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This is our stuffed owl toy. When Francis died, he elected himself Pope and made himself a mitre. He's into hats. I think he's also objecting to the ALT-text description "vaguely owl-like".

“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay

It's true that Tice isn't a big deal (although he is an MP) and that The Telegraph isn't admired for its journalism. We could spend all day minimising it. But it's fair to say if a TD made a remark like this about Britain, it would be a big story and consequences would be expected.

...Rob Shearman, Mark Morris, @unamccormack.bsky.social & @0tralala.bsky.social chat with Chris Hawton of @andwbcpodcast.bsky.social podcast. This is more than just what you've seen on the telly. This is the extended universe of Doctor Who. Early bird tix £35+bf: writingtheoccult.carrd.co

How do you tell stories when the possibilities are limitless? When time and place mean nothing and everything all at once? Join us at Writing the Occult: Time & Place on 5 September as we pose that question to some of the most accomplished writers to have set foot in the TARDIS... 🧵⬇️

Sad to hear of the death of Emperor Palpatine. He was larger-than-life, always outspoken and secretly very kind in private.

An excellent piece demonstrating why 'every one of those people is a problem for a sane society' demonstrates that Helen Joyce is a classic totalitarian. blog.beagmcd.net/why-helens-w...

Why Helen's Wrong... and why her position is definitively totalitarian in nature.blog.beagmcd.net

New! Andy Miller from @backlisted.bsky.social joins me to take a look back at Marvel's surprisingly dark and adult interlinked series following Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, The Punisher and Daredevil as vigilantes at large in downtown New York. timworthington.org/2026/08/02/i...

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Defenders With Andy MillerAndy Miller joins Tim Worthington for a chat about The Punisher resolutely failing to turn up whenever anyone could actually have done with his help in The Defenders.timworthington.org

Am never going to stop saying these things, even once British HE feels like a cold, dead moon.

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

#BookHistory friends, this is the finest moment in our discipline’s history

I just tried to find an old Twitter post of mine that referenced Australian writer Capel Boake, by googling 'konallis Capel Boake'. The result was an AI hallucination. No, Boake did not write a 1917 cycle of prose poems called 'Konallis'.

Whenever I order a pain au raison in Costa, I start off with my normal South London accent. When I get to the word "raison " I have descended into the worst, most stereotypical french accent. There seems nothing I can do about it.

Dick van Dyke has essentially outlived DVD.

This month, on A Dream Given Form, we explored the journey of Susan Ivanova across #Babylon5 with guest @unamccormack.bsky.social and her daughter, Verity. We talked Claudia Christian's amazing performance and the key episodes that defined Ivanova as a sci-fi icon open.spotify.com/episode/3wBv...

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