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my new neighbor left a passive aggressive note on the door about how my dog barks when i’m not home. what an idiot. it’s TWO dogs and i’m always home.

Seeing a lot of people posting references to The Jungle as a food-safety book. This has long been its reception, so fair enough -- but if you actually read the thing, it's about the need for socialist protections against crushing poverty, not to mention the depravities of rape culture.

I would just add that, from where I sit, this doesn't look like turf that can be defended or a tide that can be held back. There's already interdisciplinary collaboration on this topic and we can all work together to ensure the work is done well.

Netflix confirm a “faithful” adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Now I love Austen, but I swear to Christ there are other women writers with novels worth adapting.

AZ just doesn't do DST. It's simpler.

King of the Hill has a new season starting tomorrow 🍿

There’s a FedEx driver who makes videos of the dogs he meets on his delivery route, and it’s easily the best thing on the internet.

Both my sibs, like me, have jobs that combine administration and specialized expertise. I’m good enough at the former that I could keep things going for, like, a month?

I have a crackpot theory that's almost definitely right that the plot of Henry V was supposed to center on Falstaff getting back into the king's graces through bravery at Agincourt, but William Kempe quitting Shakespeare's troupe forced emergency rewrites

I also enjoy a good Reuben sandwich. So confused.

I'm working on a chapter about the pharmacology of eucharistic bread in antiquity, with some attention to the role of bread stamps. And because academic research is WILD I'm eagerly learning about how this history leads us directly to Waffle House waffles.

Yes! the divide between “humanities” and “social sciences” is also a pretty recent invention. It’s actually clear in the piece that Appiah knows all this. He’s not an ill-informed person :) He’s just made an ill-timed decision that This Has Gone Too Far and knuckles must be rapped.

*This is KA Appiah's report on literary studies, supporting the Boghossian report funded by presidents of Vanderbilt and WUSTL. (Opinions vary about interdisciplinarity. But I gotta say, it's odd for a *philosopher* weighing in about lit to accuse lit of paying too much attn to other disciplines.)

100% on this. I'm reading the original review of Kerri Greenidge's book in Reviews of American history - muse.jhu.edu/article/932227 - and it's so horribly cringe. A senior white woman scholar is mad that Greenidge dared question white women abolitionists' sincerity. It's NOT convincing. Later/

New dinosaur just dropped.

THEIR NAME ALONE REFERS TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXCEPT THEY WERE THE GENOCIDERS WHO DENIED ANY GENOCIDE EVEN HAPPENED

I appreciate the reverence for petty accuracy, but long ships had oars for maneuvering. Really common for ships to have both, actually; otherwise you'd need a tow. Also women in the eighteenth century wore their hair up and covered; thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Once again reminding faculty that they need to have a policy for students wearing these in the classroom, particularly during exams. Just telling someone to take them off doesn't necessarily work, as they may be prescription.

Count Fosco would be a delight in the pub. You would probably have to give him a false name and tell him very little about your life, but he would be fun.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the capybaras, for today is their special day! For Capybara Day, here's an engraving from the book ' The Illustrated Natural History' (1863) by J. G. Wood. 📷 Reserve 590.2/WOO #CapybaraAppreciationDay #NationalCapybaraDay #CapybaraDay #RareBooks

Friends! Historians! What is this word?? I have a guess but will keep it to myself so as not to cloud your reading of it. #skystorians #18thc #historians

The answer is that everyone reads all day long, probably at a greater pace and breath than any time in human history. They just don’t read linearly and in the same organized fashion as before. This is a transitional time, and reading practices will recalibrate.

My little nephews, just back from a trip to visit far-off family, ask me if I understand the difference between second cousins and cousins once-removed. A frisson of excitement runs through me. Shall I draw it out, or do we use stuffies to do this? It's going to take some time. Sit down. #c18

I just used a travel agent for the first time in 25 years, and can confirm: it was awesome. And it was time efficient.

Not content with It's a Heartache which many lesser crooners would milk on its own for years, you also have Holding Out for a Hero and Total Eclipse of the Heart simply Massive Fucking Songs.

Attention ABO readers! Issue 16.1 (2026) dropped last week. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) 2027 Conference in Portland, Oregon, April 1-3. For those considering submitting a panel proposal (just a title and a description) this has to be done before July 18th, 2026 #C18

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

there are incredible READ posters with 80's and 90's coifs in this lot, support the ALA, promote literacy, and bid!

Pleased to share my review of @csschmitt.bsky.social's fabulous book, The Predatory Sea. Go read it!

I just saw Mitch McConnell drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. And his hair was.....perfect.

Writers: for a thing! Please tell me your favorite Gothic novel and why ❤️‍🔥🫀❣️

In our latest blog post, Grahame Aldous explores how prize money shaped Nelson’s Navy, from economic warfare to human cost, legal disputes and fortunes made at sea. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/9XRr2I9 #BookSky #MaritimeHistory

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Well now I know how I want to die

Because you need to gaze upon a newborn whitecoat harp seal. 🤭🥰

@annakornbluh.bsky.social Everybody go see Anna talk about her book!! youtu.be/u0cCzELH54w?...

Very much enjoyed reading this book: Imperial Ventures: Maritime Drama and the Invention of Risk, by Benjamin VanWagoner - my review, now out with International Journal of Maritime History ⚓ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The latest issue of ECS contains a review of A FUNNY THING by the brilliant Sal Nicolazzo that just brought me to honest to god tears—the good kind. May we all hear our work described by a reader who *gets it* and receives it with such love.

@zugenia.bsky.social Next book idea just dropped

Actually sympathetic to Tufekci’s conclusion that we shouldn’t expect jobpocalypse, but people have got to stop grounding that belief in the premise that we have some mysterious power only achievable by protein colloids. Rather: in primate society, lots of roles can only be filled by primates.

I keep hearing Pope! At Timon's Villa let us pass a Day, Where all cry out, "What Sums are thrown away!… His Study? with what Authors is it stor'd? In Books, not Authors, curious is my Lord… Lo some are Vellom, and the rest as good For all his Lordship knows, but they are Wood.

I don't care if it's a bit, the timing and delivery is great

THE Ms. Magazine? @msmagazine.com @dukepress.bsky.social 💜 I’m full 💀 and squealing in my baby feminist head. msmagazine.com/2026/07/01/b...

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Honestly people romanticize kids playing outdoors a lot Yes it's better than sitting on tiktok all day but you can't just set them free w/o actual places to go or shit to do and then act shocked when they start dropping chunks of concrete off of an overpass

Four of the boldest Shakespeare adaptations on the US–Mexico border — a narco Macbeth, a post-apocalyptic Henry IV, a queer Hamlet on the turntables, and a Tempest in a hurricane — now free for everyone to read in the third volume of The Bard in the Borderlands. Dig in now: https://ow.ly/9UWc50ZjlWv