SCMedievalist

Also thinking about how I work at a senior military institution and our dean summarily closed my religion department this year

Crusades relevant much?

chart showing the population of horses in the united states over time. It starts with 20 million in 1900, and declines to under 2 million in 1960. The chart also shows how many cars as well, starting at zero until 1912, and over 75 million by 1960.

Also, it's rather telling that this techbro used horses as a metaphor for the working population, considering that horse populations crashed after they were automated by cars.

But also Terry Pratchett is great!

@sarahbethdurst.bsky.social's The Spellshop!

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I'm also from Beaverton. I'm so sorry for Paulino and his family. This regime has a lot to answer for

Same

This is a concentration camp.

A Forbes headline and summary of billionaires who are extremely stingy with their wealth, surprise, surprise.

Shocked af 🙃

My MIL was required to pay the tariff when she shipped stuff recently, but we will be reimbursing her with US
-purchased jigsaw puzzles this summer, so we pay it in the end.

Anyway. That is why Aragorn can't really have something that we'd understand in the modern sense as a "tax policy," either progressive or regressive: he is constrained by (lack of) state capacity.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

ChatGPT cuts in action

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.

Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I love coffee. But it affects my health negatively (ie trial and error, not reading influencers' opinions). Not that I don't get the NYT hate, but isn't it nice that people like me can enjoy going to/patronizing our local cafes too? I hope the trend comes to my city.

some things are actually getting worse here.

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"US copyright"

Any other scholars publish with Cambridge or other publishers who did not register is copyright? So frustrating!

"A president who tries to change the rules once will do it again. The more his first attempt is downgraded, has its edges smoothed, turned into a matter of differing opinion rather than a unique effort to break the American system, the easier it is for that same person to break the laws again."

He’s telling us his plan. And it’s very scary. Like I said, five alarm election stealing fire. Georgia was a test run.

Oh!

This is who we’re letting poison Memphis and drill a hole in nashville?

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

The climatologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The epidemiologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The activist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The historian told me
that nobody
listens to historians.

JD Vance @JDVance X.com Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path.

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."