Jeremy Salkeld

We have a HIV vaccine. God damn.

YouTube video by Angela Collier vibe physics

I watched this (youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...) on the abuse of LLMs & 'vibe physics' by @acollierastro.bsky.social - well worth a watch! - and I was struck by how the back 15 minutes (the 'thought train') also summed up neatly what it has been like to be a public-facing historian, even before LLMs.1/

Since everyone else is doing some variation of this, for every like I'll provide a medieval warfare hot take.

Vtuber talent agency VShojo, who represent(ed) some of the largest streamers in the world, has been self-destructing over the last couple days in a scandal of check-kiting and a six digit charity donation that just kinda went missing in a passive voice accident.

Geega seems to have the clearest sense (from the talent side) of what was going on and what could and couldn't be done.

The numbers are a little inaccurate: Connor mistranslated 40万 as 40 million instead of 400,000, which at older exchange rates would have been $2,500 instead of $25,000; buying out the whole space for 200万 would therefore have been $12,500 per week – still a bad investment but far from a huge loss.

Ask Me Anything! 🙋‍♀️ This Friday July 18th, I'll be answering questions about all things 19th-century hair in a Reddit AMA! Join me starting at 9 am ET in the subreddit r/AskHistorians: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... 💇‍♀️💈➿

Oh no. The Nazis are depressed.

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes? A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivals, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One day the tide will break. it will.

fix your heart or fucking die you absolute ghoul

Absolutely wild to see how mediocre a grade of supervillain that unchecked capitalism managed to produce.

and as we know, "viewpoint diversity" means, "you need to recruit, hire and reward white nationalists"

What happens when you appeal to the alt right crowds under the guise of “it’s just a joke guys”

Waterworks! by scriptwelder Can you help provide the medieval town of Grudziądz with water?

Do you want to build water infrastructure in medieval Poland? Hell yeah you do!

Give this little game a go: scriptwelder.itch.io/waterworks

#medievalsky

Jesus fucking Christ.

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.

*All Of This* but for Star Trek, a show that since its beginning has been a war between its desire to be progressive and it's unavoidable roots as a show about Imperial naval heroes and cowboy adventurers

Few people know this but when you reach JLPT N0 your Japanese doesn't just get better, you unlock exciting new concepts of time such as "0 o'ckic" (2じじじ in Japanese) and "12 o'ck" (54ぶぶ)

If you've ever wondered what links Star Trek with Flanders and Swann, wonder no longer...

EnclavedMicrostate's comment on "What where people in the boshin war fighting for?" Explore this conversation and more from the AskHistorians community

Expand your #history horizons with another fantastic thread from @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social, this time exploring what motivated the people fighting in the Boshin War.

Homeland Security v @DHSgov•14h It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo. Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults. Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.

Why is the comparison wrong? What about ICE or how ICE operates demonstrates that it’s wrong?

EnclavedMicrostate's comment on "How on Earth did we wind up with the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?" Explore this conversation and more from the AskHistorians community

Sometimes the internet cries out for an answer to the most powerful, soul searching questions. In this particular case, @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social stepped up to aid us and explain, How on Earth did we wind up with the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?

Like Rise and Fall? Wish it had Klingons in it? Try @eomproject.bsky.social !

A few snippets from a very unexpected commission to work on a COIN game.

Total freedom to come up with a map for the next volume in the COIN Series: The Ōnin War, Muromachi Japan.

A game by Joe Dewhurst.

A tribute to Kisai Risshō (Hiroshige II).

@volko.bsky.social
@joedewhurst.bsky.social

RFA shuts language services after Trump cuts, including Uyghur, Tibetan Radio Free Asia said Friday it will lay off almost all of its staff and close production in several languages, including a rare Uyghur service, after President Donald Trump cut off funding.

This is a tragedy and a needless own-goal by the U.S. , which is now blindfolding itself to events in Uyghur, Tibet and ceding the info-space to PRC propaganda. hongkongfp.com/2025/05/03/r...

Like, I know now sucks, but the better world - the world we want - is in the future, not in the past.