Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg
@siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social
Freelance creative, project manager, and business development person. Previously in HE. Currently, all over the place.
Lover of books, ceramics, snacks, silliness, exploring, foul language, visual/material culture. (And sometimes tennis and hospitality.)
Lover of books, ceramics, snacks, silliness, exploring, foul language, visual/material culture. (And sometimes tennis and hospitality.)
Have Tiny Desk Concerts entirely gone? If they need a cramped space in which to host them from now on, may I humbly proffer my front room? I even have a music tech on hand. Seriously.
December 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Have Tiny Desk Concerts entirely gone? If they need a cramped space in which to host them from now on, may I humbly proffer my front room? I even have a music tech on hand. Seriously.
Whenever you see public sector surveys in the news, it's fairly safe to say that whatever conclusions are drawn/problems are identified are softened massively by the fact that nothing is ever anonymous, and that the "embedded" systems they implement are laughably incoherent and unfit for purpose.
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Whenever you see public sector surveys in the news, it's fairly safe to say that whatever conclusions are drawn/problems are identified are softened massively by the fact that nothing is ever anonymous, and that the "embedded" systems they implement are laughably incoherent and unfit for purpose.
It's past midday AND technically we are in the Christmas season so it's legitimate to consume festive things RIGHT NOW.
Let's go!
Let's go!
Midweek Treat: #RecipeOfTheDay is my Snowball in Heaven! You know you deserve it. ‘Tis the season, after all. www.nigella.com/recipes/snow...
Snowball In Heaven
If Christmas isn’t the time for a kitsch cocktail, I don’t know when is. And while I have nothing against a straightforward Snowball (and I make mine with one part advocaat to about 3 parts lemonade, ...
www.nigella.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's past midday AND technically we are in the Christmas season so it's legitimate to consume festive things RIGHT NOW.
Let's go!
Let's go!
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Announcing for 2026 -- I need to read more books!
So I'm asking for your help. Help me read more by reading along with me.
I don't know what this will look like exactly. Participate however you wish. Let's dig into some of boxing's most classic literature. Let's read together.
So I'm asking for your help. Help me read more by reading along with me.
I don't know what this will look like exactly. Participate however you wish. Let's dig into some of boxing's most classic literature. Let's read together.
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Announcing for 2026 -- I need to read more books!
So I'm asking for your help. Help me read more by reading along with me.
I don't know what this will look like exactly. Participate however you wish. Let's dig into some of boxing's most classic literature. Let's read together.
So I'm asking for your help. Help me read more by reading along with me.
I don't know what this will look like exactly. Participate however you wish. Let's dig into some of boxing's most classic literature. Let's read together.
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Home Office inadvertently bans historical research about the Dunkirk evacuation.
I'd hate to be a boat owner after this passes.
Imagine all the information that could be be useful for your navigation but which would ALSO be potentially useful to those guiding small boats across the Channel.
Will the Shipping Forecast cease broadcasting? That, after all, makes crossings easier.
Imagine all the information that could be be useful for your navigation but which would ALSO be potentially useful to those guiding small boats across the Channel.
Will the Shipping Forecast cease broadcasting? That, after all, makes crossings easier.
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Home Office inadvertently bans historical research about the Dunkirk evacuation.
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The worst part of being a historian is not getting invited to fancy TV show series II premieres about your research subjects. The best part is gobbing off about it over DMs with descendants of the real people it's based on, then writing a book so their great great great grandads exist forever 💪😅
December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The worst part of being a historian is not getting invited to fancy TV show series II premieres about your research subjects. The best part is gobbing off about it over DMs with descendants of the real people it's based on, then writing a book so their great great great grandads exist forever 💪😅
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This is a really phenomenal database, and the article is a very clear intro to its uses.
#History #DigitalHistory
#History #DigitalHistory
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is a really phenomenal database, and the article is a very clear intro to its uses.
#History #DigitalHistory
#History #DigitalHistory
ANYWAY. Potstickers.
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
ANYWAY. Potstickers.
I kind of feel like this pressure we all labour under where we collectively agree that we MUST eat a certain meal at a certain time, and watch certain movies, etc, just ends up making people incredibly stressed.
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I kind of feel like this pressure we all labour under where we collectively agree that we MUST eat a certain meal at a certain time, and watch certain movies, etc, just ends up making people incredibly stressed.
I'm not sure why we can't just watch whatever we like at Christmas.
My partner often works over Christmas (if not on shift, he covers for colleagues w kids) which means I am often solitary (& not in the mood for saccharine schmaltz). So. To me, Horror, Westerns, anything can be a Christmas movie.
My partner often works over Christmas (if not on shift, he covers for colleagues w kids) which means I am often solitary (& not in the mood for saccharine schmaltz). So. To me, Horror, Westerns, anything can be a Christmas movie.
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I'm not sure why we can't just watch whatever we like at Christmas.
My partner often works over Christmas (if not on shift, he covers for colleagues w kids) which means I am often solitary (& not in the mood for saccharine schmaltz). So. To me, Horror, Westerns, anything can be a Christmas movie.
My partner often works over Christmas (if not on shift, he covers for colleagues w kids) which means I am often solitary (& not in the mood for saccharine schmaltz). So. To me, Horror, Westerns, anything can be a Christmas movie.
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Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
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It's December 1st - which means I get to share weird and wonderful Victorian Christmas cards, starting with one that looks straight out of #StarWars. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, is that you?
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's December 1st - which means I get to share weird and wonderful Victorian Christmas cards, starting with one that looks straight out of #StarWars. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, is that you?
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My GOD, I FORGOT THE PINEAPPLE.
a man in a blue shirt and red hat is running down a sidewalk .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and red hat is running down a sidewalk .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My GOD, I FORGOT THE PINEAPPLE.
I also recounted stories from my boarding school days to some of the little old ladies in the care home... "This is JUST like having sleepovers with your friends. How many midnight feasts have you had so far? Do you have a tuck shop?"
I know it's posh girl shit. But it's all I can think of.
I know it's posh girl shit. But it's all I can think of.
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I also recounted stories from my boarding school days to some of the little old ladies in the care home... "This is JUST like having sleepovers with your friends. How many midnight feasts have you had so far? Do you have a tuck shop?"
I know it's posh girl shit. But it's all I can think of.
I know it's posh girl shit. But it's all I can think of.
There must be a better way to look after people with dementia. There must.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There must be a better way to look after people with dementia. There must.
Entirely aside from hospital visit today, I'm going to say that having a distraught little old lady cry-scream into my face as I helplessly attempted to comfort her was... Both an entirely new (for me) & utterly horrible experience (for both of us). I honestly have no idea how people do care work.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Entirely aside from hospital visit today, I'm going to say that having a distraught little old lady cry-scream into my face as I helplessly attempted to comfort her was... Both an entirely new (for me) & utterly horrible experience (for both of us). I honestly have no idea how people do care work.
My evening weeping fit (it's been a hideously long day) was accompanied by the realisation that my life has some really beautiful parts to it.
For example, observing the dog as she deliberately knocks her toy onto the floor just as my partner enters the room; a damsel dropping her handkerchief.
For example, observing the dog as she deliberately knocks her toy onto the floor just as my partner enters the room; a damsel dropping her handkerchief.
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My evening weeping fit (it's been a hideously long day) was accompanied by the realisation that my life has some really beautiful parts to it.
For example, observing the dog as she deliberately knocks her toy onto the floor just as my partner enters the room; a damsel dropping her handkerchief.
For example, observing the dog as she deliberately knocks her toy onto the floor just as my partner enters the room; a damsel dropping her handkerchief.
Right. Hospital done. Moist bus journey almost done. I have a small pot of pineapple pieces from M&S in my bag that I have been thinking about quite obsessively all day...
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Right. Hospital done. Moist bus journey almost done. I have a small pot of pineapple pieces from M&S in my bag that I have been thinking about quite obsessively all day...
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
I mean, is there even a point in attempting to look presentable?
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I mean, is there even a point in attempting to look presentable?
With the prospect of hospital-related things to do, bookended by moist bus journeys (it's all plashing rain and vigorous wind), I'm never more grateful to myself for having made congee in advance; an attempt to set myself up before stepping out into the (literal and metaphorical) maelstrom.
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
With the prospect of hospital-related things to do, bookended by moist bus journeys (it's all plashing rain and vigorous wind), I'm never more grateful to myself for having made congee in advance; an attempt to set myself up before stepping out into the (literal and metaphorical) maelstrom.
Also wrapped up, nice and cosy... A Rosie. Whose exquisite ears can hear a fridge door opening from the other side of the house...
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Also wrapped up, nice and cosy... A Rosie. Whose exquisite ears can hear a fridge door opening from the other side of the house...