Imagine not knowing that Dean Martin was Italian.

If you'd like to see (and shop) my and @courtneyminick.bsky.social's sources for the Dead Reckoning podcast, you can check the ever-expanding list here: bookshop.org/lists/dead-r...

People should be pretty worried about this bullshit. Antifa is not actually a group and they absolutely know that. That means they are going to be able to stick the label on anyone they don't like and hit them with terror charges.

The last night of tech mogul Mike Lynch’s life has become fodder for conspiracy theories. For the first time, the whole story can be told.

We are entertaining! And weird!

Federal officials are investigating the discovery of more than 100 piles of cremated human remains left near a dirt road about an hour outside of Las Vegas. (h/t @courtneyminick.bsky.social) www.8newsnow.com/investigator...

Just in case all you think I do is talk about rest, sometimes I get bowled over by stories of the ultimate rest -- in this case a gem of a podcast chronicling the stories about cemetaries in the San Francisco area. Y'all these stories are wild!!! Check this out.

The search for extraterrestrial life has faced challenges but recent findings of exoplanets have rekindled hope for discovering microbial life in extreme conditions elsewhere in the universe.#ufo#uap#aliens#ovni#ufosky

OTD in 1781 in a landmark freedom suit in Great Barrington, Brom and Bett (Elizabeth Freeman) won their case against Colonel John Ashley. For more on slavery and emancipation at the Ashley House see Olivia Scott's piece in Commonplace: 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/glim...

There's a new guard of paramilitary activists, whose youthful membership, edgy aesthetics, use of Instagram, and, in many cases, overt nods to religion points to a new brand of anti-government Christian nationalist militias. www.wired.com/story/christ...

Got me out here nodding along to David French. Truly the end times.

Finger grooves on glittering cave walls in GunaiKurnai Country reveal ritual gestures up to 8,400 years old, likely tied to mulla-mullung traditions of crystal power. #Archaeology #GunaiKurnai #RockArt #Ritual

i didn't get into it in my essay on this speech, but beyond the basic incoherence of vance's assorted grievances, i'm struck by how ungrateful *he* is, a man who owes his fame and fortune to the open, cosmopolitan society he is trying to destroy for the sake of power

Stumbled on this at the bookstore and it’s DELIGHTFUL

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A second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroad workers has been uncovered in Pennsylvania – victims of cholera, violence, and anti-immigrant hate in 1832. Their story is finally being unearthed. buff.ly/6DpYdSS By William E. Watson, Immaculata University

Now THAT'S how you write a fuckin short story. samkriss.substack.com/p/born-in-th...

I think it’s time to get rid of SKULL ROOMS mmkay

The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist, by @ricutz.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/07/the-... #UmbertoEco #history #medievalism

"A layer of ash likely corresponds to the 1512 fire that destroyed the version built by Edward I in 1286–87, followed by the foundations of the existing Tudor chapel constructed in 1519–20 under Henry VIII." h/t @courtneyminick.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/07/exca...

I just recorded a podcast episode about the Anatomy Act, and how doctors were conniving with body snatchers to get fresh corpses to study - to the extent that ppl were being murdered to sell to surgeons. This, ah, reminds me of that. Cc: @bethwinegarner.bsky.social

WOOF. What a review.

Extremely worth reading.

I just wanna be clear I overused em dashes well before chat gpt and I feel great about it.

The Site of the Jonestown Massacre Opens to Tourists. Some Ask Why. Uhhhhhh it’s me. I’m asking Why.

Memento mori ring moulded with a skeleton and coffin-shaped bezel containing another tiny skeleton, c.1727. #MementoMoriMonday

I’ll never get tired of this story. It feels like the modern day Manson Family.

If you’re with a state agency or legislature who needs help figuring out how you’re going to modify your benefits systems to deal with federally mandated changes (e.g. employment verification), contact us at @usdigitalresponse.org. We can help for free, thanks to grant funding. There’s no catch.

"Skeleton found in pot is first ancient Egyptian to undergo whole genome analysis Unusual burial of man, thought to have been a potter, in sealed vessel may have helped DNA survive past four millennia" www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The hearse that carried Lincoln's body through Springfield, Illinois. It featured a panel that showcased 36 stars (one for each state of the Union) as well as a silver laurel wreath and two inverted torches, representing the life extinguished. Sadly, the hearse was destroyed in a fire in 1887.

curbed’s piece on mamdani’s design is so good. great example of how much can be going on with just a name on a solid background www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Appealing to the coveted sex pest demographic

Happy Pride! Check out the @silentbookclub.bsky.social Collective Liberation Shelf

Happy #FridayThe13th! In earlier centuries, some people believed that the mummified hand of an executed criminal holding a candle made from the malefactor’s fat could render the person who carried it invisible. It was called the HAND OF GLORY. This example is from Whitby Museum.

Hell yeah

The U.S. prison system today faces the same problems as when former facilities were full: isolation, mental illness, and the disproportionate number of incarcerated Black and brown people. Educational prison tourism can show us how far we haven’t come.

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

Real North Korea vibes here, great work everyone.

Please help this shelter if you can! "We are extremely overwhelmed with kittens right now and have very few staff members, even fewer volunteers and worst of all, not enough money for supplies. We desperately need kitten food, wet &dry. We also need KMR milk replacement"

When the paranormal industrial complex and plantation tourism collide

you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.

On the infamous, amazing Robert Johnson and his apocryphal deal with the devil.

“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

some interesting historical context re: stories of "chatGPT-induced psychosis" is that when the radio and telephone were invented, there were similar reactions — some people believed they could tune their radio to the frequencies of heaven or received instructions from the dead via the telephone

This is The Last Supper now.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

In 897, during a period of political instability, Pope Stephen VI put a predecessor, Pope Formosus, on trial, seven months after his death. Formosus’ body was exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and seated in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. A deacon was assigned to “defend” the corpse. 🧵⬇️(1/3)

R.I.P 💀🏝️

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