Tofu steak from Musashi in Dublin. Maybe one day I will be back to Dublin… but I’ve tried so many Japanese restaurants and tried to cook it myself and nothing comes close.

I saw my first on my surprise milkweed in the front yard tonight, and saw my first lightning bug last night. Must be doing something right.

Officials are urging Minnesotans to stay inside and stay safe during dangerously hot conditions. Many cities around the state have opened cooling centers to help people find relief.

Most people think Sherlock Holmes began at 221B Baker Street. But Holmes began somewhere far stranger: in a Victorian hospital ward in Edinburgh, where surgeon Joe Bell taught students to read a body like a crime scene.🧵 Here's the US 🇺🇸 trailer for SLEUTH-HOUND. Preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...

There’s a great book that outlines this and shows how race and class determined who died in the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy by Eric Klinenberg is worth the read with the increase in heat events we will be seeing.

This has been one of the most important things I think MN passed into law. All children get free breakfast and lunch at school. A place they are required to be. Not based on income or other qualifiers. They are at school, they are fed. That’s where I want my taxes going.

We live in a state of weather extremes (-40 C to 37c+). There are just some common sense things being a dog owner that should not need to be told. High temps can cause not just heat stroke but bad burns to paws depending on the surface they’re walking on. Skip walks a few days, they’ll be ok.

Eagerly waiting for this book from the library

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California

Even without ARCs I always leave a review for @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social’s books. Her writing makes medical history so accessible. Also, one of the very rare authors with books about disease that are written for children and that my kiddo loves. (Most kids love space or dinos, mine loves diseases)

So glad I found alternatives to Adobe…

Simpsons coming out swinging with a line of “now that my experiment has failed like American democracy” was not on my bingo card.

Join us online for this event organised by the Sociological Review Foundation: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...

I really haven’t understood why FIFA is still going ahead here.

Wanna know something cool? This scroll of the Book of Esther was scribed by a 14 year-old named Luna Ambron in 1767 in Rome-- and it's one of the very few pieces of the sacred scribal arts that we *know* to have been scribed by a girl/woman before the 21st c. (Scribes don't sign their work sooo.)

It really is amazing finding out the number of people who have gone missing and if family and friends had been taken seriously their cases would have been solved. Also… how many future deaths could have been prevented had they been investigated thoroughly.

There are over a million people in Maine and the Dems are saying they can’t find a better candidate? Like take the L and get behind someone who’s not a sh*t show.

While there is lots of bad news out there, this is unquestionably AMAZING. We are building renewable energy at a gob-smacking rate, much greater than was predicted just a few years ago. And it will have a huge, positive effect on the planet. Draw strength from this news.

Andrew Wehrman, author of "The Contagion of Liberty," joins GBH's 'Morning Edition' to discuss the battle of smallpox that was fought alongside the American Revolution, 250 years ago. 😷 Listen to the piece using the link below! 🎧

This was how a lot of people I knew ate their crackers with chicken soup. Definitely have had buttered saltines. Figured it was a weird WI thing, like a slice of cheddar on apple pie.

One the things I've always tried to do in my work is amplify Indigenous stories & also show off the incredible work of my friends. If you haven't heard @hollyguise.bsky.social's amazing work w/ Alaska Natives during World War II, now is your chance. Links below. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Grocery shopping is hell. Literally everything is over $5.25 and a lot of that is “on sale.” Minimum wage is around $15. You can afford fewer than 3 grocery items for working AN HOUR. I’m salary and paid decently. But I’m very worried about our vulnerable populations. Our kids. This is absurd.

and there are still people on the *left*, some here on this website, that will tell you that people’s economic insecurity is simply *imagined*

The world is on fire, and reading is a short escape. ohwherewillwegoadventuresthroughbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/s...

“Something is going profoundly wrong from any kind of public health or mental health perspective,” said Dr. Sanjay Basu, a University of California-San Francisco epidemiologist who cowrote a study documenting the increase in mortality and suicide rates among ICE detainees.

Ahhhhhh! I'm so nervous/excited about SLEUTH-HOUND! It's about the Scottish surgeon, Joe Bell, who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. It has a bit of everything: Victorian forensics, Jack the Ripper, and even a ballistics expert named Dr. Watson. You can preorder here: shorturl.at/fdGnV

I just want to know how FIFA hasn’t deemed this totally unacceptable and looked at any other number of host countries at this point. It’s not safe for the players or the fans here.

Super excited to reveal the paperback cover for #StoryofaMurder ! On your shelves on July 2nd in the UK but available for preorder now. Looking forward to seeing you at #ChalkeHistoryFestival on the 25th of June and at other events throughout the summer and autumn. See Linktree for details.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.

A family member passed away in their 20s from a sepsis infection that wasn’t caught. It is so important to know the signs.

New book review! ohwherewillwegoadventuresthroughbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/t...

Local golf courses would be an excellent place to restore native prairie.

I would really consider going back to school and pursuing the medical field if it was paid for. I would have no problem living somewhere and working somewhere that supported my education.

I really hope Barnes and noble doesn’t go through with letting AI books be on the shelves. That’s going to hurt so many lesser known writers. I 100% refuse to buy any media AI generated and I don’t want to have to sit and worry that the book on the shelf is AI drivel if I don’t know the author.

Feel like I need this hanging on my wall

Why early medieval Ireland had laws for bees share.google/0SUlcFG0c2pP...

I really loved this book.

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

My daily struggle

I’ve been putting limits on the amount of time I spend on social media and weird how I’m suddenly getting through more books on my TBR list. ohwherewillwegoadventuresthroughbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/f...

The Taoiseach described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history at the 19th National Famine Commemoration in Portumna, Co Galway

All this discussion about citations whether in academia or the law… as pointed out below you don’t cite things you can’t confirm. Like how dumb are these dudes that think having to fact check is the end of the world? It’s the base of it my guys.

I accidentally used the word incisors the other day when I meant molars when talking to someone the other day and I still feel the urge to find them and tell them I needed to correct myself.

I’d rather read text than watch a video for information. I get the information quicker and retain it better.

Last summer we were at an event where they were grilling and there were propane tanks. Wind took the tent, wiped out the active grill and almost fell on a kid. It was not good.

Has anyone seen good media coverage of this? One of the survivors testified that she was abused during Epstein’s year under house arrest. That deserves full airing.

We've removed major hurdles to building affordable housing —  a move that will get homes up nearly 2 years faster. We’re in a race to tackle our housing crisis, because working New Yorkers can't afford to wait.

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”