So annoying — getting William the Conqueror's emails again

I love this man's work so much and I agree entirely with what he's getting at here, but copy editing over the phone is wild and unsettling to me

You have TWO MORE WEEKS to submit to the special edition @barrytorch.bsky.social and I are putting together!!

Now this is how your email finds me!

The new subscription portal is working! Making it easy for all our legacy members to resub with the same sub dates and without being double-charged is what we're still working on. (And THANK YOU!) assignedmedia.org/support/

Without my glasses, this looks like the world's most beautiful laminated pastry.

One of my favourite things about where I'm living rn is that I can always tell how the game is going and, man, the honking is truly something else tonight ❤️💙

I know the groundhogs on top of Mount Royal are getting kind of chunky but surely they don't qualify as bears yet

I actually think governments whose sole motivating ideology is to strip everything but police and military for parts is bad for society.

Hey #skystorians, does anybody have a good resource on how to build a database/wiki where users can filter entries with tags and add their own entries?

Me, looking at my chapter draft every morning

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

Hello friends! Do you work on early modern letters and/or books? Do you sometimes find early modern letters *in* your books? Do you have interesting thoughts about this? Then you should ✨submit a proposal✨ to the 🌟🌈special journal edition🌟🌈 @barrytorch.bsky.social and I are putting together!

I think that K-12 education should not involve any use of computers unless the class is specifically about computer skills (typing, file system management, etc)

Unionize the moon!

Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cla...

It also creates this hilarious bifurcation where the vast majority of human history is categorized as nebulously "pre-modern" and the last ~200 years are "modernity, at long last".

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This is terrible. I haven't heard of any other university hesitating to provide GAC to American students, so who gave McGill the advice to do so?

For folks who also dig mobile printing press setups: pink midcentury trolley w/integrated type* drawers & foldout drying rack, designed by John Conway to let folks in palliative care record feelings at the ends of their lives +

Caught the show today with my mom. Pure magic to see the man who shaped the sonic landscape of my childhood hold an entire concert hall in absolutely rapt attention. And the songs are all amazing-- All I Really Need was the special favourite today!

Hey #skystorians, @barrytorch.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies!! See Barry's post for the full details of the #CFP but also feel free to DM me for details or with any questions.

It strikes me as odd that we are cutting so much in heritage and culture when a big part of Canadians resistance to American annexation threats has been about asserting that we have a distinct culture, heritage, and identity.

We're so fucked

Most soups are bad

"It's a bright spot on the moon"

I've gotten really good at explaining how minors work at my institution because so many undergraduates have come to me for help managing their parents' requirement that the major in commerce with their own preference for history/art history/English/sociology/etc.

I know that Easter has historically been a tough time for Jews living under Christian hegemony, but I do want to note that Good Friday providing us with a day off to recover from the Pesach hangover is a positive sign that true interfaith allyship is possible.

In really fun news, I have 12 people coming to my house for a seder tonight and we just lost power for unknown reasons (second time in two days)

The 17th-century equivalent of the delete button.

I found it extremely motivating to read this thread on the actual labour that goes into a project like this. Sometimes the work can feel really boring and grinding (some of my sources are lousy writers) but the point of doing it is to do it, because that's how new insights are made.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

to be very clear it is not that any union sibling is more deserving of predation than anyone else. but this kind of crime on a fellow leader speaks to a deep level of impunity. she fucking co-founded the union

I'm literally writing a dissertation about how all these people did was sit around moaning (and writing) about their feelings.

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

Now this! This is how your email finds me!

Jürgen “the man who made generations of proofreaders fear the ‘pubic sphere’ mistake” Habermas died. RIP.

Deeply misogynistic for me to lose an hour of sleep on International Women's Day

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. A huge cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.

It's an abuse of both the text and our tradition and should be condemned in the strongest of terms.

I am listening and learning

I'm truly heartsick about this. Contempt for human beings is the core of the AI hype machine and the hollow CEOs who ride it.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge. The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

every British historian rn frantically trying to find examples of British royals being arrested that don’t end with their execution

In an information landscape where people routinely accuse health professionals and reporters of making up the risks of not vaccinating, publishing a fictional piece as though it's a personal essay/true story seems irresponsible!!

Basically none of this happened. And the stuff that did happen didn't happen this way.

I make lots of socks and, while wearing socks custom made for your exact foot is very nice, remembering which one's left and which one's right is too much of a pain. So I just make custom socks that fit either foot.

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea