I’m at the spot where ICE murdered Renee Nicolle Good today, along with my daughter and her bf. Still lots of people here at 11:00 pm. (Avoiding getting anyone in the picture) It’s beautiful, surreal but still mostly enraging. Abolish ICE.

"Scientists determined birds are distant relatives of dinosaurs after uncovering the fossils of several tyrannosaurs shitting on windshields of Honda Civics."

Condemning violence against me but not thee? What a sad farce. Allow the votes on #Palestine. www.thenation.com/article/worl... #AHA26

Of Biden's many many sins, the failure to immediately arrest, try, and imprison Trump after January 6th is the at or near the top. As always, Democrats prioritized norms over what was right. The obvious way forward was a public trial and life long punishment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We’re 3k away from unlocking our post crowdfunding stretch goal! We’ll be releasing a new ancestry or subclass with each increment of 5k. Grab our book: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome. Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks. 👇

Two songs of the day: Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" and Jesse Welles' "War is a God." youtu.be/GmpIYLOcC3Y?...

🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

When I was young, they at least bothered to craft a lie to justify invading an oil rich country.

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

I know Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums has been slowly making its way into some hands and homes. Would love to hear thoughts from readers - and please leave reviews wherever you bought it. Available thru bookstores worldwide. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #envhist

"Jaadugar:A Witch's Life in Mongolia" is an upcoming anime, based on a manga, inspired by the life of Fatima, Töregene Khatun, Ögedei Khan's primary wife,'s favorite. #mongolsky #tengri www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Cx...

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social . It is truly inspirational to see someone who so loudly embraces basic socialist ideals. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

they saw arab spring and went 'hell no'. they saw gamergate and said 'hell yes' and now here we are

"The Nomadic Leviathan: A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm" by Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene is now open access! "This book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history." #tengri #bluesky brill.com/display/titl...

Happy New Year! In #Tolkien's stories, the date on which the One Ring was destroyed - 25 March - became the new New Year's Day. After a difficult year, the peoples of Middle-earth were able to look forward to better times ahead. Image: Alan Lee #HappyNewYear #BookSky

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

And finally, the upcoming conference "Nature - Animals - War" will be taking place in Dortmund University on 16-18 September. Abstracts for presentations are due by 31 January, see more below 🐎🐜🐕 #animalhistory us.sowi.tu-dortmund.de/en/details/c...

Shit year, but at least this year I had two articles come out. "Animal History of the Mongolian Plateau" with ORE, and "Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids: Veterinary Science in the MPR" in Mongolian Studies. Next year: send around book proposals. #tengri #mongolsky doi.org/10.1093/acre...

@historians.org proposed a nice idea to codify a way to increase the weight of public history. However their proposal to accomodate such work with after the fact peer review is is wrong headed. Ideas are genies, and they aren't easy to put back in the bottle 1/4 www.historians.org/resource/gui...

This is how you do a third party: you put the work into running small local elections, coopting Democratic funding when possible, opposing when not. Not show up once every presidential election to steal money and votes and do nothing else like the Green Party. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

December 29, 1911 Mongolia declared independence from the Qing Empire. Ruled by the 8th Jibzundamba Khutugtu aka Bogd Khan (Holy Emperor), it was a theocratic state that shared powers between the Buddhist church and Chinggisid nobility. The seal has three Mongolian scripts. #tengri #mongolsky

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

Again,

By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Please, I am begging you, do not tell AI to translate for you. Do not just use a translate button on languages you can't read. Please ask a human being to help you. Machine translations are often close enough on a sentence level but that is NOT good enough for anything you take seriously.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

2025 in museums review: Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, visit in February. Lots of agricultural history from early colonial history of Texas: brands, barbed wire, pesticides. The game where you are a settler trying to avoid disasters (from tornados to no water) was fascinating.

I just had an idea for this. Each month I dive into an old Legends book and discuss its content both in regards to Star Wars and also the historical inspirations behind it. And also do a separate post about a history book and/or piece of research I’m undertaking about the First World War.

My mom got me @songsforhorses.com new book! Can't wait to read it. And thank you for the shout out!

#MerryChristmas to those who celebrate...here's a c. 1880 Christmas card with a mouse riding a lobster, holding a note that reads "Paix, Joie, Santé, Bonheur" ("Peace, Joy, Health, Happiness"). Victorian era Christmas cards were weird. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Santa, your failure to plan for an extremely common weather occurrence has led you to devise a murderously reckless plan, just the latest crisis brought on by late capitalists’ misguided faith in 'innovation' and 'disruption' as ends in themselves."

In the Secret History, when Jamuqa is betrayed by his own followers and delivered to his sworn brother, he gives an animal metaphor demonstrating class distinctions. "Tell the Khan-Anda, Black crows have clutched a colourful duck Black slaves have seized their own sovereign" (cont. below)

📆🎁 23. JAMUQA ANDA La figure historique de Jamuqa Anda (Jamuqa "le Frère Juré") s'estompe derrière le personnage littéraire. Il est l'alter ego de Chinggis Khan, toujours sur sa route, son rival, son ombre, l'ami qui le trahit, son meilleur ennemi. 1/50 #MongolAdvent #mongolsky #calavhist

"You'd think I would've been fully consumed by the threat to my life, or at least been captivated by the ever-escalating cat-and-mouse game between the terrorists and Holly's insecure but roguish husband. But no, this Christmas question just gnawed at me."

PRODUCER 1: Okay, so: Curtain up. It’s Christmas Eve. A young girl named Clara is opening gifts. One happens to be from her favorite uncle, a kind of creepy mask-wearing guy named Drosselmeyer. PRODUCER 2: Don’t love this...

"5:05 P.M. Runs into bar. Get embraced and protected by friends. Grateful for community in this picturesque walkable town I live in, despite police officer who opens fire into crowded street on said madman. 5:10 P.M. JELL-O SHOTS AND KARAOKE."

Thank you Biden for doing absolutely nothing to help the student loan crisis, allowing this disaster to happen.

On Friday 13 Feb I’ll be at the perfect place to talk about extinction in natural history museums: Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Free tickets available for “Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction” oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a... #extinction

"My name has been an epithet for so long; I fantasize about what it might come to represent. “Why, these pearls?” a lady might say. “They were a Christmas gift from my husband.” “You’re a lucky girl — he sounds like quite the Scrooge!” will be the reply." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sur...

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Timeline cleanse -- 4 images of the Christian story of Jesus's birth at Bethlehem, sponsored by India's Mughal rulers c. 1600–1605. These images attest to a transfers and dialogues across regions, borders, and religions. #MerryChristmas

All the Odyssey movie “inaccurate” versus “who cares” arguments are both fun and exhausting. But the trailer shows them rowing a clinker built Viking ship. That is like depicting Columbus crossing the Atlantic in a Chinese junk.

📆🎁 21. JALĀL AD-DĪN MENGBURUNI KHẈĀRAZMSHĀH Prince à la destinée contrariée, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mengburuni s'éleva dans la tourmente causée par l'invasion de son royaume pour devenir l'un des adversaires les plus résolus de Chinggis Khan et des Mongols. 1/44 #MongolAdvent #mongolsky #calavhist

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.