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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This site needs to allow you to make profiles private, and stop showing certain peoples reshares in your feed. I want to follow people but choose to not see their reshares of other peoples content - particularly now.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Having never liked Dickens (vile man or his work) I know I don’t - that has been reinforced further after 18 months with Oscar Wilde. Sadly the vast majority of people probably do. Wilkie Collins & Trollope hopefully balance out Dickens squeued view point for some.

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Antony Trollope does it better. Dickens is over rated.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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Sally Osborn @salosborn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Found on FB. Notice Donald’s teddy bear 👌

Cartoon showing Macron feeding facts to Trump as a baby in a highchair clutching a teddy bear called Putin

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Made it to Reading Prison in the index…. Going to take a break for a bit. All the snacks I brought to help (chocolate buttons and lentil crisps) have been snuffled.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My new book is on special offer for pre-order this weekend through Waterstones, do have a look! (I didn't design the cover, but it's great isn't it?) www.waterstones.com/book/the-blo...

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The Blood in Winter by Dr Jonathan Healey | Waterstones

Buy The Blood in Winter by Dr Jonathan Healey from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Catterday snuggles done, nails painted. Time to get myself up and at um. I want to get a good chunk of indexing done if not finished today. And I have some life admin to do too.

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Megan Beatie @meganbeatie.com · 20/02/2025

Some happy news: Chocolat author Joanne Harris returns to France with VIANNE, a prequel publishing this September! And People.com offers the first taste: people.com/read-an-exce...

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'Chocolat' Author Joanne Harris Returns to France with Prequel 'Vianne' — Read an Excerpt! (Exclusive)

Joanne Harris, author of the 1999 novel 'Chocolat', will publish the sequel 'Vianne' this fall – read an exclusive excerpt here.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Oded Lifshitz - who was in his 80s - is the 4th dead hostage along with Shiri Bibas and her 2 small children to be returned tomorrow Israel tomorrow from Gaza Oded was a veteran peace activist and retired journalist who was well known for his coverage of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre in Lebanon

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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

An amazing discovery! I visited the Valley of the Kings for the first time last year and I found it fascinating and so atmospheric. First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's

It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

And yet we have bodies far more complex that grows humans and prepares for that every month and then goes through more chaos when fertility ends. All painful.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I have a physical navigo card several of the first few cards were problamtic third one has been toped up and used on several day trips agreed not the same.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It is. Mr Bunny is still there. The paper tickets could still be brought until recently in singles - the navigo passes are not quite the same.

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Mors et Amor @mors-amor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“Ipsa voluptati est quæ spes non fallit amorem: Qua frustratus amor, magnus amator erit.” “Ware liefde is de enige vreugde die nooit teleurstelt; En wie in de liefde gefaald heeft, zal des te vuriger liefhebben.” Uit gedicht Mors&Amor, Jan Vleminck, +- 1550

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

14 Feb 1613: John Bull, ex-#music teacher of Princess Elizabeth Stewart composes a setting of a benediction for her wedding to Frederick Elector Palatine #otd (OU/Bridgeman)

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Richard Vranch @richardvranch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses are red Violets are blue Wavelengths are spread By a factor of two

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I’m running the robot vacuum cleaner…half the fun is hearing it cry out for help and finding out what it’s choked on this time…this made me laugh, started to scoop it out and had to take a photo…

The underside of a robot vacuum cleaner (roomba), stuck in the central plastic rotational sweepers (which are two finned cylinders which are light and dark green) is a LEGO minifig —all that is visible is his face and arm, but his arm can be seen to also be green (his body and legs are green which is bizarrely coordinating with the sweepers) his hand appears raised in a salutation, and his face is smiling, he has luxurious black hair and a moustache —the overall effect is that he’s popped out to say “Hi!”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

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Lady Jane Grey Info @janegreyinfo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

More about the Wyatt's rebellion letter sold at auction. Photo (c) Lyon & Turnbull ladyjanegrey.info?p=18762

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A proud, authoritarian goon, 'the most unguarded ogler of his time,' with a hot temper, wild fake hair and a strong association with New York became King today in 1685. Within 4 years he had alienated everyone & was kicked out

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Kate Burton @ariadnemaze.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Diversity is a benefit to us all, not a plague. The LGBTQ+ community are not mentally ill. The immigrants aren’t all here to steal your jobs and benefits. The world is not all straight, white, able bodied men. Consider that in helping others you may actually end up helping yourself as well.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I can confirm works with tinned mackerel too and linguini instead of spaghetti.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Some actors capture an aspect of their historical moment. The combover, the knitwear, the wheedling and fussing - Brian Murphy was the absolute exemplar of a certain kind of postwar masculinity - the salaryman born slightly too early for the Permissive Society. RIP.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Just had the best lunch in a while - the sushi rice I made was perfect and did not stick to the pan (letting it steam off the heat as you make the rest of lunch makes the difference) veggies and chicken in a peanut better snd soy/coconut amino sauce mixture. Perfection. 🫛🥦🫑🧄🫚🧅🍗🍚🥜

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Max Eisen was a Hungarian Jew. His family were sent to Auschwitz. His mother, grandparents and siblings were separated from him on the platform and were murdered & incinerated within minutes. He was 15. He survived by working in the infirmary.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I met him in a little apartment in north Toronto. He returned home after the war but discovered his neighbours had ransacked his house, and there was nothing. "It starts with words and it ends in a terrible place like Auschwitz," he told me.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Filled in paperwork ahead of dentist tomorrow.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Fortunately, we have an MP who will already be pushing for this, but if your MP isn't openly advocating closer relations with Europe and better trade relations with the EU, do write to your MP. Our economy will thank you... www.bestforbritain.org/back_eu_trade

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Tell your MP to prioritise trade with the EU

Change Minds → Change Politics

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Still appears on my itunes shuffle frequently

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Orange Scarf, 1927 by Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco style Polish painter #womensart

Painting of two stylised white women, head and shoulders, the one on the right has shortish dark hair swept off her face and wears a large orange scarf with billows around her neck, the figure on the right bends her head towards the other looking up and wears a turban style fashionable hat of the era

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"the sin of empathy" These people are broken on every level, including a species one. Giving a damn about each other is what transformed our prehistoric ancestors from living in herds to living in troops. To be anti-empathy is to be anti-human.

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Ohhh I love it! I am a little obsessed with pineapples - not in the swingers in cruises or picking up men in a supermarket way though 😆

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A great Phlebotomist today swift & one poke. Even after 14 years of regular blood draws I still struggle with the fear. Never underestimate a child’s traumatic experience - especially surrounding medical procedures. If I can face these demons anyone can. #hypothyroid #facethosefears #trypanophobia

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

News! ElizabethI is going into paperback and look at the back - there are review quotes.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It’s the first sign of a lump, it’s the unaccounted pennies missing from your spreadsheet, it’s the first bit of fraying on your parachute strings. Hyper vigilance saves.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The whole point of studying the 1930s is to foster hyper-awareness. We should be nervous, pessimistic, jumpy. We should call out the first rumblings, the accidental tells, the faintest glimmers. Because it was so monstrous that even the whiff of it is existential

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Laura Brennan @historianlaura.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Also note - a woman not a man. Speaks volumes x

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