Teaching undergrads about the Cuban Missle Crisis tomorrow sure will be fun 🥴🫠

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Did anyone else’s mind immediately go to the Croesus “a great empire will fall” oracle?

Next time someone asks me my fav song I’m gonna say Mr. Beveridge’s Maggot

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

One pound of ground beef now costs more on average than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Judas kisses Jesus as he is arrested in Gethsemane. Mosaic panel from Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, #Ravenna, early 6th century. 📷🇮🇹 www.flickr.com/photos/60661... #photography #HolyWeek #GoodFriday #art #Italy

So because I’m on an insulin pump I’ve technically been a cyborg for the past 26 years, does that make my anti-AI stance any more valid or no?

My immediate concern is that this could be deadly for type-one diabetics. Sometimes an unexpected low hits and when it does you have to eat whatever sugar you can find as fast as possible or, you know, pass out and die.

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I’m teaching my dog how to do fit checks

One of the reasons Julius Caesar was assassinated was because he started putting his own likeness on Roman coins, where previously that was reserved only for people who were already dead.

Talked to an HVAC guy who's working two jobs to pay rent. He has no savings and worries about retirement. Tariffs have made it hard for him to import parts. Then this big strong guy who never cries, he said, he said to me, "I just wish Trump's signature was on the dollar." Then he burst out crying.

Had a convo with a retired teacher about how email has changed work load and expectations for educators today, and I had a whole crisis where I imagined what it would be like both as a student and teacher with no email. Freeing? Scary? Idk

We are experiencing a fiber outage in San Francisco. Hope to be back online soon. Apologies for the disruption!

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Pseudoscience, in an important sense, *is* science that is rejected by a consensus of scientific authorities. If those who stand behind eugenics succeed at changing the authorities, then eugenics becomes real science. Whatever evidence is necessary will appear to support it.

People think rural America votes against its interests because they presume the rural poor and working class dominate politics. But they don’t. Local boosters and business elites run things and the GOP serves their petty bourgeois interests very well.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

Press release for our new paper! “…people across the world created inclusive political systems, even under difficult conditions…An understanding of the hallmarks of autocracy and democracy can help identify threats and pump the brakes on burgeoning totalitarian regimes.” phys.org/news/2026-03...

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

*downs whiskey* unfortunately looksmaxxers are the dandies of our day

Tried and true grading method to keep mind focused: grade 10 tests/papers, read short chapter of something fun (for me fanfic), repeat until tests are all graded.

Exhausted Nation Lacks Strength To Form Opinion On Donald Glover Being Voice Of Yoshi https://theonion.com/exhausted-nation-lacks-strength-to-form-opinion-on-donald-glover-being-voice-of-yoshi/

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Global antiquity! 🌎 “Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages [= Old Tamil] have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.” The graffiti discussed here is so cool and indicate Indian travellers to Roman Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries CE www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

Somehow my dinosaur slipper ended up in the den? It was in the closet. Hmmmmm 🐈‍⬛ or 🐶 ?

This is how I woke up today

As an American taxpayer I would like to spend taxes on helping people who are down, lifting people up, great schools, libraries and a taco truck on every corner. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Are you depressed or are you just an American.

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Mood

May the gay gods give these girls everything

A student and I were trying to figure out a 16th-century fencing manual and it ended with us mock sword fighting with a pencil and pen in my office to understand what it was saying

Canceling lecture tomorrow so we can debate what ghosts we think Quinn Hughes is seeing. I’m voting for Visigoth ghosts, since he’s in Milan.

Noooo! No lie, he was my first crush. When I was like 3 years old I told everyone I was going to marry him (I guess I saw him speaking on TV once and fell in love?). My mom got me a doll of him (yeah there was a Jesse Jackson doll) and I brought it everywhere with me.

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84. See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

So, apparently, my blood sugar went from 79 to 40 in 5 minutes.

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo: A liberal arts education will release you from prison and help you exact revenge on your enemies

WHAT DID PEOPLE THINK IT WAS USING TO BEGIN WITH? Doesn't anyone remember that math has to come from numbers? Percentages and graphs have to come from data. Where's the data? AI doesn't "show its work" because it can't! Everyone is going to fail their audits.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Roman imperial biography and how I think current events are going to reshape how future historians read Suetonius, Plutarch, and the HA

Men today: u up? Marcus Aurelius to Fronto:

Once again I have made Valentines using Marcus Aurelius’ letters to Fronto (more are on my insta and TikTok)

This Friday the 13th is really on brand

Schrödinger's humanities: Simultaneously too weak to fight for our own survival as a field, but also powerful enough to convert our students into full believers in gender theory and cultural Marxism.

If we are required to show a passport in order to vote, doesn’t that make passport fees an illegal poll tax?