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professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.πŸͺ‘πŸ₯§πŸˆβ€β¬›οΈ

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Borneo is not only 3 hours from Milan and although I haven't been there I'm pretty confident it doesn't look like this, no. On the other hand there's a distinct lack of orangutans here.

05.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A bottle of Sassella and a chunk of mountain cheese

A bottle of Sassella and a chunk of mountain cheese

Valtellina apres-ski essentials

05.03.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
View of snowy Alps from a ski slope at the top of a mountain

View of snowy Alps from a ski slope at the top of a mountain

Bormio! First day on the slopes in too many years

05.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
HOW COME mouldy
bread is bad for you
but blue cheese, which is
riddled with the stuff, is
okay? It seems to me
like it's one rule for
Rhizopus stolonifer and
another for Penicillium
roqueforti.
Eldon Furse, email

HOW COME mouldy bread is bad for you but blue cheese, which is riddled with the stuff, is okay? It seems to me like it's one rule for Rhizopus stolonifer and another for Penicillium roqueforti. Eldon Furse, email

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz354bs

04.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 191 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This is also what I think about Crypto... since when did *money* need to be advertised? The fact they are trying to make us buy it shows how much of a con it is

04.03.2026 08:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 13103 πŸ” 5304 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 184

Yeah I should say so

No context or info for it at all, alas - just a solitary free floating piece of paper in a file of wartime production stats

03.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Credo Politico
Io credo in Nenni dittatore impotente, creatore del caos e del disordine e in Togliatti, suo unico figliolo, nostro tiranno il quale fu concepito per virtù di satana, nacque da fallaci promesse, patì sotto Benito Mussolini, fu perseguitato e sepolto.  Dopo vent'anni risuscitò da morte, discese in Italia, salì al Governo, siede alla destra di Nenni, dittatore impotente, di là è venuto a giudicare i vivi ed i morti. Credo nel social-comunismo , la distruzione d'Italia, la miseria dei popoli, l'annullamento della giustizia e la morte eterna. Così sia.

Credo Politico Io credo in Nenni dittatore impotente, creatore del caos e del disordine e in Togliatti, suo unico figliolo, nostro tiranno il quale fu concepito per virtù di satana, nacque da fallaci promesse, patì sotto Benito Mussolini, fu perseguitato e sepolto. Dopo vent'anni risuscitò da morte, discese in Italia, salì al Governo, siede alla destra di Nenni, dittatore impotente, di là è venuto a giudicare i vivi ed i morti. Credo nel social-comunismo , la distruzione d'Italia, la miseria dei popoli, l'annullamento della giustizia e la morte eterna. Così sia.

Today's very weird bit of fascist history: this 1944-ish 'political creed', a bleak parody of the Apostle's Creed, attacking Nenni and Togliatti as an unholy father and son bring eternal death to Italy

From the papers of one-time minister of war production, Guglielmo Ingravalle

03.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If (big if) this is actually true, then all my very worst prejudices about the disciplines of political and social science are fully confirmed!

03.03.2026 08:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

She is very beautiful indeed! Long may she and you continue to cherish life together ❀️

03.03.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Certainly doesn't help me to explain to my students why they should bother writing anything themselves

03.03.2026 08:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Per the below, if it’s β€˜prejudice’ to believe that academic work should be written by the academic and not generative AI then fine call me prejudiced. If people think AI can produce social science or humanities work better than that they could create themselves then they should quit or be sacked.

03.03.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Deadline approaching (9 March) for two exciting postdoctoral positions within the BLOCKADE project at @uni-hamburg.de!

02.03.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is all i have today

28.02.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus that's horrible news

28.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rows of biscuits and pastries in a shop. In the centre are some rainbow/ moustache shaped biscuits called crumiri

Rows of biscuits and pastries in a shop. In the centre are some rainbow/ moustache shaped biscuits called crumiri

TIL that the Italian for scabs / strike-breakers (crumiri) is also the name of a kind of moustache-shaped piedmontese biscuit

Truly language is strange

28.02.2026 08:57 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alicia Keys singing in Italian was not what I expected at this year's Sanremo!

26.02.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hehe sorry that's what my anxious brain would be telling me

26.02.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there's probably a bit of code which automatically deletes your application if you log in too many times

26.02.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I use CamScan, it is not ideal (either you have to pay or there are ads) but it allows cropping, handles shadows / onionskin paper / discolouration very well and allows you to very easily save multiple pages into a single pdf. I find it quick and convenient and it allows local saving up to a limit

26.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Contrairement Γ  d'autres championnats, la Ligue 1 refuse de prΓ©voir une pause pdt les matchs pour permettre la rupture du jeΓ»ne. Il y a qqs jours en plein match, Anthony Lopes le gardien du FC Nantes a feint une crampe. L'arrΓͺt de jeu a permis aux joueurs concernΓ©s de rompre le jeΓ»ne. Sympa πŸ‘

26.02.2026 06:50 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This will be SO good!

25.02.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You make an excellent cuppa!

25.02.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The man next to me is watching Atalanta-Dortmund on one phone, and browsing facebook reels on a second phone. Both with the volume on.

Who will cover for me when I kill him?

25.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
Close up of a newspaper front page showing Inter in despair with the headline BodΓΈ Shaming after they lost 3-1 at BodΓΈ Glimt

Close up of a newspaper front page showing Inter in despair with the headline BodΓΈ Shaming after they lost 3-1 at BodΓΈ Glimt

Inter losing at home in the CL? 😬

They will be able to recycle last week's front page, I guess

24.02.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is the way!

24.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

across the Adriatic to where, though? where do you think would have been a good place to do it?

24.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

'first take your polluted river water and place it in an elegant glass dish'

24.02.2026 09:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

French historian klaxon: enjoy this floating pancake-making story

24.02.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not where your money comes from or even how much of it you have but what you choose to spend it on

23.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0