Since the world is both literally and figuratively on fire right now I works like to express my deep gratitude to Tottenham Hotspur for bringing some much needed hilarity into all our lives.
Truly spursing things up at the very highest level.
For the #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote this blogpost commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times, who covered the First World War on the Italian front. I have been researching her story during the last 2 years in various archives.
stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis...
The best part of editing @fwwsjournal.bsky.social is getting to read and promote exciting new scholarship - and sending out an acceptance email is always a genuinely pleasing moment, knowing that you're about to give a fellow academic a moment of joy!
Lots!
A glass mug of hot chocolate with squirty cream sits on an outdoor game. In the distance are people in winter sports gear and a snowy peak is just visible in the car distance
Last rum & hot chocolate of the winter break ♥️ back to Milan tonight
Borneo is not only 3 hours from Milan and although I haven't been there I'm pretty confident it doesn't look like this, no. On the other hand there's a distinct lack of orangutans here.
A bottle of Sassella and a chunk of mountain cheese
Valtellina apres-ski essentials
View of snowy Alps from a ski slope at the top of a mountain
Bormio! First day on the slopes in too many years
HOW COME mouldy bread is bad for you but blue cheese, which is riddled with the stuff, is okay? It seems to me like it's one rule for Rhizopus stolonifer and another for Penicillium roqueforti. Eldon Furse, email
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This is also what I think about Crypto... since when did *money* need to be advertised? The fact they are trying to make us buy it shows how much of a con it is
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Yeah I should say so
No context or info for it at all, alas - just a solitary free floating piece of paper in a file of wartime production stats
Credo Politico Io credo in Nenni dittatore impotente, creatore del caos e del disordine e in Togliatti, suo unico figliolo, nostro tiranno il quale fu concepito per virtù di satana, nacque da fallaci promesse, patì sotto Benito Mussolini, fu perseguitato e sepolto. Dopo vent'anni risuscitò da morte, discese in Italia, salì al Governo, siede alla destra di Nenni, dittatore impotente, di là è venuto a giudicare i vivi ed i morti. Credo nel social-comunismo , la distruzione d'Italia, la miseria dei popoli, l'annullamento della giustizia e la morte eterna. Così sia.
Today's very weird bit of fascist history: this 1944-ish 'political creed', a bleak parody of the Apostle's Creed, attacking Nenni and Togliatti as an unholy father and son bring eternal death to Italy
From the papers of one-time minister of war production, Guglielmo Ingravalle
If (big if) this is actually true, then all my very worst prejudices about the disciplines of political and social science are fully confirmed!
She is very beautiful indeed! Long may she and you continue to cherish life together ❤️
Certainly doesn't help me to explain to my students why they should bother writing anything themselves
Per the below, if it’s ‘prejudice’ to believe that academic work should be written by the academic and not generative AI then fine call me prejudiced. If people think AI can produce social science or humanities work better than that they could create themselves then they should quit or be sacked.
Deadline approaching (9 March) for two exciting postdoctoral positions within the BLOCKADE project at @uni-hamburg.de!
this is all i have today
Jesus that's horrible news
Rows of biscuits and pastries in a shop. In the centre are some rainbow/ moustache shaped biscuits called crumiri
TIL that the Italian for scabs / strike-breakers (crumiri) is also the name of a kind of moustache-shaped piedmontese biscuit
Truly language is strange
Alicia Keys singing in Italian was not what I expected at this year's Sanremo!
hehe sorry that's what my anxious brain would be telling me
there's probably a bit of code which automatically deletes your application if you log in too many times
I use CamScan, it is not ideal (either you have to pay or there are ads) but it allows cropping, handles shadows / onionskin paper / discolouration very well and allows you to very easily save multiple pages into a single pdf. I find it quick and convenient and it allows local saving up to a limit
Contrairement à d'autres championnats, la Ligue 1 refuse de prévoir une pause pdt les matchs pour permettre la rupture du jeûne. Il y a qqs jours en plein match, Anthony Lopes le gardien du FC Nantes a feint une crampe. L'arrêt de jeu a permis aux joueurs concernés de rompre le jeûne. Sympa 👍
This will be SO good!
You make an excellent cuppa!
The man next to me is watching Atalanta-Dortmund on one phone, and browsing facebook reels on a second phone. Both with the volume on.
Who will cover for me when I kill him?
Close up of a newspaper front page showing Inter in despair with the headline Bodø Shaming after they lost 3-1 at Bodø Glimt
Inter losing at home in the CL? 😬
They will be able to recycle last week's front page, I guess
