Every ocean disaster story is either "they did everything right and planned perfectly then 1800 one in a million things lined up in a row to kill them" or "they rowed out 4 miles into a category 2 hurricane in a rubber dinghy with no life vests while drinking brandy from the bottle and drowned"

or just read Jack's book

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i'd kindly ask people to read American history & see, for example, where abolitionism and the 20th-century civil rights movement or even more recently moral mondays (just in the united states) came from

we don't have to accept right-wing framing (that they relish) of all religion as authoritarian

Signed away my privacy forever as a 14 year old on Instagram in 2012 yet obsessively shred my physical mail as if it’s 1980 and I’m being monitored by Soviet spies

fun fact: the people at Jawaharlal Nehru University did a research project and there is a proven correlation between which of these countries is doing more over the border shelling and which country most recently lost to the other at cricket.

American sports rivalries are nice and all, but India is about to play Pakistan in a world cup cricket match and the loser is probably going to try and start a war with the winner for the next 3 days so there's that

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

"The sun might be on the back of a big beetle—a dung beetle, maybe. (The EPA will work to determine what kind of beetle.) Where is the beetle going with it? Will the beetle bring it back?

Or maybe the witches take it." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

No hell hot enough, no guillotine sharp enough

And to you!

Happy Valentine’s Day

Kristen Bell Nah GIF ALT: Kristen Bell Nah GIF

Has this person ever been to a Costco? Safeway? Publix?

I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not." The perfect encapsulation of what has clearly become the systemic failure of higher-ed leadership

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

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All hail the bibliographic essay! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social

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How I imagine the sophistication of my research.

How I present my research.

Rabbits capture, try and execute a hunter. The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v

Bad bunnies from long ago
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The Muppet Zoom academic conference.

Q&A would be lit

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

The next part from the 2026 special works too!

I've been singing this to myself all day

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.