will pooley
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
not *literally* a birb
- Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
- “Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
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- i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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- Get your own doomy Keir Starmer sound bite by combining a geographical feature and a late 20th century object of moral panic. An island of strangers. A peninsula of video piracy. A fjord of repetitive beats. An archipelago of chip pan fires.
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- I had no idea samurai in feudal Japan were that dedicated to troubleshooting Flash
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- Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.
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- The quote from this article: "We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team" from the chair of Thames Water is what I'd write on the guillotine if I was that way inclined.
- The UK is not a single-language state. A powerful argument by @owswills.bsky.social for understanding and valuing multiculturalism. nation.cymru/opinion/the-...
- I like how this headline makes it sound like he invoked some sort of curse.
- I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...
- This is awful. I actively choose audiobooks based on who is narrating them - and there are several books I love which I don't have on audio because I don't resonate with the voice reading them. Hard no.
- Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- The left hand doesn’t even know what the left hand is doing.
- Government's immigration crackdown will fuel 'exodus' of nurses, union warns news.sky.com/story/govern...
- (1/3) We are aware that four major Pride organisers (@prideinlondon.bsky.social, @birminghampride.bsky.social, @brightonpride.bsky.social, and @manchesterpride.bsky.social) have banned political parties from attending their events. We have released the following statement in response:
- (2/3) In short, we understand the decision - but are also disappointed. Local political activists are the backbone of the Labour Party, and the labour movement, and their work deserves recognition, not rejection.
- Sucks to be thrown out of a space you really belong in, huh?
- when we remind everything they’re weird little freaks it works!!!!
- the centrist “identity politics is bad” argument, sneering at leftists over pronouns - like we’re fixated on arcane academic concepts and you need a PhD in gender studies just to express an opinion - falls apart pretty fast when you reframe this as Normal Humans vs. Creeps Spying On Strangers Peeing
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- Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.
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- I’m enjoying the men crossly replying to this “actually, the deputy leader of the Greens didn’t hypnotise a woman to make her breasts bigger, he hypnotised her to make her BELIEVE her breasts were bigger” and… lads, are you under the impression the problem with this story is the resulting boob size?
- I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months. The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.
- Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
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- This immigrant starting another squalid day by feeding my British Domestic Shorthair some Foreign Tuna, brewing my Foreign Coffee Beans, and preparing to mark some excellent dissertations on the British Empire, British slave trade, British coal mining, and Black British history. #ThisImmigrantVotes
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- Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
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- Starmer just gonna act like half of British local accents aren’t completely indecipherable to the rest of the country. Lolololol
- This is very petty and I am here for it 😂. Reads like the author had fun writing it. What Sam Altman’s cooking habit tell us about him being a CEO
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- my coworkers keep making fun of me for using the liebot for lazy people instead of doing my own job 😡
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- From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...
