Wow. This ad says a lot about where we're headed. I'm both frightened and interested to see what big tech does when no one can afford to access the internet and use all of their "spiffy" tech because most of us lack jobs that pay enough to survive let alone access the net.

A great reminder that what people write and say in private doesn't always align with what they do regardless of what he said, our first President was an unabashed slave owner who used loopholes to prevent his slaves' freedom. He also went to 1/ www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...

Non-historians doing history.🤦🏿‍♂️ This article claims that in 1968, "America was going through the most tumultuous year in its existence." Funny, I seem to remember this Civil War thing between 1861-65, where far more Americans 1/ nofilmschool.com/john-wayne-q...

Just finished a two year campaign, of D&D playing and evil PC. The players knew he was evil because I made sure they had full buy in, but the PCs never knew until today. He never betrayed them, though he did some dark things the players were party to, that met the party goal. 1/

You suppose we should tell the self appointed arbitiers of what defined masculinity 3000 years ago, based on them watching a Brad Pitt movie, that their "facts" based on a film are akin to basing history on a bit of historical fiction. Like, I dunno l, 1/ #TheOdyssey

Copaganda heard on TV. "If it's legal it's ethical." -DA Jack McCoy Law and Order Season 21 Episode one. What a horrid statement. By that logic the Nuremberg Racial Law were ethical, Japanese American internment was ethical, slavery and segregation were ethical.

I tell students all the time that the reason such a large percentage of law school applicants are history majors is because the core skills of the two fields are the same, critical thinking, constructing and defending evidence based arguments, etc. By mkst estimates I've seen over 50% of law 1/

I was caught off guard by the dialouge at first, too, but I agree with this article. All this talk of accurate dress, language, etc. For what is historical fiction (unless anyone thinks Sirens and Cyclopses are real) misses some key ideas. 1/ share.google/Ulk3OgKciVA4...

When all criticism of any State or, political or religious entity, or other organization is disallowed what follows from said entity is, historically speaking, rarely good. Nothing here should be taken to mean SOME criticisms can be wrong headed or bigoted.

We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing worng. Police audit finds no evidence of misuse by Thornton officer who ran more than 10,000 Flock searches | 9news.com share.google/RYv35NuXe3MQ...

Texas Tech History will remember. 26-4-9-Memorandum-Chancellor-Creighton.pdf share.google/5Ri0LCHvyavZtE…

For a nation not targeting journalists, Israel sure has killed a lot of them in the last two years Israel has killed 260 journalists in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran | International | EL PAÍS English share.google/wO4pB4Y9YbFX...

It saddens me to live in a world where someone can name their company after the device used by one of the most famous villains in all of fiction to spy on & corrupt the leaders of Middle Earth. Everyone things the name is clever, rather than the rattle on a snake telling us "this thing's dangerous."

Hot take: I'm not a Christian, but I am a historian who has done a tiny bit of study in the period where Just War doctrine came about. Wars are sometimes necessary (Hitler was not going to be stopped short of conflict), but they are never just. Wars are inherently unjust because even in 1/

This is so reminiscent of those who want to erase Black history because "it might make someone feel bad." We're supposed to feel bad when awful things are done to other humans, it's called empathy. Much as MAGAs hate that word empathy is an anthropological response to hopefully reduce the 1/

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Let's be honest, women and people of color have to fight to be heard by medical professionals on a regular basis. I'm glad she got a diagnosis, but ChatGPT as a medical aid is concerning at best. When I was a lad we used to say a broken clock is right twice a 1/ share.google/svhnvuEkbMA2...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -Orwell, 1984 This image of Dr. Trump applying the new "light hands" medical technique, posted for no particular reason. 😉 🤔🙄

So here a fun little critical thinking exercise I use in class. For those who dont know what Barn Stars are look them up. These symbols appear commonly across the mid and eastern US. They also appear in the video game Fallout 76. You can find mutiple discussions on Reddit and other fourms 1/

Air D&D! My co workers and I are renting cabin in the mountains for our first TTRPG retreat weekend this summer.

It fascinates me when something fundamentally misunderstands basic things. Take this shirt, which is sad, misguided, and ignorant. Orwell leaned democratic socialist. 1984 and Animal Farm were against the type of totalitarian government found in the USSR of his life time. 1/

News would be something Congress was not divided on.

Going live with this thing!

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Speaking of "tradition" and the use of they as a singular gender neutral pronoun. New Jersey's constitution used they as a gender neutral pronoun between 1776 and 1807, thus allowing anyone, regardless of ethnicity or gender, to vote so long as they 1/ www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhib...

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you They subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure -The Police "Spirits in the Material World."

Here's a lesson in subtle propaganda. Notice how any people of color are famous. None of the "slice of ordinary life" pics show how PoC were living or treated in 1964. Such images perpetuate the myth that the past was universally better for all Americans. share.google/5bqOWAjbVGmO...

I kinda hate that I'm in the tiny minority who doesnt like Pluribus. I love the premise but I have this curse that I have to give a crap about at least one MC. I get the irony of her hatinga hive mind while assuming everyone should think as she does. I kinda 1/

Not about any show(s) in particular: Hey, TV show runners I know some people find shows with sad or screwed up endings cathartic ot whatever but maybe remember that some of us occasionally like to escape to worlds with happy endings. Just putting it out there.

As a history professor I wonder if the Cyclops and sirens in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey will be historically accurate 🤔. Which is my smart ass way of saying the historical accuracy crowd needs to lighten up. #theOdyssey

When a company says no generative AI was used in the making of a product how far does that go? Did no one on the team do a Google search relevant to their workflow and take the AI generated answer? Did an AI bot help revolve a payroll issue or help filing a permit? Was AI used to 1/

I get that people are looking to get paid, but it's counterproductive as hell when I can only read 1/4 to 1/3 of a webpage because the rest is covered by ads I can't close or move.

Ever wonder why history professors ofren don't allow the use of History dot com/ the History Channel as a secondary source? While History is in the name, its an entertainment website, the same place you can find Ancient Aliens. History dot com can sometimes be an OK tertiary 1/

Oscar Wilde is on a short list of people along with Einstein, Churchill, Twain, and a few others who have all manner of quotes attributed to them. Save a lot of these quotes have no verifiable attribution. I can say someone said something 1/ share.google/rhJxylDX0kpu...

RIP Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa A staple genre actor from the 80s onward, in mostly character roles. While many will recall him in other things. I'll remember him for this short lived 90s cheese fest that manged to land an Oscar winning actress.

Truth! If you haven't seen @legalkimchi.bsky.social video you really should.

Remember these names: Arurelia Browder Mary Louise Ware (née Smith) Susie McDonald Jeanettea Reese IYKYK. This next one may give some of you a hint as to why you should know these names. Claudette Colvin. Some would have us think Rosa Parks was alone, the 92% take no one's shit.

2025: Me: This student's paper is a disaster in more ways than I can count! Also me: but at least I'm confident a human wrote this.

Peeps. Help @thecandacemarie.bsky.social out of you can or at least boost this.

I really hate asking this, esp before the holiday, but I’m having an emergency. My filling broke and I have a painful abscess that needs immediate care. I don’t have dental insurance and could really use a hand. I’m so sorry to ask. I can barely eat or sleep. #mutualaid ko-fi.com/candacethema...

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

It just occurred to me that in just under two years I'll have been running and playing #DnD and #TTRPGs for 50 years. 👀🤔

After some napkin math on all the outstanding Kickstarters I have that are well past their estimated delivery dates, I wish more KS would pad their estimates by a year minimum, then multiply by two. More people need to add "Oh, s#*t time to their estimates because there's often an "Oh, S#*t. 1/

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One of the best films for candidly illustrating just how silly racism is. Sure, other parts haven't aged well, but damn if it still doesn't make me laugh.

An interesting tale. Many don't realize that while most of the people of Japanese descent sent to internment camps came from California, Oregon, and 1/ How a popular Peruvian soft drink went ‘toe-to-toe’ with Coca-Cola | Features | Al Jazeera share.google/YUxlb7lcnLwg...

Although I'd been playing TTRPGs for 12 years when Cyberpunk hit, it was the first TTRPG that spoke to my soul in so many ways. It's been a lifelong fave. Pondsmith should have been in a longtime ago and I can't help but think an AAA video game based on his work put him over the top. 1/

Um, no. The second someone says something like "every single time" your BS meter should be going off. There are almost always exceptions (see what I did there). While the person higher on a staircase having more power in the dynamic is a decent 1/ share.google/m0UlHSqy5SSX...

If our "leaders" are willing to shut down to prevent the release of a list of pedophiles then they are more worthless than I imagined. I don't care who's in those files, GOP, Dem, independent they all need to be exposed.

Draining the Swamp, my Black tail feathers! This stinks of a cover-up and shows the GOP is just as corrupt as they claim their detectors are. Johnson Shuts Down House To Block Epstein Vote share.google/KqFifP8AMyB9...