Caroline Angus
@writercaroline.bsky.social
M.A His, FRHistS. Thomas Cromwell author & historian. Lover of Spain, heart transplants, trans rights & F1. This year, a transplant will save my daughter's life.
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HE’S ON A MISSION FROM GOD
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
HE’S ON A MISSION FROM GOD
She's right. The Epstein Files will change nothing. Violence against women and children is acceptable because so many men in all levels of society partake.
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
She's right. The Epstein Files will change nothing. Violence against women and children is acceptable because so many men in all levels of society partake.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
Sonitbturns out thay when you vomit blood, the hospital procedure is to lie in a corridor and be offered paracetamol that you can't swallow. We just simply couldn't see a doctor and discharged ourselves.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sonitbturns out thay when you vomit blood, the hospital procedure is to lie in a corridor and be offered paracetamol that you can't swallow. We just simply couldn't see a doctor and discharged ourselves.
My daughter is back in Middlemore ED, in a corridor, has been vomiting blood, and there aren't any doctors or treatments, but loads of cops and prison guards, so that's great
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
My daughter is back in Middlemore ED, in a corridor, has been vomiting blood, and there aren't any doctors or treatments, but loads of cops and prison guards, so that's great
No Christians in politics or places of power until they can prove they don't like to stick it in kids, or anywhere unwanted, really. Because there seems to be religion in the background of every damn pervert.
So it seems like Andrew Coster and Jevon McSkimming were church buddies. How utterly predictable.
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
No Christians in politics or places of power until they can prove they don't like to stick it in kids, or anywhere unwanted, really. Because there seems to be religion in the background of every damn pervert.
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Imagine how many Joyce Carol Oates roasting Elmo we could have if we fully funded the humanities
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Imagine how many Joyce Carol Oates roasting Elmo we could have if we fully funded the humanities
To write about history, you need to have a soul.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
To write about history, you need to have a soul.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
ACAB, and you can't tell me otherwise
Dame Bazley led a Commission of inquiry into Police Conduct in 2004.
And in 2025 we are revisiting the same issue again.
Enough is enough.
People like Tamatha Paul have spoken now it's time to stop sweeping this and other issues under the carpet.
Clear the decks, starting at the top
#nzpol
And in 2025 we are revisiting the same issue again.
Enough is enough.
People like Tamatha Paul have spoken now it's time to stop sweeping this and other issues under the carpet.
Clear the decks, starting at the top
#nzpol
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
ACAB, and you can't tell me otherwise
This week's news:
New Whittakers brandy snap chocolate = just okay
New Frankenstein movie = not even okay
New Whittakers brandy snap chocolate = just okay
New Frankenstein movie = not even okay
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This week's news:
New Whittakers brandy snap chocolate = just okay
New Frankenstein movie = not even okay
New Whittakers brandy snap chocolate = just okay
New Frankenstein movie = not even okay
He probably thinks of a comeback and types it out, thinking it's a banger. Which is incredibly cringe.
I think this one has got to him because he's posted at least three separate responses to this over the last 10 hours:
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
He probably thinks of a comeback and types it out, thinking it's a banger. Which is incredibly cringe.
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Oh the government hasn't fixed the economy? You mean...
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh the government hasn't fixed the economy? You mean...
Why is this okay in America?
And why is it even happening, are they transporting food and medical care?
And why is it even happening, are they transporting food and medical care?
Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Why is this okay in America?
And why is it even happening, are they transporting food and medical care?
And why is it even happening, are they transporting food and medical care?
If I pitched this to my editor, they would reject me because no one would be that stupid
hello new zealand police, we the israeli police are just gifting you this kitchen appliance for you to plug into the wall in some sort of office. oh you're putting it in the national HQ? that's wonderful, thanks
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
If I pitched this to my editor, they would reject me because no one would be that stupid
I feel like we aren't paying enough attention to the fire at Tongariro National Park
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I feel like we aren't paying enough attention to the fire at Tongariro National Park
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Now that's what I call news.
Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt
The church says it is currently unclear whether the collapse has damaged any surrounding graves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that's what I call news.
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Duchy Chamber pleadings for the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (DL 1/1-26) are now searchable to item level online. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Duchy Chamber pleadings for the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (DL 1/1-26) are now searchable to item level online. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...
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#nzpol, this applies also to a country like New Zealand when it chooses to force homeless people to 'move on' rather than choosing to help them
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#nzpol, this applies also to a country like New Zealand when it chooses to force homeless people to 'move on' rather than choosing to help them
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Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
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November 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Now that is a really interesting theory, and yes, that is my sense of it, and everything needs gender analysis
is it because chatgpt and ai are boy coded whereas all the other moral panics usually spring from women just trying to do stuff
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Now that is a really interesting theory, and yes, that is my sense of it, and everything needs gender analysis
Both of my daughters, aged 18 and 19, are in wheelchairs (for totally different reasons). We have one old wheelchair they share. Essentially, society is set up so they shouldn't exist.
eg. just yesterday, Adi's orthodontist said he won't treat her anymore because of lack of access to his office.
eg. just yesterday, Adi's orthodontist said he won't treat her anymore because of lack of access to his office.
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Both of my daughters, aged 18 and 19, are in wheelchairs (for totally different reasons). We have one old wheelchair they share. Essentially, society is set up so they shouldn't exist.
eg. just yesterday, Adi's orthodontist said he won't treat her anymore because of lack of access to his office.
eg. just yesterday, Adi's orthodontist said he won't treat her anymore because of lack of access to his office.
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!