Darren S. Layne

You know what the saddest part of everything going on in the world is? None of this is a surprise. At all. A man stood behind a podium and told the world exactly what he was going to do and then a bunch of people voted for it. We could have had health care, education, and housing

Sounds amazing

THIS 👇

thank you, @awickenden.bsky.social

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

Happy Birthday to my beloved @cygnoir.net on this 23rd of Hearts. Ever since she emerged from the water my life has been far better in every way. 🦢💜

an orange cat sits on the floor. The light through an unseen window lights up its back in a window pattern not unlike the window pattern on the side of the catbus in the anime movie My Neighbor Totoro

Homemade catbus

A brand new programme for the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshops is upon us and we're kicking things off on Tue, 24 Feb with a visit from Prof Allan Macinnes, who will be sharing thoughts about his new book, 'Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond'.

jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

I asked the Copilot if it could do X, it falsely claimed it could, fabricated results, then told me it was my fault. If I didn’t hate it already, I certainly would now.

there's always an undertone of violence in every sufficiently developed bourgeois idealism that sees the body as nothing more as a useless belly that it'd be better to liquidate if we could

Oh my goodness. This is essential reading.

Some might call it a…bag of secrets!

Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.”

This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate."

#TrumpSyndicate

"You continued providing a service during the once in a century global deadly pandemic crisis and my experience was impacted"

Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

Imagine this kind of student organizing against Ed Tech / AI.

“I lost out on learning! Relationships! Oh and all of my personal data, too!”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!

Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians

Real talk.

I think that's a point that will surprise a lot of people. There's a lot of calling the internet capable of accessing "the sum of all human knowledge" and such that I think gives people the impression that any and all records exist online somewhere.

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

Almost all people in power are writing dangerously unhinged and ridiculous fictions.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

My article about eighteenth-century coffee houses is in the latest Modern History Review. It's featured on the cover!
@hachettelearning.bsky.social

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes

This is great! Philly DA Larry Krasner vows to "hunt down" ICE agents who are breaking the law like Germany hunted down Nazis after WWII. “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades

didn’t realise we were going to celebrate 250 years since the revolutionary war by doing it again

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.

Any second now, I'm sure.

He was a white guy, if that helps?

Hello? NRA?