We just announced one of the largest infrastructure investments in Québec’s history.   Nearly $10 billion over the next decade to build more homes, and better transit and health infrastructure to support growing communities. We’re building Québec strong to build Canada strong.

less worried about this now that we know canada could win the war just by closing the strait at Sault St. Marie for a few months

New Book — A Jewish Physician’s Response to the Black Death: Abraham Caslari’s ‘Tractate on Pestilential Fevers and Fever Types,’ edited and translated by Susan L. Einbinder. #medievalsky #jewishtudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21770

Skeletal remains of Queen Elisenda, one of the most powerful rulers in medieval Europe, unearthed in Barcelona — along with several others who bore unexplained stab wounds www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Right wing talking heads working for a US hedge fund media conglomerate are telling Canadian leaders to be quiet and give space for the Alberta separatists. We are getting played in a very dangerous game.

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

May's Document of the Month explores a surprising phenomenon among the Cairo Geniza documents: Muslim blessings for the prophet Muḥammad in mercantile letters sent by C12th Jewish traders. Read Alan Elbaum's piece now on our project website: bit.ly/DotMMay26 #medievalsky #cairogeniza #documents

At Meta, there’s a tradition: when you leave, you make a “badge post” on the company’s internal message board. Usually, it’s a tribute to coworkers and co-creation—very kumbaya. But this outgoing staffer turned his badge post into a crusade in C major. It became a runaway hit. WATCH:

the tl;dr: iran won the war

Losing CBS radio is a far bigger deal and more problematic than cancelling Colbert in my view.

As a medieval historian, I’m certain there were no carriage rides through Central Park during the Middle Ages.

8000 fragments! Congratulations, @fragmentarium.bsky.social! Folks, PLEASE survey your early modern bindings and share what you find. #fragmentology

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

They’re halfway there. #gohabsgo #canadiens

I could have played another 40 - Jakub Dobes #Canadiens

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

This was pretty much the subject of Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill, which I just read and found very good. #BookSky 💙📚 📚💙

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

New article: Avital Davidovich Eshed: "Cut Through the Middle: The Virgin Body and the Body Politic in Medieval Ashkenaz." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21591

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

Do you need something good to read? Here are five of my favourite novels about the Middle Ages, and why I like them. I’d love to hear about your favourites! 💙📚 ⌛️📚 shepherd.com/best-books/h...

Newhook He’s the b’y #GoHabsGo #canadiens

Slightly increase a band. 10,001 Maniacs

This is true.

Canadian think tanks have documented a systematic russian influence operation aimed at stoking separatism in Canadian province of Alberta Website “albertaseparatist,” which masqueraded as “grassroots” Alberta initiative, has been identified as part of russian Storm-1516 network🧵 1/ cpd.gov.ua/en/

The average Canadien has three friend.

The average Canadien has three friend.

Like sainthood.

I don’t know how we did that but I’ll take it! #canadiens. (No wait, I do — Dobeš)

Go Habs Go.

So cool!

Forgot crucial details: Thursday, 7 May 2026, 5:30pm UK time, 12:30pm Montreal time, 9:30am west coast.

I’m almost the oldest Gen X that exists and I can tell you, right from birth we were presented with social equality as normative. We grew up with a diverse Sesame Street, with Free to be You and Me. I don’t know what went wrong with us, but it wasn’t that. (I blame Reagan and Thatcher)

Why are Americans so unhappy? 1. Inflation 2. They hate each other 3. They speak English (interestingly, French-speaking Canadians are happier than English-speaking ones (possibly because they spend less time listening to Americans?)

Bolts fans chanting USA! USA! when they have 12 Canadian players on their team and a Canadian coach, and only 6 Americans 🙄 #canadiens

If only the only problem with Platner was his Nazi tattoo. If only. That would be nice.

A trade war is a war.

Which is why to this day, the pope lives in Avignon.

I don’t see any going back from this.

ole ole ole ole in Tampa. #Canadiens

I’m low-key convinced they’re pushing Platner on us so the media can relativize Republican racism by saying that both parties include Nazis. I mean, I’m already seeing that message.

Unpopular opinion but it’s ultimately the responsibility of Lindy to take care of Lindy, love Lindy, and urge Lindy to avoid people who make Lindy feel like crap. Not the people she’s invited into her life.

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 aircraft collided with a fire truck that had been cleared to cross the runway at Laguardia Airport. The collision shattered the front of the jet and, unfortunately, left the pilot and copilot dead. #FAA #aviationsafety #aviation #NTSB www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

These techiques are fine and may help some people. They won’t return Google to how it used to work for me as an academic historian. None makes up for the fact that Google no longer searches its Google Books resources for you, notably old out of copyright works.

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