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The ex-para who advised Ridley Scott on the new movie’s battle scenes claims historians who attacked it have fallen for Bonaparte’s own hype

Oh. My. God.

This whole article makes me want to throw things and yell.

Thanks for schooling me sir. I mean, all my study is for naught. Obviously everyone’s side eyeing in the movie is because we just lick up Napoleon’s propaganda.

You can tell he thinks he’s so smart pointing out that Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule and historians don’t know this because they have Napoleon Crossing the Alps painting on their biography covers.

I want to die.

#napoleon bonaparte #napoleon #bonaparte #thanks for schooling me #this article #it may cause an aneurysm #the guardian #Napoleon promo

The average public library is not only a provider of the latest Anne Enright or Julia Donaldson: it is now an informal citizens advice bureau, a business development centre, a community centre and a mental health provider. It is an unofficial Sure Start centre, a homelessness shelter, a literacy and foreign language-learning centre, a calm space where tutors can help struggling kids, an asylum support provider, a citizenship and driving theory test centre, and a place to sit still all day and stare at the wall, if that is what you need to do, without anyone expecting you to buy anything. [...] The trouble comes when libraries – and the underpaid, overstretched people who work in them – start to become sole providers for all these things: when years of cost-cutting mean that the state has effectively reneged on all but the most unavoidable of its responsibilities to the troubled, the poor, the educationally challenged, the lonely, the physically unwell, the lost or the homeless. “We risk becoming a social care safety net,” said Nick Poole, the outgoing CEO of the library association Cilip, and “our staff are not clinical staff”.

The long read: In 2024, libraries are unofficial creches, homeless shelters, language schools and asylum support providers – filling the gap

#i try not to library post on here but god.#this article #captured so much of my experience working in public libraries #the chaos the joy the dissonance the grief #this specific thing that makes me feel complicated things when i see posts celebrating everything libraries are to people #bc yes! yes!#but also the feeling this article describes so well #where you are aware every second of the death spiral of social care and community support in this country #and how needed and how inadequate the library is. as this last tiny bastion of community care #part of the reason i stopped working in the nhs was bc of that constant overwhelmed hopelessness #the awareness of all the systems we use to care for each dwindling more and more every year #man #i don't know #i loved this article a lot #kind of want to send it to everyone who has ever told me my job must be so peaceful

Let’s talk about the galling ending of Eve and Villanelle.

“Killing Eve is a study in how jumping from different showrunners each season can leave a series without a profound singular voice — and it is evidence that a shallow understanding of representation and the female gaze isn’t enough to create a memorably good, cohesive story that gives a damn about the women onscreen.”

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sT O P IT

#hazing #the hard times #this article #gets me every time

i can’t breathe

#donna tartt #bret easton ellis #esquire #the secret oral history of bennington #AMAZING #i just made the most unholy noise #this article #I AM LIVING #you always have to be writing at the risk point

"All this outrage isn’t about protecting children, or about morality, or about critiquing media. It’s about people wanting their favorite characters to kiss."