To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Senator Stephen Colbert, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social ???

Now that Lindsey Graham is dead . . . South Carolinian Stephen Colbert has the potential to do the funniest thing

People of Clacton: you could be legends.

I feel like Taylor and Travis having their wedding at MSG is like one big saging after Trump's Hitler rally

🚨 Trump's state fair is really filling in today! There are tens of people there now

Ken Paxton is a snake, And feet love Chacos Please fill my plate with

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

Today I am moved by power of this example of how Black people hold our own history. Without museums. W/o official declarations or monuments. In community. Happy Juneteenth!

This is bombshell stuff.

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

This little metaphor greeted me this morning!

World's Biggest Stitch-n-Bitch Knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, sewers welcome.

Becoming exponentially more religious the more it becomes clear that god will no longer let this man throw a party.

A moment of silence for the MAGAts who were feverishly hoping for violence in NYC last night, and were instead forced to witness hours of unhinged delight, camaraderie, and effervescent weirdness of the sort they are much too squarebrained to ever conjure and much too pissbaby to ever be included in

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

“Tomorrow is another day” used to be something people said to encourage each other but now it just kinda feels like a threat.

Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

The Writers have a great sense of humor

We're thrilled to see Folger Artist Fellow Missy Dunaway and her beautiful "The Birds of Shakespeare" project featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! Dunaway's work depicts all 65 birds mentioned in Shakespeare and was on view at the Folger this winter. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

This is something that someone who doesn’t want to pay his fair share in taxes would say. Tax the rich.

Brilliant www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Signs and portents? I've had this Easter cactus for 21 years, and this is the first time it's bloomed. Is . . . is IT about to happen?

"Paradise Temporarily Misplaced"

He’s running

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

If I saw that Hercule Poirot or Benoit Blanc or one of these dudes was a guest at a dinner party I was at, I would immediately excuse myself to use the bathroom and get tf outta that cursed house

Meanwhile, French history:

The absence of influential nuns in his life is screamingly palpable.

Just going to revisit this as a prominent world leader feuds with the papacy and risks a major rift for his blasphemous language.

Not real but also perfection

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog! In "Women’s Depictions of Midwives in Early Modern Art," author, nurse & activist Jane Salvage discusses and interprets the role of midwives in birth scenes painted by early modern #womenartists. #ArtemisiaGentileschi #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia #LaviniaFontana

Sarah Andersen, contemporary cartoonist and illustrator #womensart

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

Men should shave their arm pits

This is the kind of tree erotica that makes you believe in dryads. (Pic from Cathedral Hills in Southern Oregon from this last weekend.)

Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.

GOALZ

Everybody pack up. Lock the doors and turn off the lights. No point trying to top this.

But who needs historians anymore, amirite?

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Love this!

I shouldn't have. I really, really shouldn't have. It goes against the basic rules of librarianship. But I couldn't help it. There's a certain type of person who, when they ask if we have any books by Rush Limbaugh, makes me respond with, "Could you spell that? I'm not familiar with them."

Still shocking 😳🤯🤣