Hispanic pixie dreamgirl

I'm fairness I've been studying religion since 2002 I don't know what religion is.

this gif transcends sports and time, race and creed. every single human being has been here.

What if the mechanical Turk was also a peeping Tom.

Each already 47 by the time Exile in Guyville and 93 'til Infinity came out.

This is after I screamed along to bikini kill.

This morning I was feeling so angry and overwhelmed that I pulled out the audiobook of Moby Dick and listened to the the first chapter. We've always been like this. You're not alone. Don't let the AI jerks exploit your feelings.

I'm normally not as angry as I once was, but lately I've been wanting to, in the words of Mencken "spit upon (my) hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." Today I chose screaming over piracy, but tomorrow is another day. 🏴‍☠️

y'all, I have STORIES

Having a normal one, screaming along to bikini kill like it's 1997 or something.

external editing is important! the internet loves to talk about what happened to tarantino post-sally menke, george lucas without marcia lucas & carrie fisher, authors & showrunners when they get so big networks/studios/publishers stop pushing back & tightening them up. this applies to reporting too

Every library should also have the opportunity to be an archive of some cultural form of their choosing. Maybe it's local history or an eccentric crafts-person or media form, but part of a library's unique identity should involve a nifty room filled with objects that exist nowhere else.

Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...

I'm not linking to yet another White Man On The Internet's blog post, but suffice to say:

No, LLM extruders *can't* do ethnographic research or social semiotic analysis

What they *have done* is flood the zone with slop that makes social science research & analysis infinitely harder than before

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

My child is so German and she doesn't even know it: she's obsessed with Mülltrennung.
In California we have a system of separating our landfill, organics and recycling* and she's obsessed with it.
(*Our recycling is single stream, but every German I know has found it a satisfactory substitute)

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Why did we used to have such long reading lists and now they are much shorter?

Wrong answer: because students used to read so much more!

Right answer: before PDFs students had to find physical copies and there often was only one copy in the library. So you had to give plenty of choice.

I’m going to need to cut this line I like from a piece about the Iran War you’ll read tomorrow, so I post it here to tell my darling I will see it in the gardens of heaven:

“We will not get bored," Trump said on Monday, minutes before talking about how beautiful the White House drapes are.

Time once again for your reminder that merely being a member of a nation-state's armed forces when that nation-state wages a war of aggression is NOT in and of itself a war crime or a crime against humanity.
The Allies very pointedly did not prosecute individual German or Japanese troops at the end

oh! Come to Mile End! And here from these brilliant women!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Call for Proposals | Sixteenth Century Society Call for Proposals Chicago, Illinois, October 29—October 31, 2026 The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) is pleased to invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, and roundtables for its annua...

CFP for the SCS conference in Chicago in October. Come join the most collegial gathering of early modernists that I know.
#earlymodern 🗃️

sixteenthcentury.org/call-for-pro...

Good God that's one sentence. Even Cicero is horrified.

lol at the tourists in dubai being like ‘what do you mean i took my vacation at The Neiman-Marcus That Kills You’

NEXT MONDAY!

Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid.

9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link.

#EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

Prof. Robert Pape:

"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

The first time I heard that phrase in passing, as a Catholic school girl, it sounded like the worst penance/punishment ever.

Shoutout to @mattparr.bsky.social for bringing the plan for this collection to me & making it happen at @libraryofamerica.bsky.social!

Trump says war against Iran moving "substantially ahead" of schedule He said the initial U.S. military plan called for four to five weeks of combat operations.

Kaiser Wilhelm says Schlieffen plan moving "substantially ahead" of schedule.
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

Dubai, the UAE, the glittery, modern, luxurious, ‘safe’ world you have is built on the blood and backs of labor from south, Southeast Asia and Africa in execrable, documented enduring conditions. How easily people ignore the ugly behind the designer stores and flashy tourist traps

Having watched the whole run of "ultimate airport Dubai" when I was very ill (and nearly deaf in one ear from an infection) adds a whole layer of surreality to all this carnage.