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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"

18.02.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1163    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 8

or just read Jack's book

bsky.app/profile/jack...

18.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.02.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

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

14.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1070    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

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.

15.02.2026 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

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

15.02.2026 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 419    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2
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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 beetleβ€”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/...

15.02.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No hell hot enough, no guillotine sharp enough

13.02.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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And to you!

14.02.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Valentine’s Day

14.02.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristen Bell Nah GIF ALT: Kristen Bell Nah GIF

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

13.02.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

10.02.2026 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 927    πŸ” 143    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4

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.

09.02.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2952    πŸ” 601    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 86

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

10.02.2026 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take β€œChilling” 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...

www.propublica.org/article/inst...

08.02.2026 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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

www.historians.org/perspectives...

08.02.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

How I imagine the sophistication of my research.

How I present my research.

07.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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

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
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

08.02.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

The Muppet Zoom academic conference.

08.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Q&A would be lit

07.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

08.02.2026 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5264    πŸ” 930    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 11
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The next part from the 2026 special works too!

08.02.2026 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been singing this to myself all day

07.02.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 590    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 8
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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.

07.02.2026 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

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

07.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1853    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 156

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