I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

I also think this thread covers another and incredibly important angle about why this phenomenon occurs, and I agree completely, and it’s one of the reasons I wanted a home birth so bad. This is what we need to address first and at large. bsky.app/profile/gwen...

I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.

I have very strong views on this and it’s because I understand and support ppl who want to give birth in the comfort of their own homes, and I support ppl who want to give birth pain free, and I support ppl who want to survive giving birth because I am a historian and I know how lucky that is.

I do not exaggerate when I say I want every person who supports abortion bans to be tarred and feathered for life.

This sounds like the country’s worst minor league team

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Amazing, but I’m afraid they’re never going to let another American be pope ever again.

A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.

This is a thing of beauty.

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

Every time.

good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...

*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly* people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!! *hitting you on the forehead with the spoon* STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

I have many thoughts on multiple parts of this, none of which are positive.

And remember, the main thing the profit motive gets you is…

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

Trans Day of Remembrance is a day to honor and pay tribute to the lives that have been lost due to both systemic and bigoted violence. It is a day to reassert our commitments to supporting trans, Two-Spirit, and gender diverse people, young and old.

This thread also is a good reminder of why we need women historians. I could look at an ancient newly discovered piece of cloth that was used to help menstrual issues and I'd probably have a bunch of incorrect guesses as to what is was first but a woman would figure it out quicker.

I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.

I was once traumatized by such a potato as a child. I keep them where I can see them now.

KIDS. ARE. HUMAN. the republican party denies this, and the democrats aren't sure, but it's true nonetheless

the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.

i reiterate my case that the true alpha in any given group is the mum friend with spare pads and cheesy crackers and a mysterious number of packs of wet wipes

Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI

I feel like this is not the deterrent they want it to be.

ICYMI: The Heritage Foundation was founded by Joseph Coors and is still majorly funded by his family’s not-for-profit: The Adolph Coors Foundation, which is directly funded by Molson Coors via family ownership trusts. So, if you hate nazis please do not bring any of these beers this holiday season.

you put it on the end of your cloudbuttplug so it doesn't get stuck

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

and when I say “hey this thing happened, it’s unusual but not as unusual as you’d think, it’s just nobody talks about it” and you respond “you should be doing XYZ about it” you are the problem! you are making it *my fault*, when it isn’t. and that’s why people don’t talk about it.

make bad art because some of the worst people you know are making even worse art and literally nothing you make will be that bad.

Love this so much. 💜

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Calling 3rd & 4th downs “money downs”? No. Just… stop.

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

Children are an incredibly vulnerable class of people. Add other axes of marginalization (i.e. race, gender, economic class, etc) and it just gets worse.

2025 in a nutshell

thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this

Tbh if someone did this to me I’d be pretty relaxed, too.

there are almost a million kirkland glass grenades in circulation headed into the biggest season of the year for sparkling wine, proceed with caution as you approach the thanksgiving table folks

This whole catastrophe a day news cycle is like the worst advent calendar

This is probably the most accurate characterization of what this will look like in a few years. Or months. Or weeks.

This is a FASCINATING thread

Someone put this on a t-shirt

Sex ed should be mandatory and all students regardless of gender should study periods, childbirth, PCOS, and endometriosis.

NOT EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE

That weird feeling you have been having lately is Trauma, dear reader.

Uggghhhhh. WA has no state income tax and every time a “high income” income tax comes on the ballot it is soundly defeated. Someone show tech millionaires this article.