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Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027

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New episode of Tom and Jerry just dropped.

11.03.2026 07:18 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

10.03.2026 20:02 👍 4914 🔁 1460 💬 131 📌 274

I am increasingly convinced that “apolitical“ means “I‘m kind of dumb, sorry.”

10.03.2026 19:57 👍 717 🔁 96 💬 15 📌 0

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 13301 🔁 3033 💬 90 📌 234
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? 

* Yes
* No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

10.03.2026 02:00 👍 2573 🔁 550 💬 136 📌 144
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Congratulations to my fantastic colleague Dr Marc Collinson @marccollinson.bsky.social on the public of his book ‘Migration on the Ballot? Smethwick and the 1964 General Election’.
@bangorhistory.bsky.social

10.03.2026 18:35 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Jesus fucking christ it turns out that they are just dumb as fuck

10.03.2026 16:28 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As a mediocre man I heartily endorse this statement.

10.03.2026 14:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You’re not wrong!

10.03.2026 14:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s unsettling sharing a School with Philosophy because I’m having a cup of tea in the lounge watching YouTube videos of celebrities eating hot wings and some Philosopher colleagues are a few tables down discussing Plato and morality.

10.03.2026 14:01 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Colour me surprised!

10.03.2026 13:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bragging that your PhD was so shit AI could churn it out like a turd.

10.03.2026 13:45 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

If I were him I would have hid under a rock and died quietly

10.03.2026 12:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha

10.03.2026 12:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kwasi Kwarteng as the bitcoin market crashes around him..

10.03.2026 12:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

10.03.2026 11:12 👍 734 🔁 157 💬 29 📌 41

I think that suggests he’s doing things on purpose.

10.03.2026 11:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.03.2026 11:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When you assumed the man who almost single handedly crashed a G7 economy had already hit rock bottom.

10.03.2026 10:57 👍 84 🔁 23 💬 7 📌 0
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10.03.2026 10:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is what ecocide looks like.

08.03.2026 17:41 👍 5051 🔁 1840 💬 91 📌 43

Well it’s difficult to condemn things one is not aware of. So the answer would be that they are both morally repehensible, unlike Wikipedia.

10.03.2026 10:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ooh looks great, congrats Allan!

10.03.2026 10:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jesus Christ

10.03.2026 10:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well I’ll defer to you on that, but you cannot suggest that when it comes to authors’ rights, academic publishers and gen-AI are the same?

10.03.2026 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

But we weren’t discussing academic publishers. And in that example, we as authors agree to how those publishers use our work. There are contractual rights. GenAI profits from an author’s work without their consent. There are no rights, no agreements.

10.03.2026 09:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well I don’t want to disappoint your expectations of indignation, but I believe one of those things profits from my work, and one of them does not.

10.03.2026 09:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

She doesn’t use genAI for historical research, she uses genAI to plagiarise the work of historians who conduct research.

10.03.2026 09:17 👍 60 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0

And how much the author v how much the AI corporation has donated to fascist organisations.

10.03.2026 09:16 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

To know which is all round better I'd need to see how much water the author uses to create the passage vs what the AI uses.

10.03.2026 09:05 👍 51 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 0