In better news, it is just stunning how much excellent work has come out recently on the longue durée of Nahua and Maya cultures. This stuff is 🔥, you could almost build a whole clsss based on these

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Was reading the #SpaceX prospectus, and JFC, these people are so full of shit. I'm 99.99% sure that a machine has written parts or most of it. It is overly vague, lacks coherent metrics, and lacks substantial evidence (or even a plan) for extremely extraordinary claims. An ongoing thread ...

Not now, Sauron!

Two groups of Texans are suing SpaceX for property damage from the company's ground tests and launches, and a college in Florida is researching how noise and vibrations from Cape Canaveral launches spreads across the area. www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/s... www.kwtx.com/2026/05/04/d...

This gift continues to give! And, with what Google has planned, it's such a joy and relief to use an advanced search that works and gets me to exactly what I'm looking for straightaway.

It's concerningly easy to think of contemporary examples that illustrate Maritain's observations about totalitarian states.

"one can respect justice and have brains at the same time, and manage to be strong. ... The power of evil is only, in reality, the power of corruption--the squandering and dissipation of the substance and energy of Being and of Good." --Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

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I am very happy to receive Teaching the Mexican Revolution. Published by the MLA Options for Teaching series, the book includes contributions by colleagues from a diversity of institutions, from community colleges to R1 and even a text from India.

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Did everyone else know that the name Walgreens comes from a surname? I just found out from reading some acknowledgments.

Please share and let me know if you have any information on Joe Randolph's magazine DIFFERENT REALITIES from 1997-98 or William Wheeler's SF INTERNATIONAL beyond what is available in the SF Encyclopedia.... Thanks!

At the end of God's Not Dead, there's a screen instructing people to text everyone in their contacts that God's not dead. In high school, a friend of mine did that. Some of the people who didn't have his number in their contacts thought Jesus was texting them directly.

The first issue of SMALL PLANET: THE SF IN TRANSLATION MAGAZINE is OUT! www.sfintranslation.com?p=16928 #SFinTranslation

Yay! I figured out how to access newspaper articles through my public library!!!

Just about ready to root for the Odyssey to win the Oscar for best casting solely because of the meltdown we'd get

there is a signed copy of the book at brick lane books for anyone in london who fancies it (and pays for it, obviously)

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"Connecticut and the Communist Party make for a fascinating microhistory. I have read plenty of FBI files in my time, but Emily [Pierson]'s file is absolutely wild." - Denise Lynn Come & get it, comrades! Out in HC & ebook now, PB in 6 mos, from @sunypress.bsky.social: sunypress.edu/Books/Y/Yank...

"the world you want to live in is at the fingertips of a community working together in unshakable solidarity"

Hey, #milhist folks! Do we have a historian of the Dutch Army c. 1950, and in particular in Indonesia, on here? A colleague is working on a project & has some questions ...

A history book series called But Then Ronald Reagan Become President

Now free through #creativecommons! Heaven, Hell, And Everything In-Between - anthology of Critical Perspectives on #GoodOmens #booksky #academicsky #NeilGaiman #TerryPratchett #GoodOmensseason3 is out today! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

After a few years of only playing chess against computers, I recently started playing against another person again. We play online rather than face-to-face, but feeling myself engaging and contending with another mind nonetheless adds so much to the experience.

Slightly increase a band La cabeza de van Gogh Los Threecanes de Tijuana

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @drtylerpeterson.bsky.social (@georgiagwinnett.bsky.social)’s review of Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Purdue Univ)’s book _The Islands & the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs_, pub 2026 @stanfordpress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

I got off the couch to go check the mailbox. My cat has now spread out across the middle of the couch such that I can't sit in either seat.

"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."

Florence is rightly famous for its art galleries, but I was also impressed by the city’s science museums. 🔭🧪⚛️ This enormous armillary sphere is in the Museo Galileo; it shows the Ptolemaic model of the Solar System. Built by Antonio Santucci in 1593, for Ferdinand I de' Medici. #astrohistory

Do I have any mutuals who play or would be interested in playing online chess?

Agree with this 👇 A small correction required though -- Artemis III is not landing on the Moon anymore, it is now scheduled for Artemis IV.

Love this idea of inter-planetary community engagement! Before we go back to the Moon and on to Mars, everyone should have a conversation about why: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do I have any mutuals who play or would be interested in playing online chess?

My new book — The Broken Machine — officially drops on May 19! Available for pre-order now. @mitpress.bsky.social @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

I was recently longlisted for the REFORMA National Book Award!

if only there was a whole book about this…

Slightly diminish a book. The Middle-aged Man and the Lake

Space archaeology

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The last time my parents moved, among the things that got tossed were old ash trays they'd gotten on various vacations and had long forgotten they had. Finding them was a striking reminder that not that long ago ash trays were a standard souvenir item and even non-smokers (like my parents) had them.

the Sacramento zoo has 6 BABY CAPYBARAS

This is an open call to any and all of my friends in academia: if you have some graduate students doing great work and you want to promote them, please hit me up & tell me about them. I want to support the next generation. This is not limited to history, science profs hit me up too!

A great and beautifully written essay

"By Jove, Homes. Remarkable."

How long until Hegseth announces that expecting marines to know where their rifle is at all times is nanny-state nonsense?

this is absurdly cool

YO SPACE NERDS: The Nova documentary Return to the Moon, which follows the recent NASA #Artemis mission, is live now on the PBS site (and should be on the app/channel/etc). Spread the word! Turns out we *can* have nice things, as long as they are in spaaaace www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

And remember, our "Democratic Futures" special submissions call is open! In short, we're looking for original and reprint science fiction stories relating to the theme of the future of democracy. Submissions run until June 30!