in general, more things should have been punctuated by a beastie boys KICK IT

Alan's video essentially goes over the car/land use/politics version of the argument that I made in chpts 5 and 6 of my book "Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road" -- I borrowed "1950's Syndrome" from environmental historian Christian Pfister to describe this suburban commute-trap.

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Perhaps we can save the liberal arts, the humanities, and the social sciences by simply rebranding all such programs as "Dark Academia."

Ray Charles what the hell youtu.be/Wd26gNeqJU4?...

well there is a precedent but you won't like it

hey #msp #bikesky, if you had to commute from downtown St. Paul to the UMN west bank campus for a week, what would be your preferred route? Como Ave via Como Park? Front Ave/Energy Park Dr.? Summit? Marshall Ave Bridge or Franklin Ave bridge? The RwGPS heat maps are not definitive.

as someone on research sabbatical I am somewhat surprised to find that in my absence students have still signed up for my classes next fall. I am suddenly responsible to other people again. can't say I like the feeling.

Present day Jackson Lamb & when he was working in the field in East Germany in 1988

everything since pangaea has been a mistake

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we know

emergency hot take: "Money Never Sleeps" is a dumb subtitle. It's like, yes. Money does not sleep. Neither does it awaken. You did not need to tell me this. Wall Street: Land is not Ocean Wall Street: Horse is not Shoebox Wall Street: Lava Never Exfoliates

When you are ready for the weekend...

I'm being told this is authentic - it's by the people behind this DDOS attack on @bsky.app

NO you don't understand, BlueSky isn't the product, the underlying PROTOCOL is the product, like SMTP is the protocol and email is the product, and we're making the MOST ROBUST, secure, BOMBPROOF protocol that developers and users will all flock to as the FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION for all future communic

nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle

business-ey people criticizing academia: academics use too much jargon, they're losing touch with real people business HR department: "Initiator: Employee as Self"

applying for a job at Harvard based on my diverse viewpoint that the most important album of 1991 is Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend

I’m driving across Nebraska now. Nebraska is far too wide. Congress should do something.

… what?

The Bicycle as Rebellion: Inside the new film 'A Simple Machine' and the Radical Case for Wanting Less. momentummag.com/the-bicycle-...

We need historians because the past is never just the past. Every policy debate, public conversation, and cultural shift is shaped by what came before. Historians help us understand context, trace change over time, and recognize what’s at stake. #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

do yourself a kindness today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhmd...

New book review: Franz on Hilu, Reem: _Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s, The_. University of Minnesota Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20148314

FC St. Pauli presents the Peace Prize in the US for the first time. The award honors individuals and initiatives that stand for solidarity, participation, and respectful coexistence. The first recipient is Wes Burdine, owner of the Black Hart of Saint Paul in Minnesota. #fcsp

how many police departments does the pope have

And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we return to a classic of the early 70s with THE CONVERSATION on Prime Video at 8pm eastern. #HATM 1/

We are on FIRE. #WorldBollardAssociation🔥

It's time to read the Church Committee Report! Published by a major press for the first time for it's 50th anniversary, we abridged it to its most jaw-dropping findings chronicling the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s. Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This week's Historians At The Movies watch party #HATM jasonherbert.substack.com/p/the-conver...

so I predict that there will be some sort of presidential address or announcement before the markets open on Monday in a blatantly obvious attempt to lure the markets into complacency, and that yet again the markets will fall for it, Lucy-and-the-football style.

Greetings from the Spring Tour of St. George, Utah. I rode the 75 mile route yesterday; significant and challenging winds but amazing landscapes.

portland commute

We preserve broadcast content from 9 Georgia tv stations & 2 local radio stations. Yet when trying to find an item from Savannah's newspaper in the 1960s, I learned their morgue had been warehoused during the move to digital, and the photo editor didn't have access to it. Yikes.

I really don't care for my kind of humour.

Someone came in I don't want to interact with at all, and I panicked and grabbed the stapler instead of my phone. And he's waiting, so now I'm committed to the bit. I'm sorry, sir, I'm going to be on the stapler a while

Truly, parking deranges.

On "Thomasine & Bushrod," released on this day in 1974:

Maybe they fired Rothman because SOMEBODY has to take the blame for implementing Workday

THE AP CALL IS IN: CHRIS TAYLOR HAS WON THE RACE FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT

UNANIMOUS what is happening here how is this a unanimous vote? These people don’t agree unanimously on ANYTHING.

At least it’s Friday I can’t imagine having to go to work tomorrow morning.

Wisconsin! You have two hours until polls close!

New episode of Hogan’s Heroes and Postwar America! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

AHA Files Lawsuit to Defend the Presidential Records Act - AHA www.historians.org/news/aha-fil... 🗃️

NEW: Historians sue over OLC opinion claiming that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. Suit seeks declaration that the PRA is constitutional—and an injunction to bar Trump from taking Presidential records at conclusion of his term in office. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DID YOU KNOW that Wisconsin has election-day registration? You can go to your polling place, register, and cast a ballot TODAY. It’s a great way to participate in the democratic process, even if you’re really busy or have forgotten to register.