Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher

Finally finished this. Life has been getting in the way. A great history as soap opera; long on gossipy detail and character, shorter on the wide angle analysis than perhaps I would have preferred. Cracking read though. #Booksof2026 No2. #AlisonWeir #WarsoftheRoses

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Great thread about the Brazilian election, turnout, and countering the right wing information machine

During #WW1, the sculptor Anna Coleman Watts Ladd worked in Paris for the American Red Cross making prosthetics for soldiers who had suffered serious facial wounds. Here are some clips from film made #OTD 25 October 1918. 1/4 Source: catalog.archives.gov/id/25021

Great thread. Fingers crossed...

Thanks for always having my back ❤️ see you on the campaign trail.

Reached Half Term and definitely needing the break. Been busy with UCAS and juggling home life with work has proven challenging at times...!

Absolutely.

This new technology is remarkable. Definitely worth ruining civilisation, and the economy for. #SouthSeaBubble #TulipMania

Managed to send off the first of our UCAS applications. *Phew* 12 down, many, many more to go!

"There's no place like home!"

God damn Watership Down, seen on tv when I was 5. I couldn't sleep that night.

Oh Richard #CelebrityTraitors

Steam Fall sale is ON! Too brain tired after Nighthawks launch to do a proper marketing for this right now. In the meantime, I will have blind faith that public desire for our games transcendes the need for me to tell everyone to buy them. There. Nailed it. store.steampowered.com/developer/Wa...

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... grok refused on ethical grounds

Not enjoying #OneNote at the moment. It's not distributing pages properly, even with my switching between the App and Web versions. It's unreliability is becoming a problem #teachers

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

Friday last period

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes

Hugging Face, which is being acquired by Nvidia for $13 billion, hosts and distributes large datasets of copyrighted books without permission. 🧵 1/3

I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

This post by the most amazing Aussie took my breath away. Pay very close attention to the part titled THE SENTENCE WITH 100 YEARS OF DYNAMITE IN IT. ifloz.substack.com/p/carney-jus...

Roses are red Paint in sunshine fades

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social THE VIKINGS INVADE BRITAIN

Picard management tip: Get excited about your work. Your excitement is contagious.

UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

The man has no taste, but he also has no power to conduct the world’s ugliest real estate makeovers. Because he lacks the ability or desire to consult with people who know what they are doing whatever he touches turns into a disaster zone.

Amazing mural, but at first I thought it was one of these: #DrWho

*Breaking* Man de-planes in error while in search of snacks. More as we get it.

Great thread about MMR and why splitting them is bad

I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters

Bought the book and filled out the form! Congratulations for the book and for getting on President Obama's Summer reading list!

Really enjoyed #TheOdyssey which I saw the other night. Epic and extraordinary. Want to see it again. Also read, and enjoyed Emily Wilson's critique. I can clearly hold 2 conflicting ideas in my head at once...

Nature abhors a vacuum cleaner

Introducing You’re Dead To Me — the BBC comedy podcast that takes history seriously! 😁 With 170+ episodes, 150 million downloads, plus tonnes of expert historians & hilarious comedians… and now fully visualised on YouTube & BBC iPlayer

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Anniversary of the Act of Abjuration, where the Habsburg provinces in the Low Countries declared Philip II deposed for misrule, a proto-democratic inspiration both for the Glorious Revolution in England and the US Declaration of Independence. The first step on the road to the Dutch Republic.

I voted absentee✔️ Make sure to get your ballots in by dropping them at your clerk’s office or a ballot dropbox. Let’s win this, Michigan!