What can we do against such reckless hate (& fascism)? Support & amplify public scholarly work that helps us understand where we are, where we've been, & what we can do. Please share as widely as possible, & thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️

I use Contingent pieces in my classes. They’re great! @richterscale.bsky.social’s The Trouble with Triscuits makes an excellent first conversation for my senior research seminar. ❤️ 🗃️

#OnThisDay, 29 Dec 1975, the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts came into effect in the UK. These made it unlawful to discriminate based on sex or marital status, and made it a requirement to pay men and women equally for equal work. #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/3

Chilly wintry night out there, so settle in for some phenomenal #ScholarSunday reading, listening, & learning. & please share all this great work as widely as possible, thanks! @lollardfish.bsky.social 🗃️

The Indian originators of #chess named it 'chaturanga' (=four-limbed) - a Sanskrit term for the ancient Indian army composed of foot soldiers, 🐘 elephants, 🐎 cavalry & chariots - the equivalent to naming it "war".🪖 More: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/through-th... 🏺 🗃️ #skystorians #art #BoardGame

We donated my grandfather’s papers to Temple U & I hope scholars of Philly or music history someday use his papers in their research #skystorians 🗃️ librarysearch.temple.edu/catalog/9910...

“The story of Christmas in England, in the year of the Blitz, 1940.” A propaganda classic, set 85 years ago tonight… 🗃️ youtu.be/aGK5EsGzKIg?...

Edward R. Murrow wishes his audience a Christmas without fear, at the end of the sixth episode of SEE IT NOW (which aired on this date in 1951). 🗃️

Check out her incredible utopian novel “herland”

As the year ends, let me thank public school teachers who, under difficult circumstances, are doing their best to educate our kids. If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/n...

Years ago, I gave a friend a tour of the Linda Hall Library's stacks. Afterwards, he asked why we kept all those old journals, tech standards, etc. Couldn't we just digitize everything? My reply: Not only was that completely impractical, but there was intrinsic value in preserving original docs! 🗃️📜

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Pastor Stokes was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of public notoriety after her 1905 marriage to millionaire J. G. Phelps Stokes, a member of elite New York society, who supported the settlements in New York.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Cover-Up remembers when journalism was able to do something www.avclub.com/cover-up-rev...

Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban prospect.org/2025/12/19/j...

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

Funny (not funny) thing is that Trump first gained power because the GWB administration made a war out of thin air. Criticizing the Iraq war was largely how he separated himself from the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates. If only he was able to remember this.

I don't think Trump even mentions drugs here, which is supposedly one of the reasons for American aggression toward Venezuela

If there is any non-nefarious justification for refusing to admit something is AI generated, I haven't heard it.

Aged like a bowl of milk on a Death Valley trailer roof 🤷

The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

How Rob Reiner transformed early ed in California edsource.org?page_id=747162

If you think about the vital government service of putting out fires, and you eventually come up with "wow, steady supply of tax revenue, we can jack up prices on these suckers endlessly," congratulations you've got a job on Wall Street for life www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Don't miss this from @nellscovell.bsky.social about Rob Reiner. One of the best reminiscences I've read & one that makes it clear what a uniquely important gift to comedy he was. (I also knew him a little re: politics & there too, he was a gift and a mensch.) www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/how...

A while back I found this clip of the SEINFELD cast paying tribute to Rob Reiner as part of an American Cinematheque honor he received in 1994. Its a rare bit of Castle Rock meta celebration.

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

The results of the UK GE1918 weren't announced until 28 Dec but #OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman elected to the UK parliament. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #IrishHistory 🗃️ 1/3

we should all watch a rob reiner movie tomorrow, this entire site, just pick one and put it on at like 8pm est

In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal... (An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum) spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack... #HistSci #computing #History 🗃️

#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common, UK. They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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America’s unions celebrate the long-awaited release of SMART union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Welcome home, brother.

Been watching a few quality TNG episodes with my kids recently, and it makes me so happy to be able to do that as they get older. Many ST episodes are fun and smart but more importantly have at their core thoughtful people doing their best, working together, protecting each other. It's just great.