KatBird

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Name a bigger downgrade than this.

[hannah jones @hannahjonescool]

Cannot get over the fact that I am a member of the only generation that will ever experience the eight year window when the internet both contained pretty much all knowledge AND it was easy to find and generally reliable. And it was my exact high school and college years.

[Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart]

What Sam says ❤️

Thank you @exitthelemming for a) being such a wonderful guest at the #PoetryByHeart Grand Finale @The_Globe this month and b) for summing up so brilliantly why we should all learn #poetry by heart.

Want to start now? https://t.co/vGxdLHPJi6

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of surreal archeological discoveries 🧵

1. Roman mosaic found under Italian vineyard

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

29. This is a 3200-year old attendance sheet found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt.

Reasons for workers being absent include "brewing beer", "embalming brother", "drinking with Khonsu" and "bitten by a scorpion".

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law. Born in 300 BC, Agnodice cut her hair and entered Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labour. However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing and helped the woman deliver her baby.

The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice, stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman.

Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice's sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women.

Thus, Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician and gynecologist. This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy.

#drthehistories

[KatBird @KLBFinch]

Why am I so upset this wasn’t penned by Rachel Bloom

[Londonist @Londonist]

The Devil Wears Prada is coming to the West End - as a musical penned by Elton John 🤩 https://t.co/3vkEl1gVe5

[Londonist @Londonist]

When a group of schoolgirls humiliated one of Britain's pre-eminent architects https://t.co/ku6wQnqA8B

[chloe 🫧 @echochlo]

sam reich moments before creating game changer:

[Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews]

This Kirsten Dunst press tour has given us some all-timers

[KatBird @KLBFinch]

@samreich Zam Reich plush? Temporary tattoos of the tattoos? Pokémon card stickers?

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

Yesterday the Daily Mail claimed @nationaltrust has 'secretly' stopped using butter in its scones in a 'virtue-signalling betrayal' of heritage. It now transpires the very same Daily Mail glowingly published our scone recipe in 2018 MADE WITH MARGARINE!!!
https://t.co/zlRJ5HhJMw

[KatBird @KLBFinch]

Sorry… what??

[TfL Access. @TfLAccess]

⚠️ Caledonian Road station

This station is closed due to the unavailability of station staff.

➡ To replan your journey: https://t.co/NxOKR8mk8Z

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

What a despicable statistic

[KatBird @KLBFinch]

@IfyNwadiwe That’s the Hilarious Ross Matthews.

[KatBird @KLBFinch]

@ahrah_hay My perspective as a mixed person (black and white)… he just didn’t like her at all & was using that as an excuse. Just my opinion.

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

“As long as we don’t think too hard about why a Channel 4 comedian is our only defender against a world of shit, I think everything’s really fine.”

Joe Lycett vs Sewage review – the awful truth about our waterways is just appalling https://t.co/Gxmp0uJRAP