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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I have wondered this about students’ admissions essays. That is often deeply personal writing—and with the use of AI in admissions at many colleges, I have wondered where those essays may be fed into…

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Definitely a POS… but I think one who thought that being a Justice would mean something, that his legacy would be revered, and that he wouldn’t just be seen as a member of a laughably corrupt kangaroo court.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

…although actually, I think a couple of academics have taken a hit over here. Nobody else though!

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

American comedians kept making fun of the UK for *only* stripping Andrew of titles and privileges, and I kept thinking, well, at least there are SOME consequences there as opposed to absolutely zero here.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The snow is finally melting. At last.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The punishment will continue until the reports magically improve!

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Trump’s undergrad school, Fordham, is on the list! He did ROTC there for two years until Vietnam heated up and he dipped for Wharton.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 14/02/2026

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

"I say! Are you Georgina?"
The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short
curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and
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her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was
rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's.
"No," she said. "I'm not Georgina."
"Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?"
"I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl.
I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I
can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any
fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if
you don't."
"Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't
care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway,
you look like a boy."

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It’s very hard if you’re addicted to your phone…

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

No more facts for the children! They won’t need those in the mines!

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The discovery that he called his cottage “My Cottage” just killed me. Looks, intellect and libido of an adolescent Irish setter, God love him.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I understand it’s fun being a Norse or Classics historian nowadays too.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

In NOVA where they’re building those things at a ridiculous rate—magic barrens with endangered species, right next to rivers or on historical sites… I wish they weren’t breaking ground.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Gee. I wonder why she and Don Lemon were picked out first.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This is what you get on the first search page of Google if you look up American inventor Lydia Pinkham.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Anyone remember that one franchisee who refused ICE bookings and was getting endless hate on here until the killings began..?

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

They make me think of Mightily Oats, making a great light in the cold. That’s all.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I’m Episcopalian, and used to being mocked as the wishy-washy anything-goes denomination. But those are our nice middle-aged clergy down on their knees in the snow, glasses misting up, singing prayers in wobbly voices as ICE hauls them away.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I know a really sweet Irish setter doodle with all the poodle smarts. But I have a private theory that when you mix a breed with strong herding instincts (sheepdogs etc) with a bird-dog breed with a prey drive, everything gets unpleasantly unpredictable.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The dog is living his best life today, even with ice balls stuck between his toes.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

My dog has only ever been attacked by doodles so now I’M nervous around them. Not sure the local Amish puppy mills are turning out the soundest temperaments in their designer merle sheepadoodles.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Lies American movies told me as a kid: Oreos were good biscuits and would not have a strangely ashy-greasy mouth feel, Hershey’s was actual chocolate, and s’mores were a treat. I did like Dr Pepper when I finally had one though!

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

That last line is how so many Irish and Scottish folktales end. There’s an encounter with the supernatural, and then you wake up alone on the green grass.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

First page of Google search for ‘Lydia Pinkham’. They keep telling me that AI is going to do my job (historical researcher) but…

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

On that note, I’ve just remembered my eldest needs to sign up for selective service, hurrah hurrah.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Meeee. I literally never envisaged a future where the US and the UK wouldn’t be allies. Also! My kids are dual citizens!

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Always thought Jilly Cooper should have written a book about the Boat Race. Toss in an American Rhodes scholar from Texas, a square-jawed German, a noble British working-class lad who loves opera… she’d have had a ball.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Knew an MA student having an affair with her (much older) supervisor who complained that everyone thought he was writing her thesis for her. Well, yes.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

My pet hate are books about Oxford students having affairs with their tutors. Terrible idea. Bad.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I don’t know why time-traveling historians would be based out of Brasenose, but I assume that they gave the author the good port when she visited.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Weeell, some of us are not hasty about it. One friend produced a three-volume definitive history of his subject and it took him ten years. I took five to have a baby and a thesis.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Ended the ‘war on Christmas’, ended ‘the war on protein’… any idea when they’re going to end the war on Minnesotans..?

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

My grandfather remembered being a little boy on top of the flour warehouses in Liverpool and doing this. I assume that if he hadn’t been speedy enough, I wouldn’t be here.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A little boy is going to bed without his mother tonight. She will never put him to bed again.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I appreciate that headline isn’t written in the passive tense. Makes it very clear who did what.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Well, my husband’s Christmas present just arrived, with an expected delivery date of December 20. My Christmas cards never arrived either.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I remember ranting to my spouse one January that I couldn’t wait for the New Year’s resolutions people to just give up already so I could use the gym properly, and he said “…honey, no.”

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Anyone who follows Russian politics knows what this means.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Most of the women CofE clergy I know live in a brightly-coloured pair of Lucy and Yak dungarees…

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

As a child I read compulsively, all the time, gobbling up books. At some point, somebody convinced me that I needed to live in the real world. …except that I just read three books in three days, and it was SO MUCH better than the real world, I can’t tell you.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I cracked at a Southern historic home recently and said: “Actually, that’s not quite true! There WERE enslaved people working here!” Tour guides doing their best is one matter; tour guides telling lies is another.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I got “were you born in a barn?” from my UK parents.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I used to buy all my jewellery from small artisans in the EU because that was the only way I could guarantee no damn nickel. I miss my favourites.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I’m still mad about Farmer Maggot’s mushrooms. I have very happy memories of rising early to scrump mushrooms from a farmer’s field and then frying up masses w butter and salt, why would anyone nick CARROTS?!

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It’s not all data centers—there has also been a ton of development. But we’ve been in drought conditions pretty steadily for the past few years in this part of the US.

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