in 408-10, but were refused dispensation by the Pope.
The ostensibly Christian citizens of Rome levied hadd to bring back the specifically anti-gallic pagan sacrifices during the siege and sack of Rome in 408-10, but were refused dispensation by the Pope.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Early hagiography is usually a post facto critique of Roman power once it had collapsed imo.
The ostensibly Christian citizens of Rome levied hadd to bring back the specifically anti-gallic pagan sacrifices during the siege and sack of Rome in 408-10, but were refused dispensation by the Pope.
The ostensibly Christian citizens of Rome levied hadd to bring back the specifically anti-gallic pagan sacrifices during the siege and sack of Rome in 408-10, but were refused dispensation by the Pope.
You can be political, subtly. The baby in my pfp was born 18 months after this prompt on my hinge profile. So many people want a partner that just has passions rather than necessarily sharing them.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
You can be political, subtly. The baby in my pfp was born 18 months after this prompt on my hinge profile. So many people want a partner that just has passions rather than necessarily sharing them.
Pratchett's had the idea that the policeman lives in our head. The entire premise of modern jurisprudence is that you might get punished.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Pratchett's had the idea that the policeman lives in our head. The entire premise of modern jurisprudence is that you might get punished.
I'm really glad we Europeans solved that killing each other thing in the century where we killed 10% of the male population twice
My grandad was a good soldier and killed at least eight individual enemy soldiers in France, Holland and Germany, but it wracked him with guilt for the rest of his life.
My grandad was a good soldier and killed at least eight individual enemy soldiers in France, Holland and Germany, but it wracked him with guilt for the rest of his life.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I'm really glad we Europeans solved that killing each other thing in the century where we killed 10% of the male population twice
My grandad was a good soldier and killed at least eight individual enemy soldiers in France, Holland and Germany, but it wracked him with guilt for the rest of his life.
My grandad was a good soldier and killed at least eight individual enemy soldiers in France, Holland and Germany, but it wracked him with guilt for the rest of his life.
I generally just play it as a version of the future that didn't come to pass but had surprisingly similar outcomes. Huddersfield Town still got promoted to the top tier of English football in 2017 but they did so due to early netrunners controlling the ref.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I generally just play it as a version of the future that didn't come to pass but had surprisingly similar outcomes. Huddersfield Town still got promoted to the top tier of English football in 2017 but they did so due to early netrunners controlling the ref.
Reminds me of all those guys just chilling, making some pamphlets during English civil wars, none of them inflamed by papers of catholic atrocities, no one doing any massacres in drogheda.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reminds me of all those guys just chilling, making some pamphlets during English civil wars, none of them inflamed by papers of catholic atrocities, no one doing any massacres in drogheda.
Chicken wasn't really a food! They were kept for eggs but its status as a meat is entirety post war American. The chickens prior were OK for soups and stocks, less than pigeons, game hens or the more obvious pheasants.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Chicken wasn't really a food! They were kept for eggs but its status as a meat is entirety post war American. The chickens prior were OK for soups and stocks, less than pigeons, game hens or the more obvious pheasants.
Yeah, it's an aposite epitaph but he might have seen ninety and had some contribution to our view of trump's world
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Yeah, it's an aposite epitaph but he might have seen ninety and had some contribution to our view of trump's world
If you think Christopher Tolkien was overly censorious, lets see JRR. Ultimately I think he'd have been amazed by it's cultural dominance but mainly by the magic computers we all have and the fact he's been brought back from the dead.
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If you think Christopher Tolkien was overly censorious, lets see JRR. Ultimately I think he'd have been amazed by it's cultural dominance but mainly by the magic computers we all have and the fact he's been brought back from the dead.
David Frost died pointlessly early from an easily resovable cardiac issue if there'd been an A&E within an hours drive.
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
David Frost died pointlessly early from an easily resovable cardiac issue if there'd been an A&E within an hours drive.
I know video game dynamics gets a bad press but the winter fuel was a clear (increase gold +1) (decrease class level 2/3 support - 7)
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I know video game dynamics gets a bad press but the winter fuel was a clear (increase gold +1) (decrease class level 2/3 support - 7)
A terrible comprehension of the country, the press, their voters and actual finances.
Other than than it's going well.
Other than than it's going well.
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A terrible comprehension of the country, the press, their voters and actual finances.
Other than than it's going well.
Other than than it's going well.
Also, and I'm not a germaphobe, what if you create a closed system for incubation of viruses among the most vulnerable.
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Also, and I'm not a germaphobe, what if you create a closed system for incubation of viruses among the most vulnerable.
It's the old joke about The Economist talking nonsense about Britain or a subject you know, but being fascinated by the Asia column or something on global shipping. I can't even read articles on my work sectors, they're totally asinine and vague to the point of triteness.
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It's the old joke about The Economist talking nonsense about Britain or a subject you know, but being fascinated by the Asia column or something on global shipping. I can't even read articles on my work sectors, they're totally asinine and vague to the point of triteness.
Tudor wainscotting, a 19th century guillotine for a giant, an Amazon distribution centre. It's feast for the eyes.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Tudor wainscotting, a 19th century guillotine for a giant, an Amazon distribution centre. It's feast for the eyes.