Colin Rose

It's been three hours and I'm still thinking about this:

Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ or something other than heterosexual increased to 9.3%, from 7.6% in 2023.

Self-identification as LGBTQ in the USA has risen from 3.5% of the population to 9.3% in only a little more than a decade.

In the UK, over 10% of under-25s do, tripling in the same period.

Bigots see that as a crisis.

It's the duty of every decent person to understand it as a liberation.

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Sure I am not coining ‘shittles’

Look, the Humanities and the critical reading skills they impart are again proven essential here.

It was, after all, the gentle hobbits and not the 'hard men' who were the heroes of Tolkien's world.

Not through violence and antipathy, but compassion and camaraderie.

If we are going to insist on using British fantasy writers to model how we want to be in the world, Pratchett gives us a way better vision than Tolkien.

Heads up Sophie we have reached 156 storeys. This was a good one; like all kids series they fly by.

If you know ancient graffiti, you know Rebecca Benefiel is an impeccable scholar in the field. Her new article does not disappoint—and it’s open access. www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/w...

Also Canadian. I do not believe that is true at all.

Judith

Screenshot of the Viabundus website.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
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Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, and Joseph A. Howley Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean Advances the interdisciplinary study of enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean, bringing together classicists and scholars of religion Bridges the fields of book history, modern slavery studies, and ancient Mediterranean studies Prompts readers to rethink ideas of authorship, credit, and the origins of ancient texts and ideas Offers a collection of essays that are thematically organized around specific topics--such as gender, justice, disability, and letters-for easy adoption across a wide range of courses and disciplines $99.00 Hardcover Published: 01 October 2025 384 Pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches ISBN: 9780197769966 Also Available As: E-book Bookseller Code (06)

Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Canadians here saying #UhOnlyLargelyCeremonialAndConstitutionallyConstrainedKingsButReallyWePreferredTheQueenAndThisNewGuyIsPrettyIcky

The real value is migrating from information transfer to judgment development, from transactional learning to transformational learning. In an AI saturated world, premium skills are distinctly human: verification of sources, contextual decision-making, ethical reasoning under ambiguity, and accountability for real-world outcomes.

This stands out in an already maddening article. Gosh, are there any disciplines - perhaps ones that we’ve spent decades gutting because they encourage these very habits - that could effectively prepare students for this apparent Value(s?) Migration?

www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...

I grew up skiing on the Niagara Escarpment on the shores of Georgian Bay. Winters were the very soul of those communities. It’s a fundamentally different rhythm we live now.

Waiting for a historian or lit scholar to work themselves up to saying ‘yeah… but philosophy…’

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

I know sports fan/"stan" culture is toxic because Diane died and people are saying "She was iconic AND defended a child molester" and people are nodding along like, yes!Both are true!

Meanwhile, I tweeted "Don't forget Kobe was a rapist" and got so many death threats, cops told me to go into hiding

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

Take a few minutes fellow Canadians. You will be surprised, I’m sure, to see that the fundamental premise of this survey is not ‘if’ but ‘how’. My answers were not what they were looking for.

Break out the October Ale - today we're celebrating our 20th anniversary as a resource for Redwall fans! redwall.fandom.com/wiki/User_bl...

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

Commodus Passage opens to public for first time The Commodus Passage, the name given to the corridor through which Roman emperors gained unseen access to the Imperial box in the Colosseum, has been opened to the public for the first time after a ma...

“The Commodus Passage, the name given to the corridor through which Roman emperors gained unseen access to the Imperial box in the Colosseum, has been opened to the public for the first time after a major restoration of its glistening marble walls.” ilglobo.com/en/news/comm...

I use Canada Post to ship out my prints. Its crucial for my business. Canada Post staff are fantastic when I go in to ship stuff out. Corner store depots are a NIGHTMARE for small businesses. Try going in with 30 packages while people are buying lotto. UPS and Fed Ex triple my costs.

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Will visit the website when not on phone and look into it. Thank you!

Hi, I very much want to use at least the triangular trade map or similar in teaching but not publishing - how can I pay you? I don’t want to just copy yr image…

Oh shoot is redwall doomed

My word this treehouse gets pretty tall eh