Patrick O’Flaherty

Also known as 'pofla'. If we met it probably was in a previous life as Societies Chair @UniOfGalwaySU

[Patrick O’Flaherty @pofla]

The lure of this timeline is too great, I fear he'd have pulled a @JohnCleese by now.

[Patrick O’Flaherty @pofla]

As this timeline winds it's way the more I realise that future historians will regard Douglas Adams early passing as one of it's most critical points. https://t.co/iDzR4TqlQL

[charlie @StyledApe]

Something I got from this book is that for all the alt history about Germany winning World War II, there’s no alt history for what should have realistically happened where Germany loses in 1940.

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

This is an insane paper and I love it

https://t.co/DP8OR5NJf2

[Elephant_Frog @elephant_ben]

Another clear problem with using current PPP, you would have to think Italians were once as rich as Americans.

Which I don't think anyone in the early 90s thought.

[Edward Gibbon @EdwardEGibbon]

Equine Studies has 24 times as many first degrees students as gender studies in the UK and I doubt it has ever been mentioned in an opinion piece.

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

In a footnote to Capital, Marx brought up a testimony of a French worker. In France, he assumed he could do just one specific type of job (= printing). In California, he discovered that he in fact can do anything & all the constraints he faced in Europe were purely artificial

[Ciaran @CiaranBloo]

Every diaspora be like “In my culture the most important things are family, food and supporting one of England’s 3 biggest clubs”

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

I liked Los Campesinos when they looked like the various elected representatives of a Student Union but I do not like them now that they all look like they work for Brewdog

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Charles Bramesco @intothecrevasse]

New favorite Google reviewer is this guy who just digitally inserts DPRK military into restaurants and bars, such as in this instance Three Decker Diner in Greenpoint

["Guru Larry" Bundy Jr @LarryBundyJr]

An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane!🤣

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

"Uncle Owen, you know that weirdo hermit who lives out in the desert? He gave me Dad's old weapon and wants to take me into town to a seedy bar to hire a drug smugger to take us off world to join an anti-government militia. I wanna bang the princess. Can I go?"
"What?! Hell no!"

[Sebastian Milbank @SebMilbank]

Something to think about is that we haven't updated our class perceptions based on income. Professions I've worked in - journalism, policy, academia - largely have lower starting pay and worse benefits/security than most skilled public sector jobs

[The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh]

@M_Cottone @scottlincicome I can't tell if you're joking or serious, but I'm going to assume the former. Very good.

[uɐɥdǝʇS @StephanSturges]

ahem

[Jon Stokes @jon_stokes]

My only contribution to the current discourse is that when I watched Troy I was in like my 6th year of grad school doing Christian origins, & I'd seen so much ancient Roman & Greek art that I recognized that these were women's period hairstyles on the men & I couldn't unsee it.

[major fartagaz @fartagaz]

happy 1 year anniversary to the origin of the best cerveza cristal ad placement

[csz @cszabla]

UK unis so cooked they’re coming for the department where the krebs cycle was discovered

[Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @HistorianZhang]

Apropos footnote discourse: my first year only class frequently has students who seem to do all their word processing on a tablet, and in a few cases on their phones(!). When I didn't restict file type for essay submission I had students send me jpgs of their screen

[Jonathan Mills @Muinchille]

So is everyone in Ireland. That's what makes the decisions hard, and why the bigger the decisions, the bigger the bucks.