Every museum I've worked for has actively NOT communicated this because they couldn't afford to hire enough staff to handle research requests from the public and/or the collections were stored offsite and inaccessible. 😭

Me reassuring myself in an act of self-care: You worry too much about what people think of you. I'm sure that no one noticed that your outfit didn't match the other day. Me reading the author list of a paper on the arxiv this morning: Oh that's the guy who wore those weird pants that one time.

"It is the perfect target because it’s incredibly vulnerable. It is burning through money at one of the fastest rates in corporate history.... Investors are watching its subscriber numbers like hawks. Every cancellation registers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

seeing a lot of moral abandonment and dereliction of duty by people who just wanna stay employed and wondering how much this would be happening if healthcare and insurance could be decoupled from employment

Angel Reese stuns again on the cover of Vogue 🔥🔥🔥 #WNBA

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Rage quilted this, not quite finished. Lots of mask scraps, which is fitting. Thrifted the scrap pieced stars and bars on the right. Sprout at the bottom to symbolize what I want to embroider there, "HOPE" We'll get through this together 💙 #Protest #Resist #QuiltSky

Well alright then. He’s just admitting it.

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

Photographer Maxine Helfman replaces the faces of white Flemish nobles with those of contemporary Black models #WomensArt

Worn #onthisday in 1883 at the Vanderbilt's costume ball in New York, NY. The Sun warned: "Sober-minded men ask themselves whether it is advisable to make such a display of wealth and luxurious living at at time when the working classes are in a state of serious fermentation." #OTD 📷 NY Historical

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Me, when students ask if they can use whatever citation style they were taught at school.

Groceries. Gas. Now packages. Is there anything Donald Trump hasn't made more expensive? Call it what it is: the Trump Mail Tax.

Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began" "We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created" "This is insanity"

it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 115 years ago tomorrow, galvanized a century's worth of workplace safety laws that are now getting shredded.

American singer and songwriter Aretha Franklin was born #OnThisDay in 1942. She was photographed for Jet Magazine in 1992 wearing this Bob Mackie white, fitted strapless dress with a sweetheart neckline, vermicelli beading and sequin hearts. Sold by Juliens Auctions. #fashionhistory

It’s obviously a secondary or tertiary cause but at least some of the airport chaos/ICE etc is because the people ultimately responsible for it have not set foot in the normal part of an airport in like 45 years

Hoop Skirt Zone Ahead

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

An incredible country run by extremely normal people

This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.

Happy ALCS day to all those in the writing community who gratefully celebrate this annual dump of a seemingly randomly allocated pile of cash, the origins of which remain opaque (something to do with photocopying) 🙏

That’s where this is headed

The investigation of the Canada Air crash at LaGuardia was delayed by investigators stuck in long TSA lines.

Drove through California's Central Valley today and didn't see a single Trump sign, which wasn't the case last time I came up here in October. In related news, I met a horse at a gas station outside Fresno, where I paid $5.60 a gallon for regular (a bargain compared to LA prices).

The featured photo from this excellent post on Defector: defector.com/ice-agents-d...

in an energy crisis we’re using $1 billion of taxpayer money to pay a company to not make local, renewable energy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

If these were scientists on a NIH grant; or “bureaucrats” at the DoL (read female & black) there would be a 15m Fox segment about waste, fraud and abuse.

"As warplanes, drones and missiles kill thousands of people, level infrastructure and turn the Middle East into a gigantic environmental sacrifice zone, the first analysis of the climate cost has found the conflict led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in its first 14 days."

About half of undocumented immigrants enter the country legally and overstay their visas so good luck with that. Also, arrivals from other countries don't go through TSA checkpoints. The only way they're going to catch "illegals" is if they knowingly present ID to ICE.

"ICE has lowered standards to facilitate a massive hiring spree. Many of the new recruits are plainly unqualified. Are some also white supremacists or domestic terrorists?" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The State Department has advised wearing critical identification while abroad

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Translation is a form of creation. The translator has to make decisions about preserving style over direct content, about cultural equivalence, about how to preserve a sense of pun or sentence structure from one language to the next. People who assume an LLM can do it are not understanding the task.

Find a No Kings protest near you. March 28th. Will be the biggest yet

We were remarking recently that nobody thinks AI can do their job - but so many seem certain it can do somebody else's. And that should be cluing them in, but it isn't.

Award-winning American actress Reese Witherspoon was born #OnThisDay in 1976. She wore this vintage Adele Simpson lace and metallic dress, worn over an apricot underdress, in her Oscar-winning role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005). Sold via Juliens Auctions. #film #costume

22/3/26 Here’s how to be a “modern man of fashion”, 1814 style. Satirist Thomas Rowlandson details three principal requirements ~ dress like a coachman, study boxing & bull baiting, and speak the slang language fluently www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Support the USPS

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"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

If you want to learn more about storing and displaying clothing or textiles safely to prolong their lifespans, and understand more about their dates and constructions, make plans to attend our onsite workshop in CT this June. Save $50 when you register before May 22. Register: tinyurl.com/yvk2webh.