I will happily listen to a ten-part podcast based entirely on analysing this chart.

POV: “Alpha-male” podcast host on how to attract a “high-value” wife by holding doors and buying flowers to secure a marriage in which she cooks, cleans, & has babies while still looking beautiful for you and never says “not tonight, I have a headache”. FFS how is this the world right now?

This dude is intense and correct

Miller has decided to wipe the 20th century from memory. (Except maybe the Antarctic Treaty??? For now, at least.)

It's weird that the administration is pushing Americans to have more (white) babies at the same time it's putting Stephen Miller on television, when scientists have proven that listening to his whiny shit-weasel voice for more than thirty seconds will make any adult sterile.

“This conclusively demonstrates that this widely publicised concern as part of the culture war against trans people is not supported by documented evidence from service providers," @translucent.org.uk

Given the world right now, cute cats are necessary. #cats

Protection racket foreign policy

Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks (Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)

Today is the twelfth and final day of Christmas, known as Little Christmas or Nollaig na mBan. Will you do anything to mark the occasion? jrnl.ie/6919170

Happy New Year everyone! We're back for another year and still in our celebrating era because we just turned 75, which is a grand age for anyone, even a museum

This makes Marco Rubio the Sec. of State, Acting National Security Advisor, Acting National Archivist, and now the Co-Viceroy of Venezuela? He must be really good at time management.

Don’t be fooled: you can’t both claim this was simply the execution of an arrest warrant AND say the U.S. is now "running" Venezuela & grabbing its oil resources. Trump just admitted this was a clear regime-change play to enrich U.S. oil companies & his billionaire buddies.

The Larry the Cat social account condemned the US action in Venezuela faster and more definitively than Kier Starmer. @number10cat.bsky.social

Men will invade Venezuela before going to therapy

"Have the creators of each new iteration followed Mary Shelley’s Promethean lead, nurturing a beloved creation, or have they followed Victor’s, embracing their ambition above their creation’s well-being?" The first in our series A Time Of Monsters, from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social

Future episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? Will be like I've found some new information on your great grandfather from his online kink survey. It says here that he was 75% Brat Tamer. Wow. Okay. I never knew this about him.

I was pleased to facilitate a workshop on fostering a volunteering community & identity across multiple sites & departments this morning. There were some great ideas & resources discussed & shared via whiteboards & chats which attendees will receive after the conference. #HeritageVolunteering25

Happy to take your spare penguins.

Can we all not just agree on where to put the switch on lamps?

🎄🎄🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄 My book on Christmas films, McCarthyism, and how our cultural media works comes out on November 17th! I'd love to come talk about it on podcasts, blogs, and history sites in essays, film spaces, and more! In person in eastern MA, online everywhere!

Yeah, ID, that's why I can't buy a house 🤪

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Cucumber Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Unwritten

Making a parody video to celebrate murder is a disgusting and obscene flex.

Would anyone be interested in either a couple-hour writing club or a reading group (academic article or book)? Maybe once a week or every two or once a month? Full disclosure: I am sad about being unemployed and I am in need of academic community and conversation to feel like me again.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

It's absolutely wild that we are heading to a world where old queers will sit the young uns down to tell them tales of freedom and rights rather than how it used to be with the elders speaking of the horrors they fought through to get those freedoms and rights for the young uns.

Pete Hegseth is a guy who has walked into his dream job and can now reform the entire military based on the wish list he formed while on active duty. Not only is he removing the “woke” but he’s issuing commandments conceived around the day-to-day of commanders and NCOs.

There’s an opportunity here to join some dots and make small leaps for those who support Trump and his administration - whether that be passively or fervently. The Administration is holding the public hostage by refusing to negotiate the budget, or even consider Democrats’ amendments

First, an important & exciting announcement for folks used to reading these threads on Substack—my wife @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have a new public scholarly website Black & White & Read All Over, & these threads will be fully migrating over here. blackwhiteandread.com

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

PSA: @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are launching this website to host our public scholarship and get it off of Substack. It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)

Trump using an image of Biden’s auto pen in place of his face as a presidential portrait in the White House is a level of pettiness I am surprised that I am surprised by.

If this new Digital ID is not something we will be expected to show on a routine basis - only at initial stages when getting a job or renting a property - then why is it necessary to have, handily, on our phones? A letter, certificate, or code should suffice.

We want it this way.

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

There's no topless bathers only old ladies in plastic macs.

We are deeply sorry to our USA customers and very grateful to everyone who has previously purchased from our shop. We hope to have you back soon. Muff & kisses, The VM Team x

Important Update We will be temporarily pausing all online orders to the USA. Due to recent changes in trade policy, announced by President Donald Trump on July 30th, significant new tariffs came into effect on August 29th, 2025.

My book (pinned) comes out in just under 5 weeks. It's about the government applying pressure to the film industry financially, socially, and fear-mongeringly in the late 1940s, and then it analyzes the cultural fall out of that pressure. Spoiler: things got real socially conservative real quick.

I’m attempting to make an apron for my 6 year old nibling who will visit this week from Ireland (yay!). This is so we can do messy art projects but also to test the pattern as she asked to do sewing while she was here. My skills are middling so let’s see how this turns out!

A unique volunteering opportunity - help us create maps for emergency services to use if responding to an incident at our Museum. See your design in use during a live exercise w/London Fire Brigade & London Ambulance Services. Ideal for design or architecture students or grads seeking experience.

This is extraordinary.

I’ve just heard the audio of Netanyahu presenting Trump with the letter he’s sent to the Nobel prize committee nominating Trump for the peace prize and I feel sick. Trump remarked that it means a lot to him, especially coming from Netanyahu and I almost crashed the car. Disgusting.

It’s amazing to see this project published. What a fantastic piece of work to restore parts of Ireland’s historical record: Over 175,000 historical records lost during 1922 Four Courts explosion recovered and put online jrnl.ie/6747919 #history #ireland