Life lessons

"All people should go back to the land where their ancestors lived" is in fact a deeply reactionary political sentiment, no matter how much you may try to dress it up as progressive and liberatory.

QUESTION: Who knows of ANY research funding for US humanities scholars that has been awarded to a trans project in the past year? Not saying that the awarding org *claims* to be open to those projects. But actually *awarding* anything. Please repost for visibility, it'd help me a lot!

Dear Leader’s inspirational Easter message sure was inspirational. I can see why we are respected around the world.

Can anyone connected to North London religious Judaism help me out? Just found a library of Hebrew religious texts (Talmud, rabbinic commentary, book of prayers, etc), maybe 30 nice hard cover books overflowing a public bin. Is there anyone who could use this I can give it to?

Goyishe challenge to not have important meetings on Passover and not get offended when the Jews say "fuckers!"

So now there's a list?

@lwalker.bsky.social Hi!!! I forgot to thank you for taking the time to talk with me. It was really helpful and now I'm talking with @maurasmale.bsky.social . . . So much to think about, but one thing is for sure, I have wonderful and kind and generous colleagues. Thank you again ❤️

Go to Barcelona for a week or get a new laptop?

Not only do I contextualize 18thc dictionaries and their fallibility but I include John Mikhail's essential article on the emoluments clause, demonstrating the mendacity of the Trump DOJ. The online version has complete citations and contemporaneous images from Colonial texts, showing the lies.

@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social THANK YOU, YOU GET IT!

Please repost for visibility

we are going to win

Not only do I contextualize 18thc dictionaries and their fallibility but I include John Mikhail's essential article on the emoluments clause, demonstrating the mendacity of the Trump DOJ. The online version has complete citations and contemporaneous images from Colonial texts, showing the lies.

Glad to see this important joint statement. jstreet.org/press-releas...

Islamophobia and antisemitism go hand-in-hand. The work to dismantle them is inextricably bound. That's what safety in solidarity means.

Defending Trans Rights: A Film Screening and Community Action Session on Sat, Apr 18 at Morristown UU Registration: www.muuf.org/event-det…

If I want to post a comic, panel by panel, on instagram, what dimensions should I use? Someone gave me some but it looks too portrait-y for the default. Any advice? THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE! Oh and resolution wise, if I want to use it elsewhere is it ok to post on insta at 300dpi?

Hello friends! My book, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical is out now with Johns Hopkins University Press! Just in time for #womenshistory month! I hope you'll grab a copy or request one for your library! #womenshistorymonth #romanticism #18thcentury www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

@rauchway.bsky.social maybe you and colleagues can help? I see both and want to be most correct. Thank you!

Hi #legalsky and legal historicans, I'm reviewing author queries from the publisher. Do you capitalize Founders and Founding Era? I have done so but my contributor does not. The press wants to regularize my use. Thoughts? Thank you!

Hi #legalsky and legal historicans, I'm reviewing author queries from the publisher. Do you capitalize Founders and Founding Era? I have done so but my contributor does not. The press wants to regularize my use. Thoughts? Thank you!

Bless my little ASD heart, a full set of Law & Order DVDs. Because when life isn't predictable, Jack McCoy is.

No one expects the . . .

Asking my husband to recycle two years of NYRBs after replacing air filters, finally resetting clocks, and giving away the unused DVD player was just one too many ADHD-brain things too far.

Teaching a dream course next fall.

Register now for Jersey City Together's April 27 public action. Come see how Industrial Areas Foundation organizing works to hold public officials accountable in public.

Ghormeh sabzi, tofu kebab, sabzi polo and tahdig, Shirazi salad. Whole lot of darkness out there these days, hoping for some more light on our Nowruz Shabbat. Shabbat Shalom, Eide Shoma Mobarak.

Essentially, price vs privacy

Whoa! My abstract for a diachronic sttudy of "antisemitism" as a "hard word" was accepted for the International Conference on Historical Lexicoraphy and Lexicology. I'd have thought they wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft pole. Huge thanks to @joeinaustralia.bsky.social ichll-2026.sciencesconf.org

Spot the furry

Question: my 11 year old Lenovo laptop is dying today or tomorrow. I can get a free mediocre Dell from school that is likely subject to FOIA requests and w/o admin privileges. Or, I could buy a new vastly better Lenovo that's all my own for $1,200 (a lot of $ for me). Thoughts?

Good morning! I have proofs and they're not marked up much!

I'm going to keep reposting a few times a day because I can't believe it's going to be in the world. Long time coming.

This looks very interesting! I guess I never thought about, for example, who adjudicates when opposing sides are in conflict about definitions.

Larry Solan -- cannot explain his specialness

If Larry Solan hadn't given me some of Stephen Mouritsen's articles this wouldn't be happening. Thank you, @smouritsen.bsky.social

Look! It's finally happening, I'm so excited! Please share with your friends, people who assign books, and pets.

I taught about rhyming with this!!! Better than Alexander Pope!

If anyone wants to know about profanity and the history of antisemitism and street signs and Yiddish curses and dictionaries and Irish bulls and Broken English let me know. I talk for free.

But maybe the future really isn’t massive social platforms anymore, but indeed, smaller silos. Maybe we (I) over romanticize scale. Or maybe we (I) have to build the communities I want. Perhaps we should be romanticizing creating instead of whining at this corporations.

This is really unfortunate. I had nothing against this person but pointed out language that reads poorly. I very much respected this person.

Here's the name of mine: Steven Sonstein

To any men who think that being sexually assaulted decades ago isn't important, know that I was somebody's daughter who grew up to mistrust you. Your daughters will most likely do the same.

If my grandmother can get over the truth about Stalin you all get over the truth about Chavez.

I just discovered that some people get paid by publishers.

Are you nostalgic for 2025 yet? No matter how you answered that question tune in to @wfmu.bsky.social tomorrow (Weds) night at 9pm EDT! I’ll be filling in for Sydney and (finally!) sharing my BEST* OF 2025! And then I’ll post the unblurred version of this image! See you there! . . . * (“favorite”)

A mensch

Five students of 18 show up now. Five. The others are lost in the ether of AI.

My lawyer: Oh, hi, Rebecca Me: I need a will. I'm going to die but I don't want to do it before I talk to you. Lawyer: Ah, yes, I remember your sense of humor.