I once publicly confronted Yascha Mounk with the fact that "gender reassignment surgery for minors" is virtually nonexistent and his response was "Well people think it isn't" and he ignored the fact entirely.

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Heute weiterer Eintrag in der Kategorie moderne Marginalia zu Mittelalterzeug - diesmal sympathisch derpy & von Irina Bregenzer statt solidiarisch genervt, wie das Kunstwerk unten von Regula Schmid

All of human history is trade-offs. There’s nothing about planting gardens that automatically leads to mass immiseration; building a dense agricultural society where it’s either starve or live in close proximity to sources of infection while eating a suboptimal diet came thousands of years later.

Ok I'm now frustrated enough that this week's Past Lives bonus episode will be me talking about why the whole "agriculture doomed humanity" thing is hogwash from about seven different angles

GENAU DAS. Professor*innen müssen das Bollwerk sein, das prekär Beschäftigte schützt. Wenn Haltung gefragt ist, müssen Prof*innen als Erstes laut werden. Damit Gender Studies und Informatik gleichermaßen existieren können, Protest möglich bleibt und Demokratie verteidigt wird. #LauteWissenschaft

A guide dog leads a blind beggar (and holds his bowl): 14th-c. Flemish psalter (Douce 6). "One of the earliest depictions of such a partnership" - Weston Library

MOST GOTH WILL 'my Shyrt with Spyders blacke colleryd and ruffed with blacke' 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️

Bro sent this photo of a green anole that just wandered up to him, and I'm sharing with you because there isn't enough lizardposting.

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

I dont have the time for this right now, this report is just rich with nonsense requiring a red pen, but I have actual humanities and social sciences scholarship Im late on, but I can't stop laughing at this citation

I think this is a classic case of academics looking at the principled point and missing the practical one; my answer to this question would be "because it can't and you're lying"

Happy pride from Porygon everyone. This was a real conversation.

"Claude, solve rock." *bangs rock on monitor* "Claude? Claude, solve rock." *bangs rock on keyboard* *sigh* "Claude, solve mountain." *sets laptop on rock ledge, watches laptop tumble down scree slope* "Claude? Claude? Claude!"

I can’t.

This evening's unexpected discovery is that 'sultan' also got deployed as a title in... late medieval Gascony? O.o The more you know! (The 'Soudan de la Trau' was a title associated with a particular castle in the south-west of France, built in the early C14)

Die klassische deutsche Bildungsbürger-Phantasie: Geschichte passiert nicht durch Konflikte und Machtverhältnisse, sondern weil ein paar Männer mit viel Freizeit besonders schöne Essays geschrieben haben.

This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵)

arXiv hat gerade erklärt, Autor*innen die von KI geschriebenes Zeugs einreichen, für ein Jahr zu sperren. Preprints in MINT! Warum wird das in den Humanities toleriert?! So trägt man immer mehr dazu bei, KI-Verwendung als normal anzusehen. bsky.app/profile/anil...

Jositsch beschreibt sich als Sozialliberaler, der in der SP keinen Platz mehr hat. Dieses Narrativ widerspricht den Fakten. Jositsch beging zwei Mal einen Loyalitätsbruch und biedert sich an bei den Rechtsbürgerlichen. Deshalb wurde er nicht nominiert. @republik.ch www.republik.ch/2026/06/06/b...

1/2 Vokabular wie «mRNA-Spritzen»? Kritik am «einseitig positiven Gesamtbild von mRNA-Impfstoffen»? Die UBI, faktisch das Gericht über die öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien in der Schweiz, bleibt auf Querdenker:innen-Linie unter Präsidentin Mascha Santschi Kallay: www.admin.ch/de/newnsb/X0...

Hier kann man sich gut vorstellen, wie Beschwerden zur Corona-Berichterstattung von der #UBI beurteilt werden: Auftritt der UBI-Präsidentin Mascha Santschi Kallay (MSK) im ‘Dokfilm’ «DER HYPE - 2020 REVISITED», mit einem Beitrag über Medienrecht, Tatsachen und ‘Expertenmeinungen’, ab 38:09 min. 1/

A look back to a young Sprite our kid goat enjoying playtime with Eli the donkey

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

With one month to go until #IMC2026, here's a re-upload of my little non-exhaustive thread of tips and tricks for first-timers (including a link to a great blogpost by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social at the end!) #MedievalSky

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Happy to see the project fronted by a trans creator overcome the movie that is being promoted with pronoun jokes

Wish everyone a relaxing weekend - here are some cute baby animals to help

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

For #medievalsky - I'm preparing a talk for Groningen University on 30 June and have plotted the finds of coins of Lothar I/II & Louis the German to demonstrate how unlikely it is that the latter ruled Frisia in the 840s. For a fuller discussion see my article: works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

In a normal society this would lead to art historians forming clandestine anarchist cells

2000s capitalist propaganda: we’re job creators and we’re supplying what you demand. 2020s capitalist propaganda: we’re supplying the thing that’s destroying your jobs and we demand that you demand it.

It's a very pure expression of a certain kinda person's id, methinks.

Nancy 6/4/26

I'm a bisexual game dev who mostly makes detective puzzle games. This one is coming out in the fall! store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

Zwei Gedanken zu #Jositsch 1) unabhängig von Partei und Flügelfragen sollte niemand länger als 12 Jahre einen Ständeratssitz halten 2) ein so riesiges Ego hat aus meiner Sicht kein Platz in der Rolle als Volks-, oder Ständevertreter

strange light in the valley last night

Formvollendetes Gesamtkunstwerk als Rückmeldung zu einem meiner Texte gekriegt: Marginalia der Gegenleserin beim genervten Augenrollen Ist auch schönstes Lob, weils im Text darum geht, wie absurd verbreitete Takes zur Geschichte von Frauen im Mittelalter sind - Botschaft scheint rüberzukommen!

This looks great!

'tis finished! 30 pages about how alpine villagers acquired & preserved knowledge, from learning how to look after animals to yearly village gatherings with solemn recitations of ancient customs - with plenty of free booze afterwards so that those lazy youths showed up. #medievalsky #earlymodern

Formvollendetes Gesamtkunstwerk als Rückmeldung zu einem meiner Texte gekriegt: Marginalia der Gegenleserin beim genervten Augenrollen Ist auch schönstes Lob, weils im Text darum geht, wie absurd verbreitete Takes zur Geschichte von Frauen im Mittelalter sind - Botschaft scheint rüberzukommen!

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

As you awake one morning from uneasy dreams you find yourself transformed in your bed into a gigantic insect. If you roll onto your right side and go back to sleep, turn to page 54. If you contemplate the grueling schedule of a traveling salesman, turn to page 23.

An interesting instance of the dynamism of customary law: if a noblewoman loses her virginity and has a child while still a ward of her father's, she is not entitled to an inheritance: but (it continues) this is not commonly practiced, at least not without leaving her the means to support herself.