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Deadline Day! If you have a good idea, please share it with me! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

Just beautiful.

Reclining Pope-theme in Rome.

"Bluesky doesn't have the juice." "Real media access is still only on Twitter." "No one important uses or will ever use this site." Skill issue. If you post good, the right people will figure out how to get in touch with you.

In this final installment of our inaugural Interview Series, @patrickleary.bsky.social pays homage to the many projects whose power rests in their meticulous archival research. He reminds us of the power of the periodical aura "to shape and revitalize your entire project". rs4vp.org/getting-star...

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

AND IT LOOKS LIKE ADJOA ANDOH IS NARRATING THE AUDIOBOOK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT I AM SO HAPPY

I'm giving the Leicester Victorian Studies Annual Lecture next week! Come along and explore fame, race, and disability in the 19th c @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social le.ac.uk/victorian-st...

Every day we learn new stuff about unexpected side effects from the covid vaccine and literally all of them are positive

Jupiter & Batley. Little Stopcock. Bulberton. Ballonshire. Spennymoor Orbital. Barton-on-the-Ring. Upper Telstar. Chew Applegate. Oops. Pity-le-Ball. Neversquare Way. Rollwright-out-of-Orbit. The Paps. Frontierwick. Bell End. That sort of thing.

One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

If Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (Norway) was a country, he would be 8th in the medal table

I am a historian, and a large part of my work routine is reading, ordering, and processing the emails I send to myself.

One of my favourite exhibits is a wall in the Moesgaaed Museum which has 50-100 near-identical Iron Age soldiers’ kits of comb, buckle, razor, a few coins, spearhead, etc. Just common soldiers’ belongings

Trees primarily gather their material from the air. We are surrounded by enormous organic structures manifesting from the air and eating light. I don’t think we even need aliens. This shit is wild!

He dances in a way I have only seen horses dance. He possesses a power and majesty we will never know.

so much depends upon _close reading for the twenty-first century_ in the introductory lecture

Wondering what’s the 18th century academic conference equivalent of the triple lutz and if I can pull it off

in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

deeply unfair. the other teams, as i understand it, ride DOWN the hill

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

Teen bought a box of hello kitty stickers. All but one of them are regular hello kitty doing regular hello kitty things. That one is whatever the fuck this is.

Reading With The Burneys won a prize!! I’m absolutely made up to have been awarded the Library History Essay Prize by @cilip.bsky.social, the Library & Information Association. Guess i’m not beating those ‘historian in literary scholar’s clothing’ allegations anytime soon…😃

The map's form: carpet It shows: dragons Its purpose: to illustrate a point

A double treat for Friday. L Robe à l’anglaise, French, cotton, metal & silk, late 1780s. R Robe à la française, French, silk, mid-late C18th.

Now that Heated Rivalry is finally streaming in Scandinavia, I’m having real flashbacks to SKAM (2015-17) and the cultural moment it created. It was made for teens but I know people in their 70s who watched it. Sana the boss lady❤️❤️❤️!!! My problematic fave William ❤️!!! Isak and Even ❤️❤️❤️

I am reading my first hand-written exams in 13 years, and I can *actually* read them. The handwriting is legible. I remember in the early 2010s at KCL, the students’ handwriting was atrocious. Is this a Sweden thing or a generational thing?

You've heard that something is going on with colon cancer. I'm working on a thing...let me know what you think!! Is it helpful? What would you do different? hankgreen.com/crc

I just learned that I have five free ebooks of *Action without Hope* that I can give away— I am told they can each work on up to five different devices “once you download the free software.” Please hit me up via dm if you’d like one. Solidarity 🌿

One must ymagine Sisyphus bouldermaxxing

My heart pounds for all the women Olympians: yes even Eileen Gu Let them pursue their lonely, insane quests, to victory or failure! Let Mikaela Shiffrin drink her first espresso martini & sack out on her bed clutching her medal 🥹 It’s been a century of struggle for women to get to do this 😔

3) You don’t even need to KNOW any fucking history. They’re doing it right now, right in front of you. Trans people warned us about crackdowns on name changes and legal docs. The goal was purging married women from the voter rolls.

Like yeah, trans people are a tiny percent of the overall population. They’re a group that a lot of other marginalized groups feel kind of iffy about and aren’t willing to defend to hard. That’s what makes them a perfect test group for fascists to see what they can get away with doing to people.

My book history course is largely taught using this amazing archive of lectures. Just taught @illdottore.bsky.social on Roman writing tools last week, Margaret Bruchac on wampum belts today. So much better than texts with few/no images, and you get to see amazing scholars work through their method.

IMPORTANT UPDATE THE DOG IS CALLED ’NAZGUL’ 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Christina Rossetti: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpeck’d cherries, Melons and raspberries,Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches John Ruskin: Your whole poem can't just be listing food Rossetti: SWART-HEADED MULBERRIES, WILD FREE-BORN CRANBERRIES, CRAB-APPLES, DEWBERRIES, PINE-APPLES, BLACKB

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

All the buzz about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering H, & Elordi's Heathcliff makes me wonder why nobody has as yet mentioned "Dude Watching with the Brontes" (by the brilliant @katebeaton.bsky.social, who has long since anticipated all we mere mortals have to say): www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

I have an article in the new special issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, 'The Century at 25'—working through some research that didn't make it into the book while processing Lucy Ellmann's _Ducks, Newburyport_ and Olga Tokarczuk's _Flights_

That time Willow dusted a vampire with a pencil. As Le Guin reminds us, knives, saucepans, fire, spectacles, pens, chairs & doors are technologies. But you can't dust a vamp or set up a barricade using genAI.

Nice variations. Goldberg?

Which brings me to the real masterstroke, which is that this is not just a book about history, it's a book about why and how we *do* history. This paragraph made me punch the air. This, right here, is why I'm a medieval historian.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.