i would like more discussion of the Middle Ages that isn't right-wing crusader fetish

There it is, the dumbest thing ever to stain the internet.

For @today.yougov.com , I asked Americans what they think about the European Middle Ages. The results are mixed, but not particularly positive. Find out more, with lots of charts, in my full article: today.yougov.com/entertainmen...

Cowboy is the GOAT.

What a loss. To say that Moore’s work had a profound influence on my own scholarship would be a massive understatement. 😢

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RFK’s elevation is going to be such a disaster for the autism community. Divisive. Fraudulent. Abusive. Ignorant. Dehumanizing. I’d like you, right now, to read this by @juststimming.bsky.social and me. /1

Hello again, BlueSky.

@kpreeo.bsky.social Glad to see you here, dude. Hope things are good. Been thinking about you.

@kathleenbelew.bsky.social Hi, Prof. Belew! Myself and my colleagues at El Paso Community College, UT El Paso, and New Mexico State University would love to have you out for a talk re: white supremacist violence- is the best way to go about this via your agent? We’d love to work something out!

I don’t often open the Once Bird App, but I just did and it took two clicks to read a blue check arguing that we should have listened to Joseph McCarthy. I’d like to go back to the Atlantic and walk out into it and never return.

Giving a talk on the Sicilian Vespers later this month. Thought I’d have some fun and make a flyer modeled on a teen magazine spread.

I’m doing a public lecture next month on the Sicilian Vespers. I decided to call it, “Fred, Chuck, Mike, Pete, and a not-so-innocent Pope: How the Sicilian Vespers Remade the Mediterranean World.” I refuse to have anything other than a good time. 🤣

I did a workshop for my college today on how to use some often-unused features of Adobe Acrobat. I never imagined a career in which I would do such a thing. Not going to lie, it’s really gratifying work. After all, it’s teaching - the thing I love to do the most.

Today is my two-year cancerversary. I’m so, so thankful that a single surgery got me to remission. Since the dx, I’ve been living a bit more authentically and for the moment, doing things I always said I’d do but never made the time. Life is good. I hope it stays that way for a while.

Hoping to build the same sort of community/feed here that once existed over on the Birb App. Twitter was my favorite social media space for a long time; it’s a shame that it’s new proprietor is such a POS. Here’s to greener pastures… errr… bluer skies(?)