Every time my grandmother (92) goes upstairs she leaves her slippers at the bottom, and every time, my grandfather (100) bends down to turn them around so they are facing the right way when she returns. May we all find a love like this.

I’m home, which means many hours with my grandfather’s stories, and this visit turned up this gem: the very first IBM computer arriving in Taiwan in 1967 (? the year was a guess)

Someone ought to write about how AI has replaced the labor academic wives used to do (which was really just all of it) Here’s Milton Friedman thanking his wife for, well, writing Capitalism and Freedom:

Look, as a nervous flyer I get it, flying makes people nuts, but we need a separate terminal for people who agree to act like they’ve been to the outside at least one (1) time before

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

Reupping this in case any art historians want to write about these—as far as I know they’ve never even been mentioned in scholarship and I don’t have the time or expertise to do it myself, so they’re up for grabs! #medievalsky

That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think. Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.

hey hey! new episode alert. It's medieval Santa, baby... #medievalsky

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

it is so depressingly predictable that these old men all imagine their chatbots to be women who sympathize with them and compliment them. this, apparently, is proof that they are "real."

Okay people, I have determined that morale is low and we need cute little old things. Right around the end of the medieval period, scribes started to get fancy and put little drawings of the kings (and queen) at the front of legal rolls. Starting off with little Edward VI, who was around 10 here:

"I’m telling you reality, all right? In my opinion" is an amazing summary of a worldview here. He says this while defending a rumor he can't support that the Mamdani campaign got foreign money.

Paging my criminal procedure students who asked, “who would ever forget to Mirandize someone?” Oh, just the cops who caught the subject of the most publicized manhunt in recent history.

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

The most hotly debated topic in my faculty lounge is if putting fish in the microwave is acceptable social behavior. Also, “factory floor?” The largest union in CA is care workers. The second? Teachers.

The real issue of birthright citizenship is that everyone EXCEPT naturalized citizens get their citizenship that way, and no one has proof of anything else. Your birth certificate says your parents’ names and where you were born, not citizenship status, and most Americans don’t have passports.

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔 But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️ If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

This is a photo of all the workers who have spent more than five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Well this is horrifying

Because people think “racist” is a derogatory term for white instead of a description of beliefs and actions.

A classic of the genre

Who wants a medieval story time on the first autobiographer in English? She preached and led pilgrimages, but mostly she was known for weeping really loudly and publicly and making churchmen uncomfortable. Oh, she also had 14 kids and left them and her husband to go traveling (super popular choice).

A lot of this discourse depends on a very narrow understanding of “college” in the US. The CSUs, for example, have the best track record in the country for economic mobility, cost about $7k a year, AND require a full spread of gen ed. We also serve 3x the entire Ivy League every year.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

2014 from me: No, students aren't customers. Because you, the student, are much more important than a financial transaction. www.chronicle.com/article/facu...

The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization. @abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

You know why these glowing stories about innovative austerity by university administration pisses off all the faculty? All of them? It's not because it's about firing faculty--you've clearly never been to a faculty meeting if you think there's solidarity internally! It's actually much simpler!

The most laughable part of this is the idea is that he has had anything at all to do with raising his newborn. Sure, Jan.

Are your dinner parties boring? Do your daily constitutionals feel like a burden? Sick of the same birthday themes every year? Invite a historian.

This is also an early, firsthand (and harrowing) account of what we’d probably call postpartum psychosis. But we talk in my classes about the value of sticking to the frameworks used by the authors themselves, and who am I to argue with Margery.

Who wants a medieval story time on the first autobiographer in English? She preached and led pilgrimages, but mostly she was known for weeping really loudly and publicly and making churchmen uncomfortable. Oh, she also had 14 kids and left them and her husband to go traveling (super popular choice).

It’s me! Weird Medieval Girl Fan Club President!

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

It should be a violation of attorney ethics rules to represent the govt against an unrepresented minor. Make it so the govt attorneys and immigration judges aren't allowed to be in the process.

Just imagine standing in that court with that child—baby, really—and listening to his little voice and having to pretend that something lawful and reasonable is going on. It requires you to fully break with reality.

Just imagine standing in that court with that child—baby, really—and listening to his little voice and having to pretend that something lawful and reasonable is going on. It requires you to fully break with reality.

I had SO MUCH FUN recording this episode for @thisguysucked.com and I have also had SO MUCH FUN listening to every episode of this podcast that I've tried so far (on top of learning loads, which everyone knows is very fun) so y'all should check it out imho

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

This is so horrifying. The ceremony is supposed to be where you’re “safe,” where you have gone through all the substantive stuff and it’s just the party at the end. To have it ripped away at that point is unbelievably cruel.

same with Elon and Andreessen babbling incoherently on Rogan. love being ruled by guys you'd cross the street to avoid walking past

This is random and personal but I have lots of art folks on here so I wanted to ask if anyone knows the name or origin of this paisley. I had a beloved shirt as a child in this pattern that I wore to rags and it just popped up in an ad for a silk scarf and I nearly fell out of my seat.

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

This is random and personal but I have lots of art folks on here so I wanted to ask if anyone knows the name or origin of this paisley. I had a beloved shirt as a child in this pattern that I wore to rags and it just popped up in an ad for a silk scarf and I nearly fell out of my seat.

Bulls are back on pace for 37 wins and are accumulating medical mysteries. Nature is healing.

I mean this with all seriousness: bring 👏 back 👏 shame 👏

MAGA used conspiracy theories to seize power, but the problem now is that the dog caught the car. The story that conspiracy theorists love to tell about themselves is of the Alamo; outmanned, they bravely man the last ramparts of civilization. But this story is incompatible with victory. 1/3

Quite aside from the obvious transactional misery of Galloway’s worldview can we all stop having to sit in on the therapy sessions for these men? Like I didn’t need to know all that about Scott. I would like to know less, thanks.