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My job is literally just history PhD student on 1800s Caribbean political culture @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

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when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people

12.03.2026 01:22 👍 2671 🔁 303 💬 170 📌 118

This spring, Nicole Kidman IS Agent Melody Scungo in: SCUNGO, streaming on Hulu. This summer, Nicole Kidman IS Dr. Hortense Kraggler in: KRAGGLER, a Peacock exclusive. This fall, Nicole Kidman IS Countess Artemisia Punce in: PUNCE, a Tubi original

11.03.2026 23:47 👍 193 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 1

Beast mode to have a non-binary tab

11.03.2026 18:00 👍 224 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

idk if he counts as a celebrity but Douglas Carswell blocked me for repeatedly retweeting his invite to play Hello Kitty World with him

11.03.2026 13:07 👍 88 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 0

as a jrpg fan, my primary interests in video games are raising and lowering sewer gates, such as to manipulate the water level

11.03.2026 15:03 👍 2595 🔁 733 💬 47 📌 18

If I can say something without everybody getting mad at me: most of zoomer YouTubespeak is a dud but I find “mogged” to be a surprisingly useful concept

11.03.2026 12:55 👍 120 🔁 4 💬 15 📌 2
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This is one of those things with an extremely relevant xkcd

10.03.2026 07:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.

There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.

10.03.2026 02:36 👍 1157 🔁 330 💬 17 📌 5
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animation lead: hey did you finish work on that shot of mario and luigi in the grass yet?
animator: yeah, real post-coital just like you asked
animation lead: real what?

10.03.2026 04:14 👍 536 🔁 93 💬 5 📌 2

This is the inevitable consequence of the use of this technology and I don’t care how much Amodei jerks himself off that he doesn’t want it used for autonomous weapons, he is responsible for this and should be in The Hague.

10.03.2026 06:36 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"We don't want to hire people fresh from universities, we'd have to train them first", oh my god, crazy!!! Wow!!! What a fucking nightmare that must be for you, company with thousands of employees and many, many managers who earn too much money.

09.03.2026 17:20 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"wehwehweh, people who studied X don't know how to be a good office drone, teach them how to be a good office drone during their studies", no, absolutely not, you do that, what the fuck, that's the worst job in the world, why should a poor PhD candidate do that on their minimum wage.

09.03.2026 17:19 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I love how private companies have somehow convinced everyone that universities have neglected their duties to train good employees. In reality that has been the responsibility of companies forever and never that of universities who are supposed to exist to gain and develop knowledge independently.

09.03.2026 17:18 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Latest attacks in Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead as two Israeli soldiers killed

Latest attacks in Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead as two Israeli soldiers killed

Maybe the most impressive headline distortionism I've ever seen

09.03.2026 02:08 👍 1484 🔁 330 💬 22 📌 0

They told me that they’re keeping my resume on file and that I should definitely apply next time there’s a vacancy

09.03.2026 01:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It absolutely is what Leon is blasting through his own headphones though

09.03.2026 01:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

08.03.2026 18:40 👍 7762 🔁 2349 💬 33 📌 45

It's real.

09.03.2026 00:19 👍 3511 🔁 535 💬 16 📌 4
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“Dead Internet” doesn’t begin to describe the necrotic efflorescences we see today

21.11.2025 01:37 👍 321 🔁 73 💬 12 📌 2

Picard: It's a computer simulation of thoroughbred horse racing called Umamusume Pretty Derby. The program was quite popular in the 21st century.
Riker: Mm. 'Pretty' is accurate. That Goldship is quite something.
Picard: I hadn't noticed. I enjoy the simulation's tactical qualities.
Riker: Yes, sir.

07.03.2026 23:25 👍 3401 🔁 1224 💬 3 📌 15
Screenshot from the video game Persona 4. In the halls of Yasogami High, the protagonist talks to a male student labeled "Stylish student". His dialogue window reads:
"Hanging out with women, going on dates with them, that's fine. Killing them? Not so much."

Screenshot from the video game Persona 4. In the halls of Yasogami High, the protagonist talks to a male student labeled "Stylish student". His dialogue window reads: "Hanging out with women, going on dates with them, that's fine. Killing them? Not so much."

happy international women's day

08.03.2026 16:49 👍 7191 🔁 2833 💬 21 📌 27

My work wife just opened a forbidden tome and got devoured by a swarm of ravenous scarab beetles. Alas.

08.03.2026 19:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Two Israeli soldiers killed as latest attacks in
Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead
Israel has been carrying out a military operation in southern Lebanon for more than a week, with three airstrikes hitting Sir El Gharbiyeh village on Sunday.
• Sunday 8 March 2026 17:17, UK
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Two Israeli soldiers killed as latest attacks in Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead Israel has been carrying out a military operation in southern Lebanon for more than a week, with three airstrikes hitting Sir El Gharbiyeh village on Sunday. • Sunday 8 March 2026 17:17, UK 雪貨

The absolutely disgusting rot at the heart of British media summed up in a single headline. A wretched clique of pathetic, racist, servile dogs.

08.03.2026 19:56 👍 231 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 1
Matthew Petti • @matthew_p... •49m saying "the regime" like a magic talisman that lets you pretend that oil refineries, water plants, police stations, courthouses, schools, and hospitals are not just part of society

Matthew Petti • @matthew_p... •49m saying "the regime" like a magic talisman that lets you pretend that oil refineries, water plants, police stations, courthouses, schools, and hospitals are not just part of society

They did this in the Lebanon War in 2006: they just bombed anything that looked like it had any social or economic value - bakeries, ports, factories, on and on, then told the world every single one was a military target. It was all lies then, just as it has been for years here.

08.03.2026 18:40 👍 287 🔁 91 💬 6 📌 4

The most recent example being Chow Hang-tung’s challenging the regulation that women inmates have to wear long trousers in the summer vs men being allowed shorts. Which I think also gets mentioned here.

08.03.2026 10:07 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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Our hood of the month, the beautiful Cambridge Bachelor of Music. Historical details are at burgon.org.uk/hood-of-month
‘For once, Charles Franklyn’s immortal phrase may be confidently applied, since few would contest that this hood really is one of the most beautiful and dignified in the world’.

14.12.2025 20:12 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2

And if you’re unfamiliar with Charles Franklyn, you’ll find out plenty in Nicholas Groves’ biography of the irascible fellow, “Charles Franklyn: A Man of Strong Opinions.” (A subtitle which describes him mildly.)
burgon.org.uk/shop

14.12.2025 20:17 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Amazon makes 4 action movies a month called some shit like FURY PROTOCOL or THE SUPPRESSOR or SHADOW OPS: VENGEANCE. They all cost 200 million dollars to make and no one knows if they actually make any money. And nobody even shows boob

08.03.2026 00:10 👍 520 🔁 57 💬 27 📌 4
Jeremy Corbyn • @jeremycorbyn • 1d $ ...
We cannot let Keir Starmer drag this country into another illegal war.
That's why I tabled a Bill to require Parliamentary approval for the foreign use of British bases.
Today, I urged the Prime Minister to fulfill the promise he made in 2020 and pass this legalisation, now.

Jeremy Corbyn • @jeremycorbyn • 1d $ ... We cannot let Keir Starmer drag this country into another illegal war. That's why I tabled a Bill to require Parliamentary approval for the foreign use of British bases. Today, I urged the Prime Minister to fulfill the promise he made in 2020 and pass this legalisation, now.

They were terrified of this guy because of the social forces he unlocked, quite accidentally. But he’s a letter-writing, petition collecting kind of politician, he thinks he’s there to enable others. A proper populist monster would lay waste to the British political landscape.

07.03.2026 02:03 👍 642 🔁 125 💬 44 📌 3