I applaud the photographer for skillfully conveying his opinion of this "penthouse balcony" (unit listed for $8.6-$15million). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/b...

For one thing, I just did the same inquiry, and it gave me quite a different answer. That's not a valid form of analysis in an opinion.

I do not think this is a useful application of ChatGPT, to be honest.

Here we Goooo! I haven’t been able to post about this until we went live, so today I’m posting highlights from the Les Enluminures Text Manuscripts Fall Update! This is our annual Big September Issue.

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers 📚 #BookCovers

People of Caribbean had some good Qs when found out Euros arrived for gold: 'how miserable art thou, thus to expose thy person to such tedious and dangerous Voyages, and to suffer thy self to be orpress’d with cares and fears! The inordinate desire of acquiring wealth puts thee to all this trouble'.

You can be a fucking idiot, or an influential idiot, or a wealthy influential fucking idiot. You can also be a grifter and all of the above, but you're still a fucking idiot. Time these frauds were laughed out of existence

Art Director, 1904: Can't we just photograph the women wearing the corsets? Editor: No! This is a respectable catalogue, not a peepshow! Art Director: So what do you want me to do? Editor: Can't you draw the corsets and stick some real heads on top? Art Director: Proportional heads? Editor: No!

This tiny stone in Harvard Square commemorates three babies who died in the 1720s. In 18th-century Massachusetts, many stillborn babies were buried without public ceremony, but obviously not all. It is more notable that the two baby Jonathans were named — most stillborn babies were not.

Look what we have here then.

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

I would like to see the next journalist who gets a sit-down interview with Trump spend the entire time asking him to describe the seven wars he has stopped and ask specific followups about how, exactly, he has done so.

A few weeks ago, someone tore down an AI mural hanging on a business across from Graffiti Alley, the outdoor art space. It highlights the conflict inherent in an AI image that relies on the work of street artists, but holds itself aloof from street art culture. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

If you read this article in WaPo, you'll want to read @colsonwhitehead.com's "The Nickel Boys". wapo.st/4nHWtEF

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

One of the records I looked at for our report on Black History at the Vassall Estate was the 1851 Agricultural Census of the Dawn Settlement, a community of freedom-seekers in Ontario, near Detroit. It was founded by Josiah Henson, who escaped slavery in Maryland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_...

THE SCIENCE IS VERY CLEAR, NPR! FUCK YOU!

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖 Now available online! 👇📻 newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-... @universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Des Moines has you all beat

It looks like it was actually 11 kids out of 283 that they followed up with that stopped identifying as trans, or 4%—which is still wildly low! Meanwhile, 28 of 285 kids that entered the study as cisgender now identified as trans or gender diverse on follow-up—10% of the cis kids were really trans!

With a new book coming out, I finally got around to updating my website. I'm thrilled with the new design - plus, my bio now includes the accurate number of children! (Last edit to my previous website was 7 years ago...) Check it out! www.katharinegerbner.com

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

NCPH had the pleasure of helping to shepherd this project, and it was exciting from start to finish.

Are we going to talk about the fact that we have a clear pattern of ICE taking children as hostages here in Massachusetts, #mapoli, or are we just going to continue to yammer about how we support public safety? Because this isn’t safe at all.

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

“Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family. However, two days later, on Hip's wife's birthday, federal agents returned to the house, pulled the man out of the car and arrested him.” In Leominster, MA

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

My TikTok algorithm has not yet warned me of the Rapture, but it does want to prepare me to sing my way through starting a stolen F-16.

dudes rock

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

Great @leilaniclark.bsky.social read in @coyotemedia.org this morning about a kind of neighborhood watch I can get behind: Looking out for the safety of day laborers.

I understand why schools punish kids for being tardy, but I wish they also understood that some kids react to that with, "I'm ten minutes late so I might as well not go at all."

Earlier this year, MIT restricted access to an internal search tool after students used it to publicized the school’s ties to the Israeli military. Students found a loophole and identified other Israeli grants - then the school put up more restrictions & a disciplinary warning

My sharp, pedantic teen has signed up for Speech and Debate, which feels like the beginning of a martial arts training montage.

Oh come on, her name is not really "Madame de Romance," is it? Well, technically, she is Madame la Comtesse de Romance of Eclaron.

The link still works! Join us this Thursday, Sept. 25 (6:00 Eastern) for a presentation introducing our report on Black History at the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. free and open to the public, but registration is required: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An original epitaph for Miss Elizabeth Furbur of Boston (c.1749-1790: Christ the Redeemer is my Deliverer from Chains & the Power of Death. Jesus, amid the Conflagration, will shine forth as a Conqueror for me over Sin, Destruction & the King of Terrors. Copp's Hill; carved by John Just Geyer

Surely, today is the day when we’ll get several breathless articles about how awful it is to see endless videos of people being murdered [on boats, by the US government].

We published 10 articles about historians' work for, with, and on the National Park Service in #AHAPerspectives this summer. You can find them all here: 🗃️

I’m tired of signing up and signing in for stuff. I don’t want your newsletter after one purchase. I don’t want to create an account. I don’t want emails for the next decade. Leave me alone!

Deleted the below posts out of an abundance of caution. Despite the words of the Proclamation, an unnamed White House official told New York Times that they intend to apply the $100,000 only to new applicants only. If that is correct, the implications are not as urgent.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This one is also worth a read, if you missed it last fall. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

If you are the parent of a toddler and are thinking, "Gee, I wish there were a simple toy my child will love for a decade or more," you are in luck because Magna-Tiles exist. Fun for a 2yo, fun for a 12yo (according to my 12yo and his friends, who still come over after school to play Magna-Tiles).

It has been reported that the portrait of Robert E. Lee has been returned to the library at West Point, but it is clearly not in the same location. Anyone have any idea where in the library it is now located?

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The sign on the ground really completes this incredible photo.

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...