Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialKerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If your kids are in school they’re constantly being prompted to “relate” to some text… listen to Anne 521345
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialembracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026MAGA did not emerge as a reaction to liberal multiculturalism's failures, but as a reaction to its successes. They got the first glimpse of a world beyond white supremacy and patriarchy and decided they'd rather burn it down then tolerate having to treat *those people* as equals. 1115
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857851249
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Seems to be a recurring problem in global Green politics that their foreign policy ideas are consistently dogshit. 3213
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialAltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 30/09/2026Look, the Cornell 7 allegedly did the raping but that group chat had over 50 dudes in it. 50. One phone call from one guy & this poor woman doesn't have this horror put on her life. Not all men? All those men tho You wanna say not all men? Here's what you have to do bro: 1121565
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026newadrian.bsky.socialnewadrian.bsky.socialnewadrian.bsky.socialHistory, cricket, TV shows. 001
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today’s excitement is a pheasant visiting our garden! 110
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains. 1055876
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He was also much more optimistic that the road will stay open and that the rest of the project will proceed! But neither of us entirely understand what Thames Water have been up to for the last 4 years 010
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 19/09/2026Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots. 883201703
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialbecimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨ 314152
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.” 675761285
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Supposedly there is a Denzel Washington Hannibal movie starting production. Vin Diesel also famously has been trying to get his Hannibal project going for ages 020
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We never imagined how far that dream would travel, into homes, into hearts, into the way generations imagined what we could still become. In a world that often feels as divided as ever, maybe that's exactly why we need it now: a reminder that unity was always the point. 527136787
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration. 602405851
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 04/09/2026as a reminder, the boat murders are a) very clear cut crimes and b) crimes where the command responsibility liability is limited to a couple dozen people, total, from pete to ac commanders it's the one specific area dems (if they have to pick only one) should be focused on making examples of in DoD 111108239
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If the President of Harvard had posted what Elon did, an armed DOJ anti-Semitism strike force would already be on the way to seize the campus If just a random Harvard undergrad had posted it, DOJ would cut off its grants and launch an investigation 401984455
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation. 440107073484
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialnewadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It would be funny at any time but manufacturing a toilet paper shortage through tariffs when you have caused an outbreak of explosive diarrhea by cutting food inspections is next level comic genius. 062
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone. 570562101
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026Everyone involved in this evil system has to go. Fire them all. Deny them federal employment ever again. Publish their names in databases the way sex offenders' names are published. 624883
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever. 341622378
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable. 7333491544
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Reminding people again that the Melian Dialogue is part of a broader narrative where the ‘strong do what they will’ people get wrecked by their own hubris 1253780
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We had this as an undergraduate paper in Oxford where I taught it every year; the classics students usually read some of the sources in Latin but others did the whole thing in translation. There is certainly enough going on their to make an entire course 010
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 17/08/2026DNC: Sure, the Republicans have created a private army for Trump that regularly kidnaps people, tortures them in concentration camps, and murders citizens while also supporting the Iran War with blank checks for the military, but the real danger is a DSA that wants to give everyone healthcare 20364139
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New White House Press Secretary to bring fun new atmosphere to briefings 1271
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialJohn Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Fantastic podcast with @roelkonijn.bsky.social on Nolan's Odyssey— really definitive and thought-provoking on the historical b-ground. I particularly recommend the section on the archaic age, and on PTSD in the ancient Gk world www.chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-od...chinatalk.mediaWarTalk: Odyssey Editionyes you need more odyssey content 062
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026To be fair the mad rioting lunatics ring definitely struck me when I first moved here (before Diana’s death, too) 100
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"Why are universities regularly cutting back on their most profitable classes in favor of fields that - while useful - cost them money on the net?" is a question you want someone who can do some real forensic accounting asking, not grumpy history professors. 630831
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 04/08/2026They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time 654230824
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Virtue signaling is good and we’d all be better off if there was more of it 0243
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The great historian Robert A. Gross, author of the prize-winning, The Minutemen and Their World, has written a historically-informed, nuanced rejoinder to J.D. Vance’s use of U.S. history as a tool of blood-and-soil nationalism. theamericanscholar.org/gratitude-is...theamericanscholar.orgGratitude Isn’t Everything - The American ScholarThe revolutionary Patriots owed much to their forefathers, but their fight for universal rights embraced a wider mission 317277
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is how they mow the wildflower meadow at King’s College! 111
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Half the discourse this summer has been about the Second World War and half about Homeric Greece but yes there’s clearly no future for students trained in history 112238
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Oh wait, I lie. We also took a quick trip for lunch with relatives on the one mostly reliable train line I know. #networkrail #wtaf 000
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026From the mouths of teens: “States should provide AI literacy as soon as students get access to classroom devices; AI use should be banned on all graded tests; and teachers can require an oral defense of any project from a student suspected of using AI inappropriately.” www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...npr.orgAdults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it outShould students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide. 28729
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/08/2026I have zero opinions about who should be the 2028 nominee at this point (you have to finish your 2026 midterm before you can have dessert) but I am all for normalizing the idea that the fight needs to be about how many seats we're adding to SCOTUS and what channel we air the corruption trials on 845667
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026We have taken four train trips so far this summer, and three of them so far have had a leg canceled (today’s flavor: the fast trains from Kings Cross to Cambridge all wiped out by a problem with the electric wires) 100
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right 1412122307
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026At the point one has to ask whether there is a bad cause these right wing people don’t support? The Confederacy, Nazism, pandemic disease, high infant and child mortality, malnutrition, illiteracy — they prefer all of these and more to the better alternatives 000
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026As someone else with family drafted off the boat to fight for the Union, all I can say is, is there a bad cause these people don’t support? 011
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026There were 27,391 new UK solar installations in June 2026, the second highest monthly installations volume on record, adding 132 MW of capacity And we've got plug-in solar coming at the end of August! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/31/u...pv-magazine.comUK solar capacity hits 22.8 GW as market prepares for plug-in launch - pv magazine GlobalThe UK added over 2 GW of solar capacity in the 12 months to the end of June 2026. With new plug-in solar regulations soon to take effect, a UK wholesaler boss tells pv magazine plug-in solar is a gre... 13358101
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.erininthemorning.comLandmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding TreatmentThe review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits. 142353789
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Local man fails to understand the dynamics of antisemitism, news at 11. 010
stcohen.bsky.social @stcohen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026These people should be kicked off the internet until they’ve done at least some of the assigned reading 000
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The chronological setting of the Odyssey really is, effectively, 'nowhen.' It is absolutely set in the past, but not in a specific, dateable past. Present tense (for Homer) stuff shows up, truly ancient s*** (for Homer) shows up. Also giants, monsters, giant monsters and straight-up divinities. 678344
Reposted by @stcohen.bsky.socialJacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 25/09/2025ODYSSEUS: so then I had a brilliant idea, I’d tell him my name is Nobody CHOTINER: nobody? ODYSSEUS: Yes! So when he was blinded later, he’d yell “nobody has hurt me” and no neighbors would help! And it worked! We got away with it! CHOTINER: but then you did tell him your name ODYSSEUS: yeah 440468
