Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity

Oh, yay; another Legenda Aurea.

I don’t do anything after work but chill, hang out with my cat, and wait for bed. Meanwhile, friends are learning new languages and making art. I guess my brain is done.

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

The big news today is that there's a bunch of jacked firewomen in NZ who have put together a calendar to fundraise for breast cancer research: www.breastcancercure.org.nz/calendar/wah...

I need to hang up my laundry, but does she care?

This is a good note to end the week. The plight of @britishlibrary.bsky.social has been picked up in @nature.com’s influential daily briefing. Thanks everyone (including @floragraham.bsky.social) who is getting the word out there about our national library us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...

Feel free to send goodies as well. Especially to me, a librarian.

"This is the first study that uses proteomics to analyze Renaissance recipes, and the very first to use in-depth archival research to contextualize proteomics results."

You can access the Congressman's floor speech comments by clicking the link here: youtube.com/watch?v=IaLqyEIuGYs&t=29589s&pp=2AGV5wGQAgE%3D

Today in things my job allows me to say: “Only some of these marginal notes are by Melancthon; the handwriting of the others is too clear.”

If you're reporting ICE sightings outside of the Ojo Obrero app, PLEASE make sure you at least try to follow the SALUTE reporting format so that your info can be as helpful as possible.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Sounding the @lauramac95.bsky.social klaxon

NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill. @melbuer.bsky.social reports:

The hardest part about returning from furlough is remembering how to easily type “millesimoquadringentesimo.”

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.

Alt LoC account not coming from inside the house — that is neither the in-house not library-world initialism; plus potentially drawing negative attention to actual

The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

Back with a funky 1495 title page!

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Donald Trump murdering Jeffrey Epstein to cover up his sex crimes, both candidates went to great lengths to hide their most dangerous secrets.

Back at work. Slowly figuring out where I left off. Annoyed that the first incun I picked up is unsigned. Come on, dude, it’s 1484! I deliberately skipped a 1472 book to avoid this shit!

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library (edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November) Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I need to say how much I hated today’s NYT crossword. Hated it. Haaaaaaated it.

"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine." BINGO

Been a while, I know. Rage; despair; furloughed under US government shutdown.

DC CORE-FART meeting!

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

That is what this entire account is dedicated to making happen! www.panaccindex.info

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died at 95.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

The many many women & BIPOC who‘ve been endlessly repeating ourselves (& being erased) since the dawn of computing were not & are not prescient or ahead of their/our time… Eugenics isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! We were & are excluded by design & intention…these predicted outcomes aren’t accidents!

Officer Dicksmack McPowerTrip is working the scanner at the Independence entrance today.

Smithsonian Folklife Festival is hiring for all sorts of different seasonal festival positions, applications due Oct 14 festival.si.edu/jobs

Come work with me at the University of Arizona! www.classicalstudies.org/placement-se...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

It’s sometimes difficult to not explain my high level of caffeine intake to my colleagues for what it is: I caffeinate until I stop singing little songs to myself about how *waves hands around* makes me want to jump off a tall building.

This is really not a good time for me to encounter books with NSDAP property stamps.

Although ABC is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back tomorrow night, Sinclair Broadcasting is indicating that it will not air his program on their stations/affiliates. Please go to the link below. If one of their stations is in your area, CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

If any of y’all get raptured, can I have your stuff?

Sorry, Mets fans!

We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

I can’t believe I still have to say this in 2025: only covering your mouth with your mask doesn’t do jack shit.