Its time for a vote #Skystorians! We're determining the BEST answers of January 2026, and you get to help decide the winner. Come check out all the nominations! old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

Apparently Adobe popped to Bluesky like a flower in Spring. And then ended like that.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Stavros doing more excellent experimental archaeology in his back yard: youtu.be/HQVy7J5ecCA?... This time he's testing a 13th century Islamic recipe and, despite the obligatory clickbait title, the video is quite thoughtful on the limitations of the test and ambiguous results. #MedievalWarfare

Nearly 90% of the longbows found on the Mary Rose have these markings just above where the bow was held. They have been interpreted in several ways: their similarity to markings on the chests they were found in may mean they are bowyers’ makers marks. maryrose.org/discover/col...

Can still access books digitised by google books via Hathi Trust and archive.org as a workaround

Ugh no. Aargh. Google Books has stopped working.

#medievalsky

It's on now! I am at the AskHistorians Reddit Forum answering questions about KGB spy fiction & my new book #KGBLiterati! See you there! @socintelhist.bsky.social

So SIDEQUESTED book 1 is getting some amazing reviews and I'm over the moon, but due to how publishing works they always put the author's name before the illustrator's, and I need to emphasize all of this is because of @alepresser.com #book #books #BookSky #art #artist #author #writer

Bruh. America was a predominantly agricultural nation; weather impacted crops and staples prices; it impacted transportation; it led to spikes in death from heat and cold; it impacted pedestrian mobility; impacted the ability to fight fires; it impacted military conflicts, legislative sessions /1

DISCO ZEBRA!!! 🦓🦓😍

well thank god I'll never know what this is referring to *5 seconds later* jesus christ

I love this 1662 drawing in a legal document involving a dispute over a ditch. So detailed! And look, a well full of clean water and a stream nearby. The 3 story building still exists. www.archive.nrw.de/landesarchiv...

How to be a Werewolf launches again tomorrow, Tuesday, February 3rd! To mark my 11th anniversary, I'll be starting out by posting a short story with Vincent and Elias, and the cover for chapter 14 will be posted at the end of the month :D. You still have time to catch up! howtobeawerewolf.com

lmao i already wasn't travelling to the US but holy shit

Christopher Nolan should have cast Helen of Troy the way the Greeks would have: by casting the most attractive young man in the company and giving him a really fuckable porcelain mask. Having a WOMAN play Helen of Troy??? Talk about inaccurate. The Greeks would fucking riot.

I wish I had the comedic chops to mock this with full mocking mockery that the need for mockage can summon. There is no thing that needs to be more fully mocked than this mockery of a human being. (not you Jerry. Nick)

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

TIL (unsurprisingly) that the Chinese term for colonisation (殖民) borrows from Japanese, but also (more surprisingly) that one of the main theorists of Japanese colonialism, Nitobe Inazō, was genuinely thinking about colonial agriculture when he advocated writing 'shokumin' as 植民 over 殖民 in Japanese.

It has been a while since I reviewed a game but I'm back! This week it's the excellent Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno from Fellowship of Simulations. This is one of the hottest CDGs of the last few years, and while it is impressive, do I love it? ...yes? ish? www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/verdun-...

For the Policy Tracker, I've added in new policies from Labor, the Liberals, and the Greens, as well as the first policies from One Nation and the Nationals (the Nationals actually have some interesting ones weirdly enough). anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... #saparli #auspol

New update on both the candidate and policy tracker! For the Candidate tracker, I've added in all of Animal Justice Party's candidates, as well as a new candidate from Labor (Andrea Michaels replacement), Liberals, and One Nation. anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... #saparli #auspol

ARTE

Heroic Appearances: Or, What Did Helen Look Like? sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/12/h...

#medievalwarfare

Cyberpunk campaign idea: the corporate apocalypse and the splintering of the internet have left old archives of human knowledge and culture shattered. You play a group of data-hunters tracking down lost books, files, and knowledge on behalf of the only group that cares: the Wikimedia foundation.

I was reading about the hygienic habits of medieval animal people and I found this. It seems they took baths more often than we think and usually in groups. It was a social moment. And look, they seemed to care about their fur and wanted it free of parasites 🪲🚫

I saw this ewer in a book I’m reading and I couldn’t help but draw it.

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Stop doomscrolling and take a few deep breaths while you watch my kitten try to swim laps around the bathtub. (It’s not quite deep enough; we need an overflow drain cover.) #Caturday

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Shira: "I'm terrified. Today is the day I’m being discharged from the hospital, and it’s also the first of the month—I have to pay 700 euros for rent. My wound is still bleeding. I’m terrified—please help me" Please Donate! #mutualaid #signalboost #transmutualaid #urgent #MABoost #crowdfund

“The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive.” Good news! Transphobic litigation is pursued by a few people who seek to force their bigotry upon others. Glad to see people resist it. 🏳️‍⚧️

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

Tbf, it IS a cool source. I proofread the German translations of the Arabic primary sources for Fauvelle's Sub-Saharan Africa chapter in Daniel G. König (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Welt. 600–1350. Geteilte Welten, München 2023. Here the page with the exact source from al-ʿUmarī (d. 749/1349).

Just arrived... "The Chivalric Biography of Boucicaut, Jean II Le Meingre" Translated by Craig Taylor and Jane H. M. Taylor @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @canarycaroline.bsky.social

guess what various little birdies have suggested to me that the hard disenrollment no self-pay might be English department specific and they might do a more normal *funding* cutoff deadline in other departments. so political as all hell

This week, Amazon has removed erotica and erotic romance and many romance titles from the Affiliate program, meaning that people can't make affiliate income off linking them. One of the impacted books is Heated Rivalry. Please complain. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZZCSYXJ #romancelandia #booksky #authors

#AO3 spambots have pivoted from "accusing random authors of using AI" to "accusing random authors of committing IRL sex crimes." Sometimes I reply to bots with "PSA, this is what a bot comment looks like." Not these. They're unhinged. They'll do psychic damage to anyone reading.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

I do appreciate that, despite the usual habit r/fantasy users have of downvoting any LGBTQIA+ thread, they also downvote any thread about HBO's upcoming HP adaptation into even greater oblivion. Welcome to the resistance.

Because there's a lot of people missing kindness in their lives, especially to themselves, I decided to put clear blue on sale for a quarter. $0.25. You should pick it up and tell me if it meant something to you, or send it to a friend to make them cry

Veteran Dice Tower reviewer Sam Healey resigns in wake of saying Alex Pretti, Renee Good were to blame for ICE killing them, after comments began impacting review giant’s annual pledge drive: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Truly an S-Tier medieval colour combo. I do it too often but you really can't get better than this

Helmet definitions for the TTRPG my friends and I have made. My new years' resolution is to release at least the rules this year.

Sallets