Weird - I wrote a military history dissertation, and it wasn't 50 years ago... I mean, I don't think Bill Parks would RECOGNIZE it as a military history - very little discussion of battles and generals - but it was very much a military history. And a women's history...

This is a pretty wild disclaimer to read at the top of a document called "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences." In other words, if this would not pass peer-review, why has it been released?

One of my players just described an aboleth as a tuna lich... Because you know, tunas in D&D are ontalogically evil, and all aspire to lichdom.

This is a cat checkpoint. Present your most recent cat picture on your phone.

100% this, and not just applicable to higher ed! But, to my higher ed siblings with tenure - the place to start fighting was when they started replacing you with adjuncts. The next place to fight was when adjuncts started highlighting breaks in the system. Now is the last redoubt. Join or die.

Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! It's a lovely sunny Sunday, perfect for #IthacaFest - which is not where I am today. Small crowds today at the Market, because everyone is downtown! We're in booth 27, for anyone nostalgic for last year's set up!

_A Memory Called Empire _ by Arkady Martine, who was on @profgabriele.com's American Medieval podcast. It's space opera clearly informed by historical practices, it's full of politics and also Space Aztecs, and it's pretty awesome!

I don't understand. I say, "I like it here; the people I want to interact with are here, and I get positive engagement;" it's an echo chamber. When they say, "I don't LIKE it there, but the people I want to interact with are there, and I avoid negative engagement," that's not an echo chamber.

@thoafood.bsky.social - look! Hand Pies in Ithaca NY! Today they have beef and pepper jack, mushroom and Oaxaca cheese, potato and cheddar, spanikopita, Jamaican beef, West African beef and cherry and blueberry.

During WWII, American planes flying out of England had dedicated techs. However, if your plane wasn't flying on a given day, you might service one of the planes that was flying, because that just makes logical sense, frankly. 1/3

Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! It's a cool and wet Sunday, but it's nicer than yesterday. It's Cornell graduation this weekend - congratulations to the grads! - so it might be busy here as folks get a last trip to the market in before leaving. We're back in # 32, across from the grilled cheese!

Who ever coined the phrase "Mad as a wet hen" never actually met a wet hen. They're not mad, just disappointed...

Anyone who's ever been involved in the beginning of a union (or worked at Walmart or the like!) has seen this sort of thing before; it's pretty standard anti-union bull shit. Solidarity with my WOTC siblings!

I've just finished up a semester teaching home school teens using the OER Big History curriculum. The previous iteration featured Crash Course videos, so we used them as an intro each week to prompt discussion. Thanks Hank and John!

Congratulations to the Victoire! May they inspire the Habs to their own triumph.

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap youtu.be/OyA3QmUL_x4?...

That nerve wracking moment in chicken raising when the broody mama decides that the chicks are ready for field trips, and only some of the chicks can get out of the coop, so she's off with the two most developed and bold girls while the rest of her clutch scratch around inside the coop.

I've read 15, and am familiar with another 6 but haven't read them. Mostly because of my undergrad in English Lit.

First election of the season - School Board - and I'm heading out to work as an inspector (which means I give out the ballots and check in the voters, not necessarily in that order). It's looking to be a boring election (yay!) but HOT (boo) and the schools don't have AC.

More Dems like this!

Hmmm. Not really mis-pronunciation but 1) we often call socks Gookums, because I had a friend who had a kid who called socks Gookums when she was a baby. We don't know why. 2) My wife and I will refer to things as being hermeneutically sealed instead of hermetically sealed, because it's funny.

The next administration should just wipe the student loans from the databases and burn the servers and when people complain laugh at them and move on.

Summer heat, even out of season, means summer food, which means spiedies. I was wondering yesterday as I made the marinade for these, do spiedies count as a type of bbq?

Soon may the weather man come Bringing clouds instead of sun Soon this heat will be undone So blow you bully boys, blow

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you? Designated Survivor, so I'm probably in DC, but a DC that's close enough to Florida that I can hop back and forth to do interviews over the course of a day.

Sometimes, a customer buys one of the dragons who hold the business cards and swing tags around the booth. They're always so apologetic, like they're stealing our servants or something. But it means I get to make a new card holder, like this guy!

Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! Frost and Ember is back in booth 32 this week, right by the entrance. It's graduation weekend for Ithaca College - but they have no mascot, so we cannot represent. It's going to be hot and sunny, but it's shady and cool under the pavilion!

I'm 100% on board with this...

A Town Called Panic

The last four TTRPGs I played/ran are: D&D 5e D&D 3.5e Fiasco A Quiet Year (I should be more diverse! But I can only run what people want to play.)

Good thread! I have some thoughts about conspiracy theories - I wrote my Masters thesis on them - and if I remember I'll post them when I'm not working...

Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! And Happy Mother's Day to those who celebrate. It's a grey and cool start to the day, but the sun should come visit around noon. Today, we're in booth 32, as we continue our vagabond lifestyle. Today we're tracking sales of bears - moma bears!

Wizardry is for the birds. #art

I tried out watercolors on some handmade paper I got for my birthday.

On patrol.

If I had a nickel for every time someone visited the Vatican City and brought me a Popener, I'd have 10 cents. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice...

Slightly diminish a book. Stage Whispers on the Western Front

Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! This is the first Sunday of the year, and it's gorgeous out here. We are peripatetic this year, so we'll get to set up in different booths, perhaps. Today we're in booth 22, right across from Silent City Coffee, and very happy to be here!

Pretty sure that's a building on Tatooine...

My haul for this sale Not pictured, Indigo Girls, _Shame the Sun_, because we left that in the car. (We're going to see them tomorrow!!!) We already own the Hughart, but @ltimonin.bsky.social likes to give copies of it to people. The de Lint is something I neither owned nor have read; cool!

I heard an interview with the head of the non profit, and it was pretty clear that he was going to do something like this. He was talking about how he was going to make the P-G efficient again, and how it needed to become self supporting and such.

Thread up and down. I had a fascinating conversation with a colleague several years ago. They argued, somewhat compellingly, that all protests use violence. Non-violent resistance used, and uses, the violence directed AT the protesters. And when we don't teach that, we do a disservice to students.

So, do Democrats organize a "Vote for the Crook; it's Important!" type campaign in support of Collins over the Nazi tattoo? Or do we lack the conviction of Louisiana Republicans in the '90s?

PAID TTRPG editor work. Looking for a copy editor who is familiar with the 5e style guide. Looking to hire someone from the global south, if possible. 60,000 words total. Share and tag editor friends.

An epic D&D campaign where you battle the Yuan-Ti across the multiverse: Snakes on A Plane

A poutiniere. And/or a hobby gaming space - a place for people to come play games, maybe store hobby equipment, that sort of thing.

This is 100% correct. And, also, on MY bus when I sing Wheels on the Bus, there are a BUNCH of animals. So it's not a typical US city bus either.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

I thought there were only two types of baklava - the right way (pistachio) and the wrong way ) walnut). But today I learned that there is a secret third way - hazel nut! So I have to track that down and see what I think.