imagine being frozen in perpetuity in a museum with this expression

I’m thinking a lot about all of these airline cancellations, and how they might affect students trying to leave for the Thanksgiving holiday. If this continues on, I’m going to be very graceful to students who tell me they need to leave a day or two earlier.

ngl this was one of the better parts of this conference trip

At a museum conference and it’s amazing how much this piece is unheeded/still needed in a lot of museum work.

Museum conferences are like academic conferences in the sense that a lot of the fun is hanging out with people you went to grad school with. It really hits when you didn’t go to grad school in the field.

At a museum conference and it’s amazing how much this piece is unheeded/still needed in a lot of museum work.

THIS IS SO GOOD

...that this nation (she/they/it) shall not perish from the earth

They flipped DUTCHESS COUNTY!?

the sort of headline we're seeing all over: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

Lots of Democratic Town Committees wishing they'd run people this year, I bet!

Seeing some wild or at least mildly interesting things in CT which had no state-wide races to drive voting AT ALL.

has anyone checked on Andrew Cuomo's two vast and trunkless legs of stone standing near a half-sunk, sneering visage, beside which nothing remains on the line and level sands?

DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS, UP WITH THE STARS

I like that Dark Woke has a patriotism rooted in the Civil War. We need this.

Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍

I notice that he always says "voter reform" not "voting reform" and it seems like a tell.

Today was a shit day at work, finally made it to the conference I’m going to, someone tell me something good has happened tonight at least.

The catapult montage in here is one of the weirdest things my ears have ever heard. youtu.be/o0YCCcxRNG4?...

If wife’s directing their husband’s work is disqualifying then the entirety of all knowledge produced by American academia prior to the 1970s is suspect.

Idk about low-cost, but Japanese curry rice has always been my go-to. Recipes will vary in how simple or complex you wanna make it, but its super forgiving. You don't have to use short grain rice either. You can use jasmine, basmati, medium, even instant rice or pasta. Perfect for colder weather too

When we founded Contingent, we wanted to be a history magazine that didn't just publish "relevant" history that was responding directly to the news, because that often meant a narrow vision of history . . . but it was okay because in 2019, other outlets were publishing historians more. And now?

A few years ago, we did a series called Personal Pan Histories. Each piece came with a recipe by the author. We didn't ask people to pitch simple comfort foods, but they did. Anyway, it's a good time to revisit a series of six pieces about what food means to us.

Use turkey or even skimp on the pork to save $, use the peanuts or forget them accidentally, add in broccoli (frozen probably works fine), and there you go.

"It may be common or even understandable to feel this way, but it’s shameful to act on it. It’s shameful not to try to get past it and to be better." I know there's a big argument that it's better to talk about guilt rather than shame, but boy if it doesn't feel right in this piece.

Going to a museum conference tomorrow and it's nice that whatever career I end up in, it's collapsing.

It's a year later and I feel like a really prominent strain of pundit/consultant thought is "we voted for THOSE people like you said, now be sensible and vote for our Normal Guys this time around" where "normal" means "has a Nazi tattoo" or "is a sex pest."

One thing I love about this season is that Chex are basically on sale for the next seven weeks.

New awareness campaign

Before we at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do our Face/Off project in the new year, we want to try a few with editors as participants so we can get the wrinkles smoothed out. Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)

Democrats say this constantly, but when front pages of The NY Times and everyone else refuses to acknowledge it, or thinks stating it is is being a Dem partisan, how do you break through?

"That's so evil I don't believe you're telling me the truth" is such a specific problem with our electorate.

Before we at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do our Face/Off project in the new year, we want to try a few with editors as participants so we can get the wrinkles smoothed out. Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

I wore my rainbow White Sox hat today. A guy in the train said “I like your hat”. I said “Thanks, is that because you like the Sox, or because you believe all people have value regardless of who they love?” He said “the latter” & woman w/him said “we believe you have value even if you like the Sox.”

I have been working on a talk about Sam Clemens, Mark Twain, and the idea of Mark Twain, and it really brought into focus how much most pundits are only ever dealing with the idea of whatever it is they're talking about.

Moments like this remind you why a reverse chronological feed will always be superior.

I haven't followed sports in years but the other day a sports-knower acquaintance offered this theory: Nowadays the path to MLB is through expensive travel teams in HS, then years on a pittance in the minors. It's not a financial risk most people can take. Me: so it's like the Ph.D. of sports?

I think we might be a better country if baseball were the actual national sport that most people watched. The vibes are weirder but better.

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

Seth talks about Trump every single night. I can’t believe it’s the catapult bit that finally got to him.

I just got my Covid shot and the person who gave me the shot had absolutely no idea that that people in other states are no longer able to get it easily at the pharmacy.

Could someone please explain to Slate that male and female skeletons are so similar that it's little more than a coin flip when archaeologists are trying to figure out the sex of skeletons and don't have any grave goods to point one way or another? Because this take is one for the calipers brigade.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life

It is good to donate to food banks and mutual aid groups and we can also be furious that the much larger federal program we pay taxes to support is being withheld by those in power.

We finally created the Great Gatsby from the classic book, Do Not Emulate the Great Gatsby.

How does a four-sided Kohls have 28 sides when you are trying to find the registers.