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Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused. Never knowingly underdressed. New book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
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I was imagining a single biscuit tin and wondering how the hell that worked www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

The scale of burn here has taken out all bystanders for fifteen blocks and distressingly the exhibition is clearly so VERY bad that actually literally burning it down would bring only the satisfaction derived from mopping up some sick. Still, fun to read www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Surely Goldfish Sisyphus would be all "What I love about my job is how it's a new challenge every day"

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The guy on the left is having the worst date of his entire life

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

"I will lie in my basket in the sunshine and everything will be better"

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Also known as: how to torment your indoor cats in summer

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The wholesome crime-fighting duo you've been waiting for your whole life* *Assuming the crimes you care about largely involve locating small discarded objects that bat about nicely and make a satisfying crinkly noise

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

It's that time of year in the UK where you excitedly puts bit of sun cream on your face and sit in the pub garden all afternoon then spend all evening thinking how very hot your ears are

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Horrifying that the "people will die in large numbers for lack of healthcare" argument evidently isn't a strong enough line to take

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Only ever lick the underside of jam jar lids you yourself have unsealed and you'll be fine

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The eternal triangle

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I see into your soul With my blanket/hat arrangement

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

Jericho heron

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely petrifying Annunciation by Francesco di Vannuccio (c.1380) - most compelling thing in the NG's glittering Siena exhibition

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The cat's watching the news again

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The barons' charter ratified by the king, 1215: "To no one will we deny, delay, or sell justice" USA, 2025: "... yeah no"

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Head out at dawn and it's just you, the wedding photographers, and the seagulls eating a pigeon 👀

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Pottering through Venice

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This morning

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Matt Cartoons: “I think it was Confucius who said 'A man who imposes tariffs of 104 per cent is dumber than a sack of bricks'”

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Why yes I do, actually

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I guess those guys just wanted to own the libs and absolutely nothing else?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

"If I'm having beans and cheese on toast, I don't want to even SEE the beans" - overheard genius on Osney Island (apologies to US readers)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

And this is why responsible factual reporting has fallen out of fashion

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”

submitted 32 days ago • 188 comments

Little Haven beach (and in the corner the Swan pub...)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

submitted 33 days ago • 47 comments