Erin L. Thompson

Is @theonion.com personally mocking my social media posting habits or….?

Demonstration at noon at Columbia gates to protest DHS seizure of students under false pretenses.

Now I'm getting ones for books I didn't even write!

What should I read? I recently read my first - A Severed Head - and... if I'm supposed to like that, I guess she's not to my taste? But willing to try again!

Master Class: Fairytales as Inspiration with Edward Carey — The Shipman Agency 1 Session: Sunday, March 8 11:00am-2:00pm ET Edward Carey How to reignite your imagination, sharpen your fiction, and give yourself permission to be braver and stranger in your writing through the ...

Ahoy, Bluesky! Edward Carey is teaching an online course on Fairytales as Inspiration. He's taught fairytales to writers for two decades, at both the Iowa Writers Workshop & UT Austin, & knows everything about their joys & shadows.

www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

Currently calculating my various expenses for last year and wowsa I am at a place in my life where my annual spend on downloading court documents is many multiples of my spend on clothing

Favorite Simpson quote because it so perfectly encapsulates my personality (and now my daughter’s reaction to it).

Snow day for monuments, too.

Ooooof.

I haven’t!

I devour Sattouf so I’m definitely checking out these others!

Oooooh these look great!

I’m not sure it it belonged to him or to Leon Black’s wife - there’s a fair number of receipts for her jewelry in the files.

Wow.

@konradinkunze.bsky.social explains that no one can ever safely touch the cloak again, because early curators doused it in arsenic to “save” it from being eaten by insects while in storage:
bsky.app/profile/konr...

She's wearing gloves. No touch for anyone!

I can't get over how perfectly this image encapsulates our current colonial museum moment. Tony Molelia wears a cotton smock so the cloak doesn't touch his skin. It's instead held in place by a museum curator. Descendants can get only so close to their heritage in a place controlled by preservation.

Thread with more powerful images here: bsky.app/profile/konr...
Summary of the visit with interviews with the Moleila dekolonial-erinnern.de/the-ancestor...

In 1900, German colonial authorities hanged Mangi Molelia for resisting their expansion into what is now Tanzania. A few days ago, his great-grandson Tony Molelia visited German to pray with Mangi Molelia's bones, held in one museum, and to wrap himself in the cloak his murders also stole.

Oh, smart - thank you!

And you think Octavian has been forgotten, @mtanderson.bsky.social!

This is rapdisly turning into a thread of books that I want to read - forget my kid!

Oh we have already read the crap out of those!

Thank you - perfect!

We all loved @zachweinersmith.bsky.social's Bea Wolf so that's perfect!!!
I want to be Mary Roach when I grow up, but I think I have to wait a couple years for my kid to be willing to go for them (just a little too much about sex and violence)

Help with book recs for my voracious middle schooler! He loved Monroe’s What If and Cassidy’s How to Survive History. What other pop sci or history books should be next? 🙏

I’m guessing, due to position next to shave and a haircut, it’s a friction rub - a sort of massage in the era!

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS

Much, much better than knowing one took the photo but not being able to find it…

I love that feeling!