This cosplay rules #medievalsky

The two hottest shows in the country are about gay hockey players and a curmudgeonly lesbian in a situationship with eight billion people. If nothing else, we have that going for us.

Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.

Really proud to be part of this special issue.

Giselle took half of everything

After six years of working nonstop, publishing books and articles etc without ever taking a real holiday from my brain... the past three weeks of Heated Rivalry fandom has been glorious, wonderful, escapist brainrot. (Show is great too).

It's my favorite show this year. It's incredible.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

I have about 3k words of a think piece in me on why MM romances are sustained by legions of heterosexual and queer women fans but sorry I'm just going to watch this episode of "Heated Rivalry" for the fifth time instead.

I've noticed that among movie lovers here, lately there's a renewed appreciation of the craft and polish of '80s/'90s studio movies--their pleasure and polish, their entertainment value. Rob Reiner's early filmography is such a good way to understand that. He knew how to deliver. A true craftsman. >

"Here’s the thing about pandering, explicitly or otherwise, to the MAGA crowd: they’re dumb and they don’t care about art. They only view pop culture as a thing to hijack and turn into a battering ram against whoever they’re mad at." gossipreadingclub.substack.com/p/sydney-swe...

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

"These policies should not change how we teach. No one advocates for changing genders or feeling guilty about one's race. But if teaching facts ('trans people exist' 'slavery was embedded in white supremacy' 'some women saints identified as men') is interpreted as advocacy, will we be protected?"

Did a double feature: "Sentimental Value" and "Hamnet." Folks, I'm destroyed.

My timeline is all pie and libraries. What kind of cozy-cottage-core parallel universe have I stepped into?

Clearly many White people are unfamiliar with desis who are good with their elders, even when those elders are hateful, angry, disgusting and vicious people Because at some level I can totally get this

I am hearing that following his meeting with Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

I’ve spent my career at public colleges where my primary job is teaching. Harvard and the Ivy League is a million miles away. Still I find Lepore’s whining exhausting. I believe that historians like her, occupying cushy spots at a tiny sliver of institutions, have no clue what I do for a living.

math textbook covers for some reason:

Updates from the Lonestar State @historyasif.bsky.social @estherlcuenca.bsky.social #RAdminSky

I am so close to asking students who complain about a professor's tone in an email or a grade that they have received to work it out in a remix with them, just like Charli xcx and Lorde.

Bill Belichick is literally breaking the spirit of UNC students…

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

I had a nightmare about incunabula. Woke up in a cold sweat. So I made an appointment with my doctor (aka the curator of medieval manuscripts here at the Huntington)

Thank you for this shoutout, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social. The paperback copies of my book are temporarily sold out on Amazon right now :)

Throwing the baby into the bathwater

1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line. Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."

Is the what to the what?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

Charlie Kirk literally said that more deaths from shootings is the price he's comfortable paying and it seems like a lot of people think he didn't say or believe that

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

We have the brain processing power to be breathing right now

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." — Charlie Kirk, 4/2023 www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

When no laws are broken until the moment the trigger is pulled, that is a big problem.

i just watched "unknown number: the high school catfish" and holy shit what WAS that?!

Watching "Manhunt" on Apple TV+ and you really want all these Confederates to die horrible ugly deaths so all in all it's well done I think

They're called "research fellowships"

Student complains about a 75 for a paper that did not meet my dept colleague's standards for citation or length, and is almost certainly AI-generated. Demands that his work be regraded to receive an 80. Non-compliance will prompt him to take his grievances to the media. I wish him well. #ChairLife

The answer to “how to use AI responsibly” is “don’t.”

Gonna try to get this sentence-- “Elsewhere in his risāla, Ibn Fadlan is famously critical of the manners and hygiene of the Rus, going so far as to report that one of the men shot a snot rocket from his nose“-- to pass peer review.

Am spending the end of the summer and the fall semester here (Huntington Library in California). The air smells wonderful 🌹💐🌻🌳

Accurate because Trump’s economy caters only to morally bankrupt CEOs who screw over American workers leaving them ashamed and embarrassed.

Going to be co-editing a book series for Boydell&Brewer on "The Medieval Urban World." Open to proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, and/or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, and/or Islamic world. For more info, plz email [email protected]. Happy to hear from first-time authors.

My book on display at the Oxford University Press table at IMC Leeds!

We're hiring a permanent lecturer in Political Science in the Department of Social Science. Application period closes July 11. Link here: careers.uh.edu/jobs/lecture...

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.

The special issue of @la-coronica.bsky.social edited by Nicholas Jones (who I don't think is on here?) on Blackness in medieval Iberia is now out and available OA through Project Muse! I’m proud of my contribution and excited to read my colleagues' work alongside it! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54962