Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊

These people really hate basic literacy.

I took my mom to Dilli Haat. She found a shirt to buy, looked at my husband and said “you’re going to bargain for me, right?”
We did not get an amazing deal but everyone had a good laugh.

Yay! That was the most high concept of the list.

IG ads trying to get me to move to the US.

AM Quickie excerpt: The latest California Labubu heist should not be misinterpreted so as to support the Trump regime's false narrative about rising crime. If governments decriminalized Lafufus, people wouldn't steal so many Labubus. It's simple economics, supply and demand.

I have solved everything am-quickie.ghost.io/r/0db2e79c?m...

Slightly diminish a band

Jefferson Starship.

Hey-o.

Mineraltallica
Sparkling Pumpkins
Blank Sabbath
Godspeed You Black Baronet
Lint Bizkit
Salmon and Garfunkel

Support African Translation Project African Translation Project; Current Goal: $2500 by the end of August - to begin translation of: The Crocodile Doesn’t Hunt / Zvinobvinza by Pauline Chirata-Mukondiwa, translated from Shona by Zukiswa...

Have you heard about the African Translation Project? Three books, $15k overall goal, $2500 immediate goal!

ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Slightly diminish a band

Pink Freud

Also, shockingly, all my scarves are also black.

It’s too hot for a scarf but I have a nice collection of jewelry I’ve picked up in India over the years so this seems like the right occasion to pile it on.

I have to go to a big Indian event. Thank god my closet is super colorful. Lol.

This is a good thread!

Reviewer 2 isn’t so bad anymore.

As the article notes, the issue is you can only cram about 45 minutes of music on a vinyl LP and still have it sound good. CDs can fit up to 74 minutes, and bands in the 90s used to make longer albums because they had room for that much music. And of course streaming albums can be even longer. 1/4

Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)

✨3 year postdoc opportunity at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen✨
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

HK 'Nazi salute' social media trend condemned by holocaust memorial centre The local Holocaust memorial centre has urged young people to learn about historic hate symbols amid a social media trend involving a gesture linked to Nazism.

The local Holocaust memorial centre has urged young people to learn about historic hate symbols amid a social media trend involving a gesture linked to Nazism. In full: buff.ly/ALiWIEZ

I prefer MadLibs.

Face/Off Lots of scholars from different disciplines study and write about things that happened in the past. So what, if anything, makes history a separate and coherent discipline? While Contingent is a histor...

Never fear, we are working through all of the Face/Off submissions, but if anyone knows a contingent scholar who studies religious conversion in the US in a non-history discipline, let me know. We want to work out the kinks of the process with an editor first!

(Still accepting submissions tho!)

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

I’m on a listserv with a bunch of academics and someone just dropped an AI answer into the chat and people are losing their minds at how incorrect it is (and how made up the source).

HK Ghost Signs project launches interactive map The Hong Kong Ghost Signs project has invited members of the public to contribute to their collection on their new interactive online map.

I love an interactive map! hongkongfp.com/2025/08/09/h...

“Goodbye”

The end of an era that we all assumed ended decades ago.

Nooooo! At least watch a YouTube video, bro.

So delighted to share that BETWEEN WORLDS: THE IF ANTHOLOGY OF NEW INDIAN SFF, is now available for pre-order - and will be in bookshops on 18 August!

Pre-order here, or from your local bookshop: www.amazon.in/Between-Worl...

Do not eat.

interesting how some tech bros claim college is overrated and people should drop out but “Ph.D level” is a marker of expertise

These dudes think historians just memorize dates and that a PhD means you just pop out random facts on command. And somehow think that they are creating the next evolution in humanity.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I would have to dumb down my explanations for this absolute moron to understand even a little of what I do as a PhD.