Marcus Falk (She/They)

and here we see that once it gets late enough in the day, the historian naturally reverts to the spelling conventions of the time they study

The Swiss got rock’n’roll after it had been filtered through the rest of Europe so its version was brilliant, exaggerated and wrong. A sincere pastiche of the original.

Literally just lectured about this!

In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

Den 19 november 1915 avrättades den svenskfödde poeten och fackföreningsmannen Joel Hägglund, alias Joe Hill, för mord i Salt Lake City. Hans ord ”Sörj inte, organisera er!” är än idag högst aktuella. 🚩✌🏼❤️💪🏼

El característico papel marmoleado de los Antonio y Gabriel de #Sancha, libreros e impresores en la Aduana Vieja de Madrid #imprenta #XVIII #C18

Slide from a presentation by Microsoft that outlines how it would use AI to speed up the nuclear licensing process, including the use of AI to generate complicated safety reports.

When I showed this slide to my wife, who is a software engineer for a power company who has written environmental impact statements for the DoD, she simply started screaming

Breslau Codex (Wrocław, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302, s. xii ex./xiii in.), f. 82ra, showing tear in the page but only the very edge of the text in the inner gutter.

Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.

DARMC Medieval World 三 Legend + Int 介 - Layers 口口 Basemap gallery A Measure DENMARK g/ Share UNITED NOD ON Dublin Copenhagen Logdon Amsterdam GEEMANY Berlin POLAND CZECHIA STRIA Buda HUNGARY Barcelona OALY •Foome Madrid PORTUGAL SPAIN ° Lisbon Layers V

The DARMC as designed by Harvard as a map of the Roman and Medieval world (mostly Europe) is, I believe, largely dormant as a DH project now (the DARE continues at a separate center: imperium.ahlfeldt.se), but I still use a ton of the early medieval layers, eg the monasteries. #HGIS arcg.is/1mvnaO0

A tiny metal hare.

Hare - #Roman

Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.

#FindsFriday

I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!

Thinking of Charlotte today and came across an odd note from a bank that existed for a few months in 1875. The Reconstruction era bill was post dated one day and had a recycled vignette of enslaved men picking cotton next to one of Liberty. Bank of Mecklenburg, Charlotte, NC, $10, March 15, 1875.🗃️

Meme. Painting of Queen Elizabeth, wearing the fanciest collar you ever did see. It is lacy, and diaphanous, and massive, spreading out in concentric rings, with the last ring being made of overlapping circles with designs inside of them. You can't see the rest of her clothes; I've cropped the picture too tight on her face. But believe me...they fit the collar. Her hair is done up right and tight, and her pallor is ghostly white, with a big of pink on her cheeks. Her lips are pursed, and her expression says, "I am not amused, but you must keep trying. It's your failure that feeds me." Happily for you, she's not looking at you. Rather, she's looking past you a bit. It's as if you don't really matter, but the person behind you does. Normally this would trouble you to be so dismissed. But not today. She does not look like a woman who would play-wrestle with a puppy. But she might order someone else to do it. Meme text reads: "And lead us not into temptation but deliver us some eels"

Ever find yourself at home, hungry, & wishing for an eel delivery service? Well you're not alone!

In the 1580s Queen Elizabeth had cartloads of eels & pike delivered weekly to her castle at Hertford from Cambridge by a man named William Raven.

Why eel out when you can order in?
🗃️🧪

Absolutely, it's such an overdesigned sentence that only sounds good if you are either high out of your mind, or extremely full of yourself

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

(I can live with this, actually)

Seriously, "From his mouth the the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is a 10/10 sentence. Makes absolutely no sense at all, raises a lot of questions about the author you under no circumstances want answered, and is absolutely going to be the title of some very experimental music

I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. “Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.” A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.

bro there's a whole paragraph about his brain worm lmfao

"I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.

I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect

insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...

oh my God

Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!

A handful of fascist streamers blocked by hundreds of counter protestors

"There are many many more of us than you!"

A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again.

We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention

Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?

Is it possible to get both?

YouTube video by Many Sided Media Dramaturgy in Actual Play (w/ Connie Chang & Sea Thomas)

Listening to Sea and Connie talk about stuff is always a great learning time. Thank you @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social for recommending Qismat! And thank you @byconniechang.bsky.social for Ways of Seeing. I read it back in college and it changed my way of seeing things, literally.
youtu.be/UQxa0xHyOJ0

Need to find myself a copy of those broadsides, btw. I really want to read those now

Early modern trickster. All respect to this man, honestly

Screenshot of original ebay listing, “Virgin Mary In Grilled Cheese NOT A HOAX ! LOOK & SEE !” There is a picture of a triangular half of a bit of slightly charred white bread with what could just about be described as a face in the marks. A bite has been taken out of the bottom corner of the sandwich. The current bid is listed as an improbable $99,999,999.00

On this day 21 years ago, in the most consequential moment in history this account has yet marked, Diana Duyser, a resident of Florida, put a ten-year-old grilled cheese sandwich up for sale on eBay. As you would of course expect, it sold for $28,000 dollars. Mind you...

"Looks like you're trying to use a computer program to trick grieving people into thinking they're talking to a dead person... well FUCKING STOP, ASSHOLE!"

80% of western social democrats

Demoniskt