I really like NFL stuff on bluesky but the promos for sports gambling get me very depressed and it's hard to figure out a word to mute

the person who redesigned our state (MN) flag made this and it makes me very happy

update: found them from @mahtheyzhawey.bsky.social !

I believe I saw an artist in here selling beautiful LAND BACK earrings that I then purchased. lost LAND at a protest and need to buy again but can't find you. is it you? someone you know on here? cc @actualkatherine.bsky.social

1. Yes, this is real footage from Poland's Wrocław Zoo 2. The deer, a male muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi, aka "barking deer"), is hopped up on testosterone because its mate is in heat 3. Muntjac males weigh up to ~40 lbs (18 kg). Maruśka, the rhino, weighs 1.7 tons www.thesun.co.uk/news/3786348...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

question for academics: when do you agree to write a recommendation letter for someone even tho you know your letter won't be very strong? how do you decide? not asking in relation to anyone I'm writing for. just a day I'm reading randomized applications for something I'm being vague about

From @npr.org: A 200-Year-Old Book Distributor is Closing. Here's What That Means For Public #Libraries www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n... #publiclibraries #books #Baker&Taylor

Thank you, @jamesafox.bsky.social 🙂 Lovely to see a book from our Library's collection featuring in this post! Also great to see that the conference @lankian.bsky.social and I organised in Nicosia in Nov 2025 had some impact! (sammelband.hypotheses.org/2481) #bookhistory #earlymodern #skystorians

Cops forced to explain why improv comedy generated police report claimed officer transformed into frog

‘Editors silently rewrote passages that seemed tawdry, or just left them out; it was routine to excise Pepys’s sexual escapades while preserving his wife’s rages, which just made her seem unhinged.’ @deborahfriedell.bsky.social on Samuel Pepys’s diary. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A reminder that @dianearodgers.bsky.social and I have a CFP out for an academic edited collection on Folk Horror on Television. Proposals of 500 words to [email protected] AND [email protected]. Closing date for proposals is 15 January 2026. Thread of prompts … #FolkHorror #academia

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

PHILLY: "Passional Boutique on South Street gets warning letter from FDA for selling breast binders for gender-affirming care: Passional sells breast binders, mostly to trans men. The FDA says the store is violating its regulations because it's not registered to sell them." share.inquirer.com/evjxMb

out in the woods, locking eyes with a deer across 15-20 feet, a whole conversation

this thread is a special kind of happiness

Casual reminder that 1) Zenni Optical now offers facial recognition–blocking eyeglasses, and 2) N95 or KN95 masks are always in style

that’s decencyslop. you’re only having this reaction because despite the odds some shred of you retains basic human impulses

repost with most recent picture of your pet

Not sure if this "Note for the bookbinder" was supposed to be printed in this #earlymodern book from 1679: "Let the bookbinder take heed that he strike not this little book over-hard, for many faults of the press have been amended with the pen." CC: @dbellingradt.bsky.social

on the latest Hankie cry

and also happy new year

very happy new year energy

...are there any video games that do a non-terrible job of portraying the Haudenosaunee? #vastearlyamerica

Pythagoras shunning fava beans, accompanying the advice, "Do Not Eat Beans!" from Speculum principis (Mirror of Princes) [fol. 25 recto], French, 1512/1514 (National Gallery of Art)

What is a short(ish) piece of writing (any genre) that you most appreciated reading this year?

This article took 8 years to write & revise, but it's out now in _American Art_. In many ways, it encapsulates my thoughts on Scott Burton's work of the 80s, and it's 2nd of 3 essays on the decade (final out in a journal next year) that could have been a vol.2 to my book. doi.org/10.1086/738511

An old favourite for the last #TombTuesday of 2025, this is the Dolmen des Follets, a neolithic tomb in St Gravé, Brittany. It is said to be inhabited by a band of ferocious goblins (the 'follets') who fiercely guard a treasure buried beneath.

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me

It's the way an editor would tell me to BFFR if I submitted this scene somewhere.

Reading the new Harryette Mullen book and it’s funny to me that she has a poem about a Rabbit Duck because David Shapiro & Richard Hell wrote a chapbook on the same topic. I don’t have a copy. Can someone with a copy post it here to compare? Maybe @jordandavis.bsky.social

Also I discovered Nestflix, a site that catalogs fictional movies and TV shows, and it's kinda amazing. nestflix.fun

The only reason to send the Jets to Europe is so they can be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity.

"amazingly" okay, a screen forces you to look for a spot on a flat surface with no tactile information, whereas a button or knob does not and your eyes stay on the road, this is fucking obvious

The sheer recalcitrance of diverse materials to the homogenizing process required both by digitization and processing by means of AI means one thing: the digitization is not the archive. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Was chatting w/ a friend from Western Mass today and got thrown when she kept referring to her doctor as "they." I assumed nonbinary doctor until I realized this was a Boston They. I forgot that ppl from western mass do not specify the gender of anyone who is not immediate family, spouse, or BFF

@ajhasocial.bsky.social Please spread the word about the Charles R. Eisendrath Fellowship at the Clements Library. The fellowship supports research on the relation of journalism to US history before 1900 in both pictorial and written reportage and commentary. See clements.umich.edu/research/fel...

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image: 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award winner Alison C. Rollins joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V. V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her 2024 poetry collection Black Bell. She explores the… #CraftandCriticism #Features

Fabulous font in Winchester cathedral carved with the legend of St Nicholas - bought from Tournai in the 12th century

I just received a letter from Yale University Press offering me 25% of a cut for them selling my book off for AI training. 1. Are you fucking kidding me? 2. You know they all already stole it, right? 3. 25% of a fraction of a cent? Wow thanks.

#academiclife goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

So when the AHA says it's OK to use AI to summarize scholarship, the greatest risk this guideline poses isn't simply to the quality or accuracy of research; the hazard it poses is to the communal nature of the knowledge production. A pursuit that puts people across time & space into conversation 4/n

A better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n

I mean I run a historiography journal with some other people and yeah, this is our kind of pudding

today is the day I'd call someone I loved who died a little more than a year ago, to tell her she made it through the longest night of the year and now the days would get longer till it was summer

This article is fantastic and offers an even more expansive account of computer center demonstrations than the account Chris and I cited from Dobson’s (great) book. String recommend. bsky.app/profile/ali-...

Die Nachfahren der jüdischen Kunsthändler Gebrüder Lion haben vom Germanischen Nationalmuseum fünf im Nationalsozialismus geraubte Kunstwerke zurückerhalten