Sir Ian

Photo of a beverage cooling sleeve with the name brand “Coolie”.

Amidst all this talk of the replaceability of historians, etc., allow me to present yet another example of when it would be helpful to have someone with an ounce of historical awareness on your marketing team.

i would love to open a tom cruise-themed whiskey bar and call it “risky business,” with the word “risky” being a nod to “risky business,” one of his hit films

The greatest secret of literary studies is that 80% of “World’s Classics” are near hallucinatory carnivalesque romps written by the weirdest dude of an entire period of history

I am completely ignorant of it, somehow! Hope to keep it that way for another (checks book) 300 pages or so.

c18 printing press

there's a reason why printing presses look so much like guillotines

Been thoroughly enjoying my first reading of Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. “Drusilla Clack” is up there with the all-time greatest names in fiction.

Horseshit skeptics are questioning whether it can replace the entire economy. "They just don't understand the future," says man entirely covered in horseshit

We regret to inform you that your personal information has been compromised in a dada breach
lost lost in a fur pelt
dogs who cheat the night
in the well of justice
true forged water

Been Caught Stealing (Your Heart)

US judge pauses enforcement on Mississippi’s new anti-DEI programs Request for the temporary order argued certain provisions of the law violated first and 14th amendment rights

When we fight, we win

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This is where I post from

Screent shot of text that reads: “July 20 | Detecting Queer Lives In 19th and early 20th century Victoria, few homosexual people were known, since most kept their sexual orientation hidden and outwardly conformed to societal norms. In trying to detect queer lives from that time, we have varying kinds and strengths of evidence of their existence. Some queer and possibly queer individuals are buried at Ross Bay Cemetery, while others have connections to family members and associates who are. Tim Fitzthum, transcriber of Peter O’Reilly’s diaries, will share this new perspective. * The tour begins at 2pm We meet at the entrance gate on Fairfield Road at Stannard Avenue Cost is $2 for OCS members or $5 for non-members; cash or e-transfer

My friend Tim is giving this cool queer history tour in Ross Bay Cemetery this Sunday, #yyj #BChist

Leah if that had happened to me I would hold that grudge like a newborn baby.

So, not unlike the actual experience of family!

How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

Surprised that this remarkable investigation into how Netanyahu prolonged the war in Gaza — killing tens of 1000s of civilians — for his own benefit has not gotten more attention. So: gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

Next week’s camping trip is definitely this week’s happy distraction. If anyone has experience camping with little kids (4.5 and 1.5 years old) hit me up with your meal/sleep/equipment tips!

A thing about shifting massive amounts of money to concentration camps, away from anything good the government does, is that immigrants are good and make this country a lot better in the most unambiguous ways

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I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

Poster features a picture of a woman in a polka dot dress holding two flaming sticks. She's in an ecstatic state.

German poster for ONE, TWO, THREE (1961), directed and co-written by Billy Wilder - BOTD in 1906

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

This gyre is looking awfully wide

The Time to Stop Donald Trump’s Iran War Is Now! America’s TACO president needs to fear popular backlash as much as he does hawks.

6. The people who can mobilize against the war are there: the No Kings rallies drew between 4-6 million people, the largest single day protests in history. With the new urgency of war, many more can be brought to the streets. More thoughts here: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

A bench sits on a rocky outcrop, tendering the prospect of fine views, but faces only an unyielding bank of fog.

Fog grips a hillside of rocks, dry grass and stunted oaks. The only way forward is shrouded, murky.

A transmission tower braces itself against the pall of fog, a sentinel of the twentieth century set against the abyss of deep time.

My unerring skills as an outdoorsman told me that today, of all days, was the day to go out for a scenic hike.

Map showing two islands, Woman Island and Similar Island

Ah yes, the two genders

I thought I had read that somewhere! Thanks for reminding me of why I was so sure on the Marxism bit.

It’s not exactly doctrinaire. But it’s so focused on the tiny material details, the forces of history, the economics of the convent. I may be reading too much into that… but I agree it’s a marvelous novel!

Getting the gist of the schist

jk schist is metamorphic

The best Marxist novel of medieval convent life without a protagonist you will ever read. And I mean that sincerely, it rules!