Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
As the BBC pointed out this evening, he's changed his war aims so many times that he can announce he's achieved at least one of them whenever he gets bored with the war.
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
all the more of a pity that the West Indies declined to include a Test match in their home series against Australia. Come on ICC where's your Womens World Test Championship?
![Cordial but Firm Anti-Creep Phrases
”This is a [professional space] and I’d really appreciate it if you’d act accordingly.”
“I’m not interested in discussing my personal life.” AND/OR “I keep my personal and professional life separate, thanks.”
“I really don’t think that’s appropriate behavior/to say at a [professional conference]. Is there something else we can discuss?” OR phrase it as a rhetorical question: “Do you think that’s an appropriate thing to do/say at a [professional conference]?”
“That is not what I’m here for. Let’s change the subject.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gnlyxexo7tg446kglieyvwit/bafkreih76h3uc7lysc3rkpvf3ospgjxs4v3p673iulkqd6is3pm3o7jjjy)
Cordial but Firm Anti-Creep Phrases ”This is a [professional space] and I’d really appreciate it if you’d act accordingly.” “I’m not interested in discussing my personal life.” AND/OR “I keep my personal and professional life separate, thanks.” “I really don’t think that’s appropriate behavior/to say at a [professional conference]. Is there something else we can discuss?” OR phrase it as a rhetorical question: “Do you think that’s an appropriate thing to do/say at a [professional conference]?” “That is not what I’m here for. Let’s change the subject.”
Due to recent discussions: when I worked at a library, I was trained on how to politely but directly respond to unwanted sexual comments. Unfortunately commonly-marketed fantasies about librarians mean it happens a lot.
Rehearse these. Be comfortable saying them forcefully, but politely.
Country Joe McDonald holding a guitar in 1981. A card reads: "1942-2026: Country Joe McDonald, Artist Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. Photo by United Archives, via Getty Images."
Country Joe McDonald, one of the starring acts at Woodstock whose satirical anti-Vietnam War song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became an anthem, died on Saturday. He was 84. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...
(I don't take responsibility for the Trueman error!)
I confess I once absentmindedly wrote "Helen Knight" in a report on one of her early appearances. But she survived, like Fred Trueman, who was described as a spin bowler in the report on his debut.
I also really wish we could find a way for management to value staff as humans
Whatever the context, this is a really shitty way to treat an employee. Player unions in cricket need to throw their weight around more.
Credit unions help people access fair, ethical finance. But an old law holds them back; it caps the number of *potential* members in each union (basically the local population of the area it serves) to 3 million.
Please sign this petition to allow credit unions to grow and serve more communities.
Poster shows an image drawn from Richard Carlile's Peterloo print depicting Mary Fildes, Henry Hunt and others on the hustings in St Peter's Field, holding banners with Radical slogans such as Universal Suffrage. Below are photos of Sam Carter, Sean Cooney and Rowan Rheingans. Tour dates: 10th March - Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon 11th March - The Fire Station, Sunderland 12th March - Old School Rooms, Middleton (change of venue from poster) 13th March - Upper Chapel, Sheffield 14th March - Conway Hall, London 15th March - Music Room, Liverpool - matinee and evening. Tickets - seancooney.co.uk
2/2 Next week Sean Cooney, Rowan Rheingans and Sam Carter go on tour with "Peter's Field", playing Bradford-on-Avon, Sunderland, Middleton, Sheffield, London and Liverpool, followed by an online show on Monday 16 March and the album release on 23 March.
Tickets at www.seancooney.co.uk/peters-field
Heading: Peterloo in Rock, with a logo showing a heart pierced by a sabre, encircled by the words "Reformers of Peterloo". Polyp's drawing shows the Blanketeers, a group of protesters carrying blankets for their journey, who tried to march to London to present their grievances to the government. They are seen from behind, walking up the road, with blankets and bags tied on their backs, and one of them wearing a red Liberty cap; but soldiers on horseback, with sabres drawn, are riding towards them.
Lots of musical accounts of Peterloo coming up!
Saturday 7 March, GLOSSOP: Reformers of Peterloo perform "Peterloo in Rock" with visual backdrops by our own @polypartist.bsky.social
Partington Theatre, 7.30pm, www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/glo...
More dates at peterloo-in-rock.com/events/
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If you support the #AssistedDyingBill, the most important thing you can currently do is sign the UK Government and Parliament petition. It's important that filibustering is called out, and that the Lords don't effectively block the bill. Sign the petition now.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
How long has this man been in politics without knowing basic electoral law?
I'm wondering whether Ramadan might be a factor in voting patterns? Knocking up last night, I met a few people who said "we're waiting for sunset to break the fast, and we'll go after that." So the family would be gathering for iftar and that would make it more likely that they'd go out together.
As someone who spent several hours yesterday knocking up Labour voters, I agree. I always thought that would cost us this by-election but, whatever party bosses think, I am relieved that it wasn't Goodwin who won it. And the possible loss of the regional mayoralty would have been a greater disaster.
I'm sure he can apply for Vicar of Bray if he finds himself at a loose end.
Maybe she will grow up associating the GOP with medical discomfort?
But "ICE" is not a brand you want to be associated with just now.
Former West Indies cricketer Learie Constantine, who became the UK's first black peer.
Constantine was a prominent supporter of the Bristol Bus Boycott, which led to the Race Relations Act 1965 - outlawing discrimination on the "grounds of colour, race, or ethnic or national origins".
Six-seven.
Well, obviously Marama Downes has happened to Wellington, but...
Yikes! What's happened to Wellington?
Whatever food you have in the cupboard is guaranteed to be The Wrong Food.
u gotta drill into people’s heads that playing classical music is 9/10 times a collaborative exercise which is not how it’s taught in private lessons. I do not miss being a soloist at all but I miss playing second violin every day of my life
my proposal: every sport becomes biathlon (so figure skating they can pew pew as part of the routine, the sledding they have targets on the way down, the ski jump they have to take a shot at the peak of the jump and the highest shot gets a bonus)
IPL-linked teams in The Hundred 'not considering Pakistan players'
#TheHundred
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
Jammu & Kashmir played their 1st first-class match in 1960. Their first win was in their 99th match in 1982, the most matches any team has taken to get their first win. They draw 8 and lost 90 of their first 98 matches, 61 by an innings.
Today they reached the Ranji Trophy final for the first time.
