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Just a note: I'm dealing with chronic illness and trying to avoid doomscrolling given the world's current events. Thanks for the follow, but totally understand that my lack of participation here make me a very uninteresting follow.

Oh man, so many of the films I love star this man. I think a viewing of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is in order. Now both Paul and Robert are gone.

Just signed up as a regular monthly supporter to @kcommons.bsky.social -- very straightforward to do and a very good place to send any cash you can spare ✅

Don’t miss your chance to apply for the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025! Funding of up to £500 is available to support events, projects, or activities related to #OpenAccess or with an #OA component. ⏰ Apply by 30/06! 🔗 Full details: www.openlibhums.org/...

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Stop what you're doing and watch this live feed of baby owls

Y'all. I get that a small scholarly org can be nimble and take on a lot of quick, grassroots work. It's super important and exciting. But that should not encourage you to insult the hardworking professionals who are keeping large scholarly orgs moving in astonishingly difficult circumstances.

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

One of the reasons I love independent bookstores: they care about their communities. Order/buy from @portersqbooks.bsky.social TODAY and 5% of sales go to nonprofits that YOU can also help choose 👇

5 years after WHO declared #COVID-19 a pandemic, the U.S. is cutting staff at #NIH and #CDC while facing TB, measles and the worst flu season in 15 years. A scholar examines the role of 3 #publichealth agencies: Katherine A. Foss @mtsuofficial.bsky.social #episky 🧪🩺

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend! #medievalsky @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Douce 62, f. 105v

What up doe? It's 313 Day in Detroit! I lived in Detroit for 4 years while going to Wayne State University, and worked in the city for a number of years. Still love it. Have some Cybotron: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBU... #Detroit

Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women www.medievalists.net/2025/03/1100... #medieval #medievalmanuscripts #medievalwomen

Wow — mega congrats to Bluesky on reaching 33 MILLION users! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

It's #InternationalBagpipeDay! Any guesses on what is louder? A bat, or a bagpipe? Bats can emit echolocation calls that are up to 120 decibels, while your average bagpipes reach 108-116 decibels! The difference is that human ears can HEAR bagpipes but we can't hear bats! #BogglesTheMind 🦇🌎🔊

Since folks are celebrating Bluesky's longer video capabilities with this particular clip, I'd highly recommend you read @ashleyspencer.bsky.social's glorious & delightful oral history of Tom Holland's "Lip Sync Battle" performance www.businessinsider.com/tom-holland-...

TIMELINE CLEANSE TIMELINE CLEANSE www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ... Don't you DARE say the world can't be improved by 2 minutes and 24 seconds of singin' and dancin'. (or hey, say whatever you like, just nothing bad about this, here, to me, or I blockity-block)

I am a daylight saving time zombie. Will probably play this song on repeat today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfm7... #music

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

Brace yourself, your hummingbird buddies in North America are on their way. 🧪🌍🌿

Don’t forget to change your fucking clocks.

It's Bandcamp Friday! Picked up the new Peter Murphy single, two albums by Filmmaker, and the latest from SDH. Bandcamp waives their cut and the cash goes to artists. Buy off you wishlist or find new bands. #music

Ok, so this is (I think) a first for BSky... I'm going to try and produced a megathread on #PrehistoricPlanet, specifically season 2. Previous megathreads at BSky have not worked the way they should so I'm a bit cautious. But here we go, please be patient as these take an age to put together....

"We’re going to keep doing this work because someone has to. Because understanding how technology and power interact isn’t just an academic exercise anymore — it’s about whether we’ll have an innovation economy left when this is all over." #Media

Don't just protect libraries; protect library workers too. 📚 www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

2000: YAY THE INTERNET THIS WILL MAKE IT SO MUCH EASIER FOR EVERYONE TO LEARN!! 2024: all the stupid ppl found each other and they're more powerful than ever!!! 2048: rock stick fire good

THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 8 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

substack.com/@sarscov2cov... Measles is clustering in areas that haven't had an outbreak in decades. Something is seriously wrong.

Still on migraine day 2. Took meds, drank water, slept. Any other suggestions?

In 1902, Piotr Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” challenged Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” theory, presenting examples of animals, plants, and human communities cooperating rather than competing to survive and evolve.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10

🧪 Volunteers launched RestoredCDC.org, emulating the CDC site as it was pre-Trump to restore public health data. They aim to fix broken links and add tools to track changes over time. 🩺 🛟

Let's just assume the day is going to be the kind of day where we all need one (1) bird, so here is your bird; feel free to stop here throughout your day and regard this bird okay good photo by me

This Friday is Bandcamp Friday.

Only got to see The Fall once. Absolutely brilliant.

an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

The Los Angeles Times has removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan

NINE STATES report measles cases as outbreaks grow thehill.com/policy/healt...

I've been on the receiving end of this not once, but twice. Both times it was in fact an actual disorder. It is incredibly damaging, in part because new doctors who see the old comments will automatically believe that it was "all in your head." theconversation.com/all-in-your-...

Happy Paczki Day everyone! Eat em if you got em. #Detroit