good morning everyone

Heil satan! Vandaag aangekomen!

Dear English native speakers, can you say individual pieces of writing 'crystallise around' a topic? (Having a discussion with another non-native speaker for Much Too Long about this but to me it just doesn't sound right)

you guys, I pulled it off!!!

somehow, in a job full of stresses, I find making a very big pot of coffee for a workshop the most nerve-wracking

Oproerpolitie, waterkanon en pepperspray bij vreedzame (en relatief kleinschalige) wekelijkse protesten tegen de genocide in Gaza. Ondertussen het voetbal:

Anne Carson, Plainwater

would've been a nice sunny autumn day to sit in the garden but the robin thought so too

Hovis advert going hard (Illustrated London News, 1896)

springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo... A fantastic tale of #conservation and #care in logged landscapes. Rich in personal detail - free-to-air with #Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Congratulations @monicavasile.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social

Journalists, sci-commers, historians, there are still SO many using it - even people who work in, or claim to support, equality and diversity work, feminism, and all the lovely other wokery (woke is good). Organisations addicted to bullshit KPIs. Individuals addicted to Likes. What are you DOING.

a footnote like any other

hier hoort u het eens van een ander: UITDRIJVEN is een lezenswaardig boek, volk historiek.net/geschiedenis...

Pentre Ifan c.1910, with the Cardigan Library & Debating Society #StandingStoneSunday

In de Telegraaf ging het ter gelegenheid van Halloween over exorcisme en ik mocht er ook een beetje bij vertellen maar jeetje archive.ph/hJd0v

A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.

Het is Halloween dus hier nog 'ns wat over de geschiedenis van duivels en exorcisme

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Editorial Assistant British Catholic History invites expressions of interest for the new role of 'Editorial Assistant' by 17 November 2025 by 5pm. For more details www.crs.org.uk/editorial-as... ​

Berlin book launch for Amateurs! At the HQ of the great @spikeart.bsky.social 4 November Spike Berlin Goebenstr. 22 10783 Berlin 7-10pm Tell your Berlin friends! Reserve a free ticket here spikeartmagazine.com/events/book-...

deer at dawn deer at dusk

Call for papers: (Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026 Exploring the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work – deadline 30 Nov #C19th #litstudies docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Veel mensen kennen de Letse theatermaakster Asja Lācis alleen via en uit het werk van Walter Benjamin. Onlangs verscheen een klein boekje met vertalingen van haar werk, vooral over het kindertheater als kiem van de revolutie. 👉 www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20251028-bre...

one day I will be able to type 'anthropologists' right away instead of first having to go through various iterations of 'anthropololologists'

once again: I put most of my teaching efforts into coming up with jokes and the weekly deadpan reactions cut deep

#Music tip: Belgian tuba player Berlinde Deman has released an entire album of new music for the #serpent! The Renaissance wind instrument died out in the 19th century due to the soft and unforgiving timbre. open.spotify.com/album/2b1LXy...

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

deer at dawn deer at dusk

November 4th! 👇👇👇

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

"It seemed to you the answer had to be found in more than the sum of music’s parts ..." Things That Break You — @dluntz.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...

misread as "furriness"

Niet voor 't een of 't ander maar Kobe Ilsen zei dat ik een hele mooie radiostem heb, dus, tja

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤

who will write books about me when you're gone, asks jellyfish as it drifts ever closer, reaching for me with a tentacle

Hier, nóg wat geduvel!

Interne Keuken werd dit weekend voor even gereanimeerd op Boektopia en gaat binnenkort op toer, en af en toe mag ik mee aanschuiven om omstandig met mijn handen te flapperen terwijl ik praat over duiveluitdrijvingen, dus kom gerust eens af (disclaimer: er zal geen soep zijn)

al mijn hoop is gevestigd op de cafeïne die me nog nooit verder heeft geholpen in het leven

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

"The faculty meeting, 2025"

excuses aan iedereen in het publiek die ik gisteren op Boektopia van demonische bezetenheid verdacht

This is how you blurb

#WhatIAmReading Astraea by Kate Kruimink. A novella inspired by archival documents from women's conviction ships. Reminds me of what Siadiya Hartman sought to do with Venus in Two Acts. Can we call this reparative speculation?

Oxford otter

night night